LavaBridge.v075

[Moderator]

15:50, 12th May 2014
MiniMage: Looks cool, filesize is neat. Creative.

 

[WerBackIII]

Maaaan, what a great idea!

 

[PlankingWolf]

This is pretty awesome.

 

[Hantoo]

nice!

 

[kellym0]

thank you WerBakIII, glad you like it

thank you PlankingWolf, its good to hear praise! stroke my ego just a bit more.. just a bitttttt mor- lol kidding seriously tho guys tell me if any thing should be fixed or even improved.

and test it in game guys its alot better live trust me.
and in case people are wondering when those 3 other lava slag doodads are coming, trust me, they are coming, and they are gona be great! just trust me!

just a heads up though theres a contest coming up and im going to be partaking in that so those remaining 3 lava doodads are either coming in tonight, tomorrow, the next day, or not for the next 4 weeks cuz I think that competition starts soonish.


and thank you Hayate

 

[Heinvers]

A bit simple but useful.

 

[kellym0]

thank you Heinvers

yea it was meant to be kinda simple. but esthetically pleasing as well.

 

[Heinvers]

I saw that you have a single rock version too. Yes it is esthetically pleasing.

 

[kellym0]

I aim to get the other 3 single variations out soonishly. glad you like it

 

[GreeN!X]

Cool, might be useful for me.

A couple of things though,

1. I suggest not showing or maybe just lessen those bubbles and shockwave things on stand animation since if you think about it, the rocks should already have settled and not cause disturbance to the flowing lava so it should not create as much disturbance to it as in the death and the birth animations.

2. There is one unused texture. Also, try removing those textures that are not visibly used, e.g. ice texture and the glow.

 

[Skypsi]

seems useful, although the textures look a little too stretched especially on top of the model. should try using cliff textures or something they might work better though may be annoying to wrap, it seems possible if the original stone bridges used them, also would make them match the tile-sets. I imagine this would look awesome with the dungeon natural cliffs.

 

[kellym0]

@GreeN!X

1.) the bubbles are necessary because the rocks are not settled, not even during stand, that's why they bob up and down in stand, to look unstable, dynamic, like the bridge could melt and sink away any second. the bubbles need to be permanent because the other lava doodads I have are going to be equipped with them as well as the yellowy orange water rings, which are both to help hide the vertexes in the ground from vision when doing the up and down movements. this matters if your bridge is not on perfectly flat land. as long as the rings and bubbles are all visible, the ground doesn't even really matter too much. but all the particle emitters are just eye candy, without them, I feel it looks bland. I feel they are as weakened as I feel comfortable with. other wise terrain tiles show through them too powerfully such as lava cracks.

2.) the ''Textures\Ice_Ice.blp'' texture is being used by the bridges ''surface area'' bridges work similarly to invisible platforms, there is a platform of vertexes that crosses the top of this model, if you make an ice bridge doodad in game, and walk a unit across it, you'll notice hes not on the burgs them selves, but above the ice burgs, it uses ''Ice.blp'' to make the entire rectangle all along the bridges surface area invisible by having the rectangle on an alpha channel. because I don't know enough about editing bridge models, I left that part alone for a reason.

the other 2 textures are textures im still messing with in this model and am still experimenting with to use with particle emitters.

@Skypsi

This texture is just to match my other lava burgs. I couldn't find a good texture that had red going to black, and then that same black, on top

the texture I did use is exactly what I wanted, which was the blood red, going to darker and darker grey, to black, which is hard to find in the mpq-- the texture how ever is very small. but mostly my reasoning is if you look at the outland rubble doodad you realize its actually a pretty good texture, just a bit stretched on something this massive like a bridge. that's what the emitters are for, to draw ur eyes away from the kinda stretched tops to whats on the bottom in the cracks, but other wise there is no good texture in my opinion any way, to replace it with.

but If and what ever the cause, im going to try very hard, not to use terrain cliff textures. they are just awful.

glad you like it GreeN!X

glad you like it too Skypsi, your guys comments are always appreciated.

once this contest is over il focus more on these emitters again

 

[EmoBrother]

Glad to see more Lava models

 

[kellym0]

glad you like them EmoBrother

 

[InfernalTater]

At first, I was like

But when I realized what it could do, I was like

4/5.

 

[kellym0]

thank you inferno, glad you like it =D

 

[Mr.Bear]

how do I change the model of a bridge to this model?
when I do it, it doesn't work for bridges, but works for doodads only.

 

[Mr.Bear]

could you help me how to properly use this model for something like a platform or a bridge please?

 

[kellym0]

the bridge model its self is ugly, and I broke it some how.

your going to need to use the invisible platforms method, because something about bridges is inherently flawed when making custom models, I did not realize this when I started this project.

Edit 2018: (lol)

ok I set the animations flags to ''non looping'' on the birth and the death animations, this may help some trigger editors or even normal map makers with the buggy ice bridge duplicates.

 

[Mr.Bear]

I created an invisible platform but when I place the bridge so a unit is supposed to cross to the other side of a river, it doesnt, the bridge stays below water and not how its supposed to be

 

[Barade]

Really useful but is not shown in the Reforged World Editor.