tom.morrow 89 Posted November 25, 2013 . If any of you have gone through the game-archives and loaded this model with GrannyViewer, or downloaded the very old/odd ciSacred Sophia's Armor mod, then you may have noticed that this armor model comes attached with Sophia's body, and hair too. In fact the only part not attached to the model is the wings, which come in a separate .GR2 file. It was in my mind for quite some time to have this model broken up in pieces and make it availabe as parts in the game, and I'm working on it since last month. If all goes well I may have an alpha version consisting of 8 parts of armor + 1 slightly modded hair style by the end of this week in the weekend. As the project evolves I will probably be posting a few screenshots here. THIS topic attempts to give a background story and has a few screenshots of one part. Some feedback on the story would be greatly appreciated, thanks. best regards You must return to the beginning of the end... 1
Yoshio 91 Popular Post Posted November 26, 2013 This is fantastic to read as since I saw this named mod from ciSacred I was asking myself exactly the same question, is it possible to break it up and make turne it into a "normal" armor!? I will closely follow your progress and very much lucking forward to your first alpha! Please keep on going! 2
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted November 26, 2013 . A small progress update Here's a screen shot working on the bracers: cheers Meditating on the meaning of life... 1
gogoblender 3,419 Posted November 26, 2013 I love that you're doing this Tom, keeps the game alive, and through creativity. I'm watching the thread too, love seeing how peeps re imagine this game. gogo
Dragon Brother 620 Posted November 26, 2013 I rather like this, always great to see new content being developed for this wonderful game. Keep us posted!
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted November 27, 2013 . Another small progress update here working on the boots (again) Some feedback on the background story would be nice, thanks. cheers Health warning: you have been playing for 12 seconds...
Pesmontis 168 Posted November 28, 2013 Do you intend to change the textures for Sophia's armor as well?
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted November 28, 2013 . Alpha.01 will include 9 .gr2 files which are: 8 parts of the armor and the changed seraphim hair style ( that is if all works out well since I have some minor problems I'm trying to solve ) and 6 new sections to be appended into surface.txt, which are referenced by the new armor and of course instructions on how to install them The surface.txt sections are referencing a different texture file, the colour will be shining iron / silver but of course it's up to the players if they prefer to change them back to the original. The original textures do not show the same way when applied on the new armor even tho it's almost same. Some small discrepancies that render minor regions in black and the effects are weird. It seems the game does handle the effects different for NPC's and different for PC's cheers Hit any user to continue.
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted November 29, 2013 (edited) . And.... another small progress update here working on Shoulders and Hair In regards to the textures: they will not be the same as the original Sophia's armor since the Background Story is going in a different direction. After I have finished and uploaded the alpha version I will get down and continue that story some more. cheers Loading bluescreen... Edited November 29, 2013 by tom.morrow
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 1, 2013 . And yet another small progress update ... Here working on skinning the helmet Best regards It's a snark! no, it's a boo-... 1
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 1, 2013 . Another small progress update ... here weight-painting ( skinning ) the bracers It looks like that the alpha version will take a few more days to be completed I'm sorry about that, but it just needs some more work I promise it will be totaly worth the wait :wink: cheers All your base are belong to us. 1
Pesmontis 168 Posted December 1, 2013 A new hair style will probably be too difficult, don't you think?
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 3, 2013 . True, you're probably right on this one I will have to see how it behaves tho I may include it in the alpha regardless to and leave it for anyone interested to choose There will be another small progress update soon regards No, I cannot load any faster!
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 5, 2013 . and here is the Torso part of the armor best regards Loading errors, please wait... 1
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 7, 2013 . I am still working on some small issues, like parts clipping through other parts, but the armor is already in-game and textured and it's looking good. Would you like me to post an in-game screenshot or would you rather wait until the alpha is out? Here is another progress update, working ( skinning ) on the legs parts: cheers It's a girl and her name is Marina!
SX255 630 Posted December 9, 2013 (edited) Yes, screenshots of your success so far will be great. How much more work do you have left to do on this? Edited December 9, 2013 by SX255
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 10, 2013 . The pieces are all chopped and ported, and in-game, equipable and textured My to-do list is: - edit / tweak almost all the items to make them behave more "normal" (follow more normally the physical body movement) Items still on this list: bracers, pelvis, legs, boots (that's half of 'em) - edit / tweak them to prevent them to clip through each other aswell as the body clipping through them Items still on this list: bracers, pelvis, legs (boots are being checked) - procure 8 un-used itemtype ID's (new, unused even by CM patch) - write the script additions for the alpha version - write the installation instruction Currently I have severe connectivity problems but the work on the mod is non-stop Will upload an in-game picture once I stabilize my connection cheers Downloading seraphim DNA to your computer... 1
tom.morrow 89 Author Popular Post Posted December 14, 2013 . Greetings Ascarians I know it's been a while, but rest assured that the progress goes well Only problem is I am on a very restrictive setup right now since my rig has no web access leaving me to access the web through a small laptop with only 8.MB video ram. I cannot even type on this thing let alone upload images Still, since I haven't had an update for so long, here are a few screenshots This one is about a week old Next 3 are fresh from the engine, taken today ( on a darker-skinned seraphim model ) Enjoy (^_^) cheers When there's a way, there's a will. When there's no will, there's a reason 2
Pesmontis 168 Posted December 15, 2013 Awesome, Tom !Really slick, it looks far too good for an alpha release!
Yoshio 91 Posted December 16, 2013 Fantastic work You did on that one! It really waters my mouth and I hardly can wait for a "alpha" version of this one!
tom.morrow 89 Author Posted December 20, 2013 . Greetings Ancarians Again, its been a while since my last post I have had some unexpected setbacks the last few days and things that are constantly slowing me down. The latest, I just got my 1st ever BSOD ( blue screen of death ) After the reboot my antivirus and firewall got bugged and wont start at all After a few tests it seemed that something went seriously wrong Currently checkdisk is at step 4 of 5 and about 44% progress ( after an hour of "fixing" countless references and errors, even in system files u_u ) It may take a few more hours to know how severe the damage realy is Regardless, the mod files are secure in my mailbox but the progress has stopped until I get my system back up and running I kept high hopes of having this alpha released this weekend but now I just hope my system will get back more or less intact Will keep you posted with any news ASAP cheers tommy <missing silly message>
