More Avlis Haks!

Pathos Street · Post by **Pathos Street** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:01 pm

chamalscuro wrote:I agree. The dynamic humanoid race forms seem to be getting hung-up on relatively unimportant snags.

Like... experienced 3D modelling experts not available to volunteer their time and effort towards making these things playable?

You haven't seen buggy until you've seen Gak hiding under a giant flying robe next to a floating kobold head. I "fixed" the appearance.2da to include the as-is dynamic models. It was so bad I switched back to static models.

Post by **MadK@** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:09 pm

szabot wrote:
MadK@ wrote:- Added support for new radial abilities
Is that support for new radial abilities that already recently went in, or are there new radial abilities coming soon? If the latter, what are they? Or, is that too spoilerish still?

If it wasnt spoilerish it would have been posted.

FOIG

chamalscuro · Post by **chamalscuro** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:44 pm

Pathos Street wrote:
chamalscuro wrote:I agree. The dynamic humanoid race forms seem to be getting hung-up on relatively unimportant snags.
Like... experienced 3D modelling experts not available to volunteer their time and effort towards making these things playable?

You haven't seen buggy until you've seen Gak hiding under a giant flying robe next to a floating kobold head. I "fixed" the appearance.2da to include the as-is dynamic models. It was so bad I switched back to static models.

I've seen it mentioned twice that Hala solved the half-ogre problem. Any chance they'd share?

I've had the dynamic hak loaded for some time now. I haven't seen any issues yet, though surely I will at some point.

I'm just asking if we're expecting a standard of perfection that we don't expect elsewhere? I mean, we all see gelatinous cubes screaming in male human voices, stirges in the Wilderness that appear as ravens, naked NPC soldiers, the occasional wemic issue, etc.

I'm not criticizing the Team here. These are trivial issues clearly at the bottom of the priority list. I think if you put it to a vote -- not that this is a democracy, and it shouldn't be -- most players would accept an occasional glitch in exchange for getting rid of those awful static humanoid forms.

Plus, many graphics problems would be solved ala the female problem above with an executive decision, alleviating laborious programming.

*shrugs* Just my .02

Kinarr · Post by **Kinarr** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:52 pm

Li'll Divvil wrote:...and disable the creation of female kobolds, goblins, and shaahesk, and pretend the females are busy laying eggs or some such. Even all the NPC shaahesk, kobolds and goblins I have seen are male.

We won't be disabling creation of females. There have been several that I know of, and there are also female versions of NPCs of those races. No doubt there would be more female PCs made if they did have a different model.

Fire Monkey wrote:
Li'll Divvil wrote:Awesome, is it all inclusive so can i remove 1_5 then? My hak folder is getting a bit sluggish.
ditto

Yes, once the servers are updated with avlis_main1_6, you can remove all previous avlis_main versions.

szabot wrote:
MadK@ wrote:- Added support for new radial abilities
Is that support for new radial abilities that already recently went in, or are there new radial abilities coming soon? If the latter, what are they? Or, is that too spoilerish still?

You'll know what they are when they are ready.

chamalscuro wrote: I agree. The dynamic humanoid race forms seem to be getting hung-up on relatively unimportant snags.

They are hung-up, because no one is working on them. As far as I know, there are no active modellers in our community. At least not for NWN1. I might do a race or two in between other Avlis projects, but I have a long to-do list. So, as usual, it will be done if/when it is done.

And, so we get back on topic, here's a sneak preview of some new creatures you might see.

szabot · Post by **szabot** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:10 pm

What the heck is that black thing?!

Cromagnon · Post by **Cromagnon** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:45 pm

Looks like a zerg hydralisk to me.

Katroine · Post by **Katroine** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:57 pm

The little guy in front looks like Franklin. I always hated his antics, so I'd be happy to kick its butt.

AyounTheDark · Post by **AyounTheDark** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:13 pm

I'd love to smack on a turtle-looking peep too. Even a Ninja-gekko/turtle too

g1asgow · Post by **g1asgow** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:20 pm

Kinnar wrote:And, so we get back on topic, here's a sneak preview of some new creatures you might see.

Is a Xenomorph involved?

Darkfire · Post by **Darkfire** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:20 pm

the black thing reminds me of a sissified version of an Alien. *waits for it to PWN j00 with creepy extendo tongue with teeth thing*

douglasburns · Post by **douglasburns** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:57 pm

Zyndro wrote:
Yes and female models in the NWN tradition usually means, make it smaller, give it breasts and long hair, DUH, a biologists nightmare.

They even gave female reptilians breasts so obviously someone there failed bio 101 in highschool.
Just solve the problem by using male models for males and females. Some reptiles have females that are larger and more "masculine" than their males, anyway. Might make sense for both to use male voices too.

Mostly reptiles use Pheromones anyway to tell sexes apart. dont need to program scent in

Mabus · Post by **Mabus** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:53 pm

chamalscuro wrote:I've seen it mentioned twice that Hala solved the half-ogre problem. Any chance they'd share?

I came from Hala and hadn't seen Gak in many moons. And I loved his new form there. Looked much more realistic to me.

chamalscuro wrote:I'm just asking if we're expecting a standard of perfection that we don't expect elsewhere? I mean, we all see gelatinous cubes screaming in male human voices, stirges in the Wilderness that appear as ravens, naked NPC soldiers, the occasional wemic issue, etc.

...and carrion crawlers as intellect devourers...

Mabus · Post by **Mabus** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:56 pm

Btw, is anyone aware of a freeware 3D modelling program on the web that's good for creating/adjusting NWN creature models?

Fifty · Post by **Fifty** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:04 pm

Darkfire wrote:the black thing reminds me of a sissified version of an Alien. *waits for it to PWN j00 with creepy extendo tongue with teeth thing*

Looks like the queen to me. Big head.

Mabus · Post by **Mabus** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:21 pm

If I knew how to create new models/skins, first thing I'd make for Sigil is the Lady of Pain. Oh how I'd love to Dm in that skin... muahahahahaha!

Her Serenity: The Lady of Pain

Belasco · Post by **Belasco** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:35 pm

*bounces around and claps as she downloads the new hak*

Marleh · Post by **Marleh** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:56 pm

My backwards chairs are FIIIIIIIIIXXXXXED!

yay.

Buddha Wiki · Post by **Buddha** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:00 pm

Marleh wrote:My backwards chairs are FIIIIIIIIIXXXXXED!

yay.

Um... on that topic. Mine are fixed as well in the ACE guildhall, but have you tried sitting in yours? I did tonight, and while the chairs are facing properly towards the table, my character sits on them backwards, facing away from the table, with his legs through the back of the chair. Are yours doing the same?

Deider, MadK@ -- I updated bug 2491 to reflect this, but didn't have Cool Guy Rights to set it back to Reopened. Here's a quick linky:

bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=2491

Kooshy · Post by **Kooshy** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:39 pm

..A kitty's worst nightmare! A ball that can swat back. =/

itsabughunt · Post by **itsabughunt** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:23 pm

g1asgow wrote:
Kinnar wrote:And, so we get back on topic, here's a sneak preview of some new creatures you might see.
Is a Xenomorph involved?

Its a bug-hunt.

Ha haa

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