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Old November 9th, 2004, 05:39 AM
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Default Re: Adamant Mod Discussion Thread

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Poster: Kamog

Those are very beautiful component pictures, CovertJaguar!
The details and lighting effects are just magnificent. I especially like the Astral Horse.
Thanks!


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Poster: Imperator Fyron
As for psychotropic drugs, I don't see any reason why magic-weilding races couldn't concoct such substances with alchemical processes, possibly aided by a bit of magic.
Wouldn't that make it a potion then, because I'm sure they aren't going to use a syringe.

As for the combat sensors, how about some kind of compass perhaps. Magic Compass. Aiming Compass. Homing Compass. Something like that perhaps, that would be easy enough to make a pic for.

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Very nice. However, when reduced to a 36x36 mini, the bright white parts seem to take over, resulting in a component that will look rather detracting when shown with all of the other components on a ship. It looks good as is for the portrait image, but the mini just looks like a big white glob, losing much of the cool swirly effects in the upper hemisphere. Perhaps the white part in the top central area could be changed to a different color, or reduced in area, so that there is more pink between the white regions?
The texture is generated randomly. I can play around with the seed value and see what I come up with tomorrow. If all else fails I think I could edit it manually.

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Could you make a "Torpedo" combat image for this, so that the prismatic sphere will have an appropriate display when fired in combat?
I will have to do some research as to what is needed, but yah I can probably do it.

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mm... This definitely has an even more pronounced brightness takeover affect for the 36x36 mini than the primsatic sphere image. The D&D contingency spell that the devices were based off of essentially finishes the casting of another spell, prepared at the time of the casting of the contingency, when a specified event occurs. Not entirely certain how this would translate visually to the SE4 entity... Perhaps some sort of archaic looking device with glowing runes etched on it?
I was never really satisfied with it anyway. That's why I haven't done anything with it for about a week and half. I just happened to notice it today, and decided to see what you thought.

P.S. I have played Baldur's Gate and know full well what a contingency spell is. Usefull things along with the sequencer spells.

EDIT: Wait a minute! That's it! The Multiplex Tracking could be a sequencer spell. Use one spell to cast multiply spells at once. Perfect!
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