[Role Playing Game] The Legend of Van Eastmore

[sonofjay]

-Ability based combat system -Puzzles -Interactive Objects -Stats have custom effects(e.g. Coordination increases chances of opening a locked chest, door etc.) -Custom Stats -Custom Equipment Upgrade -Detailed terrain -Custom story -Different looks for the sword you're holding -And many more

-Watch the vid on youtube. -There is no need to mention the Kick ability tooltip error. -Strength, Agility and Intelligence wasn't edited to be Fitness, Coordination and Spirit yet. -The light was gone for some reason around Van Eastmore. -Credits to: Whitewolf8 for playing the map and for making and uploading the vid to his channel.

[TD] What is this about?

[TD] Why the remake?

The Legend of Van Eastmore or TLoVE is the third attempt of creating my second oldest
project for Warcraft 3.

It follows the story of James Van Eastmore who had a tragic past with his Father
and both brother died in a war, his Mother died due to depression and his Sister missing.

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Always wanted to finish this old work, I learn quite a lot here with the
two previous attempts. After a long break on this project and learning more stuffs
I think I can finally pull this one now.

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What can we expect on this one?

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It will be a mix of old and new ideas with emphasis on the latter. Partial lore
of the story like the War between the Gourlan Empire and Dehouthar Empire,
the Devantia taking over after the war and Helving being the King after his father died
will remain.

The new thing is that instead of being a Sand-box type and the character being
a lowly being slowly climbing to the top of the hill, TLoVE will focus on James Van Eastmore's
struggle on finding clues to find her sister. The climax of the story was also change
from being focus on the struggle of helping Helvin to seize the
Kingdom to the more mysterious, mythological story of dark magic and
necromancy and what it really is for the world of Vexta.

The story will be darker, bolder full of lies and conspiracy. James Van Eastmore
will be on a one tough hellish road to find his Sister.

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Meh, you might not finish it again

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Don't care, I do what I want. But if you'll ask if I dropped
Darkness Call ORPG, no I didn't.

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Special Thanks To:

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Whitewolf8 - For creating the vid and for uploading to his youtube channel APproject - For giving me advice concerning puzzles

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Images(Open in new tab)

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Following the Progress

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SonofJay's Playable Terrain- Terrain WIPs will be posted here. News about the project progress will be posted in the thread. The thread will only be edited for layout changes or adding important information about the project My Profile - If you have some questions that doesn't really concern the project just visit my profile. I want the thread to be clean.

 

[Heinvers]

You sexy bitch

 

[kakuzu]

Interesting project , i will follow this

 

[Chaosy]

this is revamped? why not reopen the old thread?

 

[Tickles]

This definitely looks darker and better than the previous version. The terrain is great, the lore seems intriguing, and the character reminds me of Van Helsing (which is badass). I'm looking forward to getting a chance to play it

Your light problem in the video might be that Whitewolf8's light settings weren't on high, or maybe it's just Warcraft's annoying limit to how many light sources you can view on your screen at once. It would be better if the background of sword icons were black instead of white, because the white stands out too much and pulls away from the dark environment in the current screenshots and video.

 

[sonofjay]

@Heinvers, Kakuzu, thanks guys.

@Chaosy
Its been 2 years since the last post on that thread, it will be awkward specially with those 200+ messages. This way it will be easier to actually track the progress and beside I'm making the terrain, systems/triggers and everything on that utilizes the editor from scratch.

@Tickles

This definitely looks darker and better than the previous version. The terrain is great, the lore seems intriguing

Thanks, I hope to keep the quality that way if not better.

and the character reminds me of Van Helsing (which is badass).

I used Kitabatake's BnG Swordsman.

Your light problem in the video might be that Whitewolf8's light settings weren't on high, or maybe it's just Warcraft's annoying limit to how many light sources you can view on your screen at once.

I actually attached the light source to the character by the sphere technique. I'm switching to making a trigger for it for less possible bug like this.

It would be better if the background of sword icons were black instead of white, because the white stands out too much and pulls away from the dark environment in the current screenshots and video.

Hmm, I'm actually planning to make all the items look like that, thanks for pointing that it doesn't blend well, save me from reworking all the items if I already made them.

Anyway, how bout this?

 

[Tickles]

Yeah, that goes with the interface perfectly

Something I realized recently is that importing TGA files for icons allows you to alpha out backgrounds to make the weapons look like they're actual objects placed inside the inventory. Here's an example map in case you were curious about going Diablo style.

 

[Heinvers]

Pretty <3

 

[sonofjay]

Something I realized recently is that importing TGA files for icons allows you to alpha out backgrounds to make the weapons look like they're actual objects placed inside the inventory. Here's an example map in case you were curious about going Diablo style.

Hmm, sounds cool, it kinda look awkward without a border though so I added one on this one. What do you think? I also added this black like border to still give that dark feeling it isn't that notice-able much but it looks really different without it.

 

[Vinz]

Subscribing.

I'm awed by the abilities. <3

 

[Heinvers]

Is that a jump ability? o.o

 

[sonofjay]

What? You mean the ability that uses the Attack-Ground icon? No, it is the "Interact" ability.

 

[Zunariel]

WoW awesome!

 

[Vinz]

Remember to leave highlights/weak glows for the item icons though so they don't blend too much with the inventory.

 

[Tickles]

If you change the inventory slot images (in UI\Console\Human\HumanUITile03) to the background you had before on the sword, items with alpha backgrounds would fit better than having the current backpack icon behind them and still appear as actual objects when dropping, moving or clicking them. The blue backpack images in the inventory are pretty ugly anyway when using such a nice ambient atmosphere.

Is that a jump ability? o.o

That would be an awesome ability to use across cliffs with the alpha tile

 

[sonofjay]

@Zunariel, thanks bro!

