Forgotten Beast

[hurufu]

Inspired by Dwarf Fortress. Random mobs they are made of different body parts merged into one tile.
Breaf proof of concept screenshots (sorry, I'm very bad in painting).
UPDATE: Changed texture shapes.

Old screenshots can be found here:
http://piccy.info/view3/2410932/bed914b ... ca1c56d5d/
http://piccy.info/view3/2410934/52ec966 ... d20691616/
http://piccy.info/view3/2410935/649b489 ... 74a32db93/

[Jordach]

Please tell us the download link, we want try this!

And also do they do damage??

EDIT: You do have good drawing skills, I could not do that.

EDIT2: Cool idea!!

[hurufu]

It was a very quick work, only to show it could be done. They currently don't damage user, spawns at the surface and are quite ugly. If this idea is worth doing (i'm currently thinking about it), i'll continue my work. Also it was written in C++, because I write faster in C++, not in Lua.

EDITED: I'll think how to make it in Lua.

[Jordach]

And I do believe that LUA is almost the same as CPP Anyway.

EDIT: They should come out at night. Not day.

EDIT2: UGLY?!? Have you seen the Dungeon Master? That looks like Bigfoot or something.

EDIT3: Have you thought about putting your help to develop this? Celeron could do with the help.

[sapier]

Lua isn't exactly the same as c but if you're a skilled c/c++ programmer you'll be able to learn lua really fast.

have a look at the animals mod (written by me), the movement generator there might be a starting point for adding attack abilitys too.

I already thought about creating unfriendly animals.

But by now I miss an algorithm spawning animals on surface, if I got it right you do have sort of it?

[hurufu]

have a look at the animals mod (written by me), the movement generator there might be a starting point for adding attack abilitys too.

Thanks, I'll look to your code.

But by now I miss an algorithm spawning animals on surface, if I got it right you do have sort of it?

I am using deprecated method: add_legacy_abms(). It's hardcoded and I don't know even if it's possible to make with current API.

[xyz]

You could do same in LUA by using entities (and on_step function for moving). Dunno how to make random parts automatically merged into one enemy.

[mcburgerbob]

And I do believe that LUA is almost the same as CPP Anyway.

EDIT: They should come out at night. Not day.

EDIT2: UGLY?!? Have you seen the Dungeon Master? That looks like Bigfoot or something.

no it looks like a big poo thing... lol

[Hackeridze]

Try on_generate and add_entitY

[sapier]

the problem is not how to add an entity on generation but to add it ON SURFACE

[Hackeridze]

the problem is not how to add an entity on generation but to add it ON SURFACE

abm + add_entity

[hurufu]

Dunno how to make random parts automatically merged into one enemy.

It is quite simple. Textures may be named as:

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body_1.png  and  arms_1.png  and  head_1.png
body_2.png       arms_2.png       head_2.png
 ⋮                ⋮                ⋮
body_n.png       arms_n.png       head_n.png

After that, pseudocode may be similar to:

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a,b,c = math.random(1,n)
image = "body_"..a..".png^arms_"..b..".png^head_"..c..".png"

[Dragonop]

I WHANT DOWNLOAD!

[Topywo]

I don't think that download will come. I actually liked the idea and the images.

I don't mind you going through the very old mods (or never finished mods) and reviving the most interesting threads. They might inspire modmakers.

[cornernote]

if someone makes images like this either myself or some other mod-maker will code it into a working mod.

[sysedit]

Please do this in C++. Lua produces so much overhead and forces you to waste a lot of resources so that you run into a lot of resource and scalability issues.

[cornernote]

I doubt any mobs will be implemented directly into c++

[sysedit]

I doubt any mobs will be implemented directly into c++

Interesting. Do you like to elaborate on why this is so?

[cornernote]

Mobs were taken out of c++ when the Lua modding API was added. They were replaced by hooks, so that Lua code could define the c++ objects. I assume that because of all that effort, the way forward is not to code directly in c++, but code "hooks" in the c++ and then call those hooks using Lua.

[sysedit]

Mobs were taken out of c++ when the Lua modding API was added. They were replaced by hooks, so that Lua code could define the c++ objects. I assume that because of all that effort, the way forward is not to code directly in c++, but code "hooks" in the c++ and then call those hooks using Lua.

All that I can say is that the current mobs are wasting a lot of resources and make my server crash.

[Dragonop]

Download Download!

[Mihobre]

Please finish this!

[Calinou]

The first post was last edited "by hurufu 2011-12-27 11:45:06".
So no, it's probably dead.

[wilkgr76]

The first post was last edited "by hurufu 2011-12-27 11:45:06".
So no, it's probably dead.

Darn... :(

[Sokomine]

Darn... :(

I doubt it would look good in current MT. After all we have 3d mobs now - and composing those of random parts won't be so easy. On the other hand, some mob mods still support 2d mobs, and merging diffrent textures into one is pretty easy in the game. So...if you'd create such textures, it might still be possible. 2d mobs are scary anyway - especially when seen from the side :)