SheHawk

Ben, you have outdone yourself, just to even make this character work and I will gladly give her a test run and not to worry about the duel wield combat arts, give me some time and I am sure that I can come up with other combat arts for her, as you said, the rest and further development can be added much later. I simmply cannot thank you enough, other than this character and the alternative Seraphim Character, I have a brief idea for another character to replace the Shadow Warrior, thugh I am sure you have enough on your plate just doing mine and Golden Girl's character concepts. That and I am in no real rush to get into what this replacement character can do etc. I will test out cat girl asap and let you know what I think etc. Thank you so much for making this character even a reality, I never would have imagined such a character to be possible.

Wow! Thank you Ben, most appreciated beyond measure, words alone cannot thank you or praise you enough for you doing this concept, or at least trying to do the character.

Thank you gogo, I agree, textures is key to any model making and always crucial to have one that fits well. I am so glad that we connect on the same thing gogo. I loved the D&D Board Game Series, I had one of them, sorry, sadly I forget which one. I am familiar with Jack Vance, I have seen his name on a few fantasy books, I used to read a lot of Fantasy & Sci-Fi novels in my youth, but it got harder and harder for me to be able to read those lovely paper backs, even when wearing reading glasses, the text on the page would blurr in my vision, I am not too sure why, anyway since then I have gone onto other kinds of books, well E-Books now, as with those you can magnify the text on the page. I have a few Kindle titles now. Also part of why I like and prefer the Fantasy D&D sytle of games, I do not have to imagine the places as discribed in Fantasy novels, or different races. Fantasy games puts you into those kind of roles and you get to see those kinds of places and be part of the Epic Battles, that no Fantasy book that I know of, or am aware of at least, that can really put a person so vividly into a scene, that you feel like you are almsot virtually there. If you know what I mean? Good example of this is Elderscrolls IV, Oblivion, the places there look and almost feel so real life like, it's uncanny. Sacred 2, while nowhere near that scope or level, for me at least personally I feel I am there in Ancaria, regardless, there is something so quite unique about Sacred 2 that no other Fantasy game can or has of yet been able to match it.

Thank you Gogo, I am so happy that you like the name of the Dungeon, I nearly almost went for Moxdoon, but that did not seem right and doom fits far better. I am not too sure where I get the name Mox from, but it is very D&D in it's title and I am so glad that you like the style I chose for this dungeon, I so wantd to go with that old style D&D look. Thanks to Google Images I found a lot of fantastic textures that I could use in Sketchup, in fact, I am so glad that it has the function for adding peronalised textures than what it has built in, in it's own inbuilt textures library that is part of the paint bucket tool. No way would I have been able to do this and my other dungeons or my other models even, without that function. I do not know how many other 3D programs out there that offer this type of function, it helps make cerating things so utterly fantastic. A special thank you to you too, for mentioning the book my dungeoen level design reminds you of, I am not familiar with that book, but from the cover, it looks like a good one, so thank you for sharing with me an image of that book. I have a copy of The Dragon Lance Tales, and if I am not misten, the book publishers also made D&D figures and board games, but I could be mistaken. (TSR, Inc. Wizards of the Coast.)

The Dungeon Of Moxdoon was my very first attempt at doing a 3D Dungeon level design, I do not take credit for the original design, from which I found in Google Images in my search for Dungeon Maps, but the texturing, building and making the dungeon image into a 3D model are all of my own work, all textures used for this particular dungeon, are curtesy of Google Images, that I use for my personal own Textures Library. I have quite a collection of textures, without which, none of my models would have been possible. Oh by the way can anyone please let me know if I am using the correct category please? I mean if my understanding is correct the Sketchup Warehouse is a sort of media? Sorry if not, I will use the general public forums topic in future should this topic not be the right one. I will share with you all here all of the other Dungeon Level Designs that I have made so far. I hope you all like this one? The Dungeon Of Moxdoon: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/35740021-a268-45ee-a5de-4ac4bc6bef0f/The-Dungeon-Of-Moxdoon

From the trailer the game looks awesome, but will it live up to that in actual game play? It looks much improved and if I am not mistaken they have actually done away with the awkward Isometric and fixed camera view that sadly even the 3rd gen game suffered from. I am sure that it is actually great to a lot of people, personally for me, I had hoped by even that time they would have made it more like Sacred 2 or at least go for the 3rd person perspective. One day I hope to get an XBOX One, but like with other consoles that have come before it, by the time I could afford the XBOX 360 and the PS3 most of the really great game titles are had to come by, becuse people mostly keep those ones and sell the ones that no one really wants. But someone out there will actually buy them. I fear the situation to be exactly the same by the time I can afford to buy an XBOX One, by then it will be the XBOX :), whatever the new one will be by then, even the XBOX One is going to look and probably seem and be outdated by the the most newest arrival. I have vowed though to stop at the XBOX One, I am not too sure about the PS4, I dare say I will find most of their titles to b e availabe for the XBOX One, apart from speciffic made games for the consoles. As much as I like and love gaming. However, when are they ever goingt o just make just one console that plays every game from all of the other older consoles and let that one be the altimate one with no need to buy yet another console?