@Mythic, hmmm, what do you think? That really is the best that I can do. :C
With Glow - Without glow


@Tickles

I'll keep the custom UI that I have for now, would be a bummer if it go to waste but unless someone is willing to make the inventory to look like Boody's D3 interface then I'll gladly use it.

I'm using alpha time on most places but I don't want to add a Jump ability since it is not necessarily needed for the map which will revolves around puzzles and beside I don't want people saying that they can jump out to unnecessary areas like the cliffs in the castle(which is made of alpha tile so they'll be floating).

 

[Heinvers]

The one without the glow looks better imo.

 

[Moy]

Lookin' forward to this

 

[sonofjay]

A little update. I finalize the item/inventory system.

Items will be fix and cannot be drop but they're upgradeable if you find the needed "fragment".

Slot1: Helmet
Slot2: Armor
Slot3: Weapon
Slot4: Special
Slot5&6: Potions

Equipment's have their own specific stat that they give example is that weapon+ 1 gives bonus physical damage and accuracy this will be the same type of stat bonus that the other upgrade will give.

Helmet

Armor

Weapon


I can't get creative to what stat the Helmet will give, I can go generic with bonus hp but that is kinda lame since armor and weapon have custom stats I can also give it the custom evasion(I'm using a custom one for the abilities but I'm also using it for the default attacking of creeps) that I'm using but it kinda doesn't make sense that you can evade because of a helmet.

This is an example of a fragment:


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@Heinvers, I'll stick with the no-glow then.

@Nightmare, Me too, I hope I can finally finish this one but the progress was way better than I expected so I'm optimistic.

EDIT:

Oh yeah, I have a question, do you guys prefer creeps dropping health orbs(like on my Darkness Call map) or you want me to reset HP after every combat?

 

[Tickles]

I vote health orbs. It gives a sort of realistic sense that enemies leave behind some of their life force for the taking.

The stat bonuses on equipment and rankings sound pretty cool. Maybe you could call a helmet's evasion 'block' instead? I can imagine a helmet would block a fair amount of disorienting/lethal blows to the head.

 

[Vinz]

The no glow icon does look better, but I meant an outline (so if the weapon is dark it can still be seen through the bg).

I vote health orbs. It gives a sort of realistic sense that enemies leave behind some of their life force for the taking.

Great idea! I vote for this too.

 

[sonofjay]

Health Orbs then!

@Tickles

The stat bonuses on equipment and rankings sound pretty cool. Maybe you could call a helmet's evasion 'block' instead? I can imagine a helmet would block a fair amount of disorienting/lethal blows to the head.

Yeah, that will do, thanks for coming up with that one! I was actually pretty hesitant of making a block stat since there will be no shield for the map but this will do!

The no glow icon does look better, but I meant an outline (so if the weapon is dark it can still be seen through the bg).

Yeah for a second I thought that is what you meant but I'm not really good at making icons. I can just edit it at minimal rate.

Welp, next thing I'm working on is the ability system(not the one that you can see on the Hero). Info about the system will be posted when I finish making it. Meanwhile feel free to check my gallery from time to time to check if I release so new terrain wips.

Thanks guys for the support!

 

[sonofjay]

I know, I know. I said that I'm posting terrain wips on my gallery but let it slide this time since this is my absolute favorite of the terrain that I made so far.



Big thanks to APproject for sharing some high quality doodads to me.

 

[Heinvers]

You're doing great at integrating wow models with highres ones <3

 

[Vinz]

Lovely environment!

 

[kakuzu]

Awesome terrain !

 

[sonofjay]

Some changes on Creeps combat resulting to changes on the Custom stat. Creep's attack is now avoidable by moving out of the way of their attack. With this I removed the evasion and block stat because that will be unfair for our creeps and remove the physical defense because it seems redundant with the "Damage Reduction". In compensation with this the damage reduction was broadened to two types which are "MDR - Melee Damage Reduction" and "RDR - Range Damage Reduction".

Here is the stat board:

And this is me dodging the spider's attack:


I like the stats, it simple but it doesn't crack your brain for figuring out how the stat works.

 

[Vinz]

I like the stats, it simple but it doesn't crack your brain for figuring out how the stat works.

Indeed, it's easy to comprehend now and requires more skill. Good job!

 

[APproject]

Oh wow, your terrain gives me some ideas. Really well made.

 

[kakuzu]

How about a blood esence item , at 10 kills you receive a bonus ?

 

[sonofjay]

Indeed, it's easy to comprehend now and requires more skill. Good job!

Thanks!

Oh wow, your terrain gives me some ideas. Really well made.

Really? I thought I'm the one who grabs some ideas from your Archeron's project XD. Anyway, I'm glad that you liked it!

How about a blood esence item , at 10 kills you receive a bonus ?

Doesn't need an item, I can just make a trigger for it and shouldn't be that hard but it is simple stuffs that requires balancing so I'll only consider it when I'm partly done with the project.

 

[MoCo]

The terrain looks amazing; beautifully crafted with great art design. The story seems to be promising and original too.

Keep up the good work, looking forward to this.

 

[sonofjay]

Thanks! Its cool to hear good words from you.

Same with Darkness Call though. This will be on-hold for a while since I'm helping a popular ORPG that is already uploaded in the map section.

 

[Idaero Ace]

son.of.jay back to action yay

 

[sonofjay]

This will be on-hold for a while since I'm helping a popular ORPG that is already uploaded in the map section.

Not yet! Although I just sent the map that will be included to the next update for the ORPG that I'm currently helping so maybe I have time to work on some little things. Not promising anything though.

 

[Heinvers]

Good to know that the Love thread goes on