Re: Magic of Aquaria SPOILERS!!!!!!! new pics Feb 15

[Sindhi]

Well, I won't argue ab0ut the green hair... hope it looks better now. I've been working on placing all 50 treasures; some are in plain sight and some are hidden, in some cases, by being partially covered. If we don't have hard enough bosses for you, we will drive you crazy with the treasures. Also pretty much finished Forest Map 2 today; similar to forest map 1 but different stuff happens there. Enclosing a couple of screenshots.





Naija meets a new friend and is given a companion for her journey. Not done with the tree trunk yet.

[Sindhi]

Yogoda animated the lemur yesterday; here is a screenshot of Naija meeting the lemur in the Secret Garden:



Also I finished placing all the treasures into the mod; there is at least one treasure in every map except the Treasure Cave, where they are kept. I will be checking them before we release part two of Magic. If Yogoda hadn't stopped me, we would have a lot more than 50. It's funny, I dislike all the cloned hidden object games being cranked out by large companies, and yet I am delighting in hiding all the Magic treasures like the Easter Bunny for all of you to find....

[Sindhi]

I've been working on new trees for a different look in Forest Map 2, and I changed the trunks to the tootsie roll method.



far right of the forest 2 map



close-up middle bit

Yogoda is immersing himself in Starcraft for awhile but he will return to working on the mod.

[GMMan]

Hmm... The tree textures look a bit... stretched. It reminds me of a map in BZFlag where there was a lot of wooden surfaces there (I believe it was called Louman's Desktop).

[Sindhi]

Yeah, they are;  I used the stretching to avoid this tootsie roll effect and using way too many ferns to cover up where the trunk pieces met, but Yogoda said the same thing the other day so I'm replacing all the trees with the stretched trunks with segmented trunks; hope this looks better.... Here's a pic:

[Align]

Much better. If you hadn't pointed it out, I might not even have noticed the segmenting.
Can't that be fixed by making the texture tile up/down?

[GMMan]

They do look better. I don't think anyone playing the game will try to look for where the textures segment. IMO the trees are a bit too light, but I really don't care because photorealistic trees are over rated

[Lady-Succubus]

Well, now I can't not see the segmenting in those trunks. >.<

[Sindhi]

To GMMan: Trees too light?  Hey, different planet....... my stock excuse.... to Lady S, you can think of this as Aquaria: the Tootsie Roll planet. To Align... glad to see you're still around!! Always good to hear from you.  Yogoda made the ends of the trunk segments transparent and I did stack the tiles up/down but it still is really tough aligning them... I don't want the trunks sprouting ferns like a fan dancer to cover up the seams, so I think I will live with it.

Please, guys, don't stop giving advice and comments! I may not always take your suggestions but I want to have the options, and your interest keeps me going.

[GMMan]

I'm wondering how you managed to make Naija walk. Is it through some scripting interface, or just creative node/entity placement? I'm trying to do a mod on Naija, though it looks like her script is compiled into the game instead of being left out as a .lua.

[Yogoda]

Yes, Naija's "script" is compiled into the game, we cannot change it with scripting (unless we change Aquaria code of course).

The trick here is to make Naija ride an invisible entity. So the entity is following the terrain, while Naija is playing a walking animation.

[GMMan]

That's clever. I suppose the entity isn't right-clickable.

[Yogoda]

Hehe, no.

The entity attach itself to Naija when she jumps out of water, and detach when going back into the water. You can use the function entity_isUnderWater to test this.

[GMMan]

Interesting to know. I wonder if anything in the original game uses that.

[Chew-gun]

Do you guys need some help? There's little I can do yet, as I don't know LUA and game's structure, but...