EDIT:nyway this is still WIP. I just started modding, so who knows maybe I will change some of the images eventually
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It is ignorant to discard such a widely known concept, "i want them in this order" just breaks their nature, they are named and represent something for a reason, it's not like someone chose them to be like this and you have a better idea of how they should be.
Anyway it basically doesn't make you look smart, especially paired with not having a pic for Capricorn, and having 2 of Aries. But please, don't mind me, go ahead and do what you want, i feel you will be ok with whatever comes out of this, and that's what really matters.
Anyway it basically doesn't make you look smart, especially paired with not having a pic for Capricorn, and having 2 of Aries. But please, don't mind me, go ahead and do what you want, i feel you will be ok with whatever comes out of this, and that's what really matters.
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Give him a break, he's just showing off his progress. 
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The cathedral was a derelict battlecruiser on standby mode all along.
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I made scripts to automatically create worldmaps based on sizes & offsets from levels.txt
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
Fun stuff
basically the world map is the entire space of an act (yes that also happens to be limited).
If the entire worldmap was giant level like ureh, and supposing an ureh run took 5 minutes, running it would take 35 hours.
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5
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basically the world map is the entire space of an act (yes that also happens to be limited). If the entire worldmap was giant level like ureh, and supposing an ureh run took 5 minutes, running it would take 35 hours.
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didn't know stony fields is 49 times smaller than rogue encampment. xD /kidding
looks great.
what are you using to draw? the default php GD library? or imagemagick?
looks great.
what are you using to draw? the default php GD library? or imagemagick?
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so when making solar flare I wanted a skill that looked massive. So here is kind of the progress ...
First try - massive fire field with outer ring. But that flame missile is kind of overused...
The skill looked clunky as hell tho, specially on big mob areas. And I kind of wanted to avoid lagging, so went with smaller flames. And actually found out you can make a square out of missiles if you give them enough speed so that they will travel backwards. Also after 5s timer was done, it would explode in a fire nova.
RIP
So I wasn't too happy since a square wasn't that impresisve anyway. So I tried to make something like a field with more "distinguishable" patterns, so to say. At this point I was like, ok, the skill should be finished.
But then I was like... no, those lod flames aren't that impressive. So massive change on gfx. Here you can distinguish the inverse nova, because its four semi circles next to the other. Not something we see everyday.
Until then, the skill had no name. Then suchbalance suggested "Solar Flare", which I loved. And then I thought, this skill needs a sun... And tried to see where it looked the best.
Seemed pretty good, but those big smokes were not all that nice and while in the middle of the crowd they ddid look sort of messy. So I tried different sizes,
I ended up moving the sun at the top, and the final result was here. By the way, those fire thingies were spinning , in the same way the skill looks today.
A few days passed and I checked the skill and was like hm... why would a "solar flare" skill be based on clouds of smoke anyway? So I was like fuck this, trying new stuff from scratch. I tried to make something cool using the sunbeam asset, but meh they dont look all that good.
So, diff approach, this one looked decent. But same problem as before, it's just too big and weird, it would look messy combined with other skills. It had to be more simple.
And eventually, all graphics changed, missile chain reworked from scratch to avoid extra lag, and finally (after 8 hours) the skill was finished.
First try - massive fire field with outer ring. But that flame missile is kind of overused...
► Show Spoiler
The skill looked clunky as hell tho, specially on big mob areas. And I kind of wanted to avoid lagging, so went with smaller flames. And actually found out you can make a square out of missiles if you give them enough speed so that they will travel backwards. Also after 5s timer was done, it would explode in a fire nova.
► Show Spoiler
RIP
► Show Spoiler
So I wasn't too happy since a square wasn't that impresisve anyway. So I tried to make something like a field with more "distinguishable" patterns, so to say. At this point I was like, ok, the skill should be finished.
► Show Spoiler
But then I was like... no, those lod flames aren't that impressive. So massive change on gfx. Here you can distinguish the inverse nova, because its four semi circles next to the other. Not something we see everyday.
► Show Spoiler
Until then, the skill had no name. Then suchbalance suggested "Solar Flare", which I loved. And then I thought, this skill needs a sun... And tried to see where it looked the best.
► Show Spoiler
Seemed pretty good, but those big smokes were not all that nice and while in the middle of the crowd they ddid look sort of messy. So I tried different sizes,
► Show Spoiler
I ended up moving the sun at the top, and the final result was here. By the way, those fire thingies were spinning , in the same way the skill looks today.
► Show Spoiler
A few days passed and I checked the skill and was like hm... why would a "solar flare" skill be based on clouds of smoke anyway? So I was like fuck this, trying new stuff from scratch. I tried to make something cool using the sunbeam asset, but meh they dont look all that good.
► Show Spoiler
So, diff approach, this one looked decent. But same problem as before, it's just too big and weird, it would look messy combined with other skills. It had to be more simple.
► Show Spoiler
And eventually, all graphics changed, missile chain reworked from scratch to avoid extra lag, and finally (after 8 hours) the skill was finished.
► Show Spoiler
suchbalance wrote:The cathedral was a derelict battlecruiser on standby mode all along.
Honestly, a dimensional rift to (hell) inside a floating derelict space cruiser full of these would be awesome as fuck.
