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by NakedFury » Fri Jun 22, 2012 04:15

Mountain:
Ram
Eagles

Lava/Caves:
Bears
Trolls
Bats

Forests:
Ogres

Desert:
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by InfinityProject » Fri Jun 22, 2012 04:23

A dog that will follow you and won't hurt you (a pet).
 

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by NakedFury » Fri Jun 22, 2012 04:40

The ability to handle animals and train them would be interesting but restricting to a dog would be lame and extremely too minecraft. Then people would want cats.
 

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by InfinityProject » Fri Jun 22, 2012 05:07

True, ooh I know. How bout a dragon or dinosaur or something else gigantic and mean.
 

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by slasheree » Fri Jun 22, 2012 18:11

Why not
-Dog: Attacks any type of enemies (Ground)
-Turtle: Can grab it to swim faster (Water)
-Eagle: Monitors the area for loot and maybe attack only the smaller enemies (Air)
 

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by slasheree » Fri Jun 22, 2012 19:44

Did it right now, tell me what you think of it o:

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by NakedFury » Fri Jun 22, 2012 20:09

how big is it?
 

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by slasheree » Fri Jun 22, 2012 20:18

NakedFury wrote:how big is it?


I don't make my model to a certain scale :\ I guess it will have to be rescaled if they are putting it in the game, but I was thinking it would be almost the height of the player ( like a boss [not the meme])
 

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by slasheree » Fri Jun 22, 2012 21:47

Does this look like a good bear ?

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by Melkor » Sat Jun 23, 2012 02:28

slasheree wrote:Did it right now, tell me what you think of it o:

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mmmmm not good i dont like it
 

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by Gambit » Sat Jun 23, 2012 05:19

I think it's okay, but again a lot of limbs. Also there seems to be more than four points per polygons.
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by slasheree » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:44

Gambit wrote:I think it's okay, but again a lot of limbs. Also there seems to be more than four points per polygons.


I can't understand what's the problem with the polygons ? Can you tell me please ? O.o

[EDIT] If it's because of it's impact in the framerate, then they could make that option (1-2D models , 2-3D models poly-limited, 3-3D models with no poly limit [but still cubic like])

Nowadays every pc has a dual core, I can play recent games at 1280x1024 with 60fps just by turning the shadows off on my 250€ pc ._.
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by slasheree » Sat Jun 23, 2012 17:48

Melkor wrote:mmmmm not good i dont like it


Y U no like ? ):
 

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by neo » Sat Jun 23, 2012 23:12

slasheree wrote:Does this look like a good bear ?

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I think the head is a bit too big, the jaw could be accentuated, more triangular.
 

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by lesliev » Sun Jun 24, 2012 05:21

slasheree wrote:
Gambit wrote:I think it's okay, but again a lot of limbs. Also there seems to be more than four points per polygons.


I can't understand what's the problem with the polygons ? Can you tell me please ? O.o

[EDIT] If it's because of it's impact in the framerate, then they could make that option (1-2D models , 2-3D models poly-limited, 3-3D models with no poly limit [but still cubic like])

Nowadays every pc has a dual core, I can play recent games at 1280x1024 with 60fps just by turning the shadows off on my 250€ pc ._.


I also don't understand this paranoia about frame rates and polygons. Even my really old PC runs OpenArena with ease and each of the characters has around 1800 faces in it. Modern graphics cards and even software emulation can display that and much more without breaking a sweat.

If someone wants to play MT without mobs that will surely always be possible but really, sprites look really really really really lame. Especially when viewed from above.

Quake was properly 3D 16 years ago. The last time anyone used sprites in a "3D" environment was Rise of the Triads and that only worked because a person couldn't look up and down.
 

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by Gambit » Sun Jun 24, 2012 07:14

lesliev wrote:
slasheree wrote:
Gambit wrote:I think it's okay, but again a lot of limbs. Also there seems to be more than four points per polygons.


I can't understand what's the problem with the polygons ? Can you tell me please ? O.o

[EDIT] If it's because of it's impact in the framerate, then they could make that option (1-2D models , 2-3D models poly-limited, 3-3D models with no poly limit [but still cubic like])

Nowadays every pc has a dual core, I can play recent games at 1280x1024 with 60fps just by turning the shadows off on my 250€ pc ._.


I also don't understand this paranoia about frame rates and polygons. Even my really old PC runs OpenArena with ease and each of the characters has around 1800 faces in it. Modern graphics cards and even software emulation can display that and much more without breaking a sweat.

