RPG Twilight Path

[Romek]

I think most people (including myself) prefer RPG's with many different themes and areas.
A giant forest will bore people.
But having undead graveyards, deserts, tundras, etc would be awesome.
Maybe even some underwater or sea area.
Quests rule too

And, if you need more tiles.. You can change them in game to any you want. (My Terrain replacement system can do this. it's easy to use too. (Just place a rect, and call the trigger at map init.))

 

[Vestras]

Yeah, yeah.. We will think about it.

 

[Vestras]

Bump.

 

[emootootoo]

What's new?
This ORPG is not like the others - with a twist of japanese (see above), it is focused on gameplay and teamwork. There are places specially designed for single player, but every single boss requires teamwork.

That's cool to have in an RPG and all, but it's not really new.

Any other new features you haven't revealed?

Terrain looks nice, but I'm not a big fan of massive trees, even if it is more realistic.

 

[Romek]

That's cool to have in an RPG and all, but it's not really new.

Any other new features you haven't revealed?

Terrain looks nice, but I'm not a big fan of massive trees, even if it is more realistic.

Massive trees are win if you can make a decent system which fades them as your hero comes near.

That way you'd easily be able to select the hero and see where it is through the trees

 

[Vestras]

massive trees are win if you can make a decent system which fades them as your hero comes near.

That way you'd easily be able to select the hero and see where it is through the trees :d

qft.

 

[Romek]

Well, I tested the map.
It looks amazing so far. Has massive potential.

Obviously there are a few flaws here and there, (Well.. Maybe not, it's just not finished yet).

Can't wait for it to be finished

 

[Vestras]

Wow, thanks!
Well, we are heading for a demo in november or something, maybe as a christmas present

 

[iPeez]

It looks amazing so far. Has massive potential.

Thanks Romek!

Obviously there are a few flaws here and there, (Well.. Maybe not, it's just not finished yet).

Yes still there is, but every moment we work on this map it will grow. The flaws you saw where probably fixed while you played the map.

I think most people (including myself) prefer RPG's with many different themes and areas.
A giant forest will bore people.

Well this is not a "giant forest". It has caves, forests, lakes, swamps, moutains and underground. The diffrent areas have bosses. As you can see, you have the first forest with the Spider Mother and the mountains with The King of Stones. We think every area will have a boss which match the tarrain and the creeps.

That's cool to have in an RPG and all, but it's not really new.

We think this ORPG has new features. You will not get gold from creeps, they will drop loot. Claw, fur, horn, tooth, dust, etc.. These can be sold to merchants. This is nearly the only way to earn money, certain quests will also give gold, along with xp.

~iPeez

 

[Romek]

You quoted the third one wrong. I said that

I still think there should be Fire (Underground), Snow (Maybe on some mountain), etc. Even if Samurai's don't generally go there. It makes the map more interesting.

 

[Vestras]

Announcement: First Video Trailer At Vimeo.com!

Here it is, the first trailer of the map! Enjoy!
Twilight Path ORPG

 

[iPeez]

The trailer will give you a little preview of three of the samurais! Hope you like it. =)

 

[Viikuna]

It sems to me that those trees block your sight pretty bad.. You need some nice camera system maybe.

 

[Vestras]

It sems to me that those trees block your sight pretty bad.. You need some nice camera system maybe.

Romek wanted to create a tree fading system for us, he said.

 

[Romek]

Romek wanted to create a tree fading system for us, he said.

You can't fade destructibles or doodads though. I told you this on MSN. You didn't reply

if the trees where units, then I'd do it.
It'd be weird though

 

[Vestras]

You can't fade destructibles or doodads though. I told you this on MSN. You didn't reply

if the trees where units, then I'd do it.
It'd be weird though

Goddamnit, I was afk!
Well, we need to find a solution then...
What is it you can do with units that you can't with destructables or doodads?

 

[Romek]

Goddamnit, I was afk!
Well, we need to find a solution then...
What is it you can do with units that you can't with destructables or doodads?

SetUnitVertexColor.

Can make them transparent. (In other words, fade them)

 

[Vestras]

Twilight Path ORPG is now a hosted project at www.wc3creations.net!
Check it out! http://wc3creations.net/forumdisplay.php?f=111

 

[Vestras]

Bump.

 

[emootootoo]

We think this ORPG has new features. You will not get gold from creeps, they will drop loot. Claw, fur, horn, tooth, dust, etc.. These can be sold to merchants. This is nearly the only way to earn money, certain quests will also give gold, along with xp.

What do you do with gold?

Also - I had a great idea, take it for what it's worth. I had it, since I'm also making an RPG in secrecy at the moment.

Well, it is inevitable that your map will have cheat packs added to it. No sweat, if people want to cheat that's their problem, but a good rpg will bring a good following of players. So what you do is have a clan or whatever, let everyone set up some dungeon crawls with each other, maybe host a few dungeon crawling weekends or whatever where a chunk of the community plays together.

At the end of all that a few valuable players can be selected to receive a special item for all their hard work (@ the next version). Make it so that item requires their account name, and if someone ever appears in a game with their item/name anyone can just /whois them (since they'd have to spoof) and will know if they cheated or not to get that item, and the real guy will get to feel special.

Nothing to really think about until you have actually finished / have a player base, but it seems like it's a healthy/fun thing to do.

edit:
Oh yeah, and - nice video.

With the trees, do trees have any animations that have them as a stump or anything? Because you could do a sort of fading system by setting their animation locally etc. Or maybe using ShowDestructable(), I'm sure there's a way... but not really fading... Just throwing random ideas lol.