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[Lauri]

don't have a clue really, but what it does is making randomized stuff alot easier like, your mordor orcs, you know how their randomized to... I think it was atleast 700+ different orcs you could get!! anyways, it's something that orcs, uruks, Rohirrim, and others may have a good use of but Men of Minas Tirith won't do them soo much good, cause they have a standard uniform

so to say, it makes the game more randomized, and thus more fun to watch
Like your mordor orcs.... on one skirmish (multiplayer) you might never see the exact same orc twice wich makes it totally awesome

so, hearing ched's killed it.... well... hope he'll fix it

[m@tt]

Ah yes, I noticed that and thought it was odd.

[cahik_]

don't have a clue really, but what it does is making randomized stuff alot easier like, your mordor orcs, you know how their randomized to... I think it was atleast 700+ different orcs you could get!!

actualy it is 21000+ mordor orcs now hardly will you find two similar orcs in one game. but it is not just that LUA allows tricky coding of really cool powers. something like ... 80 % chance of blocking attack from enemies but only when unit is attacking as well or timelimited mount ( did anyone try to code that?)

so, hearing ched's killed it.... well... hope he'll fix it

of course he will, he is the best coder around

[Herunor]

hehe. kinda funny, cause i did the same a few days ago. Killed it
all subobjects were shown without the upgrades it's really annoying.

[Lauri]

well cahik.... 21K sounds even better ched said it was more than 4K lines of code then, and that he wouldn't do it cause it took to much space.... but hearing he did it, and lost it, makes me go Craze!!

[cahik_]

*leaves animating for while*

system of randomization has been redone a bit. now it has less lines of code then 700+ versions

*went back to max to finish some anims*

Edited by cahik_, 03 March 2007 - 02:20 PM.

[Lauri]

*let's cahik use his well earned break to read this*

well, that's just awesome

*let's cahik go back to his animating... and wonders what he's making... maybe trebs, dunno*

[cahik_]

some just cool looking stuff ( you know stuff that you actually dont need but which brings something new to the game, makes some units more unique etc. ) and some stuff that we really need. * points at treb *

[Lauri]

sounds great

RA's really really THEE best mod! Even thought it's unreleased

[Alsch]

On the subject of the trebuchets, are they going to - when ordered to "build" themselves - is the building of it literally going to be animated, or is it going to be like in Age of Empires, where it just kind of appears as built?

[Olorin]

Knowing the team.......................well I don't. I'm gonna take a guess and say that you see them all the way through. And good to hear that there's gonna be a screenie update soon.

Edited by Olorin, 04 March 2007 - 03:34 AM.

[cahik_]

consider the fact that all the anims are almost completly made from scratch i would say that it will be some way around or some really simple anim. as much as i like animating that treb thingy is really nightmare for me

[Olorin]

Yeesh, I would hate to see what you guys go through with the structure animations.

[cahik_]

structure anims arent big problem IMO. the treb however is another case just to let you know there is i think 22 bones on gondor soldier. there are four those in trebs crew + some bones on the treb itself. each second of anim has 30 frames and the firing anim for treb has almost 9 seconds as far as i remember. hope you see the point here. on the other hand making anim for unit isnt that hard cause those rarely have more than 3 sec and number of bones is much smaller.

[messenger]

Well hopefully the trebuchet will be well used in the mod then, after all that hard work.
Also over 2100 varieties of orcs?! That's insane, I hope the script works again.

[cahik_]

i guess it will be used. cant think of anyone who would like to do or redo those anims

[hdh7]

2100 that rocks!

[Alsch]

Way better than the two variations from the original.

[Olorin]

Also over 2100 varieties of orcs?! That's insane, I hope the script works again.

2100!?!?! I must've missed that. That is both insane and awesome!

Way better than the two variations from the original.

Hoho, way, way, way better!