Well I'm doing these mob idea posts (see sig), and I love it. I've always been big into modding, but I couldn't code my way out of a paper bag... that I wasn't in. So I wanted to see if anyone had delved much into the process, to get wisdom from the more experienced.
I would also be down helping out with other people's mob-spirations. If they had the coding muscle to figure it out.
Has anyone seen the blocks of code that make up the models for mobs, while poking around for other projects? I bet we could do some some investigatory work and see if any of the export types match the language used! I wouldn't mind doing the footwork with a coding savy person. Think of the prestige of adding sweet new mobs to the game!
@Grey Acumen -=- I really like the idea of the happy sprites making the forest grow faster, could be a good incentive for keeping them happy and having a good productive natural tree farm. Your rogue sprite idea gave me a really cool idea. I have to go to work now though, but I'll post it later.
Apples for a drop would be really cool too. It would make the sprites a hunt-able food source though, I don't know if I'd want to make them into glorified pigs :smile.gif:
@Hypevosa -=- Holy crap you're a genius! That's great. You kill one and a in a radius around it, a bunch of musrooms/flowers/saplings are placed. There they can grow or whatever... adding it in!
@ChargerIIC -=- Glad you like it! I try to make my mobs thematic, fit them around a certain aspect of the game to bring that part more depth. Not that the game needs more depth, it is a fantastic game... but what can I say, I'm a modder at heart.
@DarkDX -=- It would be pretty tough teaching someone over the internet, but there are a plethora of resources for new users online. Video tutorials, documentation and help forums where you can ask any question and they'll answer it for you. That's how I learned!
@DarkDX -=- I use 3D Studio Max 2010. It's a pretty awesome program that I've been teaching myself over the past eight years. It's got a high learning curve, but if you're dedicated, you can figure it out. Blender is another option, and I believe it's simpler to learn. It's also free. Which is nice :smile.gif:
@MagicM -=- What was your idea? I'd love to take a look at it. I know I kinda repost old ideas, but I'm really doing it for the love of the art :biggrin.gif:
I like the idea of growing diamonds on the tree. The special tree could be made of ironwood, which could be smelted into actual iron, and there could be some diamonds in the canopy. Or it could be anything really. Maybe a giant tree in the center of the grove with a hidden chest of treasure...
Environment: Forests AI: Special, remains non-hostile until you start to cut down trees in it's grove. Or maybe a main big tree in the center. Drop: In a radius around the death of the sprite, several plants would spawn; in order of likelihood, flowers, saplings, mushrooms, sprite-tree sapling (the sprite-tree sapling could not be gathered, if you destroy it it just goes away). Misc: Rareish spawn, only spawns in the shadows of trees and only in areas with lots of trees. Will just wander around in the grove until you **** it off. Maybe several could live in larger groves.
This could also be a cool spin on the monster villages. If you plant a tree then their attitude towards you goes up, if you cut one down, it goes down. Don't keep up your relationship with the Grove Sprites, and they'll be jerks towards you when you enter their territory.
Lemme know what you think.
New Design!
Birch Variant!
Variant:Cinder Sprite
Environment: Special: Spawns when a large forest area is on fire, especially a Grove Sprite grove. AI: Wildly Hostile, attacks anything near it and spreads fire Drop: Coal (it's burnt out heart), perhaps ebony? A dark wood. Could be resistant to fire. Misc: This nasty critter is the insane Grove Sprite driven mad by rampant destruction by fire. It wouldn't spawn naturally, unless natural fires become a feature, but would be the result of the players wanton destruction.
I love the idea.
Having magma mole dig out rock can cause issues with player who's incorporating lava into their building design (for example, player with lava lamp everywhere).
Maybe just have lava mole able to "climb" out and survive on land, while treating it as a "source" block of lava of some sort, leaving 1 level high lava behind it (creates a shallow lava trail, won't spread by-itself0.
Yeah... you're right. Maybe the MagMole can spawn in a rock block in the magma layer and it generates lava as it moves.
The normal mole dropping diamond would be a bit too much... Maybe a flint or a coal? Or maybe meat.
I like it! Very scary and interesting! Wall crawling could be terrifying. It could also have nests that spawn and more will swarm unless you find and plug the hole.
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I would also be down helping out with other people's mob-spirations. If they had the coding muscle to figure it out.
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Apples for a drop would be really cool too. It would make the sprites a hunt-able food source though, I don't know if I'd want to make them into glorified pigs :smile.gif:
Keep up the comments! Thanks
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@ChargerIIC -=- Glad you like it! I try to make my mobs thematic, fit them around a certain aspect of the game to bring that part more depth. Not that the game needs more depth, it is a fantastic game... but what can I say, I'm a modder at heart.
@DarkDX -=- It would be pretty tough teaching someone over the internet, but there are a plethora of resources for new users online. Video tutorials, documentation and help forums where you can ask any question and they'll answer it for you. That's how I learned!
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Glad you guys like it!
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I like the idea of growing diamonds on the tree. The special tree could be made of ironwood, which could be smelted into actual iron, and there could be some diamonds in the canopy. Or it could be anything really. Maybe a giant tree in the center of the grove with a hidden chest of treasure...
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Environment: Forests
AI: Special, remains non-hostile until you start to cut down trees in it's grove. Or maybe a main big tree in the center.
Drop: In a radius around the death of the sprite, several plants would spawn; in order of likelihood, flowers, saplings, mushrooms, sprite-tree sapling (the sprite-tree sapling could not be gathered, if you destroy it it just goes away).
Misc: Rareish spawn, only spawns in the shadows of trees and only in areas with lots of trees. Will just wander around in the grove until you **** it off. Maybe several could live in larger groves.
This could also be a cool spin on the monster villages. If you plant a tree then their attitude towards you goes up, if you cut one down, it goes down. Don't keep up your relationship with the Grove Sprites, and they'll be jerks towards you when you enter their territory.
Lemme know what you think.
New Design!
Birch Variant!
Variant: Cinder Sprite
Environment: Special: Spawns when a large forest area is on fire, especially a Grove Sprite grove.
AI: Wildly Hostile, attacks anything near it and spreads fire
Drop: Coal (it's burnt out heart), perhaps ebony? A dark wood. Could be resistant to fire.
Misc: This nasty critter is the insane Grove Sprite driven mad by rampant destruction by fire. It wouldn't spawn naturally, unless natural fires become a feature, but would be the result of the players wanton destruction.
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What, on his twitter?
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Yeah... you're right. Maybe the MagMole can spawn in a rock block in the magma layer and it generates lava as it moves.
The normal mole dropping diamond would be a bit too much... Maybe a flint or a coal? Or maybe meat.
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