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[Thyrael]

Yes, I said, after DW has been released I gonna share some models with the community. Nostly Doodads. Cause the Unit models are special made for DW and won't be really usuable in other maps due to their size and many animations that work with the systems in DW.

Just to keep you interested, what so you think about this lovely guy?



But be careful, maybe hes gonna bite you!!11



And yes, he'll be able to fly ingame

 

[Just_Spectating]

is that some boss character?

looks pretty cool.

you should add some particles around him, give him that demonic energy type thing goin.

 

[Thyrael]

Yes, he is a special character in the game. And you will either hate or love him , depends on your way you choose to play.

Nice idea with that kind of aura. Maybe similar to the T4 helmet of the warlock set in WoW. that item adds kind vortex behind the wearers head. I will try something.

 

[CloudMax]

If you do not know what the "T4 Helmet of the warlock set in wow" is it is this:

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Thyrael, i like how you get inspired by wow items hehe, some people just dont understand that wow is a good game.. And even worse when people complain about items looking just stupid.

I think it will look great if you manage to make a aurea like that vortex

If the vortex does not turn out good, you could always try to make something based on the auras/ki from Tekken 5, it could turn out nice if you do it right.
I cant seem to find any good images of it..

 

[Thyrael]

Thanks for the picture. The effect of the bloodfang(my favorite set) rogue T2 set shoulderpads would be nice as well. That item emits some kind of black smoke or gas.

 

[CloudMax]

I agree that bloodfang is probably the most awesome looking set in the game
Here is a picture of the shoulders in different angles if you need it (i did my best to make the effect visible).

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[Dr. House]

....like i sayed once before dont spend your time on somthing for wc3 when you can make a real game xD this just looks so ....... awsome that you should make it a real game

 

[Slaydon]

You know its 10000 and more times easier to make a wc3 game than actually making a real game...

You're making awesome progress Thyrael, continue with the good work, this is no doubts the best project so far on hive.

 

[Craka_J]

Being an good artist and knowing vJASS isn't enough to make your own game. Especially if you want it to succeed when it finishes. =]

 

[Thyrael]

My last exam this semester will be done this monday. Nevertheless somehow I found freetime to continue working on the demomap Here are some impressions of the imperial district. You'll see a complete new set of houses etc. Doors can be opened/closed by your hero and the houses are completly enterable. Image how it will look after the interior has been added

 

[Azndragon]

Best purchase/sell system ever. Nuff said.

 

[Oziris]

*Faints* This is the best thing i ever saw in the whole wc3. I love every single one of your systems and the models are absolutely astonishing! It made me think of Oblivion/WoW/Gothic. Really nice job. I was wondering "this seems to be a big OPRG with in-door environment and large doodads", how are you possibly going to fit everything in a Wc3 map? sorry if I'm mistaken or didn't read the information but is it a campaigning possibly? and I've read somewhere in the thread your going to make a Multiplayer game for this OPRG. Is that true? if so, how are you going to put everything in the map without going above 8mb and making it similar to the campaigning?

 

[darkdoom]

center the eyes

 

[JakeCake]

*Faints* This is the best thing i ever saw in the whole wc3. I love every single one of your systems and the models are absolutely astonishing! It made me think of Oblivion/WoW/Gothic. Really nice job. I was wondering "this seems to be a big OPRG with in-door environment and large doodads", how are you possibly going to fit everything in a Wc3 map? sorry if I'm mistaken or didn't read the information but is it a campaigning possibly? and I've read somewhere in the thread your going to make a Multiplayer game for this OPRG. Is that true? if so, how are you going to put everything in the map without going above 8mb and making it similar to the campaigning?

8mb is pretty much in WC3, if compressing the models and textures just a bit, everything in this mod should fit just well. Things normally filling out games are not the models and textures, but rather the music/sounds & videos..

