Screenshots

[Adiktuz]

oh... I see... two models for each unit... how nice...

 

[TinyTeaser]

haha nice xD

 

[Thyrael]

Item dropmodels

I started to create the needed models for items dropped on the ground. To reduce the amount of required work/time armorparts will share those models, even if they might not fit perfect. Weapons will get their own set of items.

Picture

P.s. the Gloves will be scaled down a bit, don't worry

 

[sonofjay]

Damn, every update you post seriously drives me crazy.

 

[Luorax]

That UI is great, BTW

 

[Deleted member 212788]

Well, I got to handed to you, you've created such a beautiful terrain for your map that it actually looks above most maps made in SC2, I'd say that any day of the week! Seriously, I personally hold you in high regard for devoting so much time and effort to this project. I am supporting this project till the end!

 

[Thyrael]

WIP of the Questmenu

Even when the snow is falling I stay busy and keep working on Darkwind RPG. Here is a WIP of the questmenu.

Screenshot

 

[Luorax]

I can only hope the project ain't gonna get abandoned, like many other awesome ones.

What happened to the interface BTW? The health & mana bars and the icon bar? Where are they?

 

[Thyrael]

What happened to the interface BTW? The health & mana bars and the icon bar? Where are they?

Because of the limitation to hide the WC3 UI those elements took away to much space of the screen. By using the normal WC3 abilities the hotkeys don't need to be set by the player himself. For sure some would have done that with ease, but most are to lazy. The bars have been replaced with an dynamic barsystem, that enables/disables when entereing/leaving combat to minimize the occupied space.

 

[warrior701]

nice update，hope a beta version coming soon

 

[sonofjay]

Pure win <3

 

[Thyrael]

Banditmodel

A bandit as you'll meet them all over the world. Bandits will appear using different types of melee weapons and bows. Maybe you'll encounter magical skilled ones as well.

screenshot

 

[Deolrin]

Nice! I'd like to see a renegade wizard, as well. ^^
Still think you need to get someone to texture the humans' skin. It still looks pretty bad.

 

[Thyrael]

2.5D Models

I'm practising 2.5D modelling. Here you'll see a tree like I'll use them in Darkwind RPG.

Image

I just noticed the evil FPS in top right corner hrhr

 

[MiniMage]

Oh hey Thyrael, welcome back. ;D

 

[Pinzu]

How did you create those buttons above the selected units ui?

Your project looks amazing btw!

 

[Thyrael]

Working on the playable Demo

Hello folks.
Just wanted to tell you, that I'm on the playable demo. Quite a lot to do, but allready fun

Content shown on this screenshots is not final and my change until release!



I used photobucket, because TheHive kept giving me stupid error message that the format of the screenshots(*.jpeg) is invalid for upload...

 

[warrior701]

really nice work, hope for a beta version coming soon.

 

[Arcisal]

It's really great to see that this project, despite having considerably less attention from the masses has still managed to survive and pull off some amazing quality map-making. You manage to outlive most mods.

 

[Manoo]

Why u removed that old darkwind style, this one very diablish.

 

[Thyrael]

Finally something new!

Hey folks,

I've been busy with some Reallife. But Darkwind is still kicking. I'm proud to present the reworked and improved talenttree of the Warrior class. To be honest this is only the Defensive part of the tree. The Offensive will be on the right side. This talentsystem is inspired by Path of Exile, because I really like it's style and this will be a tribute to the game. Because of that you'll only find passive talents in the trees.

Talenttree

In addition to the revamped talenttree I also improved the way acitve skills are learned/used. You are able to learn more skills than you can use at a time. You can have up to eight active skills in your bar and twelve in some kind of "skill backpack". And you can plug every skill you want into every slot you want to match them your playstyle the best. To move skills simple click them and click the target slot. The interface is shown on the screenshot below.