Well, I have found with sacred 2, on the consoles and on the PC game, that camera rotation is not needed too much, with the settin gof the camera to follow in the game options, as the character turns so does the camera, I find this function so fantastic, it helps me to be able to focus on the game better without having to fiddle about with the camera and yuo certainly do not want ot need that while in the middle of a battle. I knwo what third pary means, as my controllers for my PS3 and XBOX 360 are 3rd party, designed with ergonomic design and functions, which helps my hands imensley, sorry if I am spelling that word wrong, (Ergonomic) but I hope you know what I mean?

Thank you Ben that though seems a little complicated, I have Sacred 2 gold via GOG.com While I am sure these solutions may work, I will reserve this possable solution if the device gogo mentioned is not up to what I hope it can do. I really appreciate though sincerely so, your advice. If the app itself is easy to use, that will be a different thing entirely and that is if for me; if it is easy, the downside to being learning disabled is that what seeems and is easy for some people is not always easy for me.

Thank you Gogo, this looks promissing, I will take a look to see if I can find one on ebay. I would appreciate though if you can tell me how this device works, if you can, just to help me better appreciate of what it can do.

Thank you Kyosai7, for the comment, that's a great name by the way and I agree, I do not know why someone does not do a patch on the PC version so that a PC/XBOX 360 controller would work.

Hi all, I am wondering if I would be able to use a fight stick controller to control the game characters of sacred 2. Would this work? I am simply looking for a better and easier way for me to be able to play the game on my PC. Holding down the left click on my mouse makes my hands tense up a bit, sadly I have arthritis, and I am not going to let such a matter get in the way or prevent me from being able to play sacred 2 gold, simply becuae it's not avialable for the PS3 or the XBOX 360 and as far as I know and am aware of, none of the new consoles either. I doubt that anyone is ever going to release the gold edition for these consoles and that simply is not right or fair. Just my personal feelings on the matter and I apologise, should that offend anyone, no offence is meant. I so want to play the game, but every time I try using my mouse to control my character, that is when my hands start to tense up. Does anyone have any other alternative ways for me to be able to play this game. Please, please, can anyone help? I love sacred 2 so much and I should be able to play the gold edition on my computer. Any tips or dvice would be so truly appreciated, thank you.

Hello and welcome, I hope you have a good time here at Dark Matters. Everyone here is so fantastic.

First and foremost to give credit where credit is due, the people here listed are the sole creators of his and her own models as follows: The Milkayway Stargate by, Mando. The Srtargate DHD Device by, eclipse1300, the Old Temple by, Ian W and lastly, the Mayan Pyramid by, Will B. Everything else though is of my own design. Tomb Raider. Special Tomb Game Level Design: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/65f722f4-c873-497e-a01f-149371a49bbc/Tomb-Raider-Special-Tomb-Game-Level-Design I hope you all like what I have done? For anyone interested, I am offering my services, completely for free in designing dungeon levels, game levels, using sketchup, what you do with the models after that is entirely up to you, if you feel like you can use them and you really like them, all that I ask please is that you give me credit for my work. Thank you.

This is the second level dungeon design level that the 1st dungeon level leads to. (Sacred 2: Sacred Hall Of The Temple Guardian) that I have shared with you all here, yes it is quite bare, the same as the other one, but I do not have images of those wonderful consoles etc. used in the final temple at the end of the Waste Lands where the Great Machine resides in. So, you will have simply imagine all of that, but I hope that you like this second dungeon. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/71960b2c-a978-4220-81f8-147ccc546867/Sacred-2-Sacred-Hall-2

Hot, hot , hot and hot and for something completely different, It's too hot again. *Lol* Wishing it was cool, but not cold, I have a rare condition that makes me sensitive to changes between hot and cold weather/climates. It sucks, but I make the best out of my life.

