Everwood - The unique ORPG

[Lapa]

Can you tell project progress?

 

[Dr. House]

Is ther anymore news on when the beta comes out?

 

[Vercas]

Look one post above yours and follow the instructions.

 

[Anachron]

Guys you maybe could need my SpellBar system.

Example

 

[Lapa]

Is this project dead?

 

[RoboHippo]

Guys you maybe could need my SpellBar system.

So, does it show how long it takes to cast a spell, similar to WoW, where it goes from grey to green with the spell's completion?

@ the devs: Will you have floating text for damage? It could make it look a lot more dynamic. Just the classic bang-fade would be awesome, and fairly easy to implement.

 

[Anachron]

So, does it show how long it takes to cast a spell, similar to WoW, where it goes from grey to green with the spell's completion?

Yes, exactly what I was doing. Showing the spellname isn't a must, can be easily removed.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Please keep this thread on topic. We're not interested in the bar system, as we can easily create such things by ourselves.

 

[Anachron]

I see. And since you sound arrogant, I have no interest in your ORPG.
(I was just trying to get some of the rpg basics into your orpg.)

 

[Palaslayer]

Progress?

 

[Tukki]

I'm pretty finished with the Necromancer spells for the beta build. The Ranger's are on their way, not yet done, though. Grabbed my CoD MW2 copy today, but I'll finish the Ranger today, or tommorrow.

Anachron, this is not an advertisement thread, and please, for your own sake, stop being so childish. Also, what RPGamer said is true, texttags aren't exactly rocket science.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

A quick update: The Neromancer and Ranger skills have been completed for the beta, and we're working on the other classes, which have already had their spells designed by Wolfe. Most, if not all, of the spells utility libraries have been coded, so everything remaining is just to code them.
I'll soon recode the Quest System in Zinc and start creating the quests available for the beta, and fix the bugs currently in the map.

 

[Does]

Hey, Role Playn Gamer, could you show me how to make the transparent system and the mount system, Credits will be included and +Rep?

 

[Whaleboobs]

Sounds awsome, keep up the good work!

 

[Lil_Scubby]

Ive been trying not to post in this thread to keep from distracting your team from finishing the beta. I cannot wait to try it and give you guys feedback on it

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Don't be afraid to post, reading peoples post usually makes me wanna work on the map. It's your posts that has kept the project alive,

 

[Palaslayer]

Work harder. !!!!

 

[Dr. House]

work work work work work work work work work work ? does this helps? cause if it does than im a happy person cause it creates a circle like this. You read this = makes you wana work on map = project faster done = makes us people happy = meaning evryone is happy

 

[Goffterdom]

Work !

 

[thedeathunterxx]

lol that definelty isn't a circle X_X

but ya howz the project coming ?

 

[terradont]

Just stating my never-ending support.

Keep it up, we all(almost at least) appreciate your hard work.

 

[De.eL]

O.K. I'm speachless! I'm also doing an RPG at the moment (going to show my ideas later), but this beats all! I was dreaming of this all the time!! AN ATTACHMENT SYSTEM! Boah, I need this too

I will defenatly play this!

GL

 

[meOme]

Starting with "Bridge to Stratham, the starter city", the screenshots in the first post aren't working anymore.

 

[X-OMG-X]

You have to visit your photobucket account lol!

Btw, WORK LIKE YOU NEVER WORKED BEFORE!

 

[Tukki]

I started to script some of the NPC system yesterday, and it'll be pretty big. So far I'm currently doing some layouts for a WorldTime system that will more or less control the NPC system.

NPC-controlled units will not stand at some specific point throughout the game, they'll move and do random, and not-so random, things. The events for these random, and not-so random, things will be controlled by, or at least depend on, the WorldTime system.

 

[thedeathunterxx]

for random you mean :

- visit the resturant for some coffee.
- kill some random creeps somewhere
- visit the bank for some money
- go to his house at night and sleep..
... ?

 

[Tukki]

pretty much, yes.

But it will not stop there Some might scream if they see you, while others may start to follow you. Who knows?

(Notice the bolded parts: it's not guaranteed in any way that those things may appear in the map, they are only examples)

 

[Rainbow Evil]

Nice. I like Tukki.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

You have to visit your photobucket account lol!

Some of the images in the threads first post is uploaded on my account, while some are uploaded on YohoboFire's. I sent a mail to Yohobo concerning the issue, so I hope they'll be working again soom, and if not, I'll upload the screenshots on my own account.

Nice. I like Tukki.

Quoted.

 

[Tukki]

Mwaha!

Just a small update to satisfy ye hungry hungry felhounds =3

WorldTime is now, or should at least be, bug free. Fixed some scary bugs, and added some strange stuff.

 

[olyvian]

keep up the gj (Y)

 

[Lapa]

When it come out?

 

[Gagas2009]

Ideas are really amazing, i am waiting for this map so much!!!
Any ideas when the first beta will be ready? GOGO

 

[Tukki]

Somehow the new patch (1.24c) makes my newly coded test maps unable to load in WC3. Development hasn't halted, I'll continue coding stuff, but it'll probably go a lot slower, since testing is disabled.

EDIT: The reason seems to be a flaw in the code, works as of now.

EDIT#2: Made a short video (~10 sec) showing the very basics of the NPC system. Trying to poke RPGamer into posting it on the first page.

EDIT#3: Currently it's a really basic video, so we'll wait until we got some nice features built into it (NPC-Talk anyone?)
Finished the NPCTalk camera module about an hour ago, only the 'real deal' left Which, of course, will be a little more complex than the NPC system itself.