 

[Thyrael]

*Faints* This is the best thing i ever saw in the whole wc3. I love every single one of your systems and the models are absolutely astonishing! It made me think of Oblivion/WoW/Gothic. Really nice job. I was wondering "this seems to be a big OPRG with in-door environment and large doodads", how are you possibly going to fit everything in a Wc3 map? sorry if I'm mistaken or didn't read the information but is it a campaigning possibly? and I've read somewhere in the thread your going to make a Multiplayer game for this OPRG. Is that true? if so, how are you going to put everything in the map without going above 8mb and making it similar to the campaigning?

First at all, thanks fir the kind words But I have to point out that you missread/understood something. This won't be an ORPG. The first released version will be a single player RPG. With different maps you can travel to and back again, similar like the bonus orc campaign. It will come in a campaign, but not in a linear one. Thats the reason why I'm not limited to the 8mb.

There won't be a MP version of this for long time. For sure not before the SP is ready/complete.

 

[Hiude]

You, sir, have an ungodly amount of free time.

 

[Slaydon]

I wouldnt say so HIUDE, i believe he is using a code and lots of rects or something with the destructibles that hides and shows the pathable ones for each floor, and free time? he spent like 5 months, its pretty awesome for that time, quality takes time.

Im posting this as a positive message that u dont have free time, well maybe abit , and that its awesome, do u know how long those buidings took u too model?

EDIT: If u manage this in wc3, god knows how much u can do in starcraft 2

 

[Vercas]

It takes some liver too to make such quality systems!

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

Guy, you rock! Never seen better systems, i mean GUI, Much things added to screen, i have feel that i play WoW, not a just stupid RPG map. High Quality Models, Spells,Systems... (Just bad point, it's just for single player), But it's gonna rock... +Rep gived and... You're guy with much skills, vJass,moding,modeling,maping,texturing...
Can't wait to check demo. When it is gonna be realised?
Edit: Is here gonna be backpack? or something for gold(Money )...

 

[Thyrael]

I managed to get the shopsystem to work. That means players will now be able to buy/sell items from/to npcs.



Further I added an animated castbar that shows the progress of your casting.



Greetings
Thy

 

[Adiktuz]

the systems on this game really rocks. can't wait to play it...

 

[Orcnet]

Are you a Demi-God or something, your game will be a blast when its finish, keep up the good work dude!

 

[Thyrael]

New UI layout

I'm proud to present the new UI layout to you. As you can see I moved the Hero and TargetHUD down to the UI. Further I plugged the expbar right over the actionbarbuttons. And the beltbar for consumables like potions etc. is now located on top of the expbar. The beltbar will only be visible, when having at least 1 consumable item in your belt. Same for the targetHUD in the bottom right. It will only be shown, when you have a target selected.



Greetings
Thy

 

[Orcnet]

your amazing dude! hope you keep adding more features!

 

[Raven0]

Wow the features on this game are freaking epic. I can't believe i've never heard of this project before.

 

[Adiktuz]

the more time you work on this, the more it looks so far from wc3... epic job. ^_^

 

[Vercas]

I'm seriously freaked out.
Astonishing work, Thy!

 

[Thyrael]

Partymember HUDs and grafical selector added

I added a partymemberHUD for each of your partymembers. By left click on that HUD you select the specific hero, while a right click will order your hero to move to/follow him. I also added a grafical selector system, when ever you select a target. The colors depends on the behaviour of your target. And I added the first NPC overhead icons, in this case general merchant.



Further I also was able to increase the performance in MP that much, that you can expect a FPS rate by 50+, in most cases even 64. This was allready tested in some MP games, by me and my betatesters.

Don't wonder why you can't see much terrain in the screenshot. That's because I'm right now working in a Script Test map without much terrain, for faster saving/loading/testing. In the old map, loading/saving took like 45 seconds every time. Now that time is around 5-10 seconds.

Greetings
Thy

 

[Adiktuz]

neat... and I thought this was just SP... ^_^

 

[Lans]

OMG, this will be great!

But low spec computers probably wont be able to play right?

 

[Thyrael]

OMG, this will be great!

But low spec computers probably wont be able to play right?

First @ all, thanks that you like it.

I doubt there will be any problems when playing on a uptodate machine. To be honest playing on a XP or at least in xp compatibitly mode will run best. Further there are some techniques to tweak your wc3 registry to increase your FPS. Those information will be found in game as a kind of support.

