Mod idea and a request

DrPraetorious · #1 December 11th, 2007, 05:31 PM

It is not currently moddable.

You could take one of the (non-unique) existing scry sites, and put it in their capital, if you wished.

SlipperyJim · #2 December 11th, 2007, 05:45 PM

Okay, thanks for the quick response. I'll do that.

SlipperyJim · #3 December 13th, 2007, 04:57 PM

So, here's my first sprite ever. Behold the "stock" dwarven warrior:

Once I'm happy with him (and I'm not happy with him right now), I'll use him as the template for the rest of the dwarven warriors of Crystaldeep. The way I figure it, all of my dwarves (except the smiths) use some variant of Mining Axe + Tower Shield, so they should all look similar. A few color variations, some added embellishments here and there, and ... presto!

I'm done with all of the recruitable commanders and units, one custom pretender, and a handful of summoning spells. I've attached a preview of the mod, if anyone's curious.

Still to do:
* Graphics. Lots of graphics. I've only made one set of sprites so far, and I need to do a lot more.
* A few more spells: another summon, an evocation, and a healing spell.
* Heroes!
* (most important) Playtesting!

On that last step ... I'm not fussed about making Crystaldeep perfectly-balanced with the vanilla Dom3 nations. Personally, I'm not sure that all of the vanilla Dom3 nations are balanced with each other. Still, I don't want Crystaldeep to be too far out of whack. Mainly, though, my playtesting will be focussed on simply making the nation play as I envisioned it.

I'll do a more formal post when I'm actually finished with the first version of the mod.

Comments welcome!

Kristoffer O · #4 December 13th, 2007, 07:25 PM

> Personally, I'm not sure that all of the vanilla Dom3 nations are balanced with each other.

Of course they are not

SlipperyJim · #5 December 13th, 2007, 11:04 PM

Um, oops.

No offense was intended. I just realized that my quip could be taken as a complaint.... It was not meant as such.

I cleaned up that graphic a bit, and I'm a little happier with it now. It could be better, of course, so I'll keep plinking at it. Pixel art is hard. (Of course, I have no artistic ability whatsoever, so that makes it harder.) Once again, I am totally blessed by having KO's sprites to use as a baseline. Drawing all of these things freehand would be too much for me, whereas hacking up someone else's work might just be within my reach.

Final summoning spell is done. One evocation and a healing spell to go, and then a few heroes....