Wow! She is fantastic Ben, you are too awesome for words. Just out of curiosity, is fire like hair hard or impossible to do? I think that would be hard to do maybe even for a CG movie character, hair within itself is difficult to do and true they have gotten better with doing hair on CG characters. Fiery hair may not animate as well as I can see it in my head. All Kudos to you for doing a draft concept, as with my other character and the combat arts etc. I am not over protective of, you are once again free Ben to change anything that you wish if it makes it easier and better to make it work within the games physics etc. Obviously I have no idea of what will work and what wont. I wasn't exactly expecting to come up with another alternative character, this character build idea just hit me quite out of the blue, as the saying goes, once I had the idea, it was down to me thinking through carefully about each combat art etc. I am sure that you will agree with this. That, when something is worth doing, it is worth doing it well. PS. Oops! my bad, I forgot to mention about the wings. Sorry about that Ben, I was so blown away by your art work, sincerely so. The wings are perfect, far better than what I had imagined, which is quite far fetched and possibly not practical, even in a fantasy game. I have one very crazy imagination. *Lol.*

Elite Seraphim Of The Devine Order During the Great Dragon War many fell and died in battle, some races however, were destroyed, wiped from the face of existence. The Seraphim were mighty, but they had an Elite few that were more than just merely War Angels, they had true balance in all things, armed combat, and magical powers. They had fire hair, unlike their holy sisters, the Elite had real hair of flaming fire, a golden fire that is; and they had eyes of sapphire that glowed a luminescent glow. They were slender, yet very strong and were not to be fooled by their beauty, for they were far greater and deadly than their holy sisters, armed with Ethereal Wings, wings made of the most holiest and pure crystal with a might, and power of their very own. The Path: Light: “I am one of the Elite Seraphim, we are few, but the most powerful and most holy supreme beings in all of Ancaria, though we are mere humble beings compared to our creator. I have a much higher calling than my fellow holy sisters and as such if needed, I can bend or change the rules in any way, if such is ever needed, in order to win the war against the Inquisitors.” (Sorry, no concept Image. I could not find one that came close to my description) Skills: Primary} Concentration. Battle Focus. Heavenly Assault Lore, Devine Technology Lore. Secondary} Combat Discipline. Heavenly Assault Focus. Devine Technology Focus. Ancient Magic. Offensive Skills: Primary} Ranged Weapons. Sword Weapons. Double Handed Hafted Weapons. Tactics Lore. Secondary: Dual Wield. Speed Lore. Damage Lore. Staff Weapons. Defensive Skills: Primary} Shield Lore. Armour Lore. Combat Reflexes. Secondary} Constitution. Spell Resistance. Toughness. General Skills: Primary} Riding. Enhanced Perception. Devine Devotion. Secondary} Alchemy. Bargaining. Blacksmith. Elite Seraphim Combat Arts: Aspect} Battle: Multiple Blow. Fury Attack. Domino Punch. Celestial Lightning. Blades Of Fury. (Buff) Aspect} Heavenly Assault: Heavenly Strike. Pillar Of Exalted Light. Stone Cast. Fire Storm. Heavenly Ring. (Buff) Aspect} Devine Technology: T-Energy Blaze. Nova Bomb. Devine Ray. Holy Arrow Missiles. Devine Energy Shroud. (Buff) What They All Do: Battle} Multiple Blow: A multi-target hitting combat art. A fast moving hitting attack with several slashes (if using single handed Swords & Daggers or Several Blows if using single hafted weapons.) Domino Punch: Using the hilt of her weapon, the Elite Seraphim will deal a devastating blow that will result in a Domino like effect. Meaning, once one target gets hit, he/she will fall, but any other nearby enemies will get hit one by one until they all go down.) Celestial Lightning: This combat art is unique, as you can use one of the given mod points to this combat art and they are. (Magic Damage or Fire Damage. Poison Damage or Ice Damage with a lightning like effect.) Blades Of Fury. (Buff): This buff will emit a red column of light surrounding the Elite Seraphim, also surrounding her will be two spinning magical blades that offer some protection should anyone try to get too close to her, as well as increase attack, defence and combat art damage, while this buff is active.) Heavenly Assault} Heavenly Strike: This combat art appears as a thick beam of light, as the Elite Seraphim puts her hands together as though in prayer. However, once this beam of light connects with one target, it will then split off hitting other nearby targets with a chain lightning like effect. Pillar Of Exalted Light: This combat art while although near similar to the Radiant Pillar combat art of the normal Seraphim, this one has greater and higher damage with a natural gravity well that it emits, sending out a pulse wave too, so that any enemies that are outside of the beams radius. Get strangely pulled toward the pillar of light. Stone Cast: This one is simple enough, any enemy that gets hit by this combat art, gets turned into stone in which then the Elite Seraphim can punch it hard, causing the stone statue to shatter into tiny pieces. Fire Storm: This combat art produces an odd cloud of flames above the heads of group enemies, from which then fire strikes down in lightning like fashion, frying the enemies on the spot. Heavenly Ring. (Buff): This buff is nearly almost similar to the Cleansing Brilliance Buff, useful for dealing with the undead and T-Energy Mutants. This can cause some mild damage to Spiders, all other animals, Orcs Humans, Elves, Goblins, etc. Devine Technology} T-Energy Blaze: This combat art produces T-Energy in a blaze like form and as it hits it’s targets, they are all turned into T-Energy Mutants, making them weak and easy to kill. Nova Bomb: This combat art is similar to the Nova Flare combat art. However, it deals a deadly wave of light as the Seraphim jumps up and lands on the ground causing a light wave to appear, with devastating results, destroying any nearby targets, but with a wide radius, this bad boy will move on hitting further more targets until it’s energy release, is fully depleted. Devine Ray: This combat art is a ray of light that will confuse one or more enemies, causing them to fight each other. Handy, when you want a rest from battling and casting other combat art spells. Holy Arrows Of Light: This combat art will allow the Elite Seraphim to use an ancient powerful bow for a brief moment of time, that will fire arrows of pure surging light that will hit many targets and keep on hitting any targets near or far until there are no targets left in the area. Devine Energy Shroud. (Buff): This buff is almost similar to the Temple Guardian’s T-Energy Shroud, however, Warding Energy Lore is not needed for this shield with its first mod being either A: Increase Shield Strength or B: The Shield Regenerates while in battle. This does not get in the way of the Blades Of Fury Buff, they can pass through this shield and still cause damage, if anything should be able to get past these blades, then this shield is the Elite Seraphim’s secondary line of defence. And no worries Ben, there is no rush to make this character, but only if you want and wish to make this one too By all means make her. That said, this character is just merely another idea, that I simply wanted to share with everyone here at Dark Matters. Amy AKA SheHawk

