Why Gaias page in Hosted Projects is empty?

[ALEXz407]

This page contains coolest projects on hiveworkshop (if I understand it correctly).

And the page dedicated to Gaias is blank!

Can we do something to make it best project page on hiveworkshop?

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Simple: because I never had the time to make something fancy there.

Feel free to make a cool design for me to submit.

 

[ALEXz407]

Feel free to make a cool design for me to submit.

On that page, you can only use BB codes?

I sketched it in Gimp (in attachment)

And I can try to make this design with BB-codes, but with content generation could be problems.

 

[FunnyDog]

There's already a bit of (old) material in case you didn't see it yet/forgot it.

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/gaias-retaliation-orpg-649/project-information-159560/

 

[ALEXz407]

Gaias Retaliation ORPG frontpage is alive!

 

[S0ulseeker]

Should add some of the meta fan made videos too of boss fights and such *nudge nudge* (looks awesome)

 

[Ihazdialup]

Like the oh.my.god videos, i think about the foothills bosses and not S0ul's crummy videos

 

[kevs926]

the creeps and quests are pretty unique. Should have a spot in features

 

[ALEXz407]

I need your help!

Need to do 21 screenshots with resolution 1280x960x32 and 35 gamma (bar right above left border of dropdowns) and highest video options. They must contain:
- around 6 screenshots with nature/world/city/indoors showing awesome terrainer work.
- around 5 screenshots with bossfights (d1, d2, d3, ogres, foothills).
- around 10 screenshots with each advanced class and some fancy effects from skills (in different 25+ areas).

Also. I would be very grateful if someone with a good knowledge of English will correct errors in texts.

Should add some of the meta fan made videos too of boss fights and such *nudge nudge* (looks awesome)

Like the oh.my.god videos, i think about the foothills bosses and not S0ul's crummy videos

One youtube video will be enough. More videos will make page messy.
It is better to make a new awesome video with all available features. You know, five years have passed since used video was made .

the creeps and quests are pretty unique. Should have a spot in features

Added, thanks.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Awesome work Alex! I'd love to use this on the project page.

The only issue I have is that maybe there should be more details about the story. But then again, there is not much one can write there without spoilering. Maybe some excerpts from the Lore thread? On the other hand, I like quick and short introductions, so why not?

Feel free to use some of the screenshots I posted as a preview from the upcoming winter terrain aswell.

 

[ALEXz407]

I made some 'generic' screenshots and will add them as placeholders.
It would be much better to show more 'living' screenshots, but they must be made well (with resolution proportions 4:3 to prevent UI stretching).

 

[ALEXz407]

Page is ready to deploy! Just open the archive, open txt file inside it, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

When page will appear in "Hosted projects" I will replace my message above with link to project page, for SEO purposes.

P.S. Don't forget about short description in project list. I think "What are you going to do, when earth itself rises against mankind?" will look attractive, because neighboring project have way too much text here.

P.P.S. You can change screenshots to better manually later.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

What about the trailer video... someone who maybe wants to create a vid that is more up to date?

 

[doubtful]

maybe wait for the next version with the new areas and then make a trailer ?

 

[ALEXz407]

What about the trailer video... someone who maybe wants to create a vid that is more up to date?

Old trailer is good too. It shows dynamic gameplay and doesn't say about real numbers in old version (like 15 bosses, 8 spells, 3 dungeons, etc.), so it does not reduce game expectations.
Also, there are cool video perspectives which are difficult to obtain in current version.

Maybe add some cinematic chat commands for video/screenshots making purposes in new version? Like:
- turn on/off camera following for selected target
- turn on/off auto rotating camera view to selected target view direction
- setting camera angle
- setting view distance
- setting draw distance(if possible) and turning out fog(if possible)
- smooth translations to inputed values from current (with optional interface hiding). like: -smooth 1,10,+360,+500,1 (begin smooth transition after 1 second for 10 seconds, during that 10 seconds interval: rotate camera 360 degrees clockwise and increase camera height by 500 units, and replace standart UI with cinematic)
This commands can be limited to work only when you doesn't have any hero selected. To prevent camera abusing in normal play. So 5 players will play as they want, and player 6 will play as spectator/operator.

 

[S0ulseeker]

Apparently I can no longer view the old trailer in my country Oh America you silly

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Old trailer is good too. It shows dynamic gameplay and doesn't say about real numbers in old version (like 15 bosses, 8 spells, 3 dungeons, etc.), so it does not reduce game expectations.
Also, there are cool video perspectives which are difficult to obtain in current version.

Maybe add some cinematic chat commands for video/screenshots making purposes in new version? Like:
- turn on/off camera following for selected target
- turn on/off auto rotating camera view to selected target view direction
- setting camera angle
- setting view distance
- setting draw distance(if possible) and turning out fog(if possible)
- smooth translations to inputed values from current (with optional interface hiding). like: -smooth 1,10,+360,+500,1 (begin smooth transition after 1 second for 10 seconds, during that 10 seconds interval: rotate camera 360 degrees clockwise and increase camera height by 500 units, and replace standart UI with cinematic)
This commands can be limited to work only when you doesn't have any hero selected. To prevent camera abusing in normal play. So 5 players will play as they want, and player 6 will play as spectator/operator.

I guess I could possibly add a command that turns on cinematic mode and then allows changing certain camera values via hotkeys.

 

[ALEXz407]

Yay!

