[Role Playing Game] Garden's Tale

[Kazeon]

Hola. I started working on the project again today. And I will be posting updates here as well from now on.
I'm working on intro cinematic atm...

 

[Kazeon]

Hello. As been said, I'm working on intro cinematic atm. But I'm kind of struggling to decide the animation for the game's logo: should it be sliding from left to right? Or sliding from top to bottom? Or simply fading in?
It's quite nerdy but if someone happens to care, please help me to decide

 

[IcemanBo]

It's hard to compare visual stuff without seeing.

 

[Kazeon]

Alright, here are two versions of the intro, I cancelled the left to right sliding thing tho. And the music hasn't really been adjusted yet, the logo is supposed to appear after the music ends. Anyway please, let me know what you think

(HD is recommended)
Sliding Down:

Fading In:

 

[IcemanBo]

If the intro is finished completly then the second one looks better for me.
If after this intro, the screen stays, and a manu appears, or such (maybe start/load), then first one.

Because I think second is smoother for movies as standalone, but the thing that slides down and stays would maybe be a nice introduction for a menu background.

 

[Kazeon]

Well, after the logo animation's done, it will display 'press start/space to play' text only. So what do you think?

I kinda agree tho, without a menu maybe fading in is better. Err.. this is tough! :S

EDIT:
I will be improving the thread...

 

[IcemanBo]

If "only" a simple text is printed, idk, maybe then still second one is good.^^

 

[sluk]

Yeah the second is better in my opinion

 

[Tickles]

Fading in is almost always better for softer and more relaxing music. If you had a sound effect with the logo, such as the sliding chain sound when you first open up Warcraft III, then the first one would work. But otherwise, I also vote for the second one.

 

[Kazeon]

Yosh! It's been decided. I will use fading in animation. Thank you for your thoughts guys!

 

[Chaosy]

I think this thread got unwatched for me as well.

HIVE PLZ

 

[Kazeon]

Well, now that's weird..

Anyway, eventually I decided to use the sliding down animation. Because... maybe it's not very visible in the video, maybe due to my not-so-HD recorder setting, but there is blurring away screen effect before the logo appears. To me using fading in animation doesn't feel to fit the blurring effect well.

Now, next problem is, is it better that the logo appears after or at the same time with the blurring screen effect?

 

[Kazeon]

Hey guys, I'd like to ask you another opinions

Is it better that the intro cinematic played only once when the player start a new game? or every time they play the game? This is important because it will affect how the game loads and how the game introduction is presented. But I can't easily decide it, again Any thought is highly appreciated!

 

[IcemanBo]

If it's skipable, each time seems ok.

 

[Mr.Goblin]

You guys are INSANE! O.O

 

[KILLCIDE]

So when can we be blessed with a new model for "You"? The WC3 villager totally kills the vibe for me xD

 

[Kazeon]

No worries! New model on the way (rip ftw)

I'm still improving my animating skill tho, so it may takes a lot of times to finish

 

[KILLCIDE]

If I had just seen screenshots of gameplay with that model instead of the WC3 villager, I probably wouldn't believe you that it's a WC3 mod.

How big will he be in comparison to the villager now? He looks really tall from that screenshot.

 

[Kazeon]

Just a little bit taller than the villager. The pic was shot in 3ds max so can't really judge the size based on that pic.

 

[Daffa]

As always, charming and creative. Promising as ever @Quilnez
I'm waiting for the first Alpha release. This is gonna be a ground breaking one.

 

[Kazeon]

Oh! I forgot to share the newest WIP video here! I will also add the previous WIP video. I suggest you to watch all of'em till the end to give you a slight idea how far we've come:

WIP #1

WIP #7

WIP #8 - Newest -

All other episodes: LINK

 

[Kazeon]

So I have finished a new feature where you can actually chose your response to any conversations with villagers. Each different response will have different effect to the villager's affection level. And the main thread has been updated with newest screenshots.

 

[IcemanBo]

Such interactive world is I guess very much work!, but it's so cool.: )

 

[Kazeon]

Hmm.. I think it won't be that much, cz not all conversations can be responded. It's not as much as the villager activity system anyway (hopefully).

 

[IcemanBo]

I also tried to implement such thing some years ago, and after some time I ended up in spaghetti-berg because I didn't structure it right away from the begining in a good way.
And adding / removing dialog optios which influence other behavious or quests, or so was just a pure pain at some later point. But I don't remember anymore what exactly...^^ But I was also more unexperienced back then..
If you structure it properly you for sure will do it, ^^ ... curious to see such things, once implemented in a good and interesting way.

 

[Kazeon]

Yeah, if we talk about the whole conversation system, I also think it will be painful later at some point. Not to mention they will have different conversation contents depending on villager's affection level, time/place, events, etc. I only organized it as decently as I could. The code looks like this btw:

        call Conversation.clear()
        call Conversation.addContent("Welcome to the Crescent Town. I'm Rodger, the mayor of this town. And this is Reeche, my assistant")
        call Conversation.addContent("Hello there.")
        call Conversation.addContent("How's the trip?")
        call SetUnitVertexColor(ConversationBox.box, 255, 255, 255, 255)
        set ConversationBox.finish = ConversationBox.start() == 0

And the respond menu dialog structure isn't much different.

 

[Kazeon]

Hello! So now I will get some helps from the almighty artist, @Wisdom. He will make character portraits which will be displayed atop of the conversation box (to show who's speaking). He demonstrated his skill on a little test I gave:

I'm sure his service will make some significant improvements to the game!
But well, now I will need to make a better and more HD conversation box to match his quality ^^a

 

[Kazeon]

10k views already! Thank you for visiting and I hope it worth your time ^^

 

[Kazeon]

We have a new HD conversation box now ^^

Intro cinematics are almost done. Only need to make some control and farm features tutorial cinematics.

 

[Kazeon]

This is how the intro cinematic looks like by now (available in HD)

Just tell me if you have any input.

 

[Lord_Marrowgrath]

This is how the intro cinematic looks like by now (available in HD)

Just tell me if you have any input.

Nice game-intro. U should decrease movement speed animation time of units. Npcs seems to be walking on the moon (sorry for bad grammer ) I like intro.

 

[Kazeon]

Update. Mainly focused on improving the UI and dialog system.
- Added proper vertical offset to some letters and re-scaled'em
- Added custom symbol and line break feature
- Character portrait is now attached complete with expression variations
- Half-finished control tutorial

Meanwhile, Wisdom has proposed some half finished character portrait for the mayor:

 

[Daffa]

So fat... xD

 

[Nordmar]

this is an interesting concept. It reminds me of some phone apps.

 

[Deleted member 238226]

Update. Mainly focused on improving the UI and dialog system.
- Added proper vertical offset to some letters and re-scaled'em
- Added custom symbol and line break feature
- Character portrait is now attached complete with expression variations
- Half-finished control tutorial

Meanwhile, Wisdom has proposed some half finished character portrait for the mayor:

i really like that video

 

[xXxMKDxXx]

Is this even warcraft3? OMG Epic

 

[Shinejack]

so.. is it dead or what?