Goldengirl, I so like and love your sense of humour, your comment to Flix made me smile. Flix says he could replace the High Elf, I have a suggestion and it is purely only just that. He could instead replace the Dragon Mage Character, I feel that this character was rushed at best for when the Ice and Blood Add on got made, at least that is my observation and how I see it, I apologise in advance if I am wrong about that and it is totally okay for whatever reason Flix if you can't replace my character for the Dragon Mage, it was just an idea and a passing thought.

GoldenGirl, thank you. I came up with the idea for the character, but Flix is the true genius in bringing this character to life, so to speak. PS. I am glad to hear that you have a character idea too of your own, I look forward to seeing and reading your character build.

Thank you Steve for your praise and comment both, I appreciate that very much. I have given Flix/Ben, free reign to change anything that he may need to change just in case my ideas/imaginings can't be done or for whatever other reason that may prevent him form making these imagined combat arts into computer reality. I respect his abilities. Actually, I always put in a lot of thought, effort etc. in everything that I do, life has taught me the importance of that and I am glad beyond mention that I have learned that one of so many, life lessons.

Thank you so much Ben for letting me know all of that. Best of luck on your trip and I meant everything that I said about you developing this character, whatever is easy or best for you to make things work, you go ahead and change what ever you need to change, even though I not know you well enough, I have sincere and genuine respect for you. I honestly was worried, I thought I may have messed things up somewhere, that and I am a very indifferent person by nature, but as such, this has lost me people I thought were my friends, but even getting something genuinely wrong has made people stop being my friends. Honest truth, so please do forgive me for asking you to make sure that I had not done or said anything wrong. And I do try, I really do, I try hard not to freak out, I am so well aware that it is an impulsive reaction that I really do not need, all that I can do is keep working on reducing that impulse to 0, if that is at all possible, possible or not, it won't stop me at least from trying. I have my flaws, just like anyone else, I do my best always, to rise above them.

Ben: Hello there Ben, I know and appreciate that you are a very busy person, that said, I want to make sure that I said nothing wrong in my reply to you in this post. I hope you did not take my comment of that Sacred 2 is not going anywhere the wrong way, it was not meant to be offensive or upsetting etc. I also hope that I have not said anything else that may have come out the wrong way. I can't really put into words how hard I truly try to be articulate, precise, everything all correct etc. It's not easy, but I can do it, but sometimes my learning disability does have a nasty habit of letting me down sometimes. Anyway, if I have done or said anything wrong, I am truly deeply sorry, if it is a case you are busy, I am even sorry for troubling you with my message, genuinely so. I have noticed that you have replied to other peoples comments on other posts, but not on this post, so please forgive me that I seek clarity on what is going on, I honestly cannot say how sorry that I am, or how much I truly mean it, be it if you believe that or not.