Gaias Retaliation ORPG frontpage now live!

Side effect, I'm a moderator now .

I guess I could possibly add a command that turns on cinematic mode and then allows changing certain camera values via hotkeys.

Will be fine to start screenshot competition when this function appears.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Thanks for all the effort you have put into the design. I like it a lot.

I think the only thing missing is actually the banner. And yeah, the video. It's just not 2014 anymore with the extremely low resolution and all the outdated visuals and UI elements.

If someone wants to do this, I'll provide you with a version that has the required commands. Or maybe I'll finally get over with it and finally make the intro cinematic I always wanted. If only I had the time for this.

 

[Shamu]

I'd like to point out a few spelling errors and weird wording, if you don't mind.

What are you going to do, when earth itself rises against mankind?

shouldn't this say "the Earth"? I mean, who cares about some dirt rising when compared to the Earth.

In a tavern close to the village Riversdale

"village of Riversdale" would fit bet than "village Riversdale" imo.

Interesting? Start playing now

"Interested?" would fit better imo, since you're basically asking the reader whether ot not he is interested.

Boss battles

Unique spells and AI.
Fight with bosses at open
world and in dungeons.

"in the open world"? not sure here tbh.

Building interriors

You can enter in many
areas: from stores to
deadly dungeons.

"interiors", not "interriors". also, "you can enter many areas" without the "in".

PvP

Fight with your friends
on arena. More PvP fun
planned in updates!

"Fight with your friends in the arena[...]", since there is only one arena, I think. Is there more PvP planned in updates? I lost track to be honest.

Hire mercenary and he will
help you! AI included.

"Hire a mercenary"

Each base class have unique role.

this is not necessarily true. But it would be "fills a unique role" or "has a unique role".

At level 25 you can complete class change quest and
upgrade your base class to advanced. Advanced
classes have additional roles and greatly improves
game play.

"At level 25 you can complete a class change quest", "greatly improved gameplay"

You can learn up to 9 abilities. They will be placed
in comfortable spell book with additional 2 buttons
for pets and mercenaries control.

"placed in a comfortable spell book", "2 additional buttons"

You can unlearn unnecessary abilities at special NPC.

"at a special NPC"


I'm strictly pointing this out to improve the page, not to mock you, keep that in mind (some people don't like being corrected and stuff). Also, I'm open for people correcting my corrections.

 

[ALEXz407]

I'm strictly pointing this out to improve the page, not to mock you, keep that in mind (some people don't like being corrected and stuff). Also, I'm open for people correcting my corrections.

Thank you! This is a great help.

I'm not really friendly with articles and times. Someday... I will learn English

:)

Also. I would be very grateful if someone with a good knowledge of English will correct errors in texts.

All corrections are made (except "earth > Earth", not sure about it)

I think the only thing missing is actually the banner. And yeah, the video. It's just not 2014 anymore with the extremely low resolution and all the outdated visuals and UI elements.

Banner has one big disadvantage in SEO purposes - it replaces H1 title and slogan. However, it seems that the forum is not use real H1, H2, H3 tags, so it can be easily replaced with nice banner. In any case, the artist needed to make it.

 

[GasQueen]

All corrections are made (except "earth > Earth", not sure about it)

Earth should be written with a capital E letter (if I'm not mistaken). Nice job though!

 

[ALEXz407]

Earth should be written with a capital E letter (if I'm not mistaken). Nice job though!

I know, but is it correct to call "Earth" planet in fantasy world? I mean, maybe planet has different name in a lore, like "Nirn" in TeS series.

 

[GasQueen]

I know, but is it correct to call "Earth" planet in fantasy world? I mean, maybe planet has different name in a lore, like "Nirn" in TeS series.

Well, yes. You got a point. I think we should get confirmation from Zwieb in this case, but I think it was one of them who came up with that phrase.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Considering that Earth got it's name after the "element", there is nothing wrong with calling the Earth Earth, as earth as in dirt exists in Gaia aswell. So no, no unique weird fantasy name. Just Earth.

Plus, it's a teaser slogan, so any use of generic fantasy names for something trivial would be weird.

 

[ALEXz407]

Yay!

Considering that Earth got it's name after the "element", there is nothing wrong with calling the Earth Earth, as earth as in dirt exists in Gaia aswell. So no, no unique weird fantasy name. Just Earth.

Plus, it's a teaser slogan, so any use of generic fantasy names for something trivial would be weird.

Okay, earth changed to Earth in slogan.

Gaias now have proper short description in hosted projects list. Many thanks to Ralle!

 

[Shamu]

Earth is written with a capital letter E if it refers to the planet, for all other purposes it is written with a lower case e. The reason is that names in general are written with a capital letter, and Earth is the name of the planet, like Jupiter or Saturn.

 

[Jumbo]

Wow Alex, you did a perfect job there! Page coulnd't have looked better.

 

[Devlain]

This is a humble contribution of mine, a simple Banner
The font and the background are 'free-to-use' so it won't be any copyright problems

http://puu.sh/eVCs9/1abe9f1cfb.png

 

[Zwiebelchen]

No offense, but that looks way too cheesy...
What's wrong with the original banner?

 

[Devlain]

No offense, but that looks way too cheesy...
What's wrong with the original banner?

ROFL xD
No offense
There's no any problem with the actual banner, I like the way it is.
It is only that I understood that you were looking for a new banner =P