Greetings
Thy

 

[Thyrael]

Rollsystem added

I'm very glad to tell you, that I managed to realize a roll system for higher quality items. This system will allow all players to either roll a dice for the dropped item or disclaim and pass for it. The winner will be able to loot it. If all player disclaim, everybody is allowed to pick it up. A click on the icon will bring up the item tooltip. The remaining time is shown by an animated progressbar.



It is allready tested in multiplayer. But I still have to catch some special cases like having a player disconnecting during the roll phase etc.

Greetings
Thy

 

[Adiktuz]

wow, cool addition as always... ^_^

(really wondering how you made those UI...0

 

[Thyrael]

All those Frames, Buttons and bars are based on DGUI by Ashujon who gave permission to edit and improve his script. I edited a lot and added even more, but basicly DGUI adjusts units to a virtual cam, not the WC3 standard cam objects, by calculating 3d vectors.

 

[Adiktuz]

ahhh...

will be continuously waiting for this project... ^_^

 

[Manoo]

Threal carefull using such amount dgui buttons, you may don't feel lag, i'm sure you have good computer, but not all players have it.

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

manoo don't worry, thy replaced unused parts like emptyslots with effects(attachments). also he tested it with 4 players, and there was good FPS. He cares about everything

 

[Adiktuz]

Maybe on my current comp it will lag, but mine was pretty old, and its a laptop... hahahaha...

but I don't think DGUI would cause much lag... special effects and unit/doodad spam (or you could say model spam in general) cause way more lag than anything else...

 

[Thyrael]

First when i encountered heavy FPS drops, I thought DGUI was the reason for that. so I started to optimize everything possible on that systems. That gave an overall increase of like 10 FPS. But than I was able to locate the real reason. It was the LOSC (LineOfSightCheck) that caused that FPS drop. Cause with the current multiplayer cam the LOSC isn't needed anymore, I disabled it. And since this very moment I have all through the game 60+fps, so do the people I tested with.

Greetings
Thy

 

[Adiktuz]

so far, the only map which brought lag to my wc3 was Gaia's due to the amount of its high res doodads...

 

[Raven0]

How in the hell did you modify the UI to such an extent. It's truly incredible.

Everything in this project looks so well done. I am truly excited for its release.

 

[Adiktuz]

@Raven0:

All those Frames, Buttons and bars are based on DGUI by Ashujon who gave permission to edit and improve his script. I edited a lot and added even more, but basicly DGUI adjusts units to a virtual cam, not the WC3 standard cam objects, by calculating 3d vectors.

 

[CloudMax]

@Raven0:

Which also could be explained like this:
Shit is flying infront of the camera making it look like it is a part of the UI.

 

[Vercas]

Which also could be explained like this:
Shit is flying infront of the camera making it look like it is a part of the UI.

THAT is epic...

 

[RaiN.]

THAT is epic...

Actually thats just how interfaces work in games be it 3d or 2d models(aka images)

 

[CloudMax]

Actually thats just how interfaces work in games be it 3d or 2d models(aka images)

Yupp. Just look at starcraft 2. That is a model that floats infront of your screen.
But then again, they did not attach it to cameras and shit using insane math like people had to do in wc3

 

[Vercas]

Yupp. Just look at starcraft 2. That is a model that floats infront of your screen.
But then again, they did not attach it to cameras and shit using insane math like people had to do in wc3

The unit portrait and the daylight globe in Wc3 are also 3d models.

 

[Thyrael]

Some new doodads

To show that DW is still alive(again after I finished my exams) I'll upload some screenies of new doodads I'm working on. The pics are in chronological order. Those terrain is part of a doodad testmap, so not final at all.



Thy

 

[Craka_J]

I just love how this mod is and how it is turning out. Great job Thy!

 

[Thyrael]

Working on the first Terrainmap for DW

I moved on to the first real DW map. Here are some WIPs what to expect.



I try to create a rainy depressiv feeling. Chech out the rain effects on water and ground.

The shown content is still WIP. Changes may happen.

Thy