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Awexome, man! Really excited to see you solved your problems with exporting. Looking forward to in-game glorious master race. xDGlory has arived! Big thanks to Tauer for setting me on the right path when it comes to getting these blasted animations working, but here we go! Obviously not finished yet, only 3 idles and a run animation made yet, but's a step towards something!
Well that's a grand master plan, if I do say so. I won't depress you with the statistics; I'll just say that "taking baby steps" is important in a thing like this. : P Since you are planning on releasing things, that means that even if you don't finish, it won't be for naught. : )I've been considering them a little too detailed for being normal units myself, I just can't seem to help myself, my eventual plan is to make something all around pandaren, new UI, new units, Voice overs, completely new doodad sets and ground textures, all that goood stuff.
so if I don't screw up horribly I should be able to get it all to work nicely with eachother.
I'd in the end be super happy to develop an entire campaign around it all.
For the polycount, if it helps, take a look at, say, the Footman/Grunt or Raider/Knight. RoC Heroes should be the max (polies), with RoC units being the minimum. Just my $0.02
*reads last line*Traggey said:As for the blade servant I was thinking perhaps he would fill a more heavy duty melee position like the human knights. *shrug*
When it comes to actual gameplay, sadly there my skills end! Building techtrees and planning out abilities and all that stuff sadly isn't my cup of tea!
*spits out cup of herbal tea*
*cracks a smile*
*cracks knuckles*
Funny you should say that... Because building techtrees & planning out abilities & stuff is precisely my cup of tea, to the exclusion of pretty much all other skills (esp. modeling)! So you and I might be able to help each other. : )
Specifically, I've had a Pandaren faction (partially) planned out for some time now... And like everything else I do, it was done ignoring
Starting from "in-game" stuff, we basically only have
- Pandaren Brewmaster hero (Breath of Fire, Drunken Haze, Drunken Brawler, Storm,Earth,and Fire)
- Storm (wizard; has Dispel Magic, Cyclone, Wind Walk, Resistant Skin)
- Earth (tank; has Pulverize, Taunt, Spell Immunity, Resistant Skin)
- Fire (warrior; has Permanent Immolation, Resistant Skin)
So that helps. Moving on, we should also consider Blizzard's famous April Fools joke; a faux racial write-up for the Pandaren (gold mine)! In it we find:
- Shodo Pan (martial hero; combines wardancer & geomancer)
- Geomancer (wizard unit: earth elementalism stuff)
- Wardancer (warrior unit: blade/war stuff)
- Pikeman (warrior unit: melee (pike) & ranged (spear)
So that's even better. Now to just sorta brainstorm a bunch of random Oriental/Asian concepts that we would Expect to see:
- CHARACTERS
- samurai
- sumo
- ninja
- fireworks
- monk
- transcendent
- shogun
- CREATURES
- dragon (chinese)
- turtles (kappa)
- fox (fire/ninetails)
- kirin/qirin/qilin/etc
- yokai
- oni
- BUILDINGS (Names)
- dojo
- pagoda
- monastery
- shrine
- temple
- (bamboo)
- Great Wall
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So yeah! That's just a sampling; I have loads more but I'm realizing just how big this is (& somewhat off-topic); if you'd rather discuss more elsewhere, let me know. : )