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Terrainist needed for new open RPG

01-26-2004, 12:53 PM#1
Dinadan87
I'm working on an open RPG and need some good terrain because I suck at terrain. The reason I need good terrain is that this is going to be an overall good map, not like others. I'll be using a custom skill system, item system, and quests.
The skills that a hero uses points to learn are more like "categories" for skills. Things such as "shapeshifting", "holy magic", "Swordplay" will be learnable. You buy your actualy abilities form a shop, but abilities require points in the categories (Just for example, Bear Form might require 2 points in Earth Magic and 1 in Shapeshifting, while Summons Bear might require 2 in Earth and 1 in Summoning). Some heroes have same skills as others (Paladins and Priests will both have "Holy Magic", but the Paladin's skills are mostly self-defense and anti-undead, while the priest is more support and buffing.) Many heroes can have the same spells as others, but they will essentially be different overall.
Now for the item system. Weapons and armor play an important role. You can use one weapon and one armor. The weapon does a lot, rather then just adding damage. Most weapons will affect attack speed (some are slower, but stronger), many will give % change to attack instead of a number, some have other effects like life and mana leech. Bows are actually charged items. When you run out of charges (arrows), the bow stays in your inventory but you can't use it. Once you go to town and get more arrows, the bow becomes fully charged again. Armor will work differently. The type of armor you wear will actually affect your armor type (Light, Medium, Heavy, Unarmorred, Hero). The reason is that whatever armor you where, there is an invisible unit that is centerred on you, but enemies will attack it instead of you. When the invisible unit takes damage, it sets your health to match, so most players will not even realize that it is their invisble armor unit actually taking hits instead of them.
Now, finally the quests. Quests will be randomly generated by certain NPCs. Occasionally the NPC will have a quest, if a player clicks on the NPC during this time, the player will get a quest. The quest objective is randomly chosen (kill certain monster, find certain item, bring an item to someone, and others) and then specific stuff about the quest is decided (where the quest takes place, what monster you have to kill, what item you have to find, etc). Many quests will spawn additional quests when completed, so the quests are connected and still randomly generated. For example, when you retrieve an item for a quest, there is a chance that you will automatically get another quest to bring the item to a certain character.

Now once again, I really need terrain. I don't want to spend so much time making this great if the terrain is going to blow the whole thing, so please help if you can do terrain.
01-26-2004, 01:44 PM#2
xein
How big is the map?

What theme is the map?

how many players do you plan?
01-28-2004, 03:10 PM#3
alowan
I can make some tarrain 4 ya if map aint super big..:D
01-28-2004, 09:10 PM#4
Dead-Bunny
I could take this one as a bit of a challenge. OKay, I like doing terrians but I'm not *omfg* good. I leave all the triggering and stuff for you guys. I only make the terrian. If I get some free time, I will show you a screenshot or two of my work.
01-28-2004, 11:03 PM#5
Dinadan87
Players will be between 10-12.
Whatever size you feel appropriate is fine by me. I'm no expert on terrain, and certainly don't want to hold anyone back by giving them limitations. As for style, the terrain really defines the style more then anything else, so I'll leave that to you also. I don't want you to make something your not good at after all. Show me some shots of different terrain in whatever styles you do best, and I'll decide who I want to help me. Thanks for the support!
01-29-2004, 08:59 PM#6
Dead-Bunny
.. Sorry. I can't do it. I recently tried to make a screen shot thing and I don't remember a THING about the World Editor. I'm sorry. There is alot better than me.
02-01-2004, 07:22 AM#7
Dinadan87
Due to editor problems, I will be unable to work on this project for a short time or longer, but as soon as this is resolved I will continue my work.
I'm still looking for a terrainer, and I havn't given up on this project, but if I can get someone to do terrain for me, it will motivate me more...