Gargoyles RPG Thread

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Look at the mini map!

Happily, I'm on schedule for a beta release by the end of the month. Sure would like to get some beta testers with a little while to spare some Sunday on USEast's Battlenet server. I don't neccesarily have to be in each game, so more than 4 testers would be fine; the game is meant to be self-adjusting for more than 1 player.

That said, one player is damn hard, unless you cheat, of course.

Reply to this post if you'd like to volunteer a few hours for some crime busting fun.

@Freakazoid: Er, something I'm missing? The black grid lines you see are roads; the green dots (which you won't get to see in the final release) are townsfolk walking between destinations. You'll be allied to the citizens of Manhattan, but since they don't know you're there, they won't share information with you (i.e., have no shared vision).

Hey Biflspud, here's a few images of the hudson skin I tried. Nothing fantastic I only spent a few hours trying my hand at him...seeing how he'd go on the DotC model.
Cheers.

I like him! I guess I didn't clarify - I already stripped off the bear hoodie and shortened the Druid of the Claw's ears (attached).

Frankly, I'm happy with the recolor - too bad there's no way to give one of his eyes the scar, but that's the way skinning works.

Thanks for the hard work, Balthamos - once you're happy with it, I'd be pleased to put the skin in the game.

Hey Biflspud, I'm glad you're happy with it, I'll add some detail soon I suppose...by the way there's two problems though...the DotC has two claw like things sticking out of his left shoulder. Did you want those skinned into something? or did you miss them when remodelling him?
and secondly, strangely there seems to be trouble with the colour of the back of his tiny little skirt thingy, the rags that overhang the front of his pants appear to be pure red...I didn't check if this occurs normally with the standard DotC or something...but I dunno...you can only really see it if you zoom in and have him go north though...so I suppose it's....ok per se...anyway, I'll get onto the model soon. probably have it done in a little while. Mind if I add extra stuff? like perhaps rips in the sleeves? and like raggier cloths? maybe give his black bracelets little gold rims to them or something?

Edit: Ok I've finished the final skin although I haven't placed any rips or tattered clothing type things...I've added the horns (except they sort of blend into one looking horn) I added goldrims to his gauntlets and he now has teeth like hudson. Also I adjusted his beard line so it's more like the images you gave me from before. I assume you don't want me to post the skin here since anyone could use it then...so PM me your email address or something so I can send it to you. Ok?

By the way if there are any other skins you want me to make I'd be happy to help.
Cheers.

I left the claw thingies in there on purpose, I'm not sure if they add or detract much from the model at this point. I'll go ahead and strip them off later if it doesn't look too good (I think they show team color, which isn't a bad idea to have some of).

As for releasing it publically; it's your skin! Do as you see fit; if you don't mind others using it (not sure why they would, considering this is a skin for Hudson the gargoyle), feel free to post it here. I'll PM you my e-mail address either way.

If you'd be up for it, I'm also in need of a weaponless Satyr model for Brooklyn. The skin's all wrong (he's shaggy), and I'm not sure if something could be done to give him a beak - that's more of a model issue. Do you think you could do something with these:

Demona, Brooklyn, Demona and Brooklyn

Demona is on the "yeah, that'd be cool..." list of things to skin; I'm running tight on space, so if you get to do Brooklyn, I'll compress the map using HeavyLocker and see what sort of file size we're looking at.

Oh, and if I didn't already re-indicate this to you, you're in the beta.
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u will need to model edit the sword out for a satyr. I was thinking that since Brooklyn has a haunched figure maybe use the ghoul model? Or a troll cos of the hairstyleemote_sweat

Nertz, I was hoping I could save a little map space by skinning or model editing, but not both.

Ghouls DO make excellent gargoyles (there are a few generic gargoyles using ghoul models in 994 AD), as do trolls (ditto) - that's a great idea, iceslushee. I'm leaning more towards troll, althought the face is still all wrong...

Wildkin DO have beaks... but they also have a lot of crap that will have to be edited out. They're also a little husky for Brooklyn (although that can also be tweaked). What do you think?

I say go for it, though yer right he might be a bit big but u can edit that for in game anyway

Ok Biflspud, I've sent the email with the skin, and I'll try my hand at Brooklyn by the way, what model were you thinking I should use for Demona?

Succubus, definately - she's got the wings already, and she's female.

Ok as strange as it sounds I couldn't locate the succubus skin or model in the mpqs...using the warcraft viewer 2. Anyway I have a screenshot of hudson and brooklyn...Brooky has a little problem...his original satyr skin was difficult to figure out what parts were what on his body and his forehead looks really bizzare...basically there's a huge lack of light being added to the very top of his head...I assume it used to have some satyr hair covering it but I removed it with the alpha channels...either way here's how he is currently, it's only his portrait which is whacked...

They work for me. Wow, that's ideal! I'm not terribly worried about the face; the skin's the most obvious part of the model, and that looks spot on. Well done, man!

For Demona:
Try Units\Demon\Demoness\Demoness.blp and
Units\Demon\DemonessBlue\DemonessBlue.blp

They're in the war3x.mpq.

Quick grocery shopping run for me, then I'm burying myself in triggering for the rest of the day - next week should be no problem. Thanks for your help, Balthamos!

hey! get back to work, hehe wheres the updates man? I forgot to check up on this thread

Mmm, I'm wondering the same thing actually, but he's been distracted by a new map he started working on...I hope Biflspud will comeback to Gargoyles...:S or at least give some info on it.