Skill Buttons

To be able to use up to eight active skills at the same time I had to mod the Warcraft III controlbuttons. I moved them down to the bottom line, removed the attackbutton and changed their hotkeys to Z(english, Y in german), X, C and V (Their functions will be edited in some way as well, cause you won't need patrol at all).Now you are able to use the upper eight slots for your active skills. Those are controlled by the hotkeys Q, W, E, R, A, S, D and F.

Control Buttons

Sorry for the long time this update took, but I think it was worth to wait

Best regards
Thy

 

[Deolrin]

I like how you modded the control keys. That's very impressive.
The talent tree is utterly confusing to me. I have no idea what's going on.

 

[Thyrael]

The screenshot shows like the half of the complete talenttree. Each class will have their own. You start in the very center. From that on you can follow every path you want. Each level and some events will give you a spendable talentpoint. Each talent you unlock by spending a talentpoint will unlock all talents that are linked to it. By that you can take many different paths and combinations. The talenttrees only hold passive talents like stats bonusses or damage increase etc. Active skills are learned from spellbooks that are sold by merchants or dropped by monsters.

Edit: Arcisal is right. The circles stand for themes like "One Handed Weapon" or "Shield" etc. The buttons with a "+" on colored ground add +5 to one of your attributes. Orange = Strength, Green = Agility, Blue = Intelligence and Red = Bravery(Moral=Healthpoints).

 

[Arcisal]

The talent tree doesn't just involve "talents" anymore. They're more like skill points where you add to the desired attributes you want and it branches off to different "playstyles".

The yellow symbol in the center is not a button I believe. It's just to represent what that circle of "talents" are supposed to be centered and composed around (eg. defensive, offensive, etc.)

At least, that's what I believe.

But other than that, great job!

EDIT: Damnit, I got ninjaed.

 

[warrior701]

very nice work!

 

[GnomeDefender]

I can't wait to play it.

 

[Thyrael]

New Screenshots

Hi there.

I'm working on the terrain and got some new screenshots for you. Most of the houses you see can be entered.

Village

Watermill

Entering Buildings

Everything shown on these screenshots is still WIP and my change at any time.

 

[Adiktuz]

Wow, that's awesome...

 

[sonofjay]

More awesomeness!!!

Its really a shame that only few people are taking a look on this project.

 

[Thyrael]

Graveyard WIP

Thanks for your support

Another WIP. This time a graveyard area.

Screenshot

Everything shown on the screenshot is WIP and may change at any time!

 

[Deolrin]

Not sure about the random sprouts of fog. I think a single, big, continuous fog would be better.

Also, I hate to bug you about it, but I still think you should re-make the actual character's skin on the texture.

 

[sonofjay]

I think a single, big, continuous fog would be better.

This

and about this pic

Entering Buildings

Don't you think the house is a bit small? Not to mention that it looks small with only one unit inside.

 

[Thyrael]

About the fog. The fog is animated and spreads random clouds that build up a continous layer over the terrain. But that takes some ingame time. The screenshot was simply taken to early to show the full effect.

About the size of the buildings. Buildings in the midage area were that small because of architectural limitations. There are bigger buildings/houses. That explicit on is a watermill. with a second floor to store the goods. If I make the building way bigger they also become to high. And to show the hero behind them I would have to hide the upper parts which means you can see inside the buildings without being in them.

Edit: Added a new fogversion which looks better in my opinion. Feedback welcomed

New fog version

 

[Just_Spectating]

More awesomeness!!!

Its really a shame that only few people are taking a look on this project.

I've been looking at this for a long time,
even though i no longer play warcraft 3, (and won't be going back) this project is just entertaining to watch grow and revolutionize the uses of the warcraft editor
great job Thyrael, you are truly an inspiration

 

[Thyrael]

I've been looking at this for a long time,
even though i no longer play warcraft 3, (and won't be going back) this project is just entertaining to watch grow and revolutionize the uses of the warcraft editor
great job Thyrael, you are truly an inspiration

Thank you for your support

Here is a new WIP of a farm/fields area I'm working on.

Screenshot

 

[Adiktuz]

really awesome pics... it looks so much more than wc3... I really wanna play a demo of this for a long time now...

