More progress

Here's the weekly update :)

I finished the saving system.. It's great!
- You can save from the field menu (There might be more restriction tho, like you would need to be at a save point to be able to save, Uhm, what do you think?).
- You return to the main menu of the campaign by pressing F6.
- From the main campaign menu, you can Load your game or Reset it.

Notice that I never use the war3 saving system.
The new saving system is very easy to use and I couldn't find any bug in my testing.


I did some custom loading screen for every map. You can see the HeroRPG background with a little picture of the map in the middle. It's cool, remind me of KOTOR loading screen. I may add a little description of each area in the loading screen.


Did a lot of skinning this week. I use footman instend of bandit for the bad guys, I did an uniform for each main kingdom(3) and that for the footman, officer and the archer model. I redid Kelen (the demon hunter) from scratch, he doesnt look stupid anymore...


Changed the way the floating text show and disapear durring battle. Now it's look sweat and its bug free.


Reworked a bit the intro cinematics.


Fixed a lot of small bug.


I tryed to import the rocking arthas model from the download section to replace the current arthas but all my attemps have failed so far (my computer froze each time I open the test map with the model in it) I dont know what can cause that crash.
I would appreciate your help on that, can you please download that arthas model and put it in a test map(with the path set)? It would be very helpful.
The person who do this for me will be added to the in-game thanks list.


That's about all for today, stay tuned. Feel free to ask and comment.

I think that this arthas-model is messed up since it didnt work with me, too! In the commentares of the models somebody also said that it doesnt work for him, so I just think that something's wrong with this model.

Looks like ya did a bunch of things this week! :D

Yeah well I wasnt schedule this weed-end so I had plenty time to work on this.
Thanks for the model info :) I'll ask someone to fix it.

Guess what? Another update. I've finished the shop system (The old one didnt work anymore with the interface so I had to create one from scratch). Whenever you walk near a shop keeper(or else) a multiboard replace the menu and appear on your screen, you can then see all the info of the items/gears/else. You simply press the right arrow then the item is yours :) When you minimize the multiboard(or press ESC), the menu come back and you can walk away.

So finally, you can equip gears and become like double time stronger. I had to balance the NPC stats because the party became too strong with the gears equiped.

I'll work on story and cinematic a bit now I think.

Perhaps some screenshots would be nice to see the cool work!
The new shop system sounds cool. :D

I'll take some screenshot tonight :P

The promised screenshots...

The rest of the ss.
NOTE: As you see there's a lot more skinned unit than before, some I did myself and some I edited(Took them from the download center). It will be hard to put the name of those people in the credit(so many lol).

I think I'll will try to skin the campaign menu now. Wont be easy I fear.

Shots look promising, thanks for showing! :D

Looking awesome, keep up the good work! :D

I'll will comment the screen now.
01. You can see loading screen of the forest, all area have a similar look. I may had text below the screen.

02. You can see the new skin for the demon hunter (100% by myself)

03. The bandit have been replaced with footman and they have their own skin (I edited the skin)

04. This one show the Darhall soldiers' new skin. (by myself)

05. This is mount Dibur

06. Mount Dibur again, this one show how high one of the path is. The view is splendid in-game.

07. Another shot of the mountain, you can see a secret path.

08. The new skin of Lady Laren (shes the only one with this skin), Laren role was to take care of the Princess (educate her).

09. The new save option, I will add save point later but for now you can save anywhere.

10. This is the shop multiboard, a shop may have up to 20 items so I add a line for each if needed (This shop has 4 things to sell so 4 line...)

11. Same as #10 but this is a forge. BTW, I've finished the inn too (but forgot to take a screenshot)

12. This one show that you can use item on the field.

13. The campaign menu, you can see that there is 2 options, one for load and the other for reset. The load button appear after the first time you saved(this mean you only see one button the first time you play).

14. One of the new cinematic, you can see the "farmer" that helped the Captain.

15. Front shot of Lothar (Edited the skin)

16. An in-game shot of the mountain. Nothing special to see :P

I thought you would never get the save system done. Nice job

eheh it took me about 1 hour to do.

All I had to do was to make a backup of the data each time people press Save. It took me some hours to think about this easy way tho.

You know what would make this absolutely perfect?

Arrow keys :D

this project gets the most work done on it, at least, publicly shown work... that's good. :)