If someone wants to play MT without mobs that will surely always be possible but really, sprites look really really really really lame. Especially when viewed from above.

Quake was properly 3D 16 years ago. The last time anyone used sprites in a "3D" environment was Rise of the Triads and that only worked because a person couldn't look up and down.


It's not the graphic cards or frame rates, it's the engines. Even todays games are developed this way where each polygon is build using 3 points. (:
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by Jordach » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:05

Hmm, you have a point good sir, but, missing the point of Gambit's models: simplistic is better than complication; see Mo Mobs Mod in Minecraft.

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by lesliev » Sun Jun 24, 2012 10:11

Gambit wrote: It's not the graphic cards or frame rates, it's the engines. Even todays games are developed this way where each polygon is build using 3 points. (:


Why is that a problem?
 

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by wokste » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:21

I do not think we should have 2 versions (2D and 3D models). It will be double the work to make graphics. Therefore I suggest looking carefully whether 3D models would be a major preformance leak.

As far as my knowledge about 3D goes, there are 2 mayor tasks in trawing 3D models. First of all, the poly count. Each poly has to be drawn. As most of us know, the scene already contains at least 10.000 polygons. Therefore a few extra (30 per monster) will not harm it that much. Secondly, the animations require some calcluations. I think that for a decently complex model, this will be approximately 50 openGL commands (GLRotate and GLTranslate). I don't know how much this will cost, but I guess it will not be that much.

Given some guesswork, I think the drawing performance will go down by at most 10%. Of course, this depends on many factors, such as the complexity of the models and the number of monsters. Given this, I think we should do 3D models
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by slasheree » Sun Jun 24, 2012 13:33

wokste wrote:I do not think we should have 2 versions (2D and 3D models). It will be double the work to make graphics. Therefore I suggest looking carefully whether 3D models would be a major preformance leak.

As far as my knowledge about 3D goes, there are 2 mayor tasks in trawing 3D models. First of all, the poly count. Each poly has to be drawn. As most of us know, the scene already contains at least 10.000 polygons. Therefore a few extra (30 per monster) will not harm it that much. Secondly, the animations require some calcluations. I think that for a decently complex model, this will be approximately 50 openGL commands (GLRotate and GLTranslate). I don't know how much this will cost, but I guess it will not be that much.

Given some guesswork, I think the drawing performance will go down by at most 10%. Of course, this depends on many factors, such as the complexity of the models and the number of monsters. Given this, I think we should do 3D models


I think double the work wouldn't be much of a problem since everyone can help create models/sprites :)

[EDIT] Also, it would be good for old pc compatability
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by Gambit » Sun Jun 24, 2012 20:34

slasheree wrote:


interesting O.o


What I was trying to say was the graphics card isn't the concern here, it's how the software draws the polygons. I'm not an expert in those terminologies, so it was difficult for me to explain it.

Borrowing the phrase between software and hardware; You can have the greatest hardware in the world, but if the software is written poorly, then it's just an expensive door stop.

And what I was meant to ask you was the models you made, where they triangular to help the engine draw them properly?

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by slasheree » Sun Jun 24, 2012 20:40

Gambit wrote:
slasheree wrote:


interesting O.o


What I was trying to say was the graphics card isn't the concern here, it's how the software draws the polygons. I'm not an expert in those terminologies, so it was difficult for me to explain it.

Borrowing the phrase between software and hardware; You can have the greatest hardware in the world, but if the software is written poorly, then it's just an expensive door stop.

And what I was meant to ask you was the models you made, where they triangular to help the engine draw them properly?

Example:
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It's like the Valve engine (think of Left4Dead), I run it with graphics on max with full framerate, and some other games with different engine and worst graphics still lag my computer.
 

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by Gambit » Sun Jun 24, 2012 20:56

xD
Forgot performance issue, I'm not talking about performances. I'm talking about how scripts work.
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by slasheree » Sun Jun 24, 2012 21:10

Gambit wrote:xD
Forgot performance issue, I'm not talking about performances. I'm talking about how scripts work.


What about them ? XD
 

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by Gambit » Mon Jun 25, 2012 09:23

More Nyaa cat and some cake. :d

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by slasheree » Mon Jun 25, 2012 11:43

You have some Nyan Cat Syndrome or something ? ahahah
 

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by Melkor » Tue Jun 26, 2012 13:49

Gambit wrote:More Nyaa cat and some cake. :d

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awwww so cute!
 

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by sfan5 » Tue Jun 26, 2012 15:42

So cute
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