Fate/Sprite Works
 

Here's a small mod out of nowhere.

I'll explain the background, first - I'm learning spriting for the purpose of finishing the Pax Malazica mod (see signature), and in the process, have been creating various sprites for practice, using the art of the visual novel Fate/Stay Night as reference material. Rather than see them unused, I figured I might as well make a simple mod from them, and here it is.

What it does is add a few (as of right now, six) summoning spells. Each requires a different path, and is found at conjuration research level seven.
The spells all summon single unique commanders, so it's first come, first serve - they have to die before they can be summoned again.

I'd appreciate comments on the sprites as such, mainly, but problems or balance issues with the mod will also be fixed if my attention is brought to them.

To install the mod, simply unzip it into your dominions 3 mod folder - if everything worked out, you'll have a 'fatespriteworks.dm' mod file there, and a folder named 'fate' containing all the sprites.

It should be compatible with most mods that do not use the low 900 range for weapons and armor, the low 300 range for armor, or the low 2900 range for units - I've only confirmed it working alongside CBM 1.4, though.

Finally, an ingame screenshot, to spruce the post up a bit:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...1&d=1233090400

Legal: Sprites and code included in the mod may be considered in the public domain, and may be redistributed or modified as desired, with no need for credit to me or anyone else.

This can be considered version 6.4, with the target final release version being 10, where all content is included and polished.

Download attached below, and updated to version 6.4 that changes some balance around, adding elemental resistances to most summons but weakening Berserker. (He'll no longer have as obscene a protection score when wounded.)

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They have to die before they can be summoned again? I don't think that's true. More like when you summon them again they vanish and reappear.

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Casting the spell when the unit is already summoned gives a 'No one answered the spell' response, and the unit remains where it was.

(I used the 'Father Illearth' spell as a base, to make sure this was the case.)

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on top of that, any gems are still used up, which can be a real downer on some of those high end elemental royalty spells...

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That's odd. I thought it worked differently for modded uniques. Guess that's only true if you summon them via summon allies or some other method.

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PS.

i like your small print legal notice there :D

i might actually use them. i've already PM'd a mod author or two about permission to use their sprites in Fourth Age. you wouldn't mind if yours make a cameo there?

although, actually i'm really looking for a "universal" sprite for each race that can be dressed up like a paper doll for its weapons and armor. that would be real nice to have for the kind of game FA is.

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You're allowed to use them however and wherever you like, modified or not, credit given or not, as you like.

They were just made for practice, after all.

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Got attack animations yet ;)?

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Why, certainly, they should be working properly.

The Archer attack sprite is sort of sub-par, being the first of these I worked on, and Berserker doesn't quite convey the movement of the weapon, but attack sprites are present.

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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.

FATE/STAY NIGHT? EPIC.

Sorry, I just had to gush it. Although it'd be exceedingly difficult for you to work in characters such as Gilgamesh - he'd have a Ld of something like 300+, if we're looking at things realistically.

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Wasn't Gil also Archer, been awhile since I watched and still haven't gotten around to playing it yet.

Just wondering if you could only have one of each type. Archer, Sabre, Lance and what have you. Is it possible for the game to have more then one of each type and it then chooses one of them at random.
So if you cast the Archer spell you got either Shiro or Gil

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hmm I think that isn't possible, haven't seen it been modded at least and not come across it during modding.. and I'd have used it otherwise

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As Aezeal says, I don't believe a "pick a random unit from this group and summon it" spell can be modded, unless you use the work-around of replacing the units of an existing one, such as the elemental royalty, but then you lose the original spell.

Gil will likely appear as a level nine spell, if included.

In other news, I updated the first post with a new version that adds an additional spell, though I'm not wholly satisfied with the attack sprite of this one, so it'll be revisited in the future.

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I've updated the mod slightly. The summons are now all conjuration, as befits summoning spells - this also allows someone who researches it early on to summon several, though they still require different paths.

I've also added the King of Heroes, but summoning him will be more difficult, and normal magic just won't cut it. (Is he worth the price of two demon lords, I wonder?)

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Well, I updated it again, to 6.4, fixing a few description errors and some balance.

It is getting downloaded now and then, but so far, I've had no comments on the sprites, or the mod in general: Please, feel free to post your impressions if you do try it out, even if they are wholly or partially negative.

Here's even a faked-up screenshot to let you comment on the sprites without trying the mod!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...6&d=1234888685