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: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
Tac don't be worried about no modding skills. I started on FATW and I couldn't texture at all, I'd never unwrapped a UV map, I was a decent modeller but had never even done a character! In 2 months I was making character models and rigs, in 4 months using photos to texture, in 6-8 months texturing by hand. I taught myself video and sound editing, made trailers, some digital paintings, etc. However one thing always plagued me, I never got into the technical stuff. A year and a half after I joined FATW, I started production on my own game, and less than a year later I've become responsible for all coding, editing, scripting, implementation, shaders, etc., for my game, everything short of actual C++ code.
The key to anything, the main barrier, is always going to be conceptual. Just remember, the construction of a game is very logical... it may not be logical to you, or conform to your logic, but there is ALWAYS a definite pattern, rhyme, and reason. Once you can crack this logic, the scripting and editing becomes much simpler. In a couple months I'm sure you will know all your neccessary skills, and have the ability to implement some of the trickier features. While you don't have modding skill, you do have maturity, a work ethic, wisdom, and did I mention maturity (not that I think you're the most mature person on the boards but I wanted to draw a parallel to your emphasis on your lack of skill). Having worked on projects with people ranging in ages from 14 to 44, the older people are generally more reliable if sometimes less skilled... they know what it means to make a committment.
Good luck!
Ditto to that (from someone nearer to the 44 than the 14 )
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I'm a lot closer to 44 than 14
by the by - there will be a next installment today or tomorrow - over the last week I have had my birthday, my 12th wedding anniversary, my kids' half term holidays, easter holidays, 24-hour projectile vomiting virus (courtesy of my 3 year old), resigned from my current job, got a new job.....
so I haven't been doing much TW stuff at all
yeah, I've just realised that. I redid about a weeks work because I wasn't following proper programming disciplines and lost control of my versioning - now I've got that sorted things should be a lot easier.The key to anything, the main barrier, is always going to be conceptual. Just remember, the construction of a game is very logical... it may not be logical to you, or conform to your logic, but there is ALWAYS a definite pattern, rhyme, and reason.
I have to be mature in RL so i certainly ain't going to do that on TWC(not that I think you're the most mature person on the boards but I wanted to draw a parallel to your emphasis on your lack of skill).
: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
To make things easier remember to keep to good naming conventions and file organization. It is important to be able to identify both in text files and in directory file listings the files or coding which are your own. You'll notice, for example, FATW has things prefixed with 4a_
Hmm..now there's an idea for something to add into descr_projectiles_new.txt24-hour projectile vomiting
p.s. I look forward to the update. Our units for you could be available in May some time
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hmm, good idea
that'll be great, I'm practicing adding in units in the RTW game I'm playing with my son. I can't seem to get building pictures to come up though (or text) when I add them , though they work. I'll have to find that tutorial
: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
Encore, encore!
An interesting read. I eagerly await the next one
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excellent post, as well as amusing, I wish more people showed same dedication to following things through from the tutorial.
not sure such things are really allowed for serious modders but never mind!..a delay in modding when said wife persuaded me that following up on the kiss was a much better idea..
best of luck for part 3...
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part 3 was almost a disaster - I thought I had just deleted all the texture files and the changes to the file that controls them.....
Luckily they are under the separate Data folder (ie. not under the BI/Data folder) so I am sitting here trying to calm down
Anyway, they're backed up now and I hope to write up Part 3 about them tomorrow......
: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
Excellent and committed work - I'd recommend Tact's sig link if you want to see some great visuals!
I'm looking forward to playing this mod - and I do not say that about many.
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Huzzah Tac! This is proving to be highly entertaining and interesting! Keep it coming, keep it coming!
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thanks, I'm currently so busy doing the tech tree and units I haven't had time to do this, ho hum
: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
That is totally understandable. I'm frankly amazed modders working on a project heavily have any time to do *anything* else but eat and sleep
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Tac do you have or are you planning to add a Balrog?
there won't be a Balrog in the actual campaign, no. Reasons are:
- This is set after Lord of the Rings so the Balrog is already dead
- The Balrog originally destroyed the Dwarven army at the height of the Dwarves' power - the Balrog would be a lot stronger now (it has orcs helping it) and the Dwarves are a lot weaker. End result would be the Dwarves would get wiped.
However, I'm hoping to do an historical battle with the Balrog, plus I'm hoping to have a few dragons wandering around......
Why?
: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
Because I'm thinking of something to model and texture for a class as the TWCUni and a new set of video tutorials.
Someone over at FA:TW said they already had a balrog finished, haven't seen it yet.
but if you did one I'd love to use it
you could do me a dragon...... base it on the Blue Lotus ones
: - It's my smilie and I'll use it if I want to......______________________________________________________________
Ave Caesar, Morituri Nolumus Mori (in Glaswegian: gae **** yrsel big man)______________________________________________________________Child of Seleukos, Patron of Rosacrux redux, Polemides, Marcus Scaurus, CaptainCernick, Spiff and Fatsheep
I think there is a Balrog somewhere but it's not FATW that has it (why would we? They are all dead - like dragons )
Go for drakes, not dragons unless they are in HBs.
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That's some great work Tac. I'm definitely following this. As soon as you come up with a workable download I'm gonna use it.
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