Warhammer Club

[Mechanical Man]

So you won't use animations from previous dreadnought?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

the leg length and the general height differance won allow it. the walk animation is the hard part and i want this guy to kinda waddle like they do in DoW, not stride like my blue one. so might as well do a fresh new animation. mesh is pretty much the same though.

 

[HailFireer]

Hm 40 animations? I dont know how to change animations ^^. I just select the model and computer auto selects nesesary animation.

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

oh. nothing to worry. i am going to animate my models with names like Upgrade First and Upgrade Second and so on for each different weapon. all you have to do is give it a upgrade ability it like you would do with a human tower, upgradable to archer or mortar tower. i will make a simple map once it is complete as a demonstration if you want.

 

[Crusad3r91]

To Pyramidhe@d: gj so far, the new dreadnought is awesome! My only concern are the legs... they seem a bit too straight to me but otherwise it's perfect ^^

To Mechanical Man: well, the campaign has been stuck for a month or 2 now ^^' ...
anyway, I can repick it anytime and do some work... are you sure you want to see some WIPs? The only avaiable map as a river in the middle and a little terraformed part in the middle xD. The work I did was mainly adding proper sounds to the units (extracted from DoW - btw, do you think I could make a campaign with those sounds?) and making them as closer as possible as the codex. I only have the IG's codex, so I can't make an exact counterpart of Orks and such in that campaign. Anyway, if you think you can give me a little hand, I can start making the campaign again ^^

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

phew. thank god you told me now. it would have been pain to fix it later.

 

[Warhunter]

Really nice dreadnought!
That's will get much rep and things when you upload it.

 

[Mechanical Man]

What was the gameplay like in that map?

 

[Crusad3r91]

Well, I just had some concept, I didn't actually make anything. Anyway, I thought about something like the original tabletop game where you have to choose your army and then do your mission. I had in mind a cover system and a hiding system (I already made both of them in other maps and they work ^^) plus a RA3 co-commander-like system (for example you could call an artillery strike from your co-commander's Basilisks).
I also wanted to make a system for huge battles in which you had to choose a very big army and then choose something to start with: with the passing of time and by capturing strategic locations you would receive reinforcements and such.
As, for the close-to-codex thing, I tried making EVERYTHING equal to the codex: guardsmen squad are organized in platoons, 1" (should be inch) is equal to 50 range-points in the WE (so a guardsman has a range of 1200 due to the 24"); I changed something like the Leman Russ' range (shorter), otherwise it would have been way too much.
Well, that's it! Like I said, it's mostly in concept stage, but I'll gladly restart making it if you think it was good enough =)

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

finished that dread if anyone is interested
here

 

[Warhunter]

Great!

Is it team colored?

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

it has team glow only.

 

[Warhunter]

ok...

 

[HailFireer]

This is perfict for a hero. Abilitis are to change weapons. That would be nice. And rocket lunchers are perfict for gobos abiliti ^^

 

[Pyramidhe@d]

if anyones interested
here
worked on it for the whole day. my fingers are numb from the touchpad

 

[Warhunter]

hehe, nice model.

 

[Warhunter]

Always nice as always.

 

[Velmarshal]

Keep it up.

 

[HailFireer]

Now we have 2 drednaughts with meele. Yay.

 

[HailFireer]

This group turned from W40K discusion to worshiping Piramodhe@ds modls ^^

NOTE: I dont mean it as a bad thing.

 

[Warhunter]

It's a good thing. ^^

 

[Warhunter]

kinda of. Why not talk about bouth?

 

[Velmarshal]

As long as he makes Space Marine models I don't mind.

 

[HailFireer]

More tau would be nice ^^

 

[Tyranid]

I other news the DOW 2 beta began yesterday for all Soulstorm owners. Beta for everyone will begin on the 28th of january.

 

[Warhunter]

How to enter the BETA then?

 

[Velmarshal]

What do I get if I have entire collection of Warhammers?

 

[HailFireer]

I am gona go and buy entre colection in Roda. Thatwill mean that I will have 3 CDs of Down of War, 2 CDs of Winter assault, and 1 CD each for last 2 expanzions XD.

 

[Tyranid]

The beta runs in Steam. Also Dawn of War 2 will require Steam to run.

 

[Warhunter]

Will it require Steam when it's finnished? Then that's a big minus!
Hate when games require programs like Steam to run. :S

 

[Tyranid]

IMO Steam is good and I don't really see whats so bad about needing it...

 

[Warhunter]

Well, I don't like when i always have to start my games whit Steam, i have hotkeys to most of my games, but to show that i am playing have have to start WHIT steam. that's sucks.

 

[HailFireer]

I done some thinking and being a pilot of the drednaught isnt so bad. Dont ask me why I was thinking about that.

 

[Velmarshal]

Do we get a serial or do we enter the soulstroms one in the steam?

 

[HailFireer]

WTF is Steam? A program like Demon tools?

 

[Warhunter]

nope, Steam is an community program. From this program you can start games and so on. But it can't mount anything. it's just an sort of extra program. It's also required if you want to play online one some games, like Counter-Strike.

 

[Warhunter]

I have some great news for the Soulstorm owners! Here's and guide how to join the Beta.
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=211968

 

[Velmarshal]

So it is as I said.
EDIT: Woo Hoo I just got it on my steam games list.

 

[HailFireer]

I have garena. It can even run pirates on the net.

 

[HailFireer]

How long will the BETA last?

 

[Velmarshal]

OMG the game is...
...made of WIN.

 

[Warhunter]

have no idea how long the beta will last.

 

[Crusad3r91]

I've got the beta and, really, Velm is right: Dawn of War 2 is truly an awesome game! The reduced base management is just a brilliant idea and the new combat system (well, not really new - never played Company of Heroes?) is just perfect. =D

I just had a little issue with audio: I couldn't listen to the units voices and the "announcer" one as well. I ran the beta on a computer with Windows 7 (beta version too) and, besides it's recognized as Vista, I couldn't hear those sounds... do you know what could it be?? =|
EDIT: I managed to fix it

 

[Warhunter]

I don't have soulstorm, But the 28th Beta will be able to everyone, some one who knows how to join the beta then?

 

[HailFireer]

There was an explanation. I sopose you just need that program. And a computer that can run it ofcourse.

 

[HailFireer]

Wish my comp could run DOW II

 

[Warhunter]

I like my comp.

 

[Warhunter]

Any one here using XFire?

 

[HailFireer]

No. What is Xfire.

I have an idea. Lets all donate to me so I can get a new comp XD

 

[Velmarshal]

Why would I use Xfire it has few useful features.