Mod MA al-Nadim - The thousand and one nights 1.01)

llamabeast · #1 July 22nd, 2009, 06:19 PM

Animal awe would be good on camels. In real life I believe they were effective against horses because of the smell. Unfortunately you can't make them good against cavalry in dom3, but you can at least make them good against elephants (and monkeys).

I also like the idea of the camel rider being elite.

Edit (elmokki posted while I was typing): Very nice camel!

Edit again: I think something funny has happened to the camel rider's legs. They are very small.

elmokki · #2 July 22nd, 2009, 06:22 PM

Apparently an adult dromedary camel can be 2.15 meters from land to the top of the hump, and riding horses in general seem to be 1.6 meters from land to the start of their neck. The sprite size should actually be good enough.

I'll fix the legs once I come back from my night shift job where I'll be going in next 5 minutes.

The camel sprite is wasteland survival icon resized too 200% and smoothened out to not look so pixelated.

Burnsaber · #3 July 22nd, 2009, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by elmokki

The camel sprite is wasteland survival icon resized too 200% and smoothened out to not look so pixelated.

Man. That's freaking clever. Never even gave a single thought for this.

Don't know if it means anything, but you got my respect. Those sprites look good, too.

elmokki · #4 July 22nd, 2009, 10:52 PM

I'm glad you like the camel, I'm personally surprised how good it became. I didn't expect much.

Anyway, first post is updated with new image and mod with Camel Cavalry, Camel Archer and Camel in a few minutes. I don't know if I should make the camel fight by itself if the rider dies, I don't think they're that aggressive animals. I made the camel a seperate unit for a low level N-summon al-Nadim can summon with indies or pretender

EDIT: How can you add line breaks to #summary, or will I have to find out the exact amount of times I'll have to press space bar?

The lancer (somewhat more armored cavalry with light lance) feels pretty useless unit now. Light lance isn't too awesome and the only advantanges it has compared to camel cavalry is really the first strike bonus, combat speed and price, while it completely loses on long term damage, strategic movement and survivability.

Also, I need to make a camel riding commander. A camel riding supreme vizier rainbow pretender sounds cool too, but there's really not much need for that

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Man. That's freaking clever. Never even gave a single thought for this.

Next up: Hippo riding EA Machaka unit

elmokki · #5 July 23rd, 2009, 01:42 PM

I hope you won't mind, Burnsaber, that I used a sprite from Holy War with so little modification for ifrit. The sprite just was really good for this

Anyway, here's an ifrit and a marid. Both are very lowly members of their species' and there'll sure be stronger (and larger) djinnis.

They'll probably have 75% resistance to their own elements, possibly some fire resistance on marid (all djinni are supposed to be beings of smokeless fire afaik) and a weak fire shield on ifrit. I don't know about awe, but it's possibly. They'll both be flying of course.

Naturally, if or once there's more work on an EA arabic nation, those sprites will get priority.

Burnsaber · #6 July 23rd, 2009, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by elmokki

I hope you won't mind, Burnsaber, that I used a sprite from Holy War with so little modification for ifrit. The sprite just was really good for this

Njah. I don't mind. More like honored. But it's a quite cheap graphic you know? I just recolored a Mictlan priest into red and gave it the flames of an Agarthan Magma Child. I didn't even have to change the pose, I just drew the halberd on top of it.

Also, I remembered some graphics presented in the F&W thug mod. Perhaps they can be some sort of inspiration?

Here are some by Aezeal.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com//show...35&postcount=6

Here is a one form me. The Torso probably could serve as part on a big efreet. It's recolor of a Mictlan summon (blue-skin + scorpion tail, forgot his name). Zlefin only used the silhoutte in his mod, so you can do pretty much anything with the pic.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com//show...26&postcount=9

elmokki · #7 July 23rd, 2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Burnsaber

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Originally Posted by elmokki

I hope you won't mind, Burnsaber, that I used a sprite from Holy War with so little modification for ifrit. The sprite just was really good for this

Njah. I don't mind. More like honored. But it's a quite cheap graphic you know? I just recolored a Mictlan priest into red and gave it the flames of an Agarthan Magma Child. I didn't even have to change the pose, I just drew the halberd on top of it.

Also, I remembered some graphics presented in the F&W thug mod. Perhaps they can be some sort of inspiration?

Here are some by Aezeal.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com//show...35&postcount=6

Here is a one form me. The Torso probably could serve as part on a big efreet. It's recolor of a Mictlan summon (blue-skin + scorpion tail, forgot his name). Zlefin only used the silhoutte in his mod, so you can do pretty much anything with the pic.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com//show...26&postcount=9

Those Aezeal's sprites actually look more like genies in tales, which is pretty good. On the other hand if I go with the current look, that solarion of yours is a perfect match for a bigger ifrit.

The problem is I personally am not very interested in making a recruitable djinn-based nation, but would happily look into graphics. I need someone who is more interested in the game mechanical part of recruitable djinnis before I do many djinnis of my own - since the djinnis here should be the same that are recruitable in earlier era