Fog of War, Lions and Lionesses, oh my!

[Jeru]

Ladies and gentlemen, two shots of fog of war, one of a lioness and one of a lion:

[k776]

Excellent work with the FOW. Now all it needs it victory conditions, and you have a great multiplayer game of this type! Plus some basic AI, diplomacy tools, and speed improvements, and you'll quickly overtake AOE 1 and 2 in terms of completeness.

[fcxSanya]

k776, about victory conditions: I implemented the simplest "conquest" victory condition in my patch (see http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/565). It isn't reviewed and not added to trunk yet, but if you are using the svn version you can apply the patch to your copy of source code, rebuild the project and playtest this patch right now

[Arthur_D]

Yay for the Lion King!

[TheSlider]

Does FOW need to have sharp edges or could there be a setting to round them up a bit (cutting out triangles)?

[Jeru]

TheSlider, we intend to round them as we continue to develop the game.

[amanica]

nice!

But why is all the lion tails pointing straight back?

[Shield Bearer]

no animations yet

[omicron1]

Ok, I might be able to handle some of the animating. I've done a bit in Blender, so if those lions are in a .blend compatible format, could ya send them my way/direct me to where they are in the source tree?

[Shield Bearer]

i still have to edit the lion a bit, but the lioness is ready for animating...not entirely, i haven't boned it...i hate boning

Lioness.zip

[Shield Bearer]

and here's the lion:

Lionlow.zip

Edited September 28, 2010 by Shield Bearer

[omicron1]

Uh, what? Lioness.zip?

[Shield Bearer]

Uh, what? Lioness.zip?

i don't understand what ur trying to say...

Edited September 28, 2010 by Shield Bearer

[omicron1]

I don't see the attachments. I see pseudo-html.

[feneur]

Ah, the trouble of using the forum software for the website (We're in the process of changing that, so things like this shouldn't happen in the future)

This link should work better: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.p...pe=post&id=2626

EDIT: And this of course: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.p...pe=post&id=2627

[Ykkrosh]

No it won't - it'll give a "permission denied" error

[feneur]

It worked for me I'll upload the files to the server instead... I'll update this post/comment with the links...

EDIT:

So, these links should work better: http://wildfiregames.com/users/art/amish/Lioness.zip

http://wildfiregames.com/users/art/amish/Lionlow.zip

Edited September 28, 2010 by feneur

[omicron1]

Ok, any specific guidelines for rigging/animating? (Bone count, animations required, animation length, etc?

[feneur]

Some info here: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/ArtDesi...ument#Animation though that doesn't answer all your questions I'm afraid. I hope Michael or Amish will be able to fill you in on the rest

[omicron1]

Lion has been rigged. I'm going to make an "idle" animation of 30 frames, then upload the blend so y'all can try it ingame.

[omicron1]

http://www.mediafire.com/file/h5ihkwco65lo...ow_rigged.blend

[Shield Bearer]

awesome!

[omicron1]

I'm guessing the other needed animations are:

1x run

2x attack variations

2x die

1x walk

Possibly also an "eating" animation if you want it to interact with other animal NPCs.

[feneur]

Amish told me (it was late in India, so he didn't have time to write up a reply here) there were some issues getting the animation into the game, and while he's investigating them further he asked me to tell you to wait before doing any more animations. To avoid you having to redo things it's probably best.

[omicron1]

Got it. I'd just made a running animation, so much to do still.