 

[Goldendemon]

Very impressive!
Makes me happy that DW isn't dead yet and will never be - hopefully.

Due to rl and new interests I quit Warcraft so yeah.. :/
However, keep it alive! I promise to play it as soon as its available

 

[Thyrael]

New screenshot and Updates

Heyho @ all.

To much time has pased since the last update. Therefor heres some candy for you folks.

Screenshot

Because this thread is visited more often, I'm going to post the latest Updates here as well.

Updates:

Professions:
I implemented the first profession into the Demo. Now you can search the land for precious minerals and mine them(screenshot from above).

Monster/Enemies:
I improved the stats of Mobs to better scale with the badassness of the heroes. I also adjusted the required Exp for level up as well as the Exp granted by killing mobs. The Mobs AI has been improved too. Now Mobs will use Skills depending on their current situation.

Quests:
For now I've added 4 questslines with a total of 9 quests to the demo. I'm aiming for a total of around 20 quests for first release.

Dialogssystem:
Until now there are over 60 dialogs in the demo. I'm not sure how many there will be on release, maybe something like 200.

Terraining:
I've finished the two starting areas and the first Hub(starting camp). For release I'm aiming to add 2 additonal areas for slightly higher levels.

Models/Textures:
I completed several models for units, doodads, armor/weapon attachments, projectiles, sfx and items. There are still many to do, but I'll try to reuse models in a clever way to shorten the time until release of the demo.

I hope this keep you motivated to follow Darkwind on its way until release. And no, I can't say exactly when that will be

Best regards
Thy

 

[sonofjay]

Freaking profession! And well your terrain is lovely as always but damn it took me a few seconds to actually spot the hero in that screenshot.

Good job as always.

 

[Just_Spectating]

Freaking profession! And well your terrain is lovely as always but damn it took me a few seconds to actually spot the hero in that screenshot.

Good job as always.

I agree, perhaps you should make units and heros contrast from the background just a bit by brightening their textures a little

 

[Adiktuz]

really awesome... but yeah I agree with these two about the hero...

I implemented the first profession into the Demo

There's a demo out already?

 

[sonofjay]

There's a demo out already?

I think he meant it for the upcoming demo.

 

[Thyrael]

Just wanted to let you know, that DW is not dead yet. I'm trying to show you some new screenshots of progress as soon as possible. But fact is, that I don't have that much freetime like in the past.

Best regards
Thy

 

[Thyrael]

Combo System Works!

Hi folks

Sorry for the lack of updates during the last months, but I got a job so I had/have less sparetime. Nevertheless I'm still on my project.

I managed to realize a dynamic combosystem. As a melee character you'll be able to learn different combo attacks. Then you have to initilize the desired combo and press the right buttons in the correct order and the mentioned timeframe. Combos will deal much more damage than normal attacks, but only if the attack is performed at the correct time.

Screenshot

I'm still working on the many many required models. As you may notice I updated the hero model as well to match the improved style.

All I can say is that I won't let the project go into nether. I will finish it, but I still can't give out any information when this will be. Please be patient, it will be worth it.

Best regards
Thy

 

[PurgeandFire]

It's nice to see an update. It looks really nice. A video would probably showcase it a bit better. *wink*

Btw, what hotkeys will you have for those combo abilities?

 

[Thyrael]

You can bind your combo and attack buttons to the keys Q,W,E,R,A,S,D and/or F. You'll have 3 basic attacks and up to 5 spells and/or combo inits in your active bar. In addition to that you cann store up to 12 spells/combos in some kind of skill backpack and freely switch between them. Each combo requires a different combination of the basic attacks and can be upgraded in level to learn additional strikes increasing the length of a combo.

 

[keko4321]

any news or a dead project ?

 

[andreariona]

I'm wondering is there any demo released? It would be a waste if this wonderful works would ended up abandoned and only just become a showcase.

 

[warrior701]

I'm wondering too~~~

 

[Nebuli]

Is this project still active?