 

[Whaleboobs]

Post the video as a link ASAP

 

[Wolfe]

STATUS REPORT

• The Everwood ORPG team is preparing you all for your first taste of our project by preparing a demo centred on the starting area
• Nine unique concepts have been formed to create nine unique heroes with their own play styles and game mechanics
• The terrain is being detailed and cleaned for your astonishment
• Tukki & RolePlaynGamer are working to code our systems and spells
• Professions are being organised and object data is being assembled
• Everwood ORPG players will now have the opportunity to have male OR female characters

THE DEMO

• Clean and polished terrain with detail
• Houses with their own interiors that may be accessed
• One quest line comprising of five entertaining quests with three other individual quests
• Nine heroes, each with three spells to introduce you to them and their game mechanics
• Two professions to be revealed: Apothecary and Runebinding
• A taste of all of our unique features and systems exclusive to the demo
• A fun and interactive environment

 

[Gwy]

good news!
Thank you for ending our waiting

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

It will take some time to finish the demo, as we still need to code a couple of core systems, but after that development should go faster.

 

[CHA_Owner]

Glad to hear that this project is going so good also i was wandering and i might have asked it before but will there be saving/loading in the demo or are you going to wait?

 

[PurplePoot]

The thread (the first post, that is) doesn't really tell the reader anything other than you spammed a bunch of models from the model section, abused AddSpecialEffectTarget, and took a few screenshots from angles at which the terrain would be viewed ingame. "To the next level" etc may be good buzzwords but they suck for actually describing your map, which I hope is what you want to do.

 

[zolga]

The thread (the first post, that is) doesn't really tell the reader anything other than you spammed a bunch of models from the model section, abused AddSpecialEffectTarget, and took a few screenshots from angles at which the terrain would be viewed ingame. "To the next level" etc may be good buzzwords but they suck for actually describing your map, which I hope is what you want to do.

you re harsh

 

[thedeathunterxx]

purplepoot. thats just rude...

this ORPG kinda tells way more then what other threads tell about THEIR RPG's...

 

[PurplePoot]

And truthful. It doesn't take that much work to make a thread sound like a map overview and not a nigerian scam or corny ad.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

The thread (the first post, that is) doesn't really tell the reader anything other than you spammed a bunch of models from the model section, abused AddSpecialEffectTarget, and took a few screenshots from angles at which the terrain would be viewed ingame. "To the next level" etc may be good buzzwords but they suck for actually describing your map, which I hope is what you want to do.

I understand your oppinion and respect it. In my oppinion, the beauty in this map is not the visual, but the amount of detail, and that's our main focus with this map. The screenshots in the first post are all just there to tease people and get them interested in the map, as we want to keep most of our ideas a secret until the map is released.
By the way, AddSpecialEffectTarget wasn't used for any of those screenshots. They're all there to demonstrate how the systems will work, and most of them are more than a year old, so they've all been updated several times.

And why on earth would me make a "nigerian scam"?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

What's wrong with Nigerian scams all of a sudden?

 

[PurplePoot]

By the way, AddSpecialEffectTarget wasn't used for any of those screenshots. They're all there to demonstrate how the systems will work, and most of them are more than a year old, so they'll all been updated several times.

I was referring to mounting, equipment, etc.

And why on earth would me make a "nigerian scam"?

Analogy. I was saying the first post sounded like a corny marketing ploy.

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Basically, I think that you should focus more on gameplay and not useless features. For example, riding systems don't set your RPG apart from others very much, regardless of whether you think they do, unless you make them somehow integral in the gameplay (see Mount&Blade, for example).

 

[Wolfe]

Currently, we've been focusing on gameplay. However, gameplay can be boring without additional features to give it that... oomph.

"Our goal is to bring Warcraft III maps to a new level with this, bringing the entertainment and quality level from MMORPGs to the Warcraft III engine. Ofcourse you cannot bring the MMO feeling to a 12-player map, but you can bring a lot of the features. With this in mind, we have filled "Everwood" with a ton of well-known and liked features from popular MMOs such as "World of Warcraft", "Guild Wars" and ”The Elder Scroll: Oblivion” to bring you the absolute ORPG experience."

This quote, from our first post, basically says that we have planned to implement many features. However, our goal lately has been to make gameplay as entertaining as possible with and without our custom features.

And if possible, could you please change the title of the thread to Everwood ORPG instead of Everwood - the unique ORPG? A lot of people has blamed us for calling it unique, and we wish to end that and focus this thread on the map development rather than wasting five or six posts explaining what we mean by "unique".

 

[thedeathunterxx]

to be really honest, the name of this thread SHOULD NOT be changed.

there is a reason why you called it the " unique " ORPG. There is always a reason. Whether the name is true to the product or not, it really does not matter....

why ?

BECAUSE THIS IS THE MAP DEVELOPMENT SECTION

there are almost NO compeleted maps here on this section of the forums. Why should the name fit the map, when the map hasnt even been fully created yet ?
The whole point of having a nice cool name is to grab attention and to set a goal for what you want to achieve. If the title is " the unique ORPG " then what the author intends on doing is making the finished product a UNIQUE ORPG

If purplepoot where to have his/her way, it would be called. " The ORPG "

i mean wow that sure sounds exciteing i want to play that game...the OPRG =O ( heavy sarcasm here )

 

[CHA_Owner]

Glad to hear that this project is going so good also i was wandering and i might have asked it before but will there be saving/loading in the demo or are you going to wait?

So can someone please answer my question?

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Saving and loading will not be included in the demo, as some things might get changed later on and that would force us to recode the save/load system. It will be included in the first stable release.