.:Quick progress report of DCM:.

For those of you who are following the Dark Crescent Mod, here is a quick progress report of what is done.

:Act 1:
Terrain - 85%
Triggers - 5%

:Act 2:
Terrain - 65%
Triggers - 0%

:Act 3:
Terrain - 0%
Triggers - 0%

:Hero Battle Arena: (Multiplayer)
Terrain - 100%
Triggers - 0%

-The Goods-
Abilities - 30% (Layed out, waiting for TFT to create them)
Graphics - 5%
Sound - 0%
Units - 30% (Layed out, waiting for TFT to create them)
Items - 50% (Layed out, waiting for TFT to create them)
Custom Hero System - 35% (Layed out, waiting for TFT to program)
Saving System - 30% (Layed out, waiting for TFT to program)
Custom Menu System - 10%

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Current Size of all maps (Nothing Imported) ~ 700KB
Approx. time spent mapping ~ 80+ Hours


The terrain has taken lots of time, it's just me doing terrain so it's taking some time. But when TFT comes out, perfecting the terrain will be a last priority.


With the first release of the DCM it will include (so far) 3 RPG maps (series), 1 Hero Battle Arena (with many different arenas and modes to play on), 2 other mini game maps and possibly 1 hero creation map (to make things easier instead of using just dialogs, then you save it and play)

Sounds good

:( Im doing this in hstc.

hmm sounds very interesting..

and if it isn't one of your trade secretsd i'd like to know how you could manage custom hero making (im guessing this means you will be able to select the spells your hero has)

I'm not giving out details, but an old site (Found here) has some information on it. Lots has changed since then, but that's all I'm letting the public know. Yes each hero will have 8 spells. You can also customize all the stats. You'll have to wait for it to be completed to see it.

---Act 2 has been updated alot---

Here is a list of a few of the things that will be included in the INITIAL public release (minus the maps and slk/txt files)

-Custom Background music (Multiple Choices, plus all the original blizzard bg)
-Some Custom Skins
-Slightly modified terrain set
-Many new icons
-Many modified icons
-Possibly some custom unit sounds
-Online Help File
-Possibly a few models

That's all I can think of right now, if I remember any more I'll add them. Note this is just initial public release, not the full release.



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This will not be a total MMORPG anymore, it will mostly be a single player RPG, but all the minigames are multiplayer (You type in a password [[VERY LONG! Your looking at possibly 100 characters so far]], for single player it is all saved on your hard drive via cache.)

how r u gona have 12 players on bnet? dont u need a few comps? and just by the looks of it, DLing this map from bnet will kill people. but it does sound like fun.

No you see it's a mod not a map. The mod will consist of the 100 megs, each map will be around 1meg. Shouldn't be any more than that. 12 Players, and a computer, that's all we need. (Yes it can be done, already has)

hmm.... sounds good then.