DaveHer wrote: ↑06 Oct 2022, 10:38
I have been watching your videos and may I say that the building look very nice. You might want to replace the trees, Flowers, rocks etc. with HD images. If you like, you can have the images from MM7Rev4modR1 Redone Patch Two. It has the best HD images. You do not have to worry about palettes because I did not create new palettes. I used palettes from the MM7 game. I use coreldraw to extract the palettes from MM7 images and then applied them to my new images. All you have to do is (using MMAchive) open my sprites.lod and your sprites.lod and drag and drop from mine to yours. After the drag and drop, check the palette name at the bottom left-hand corner of the MMAchive. If it changes (it should not change), you will need to edit the SFT.txt file. At the bottom of the SFT.txt file is a list of all the new sprites I added to the game. If you use those, you will need to add the line to your SFT.txt file and also from the DecList.txt to your DecList.txt file.
David
That's great! Thanks David!
I will sure look into it and apply suggested changes
No stream this time, but lots of work has been done: north-east part of the swamp island has been completed. It's a forest on a mountain. It has bridge that connects with another small island with a lighthouse. I've also put "Stonehenge" altar in the forest area - one of imported assets from original game. Think it fits there.
A bit difficult to show the awesomeness of the result via screenshots, so... since the island almost completed, i'll do demo video of the island soon.
Overall, most of the level design is completed. Perhaps one or two dev streams and the whole area will be finished (finally)
In order to avoid limitation I had to switch to Windows. The old hotkeys made a slightly slow start with Blender, but eventually the job got done.
The video would be longer if I'd have included previous attempts to record a stream, but since the stream shows whole map I decided to skip those.
Next stop - "stitching", the scripting part of level design. This won't get covered in a new stream, because it's ultra slow and extra boring, so I guess next stream will cover dungeon modelling. Plus, i have to put some level secrets without your knowledge about them
Anyway, the stream covers:
making of portal platform
decorating "abandoned mines" area
modelling Boat House and the boat itself
decorating small islands located outside the "active play area"
tweaking water animations for wells, barrels and fountains
Absolutely beautiful work, congratulations! Every detail is spot on, I don't think they could have done it so well in the original game! In my opinion it is an etalon for all modders. For me too.
May I ask when it will be playable?
neutonm wrote: ↑31 Oct 2022, 09:15
Here it is, brand new stream!
In order to avoid limitation I had to switch to Windows. The old hotkeys made a slightly slow start with Blender, but eventually the job got done.
The video would be longer if I'd have included previous attempts to record a stream, but since the stream shows whole map I decided to skip those.
Next stop - "stitching", the scripting part of level design. This won't get covered in a new stream, because it's ultra slow and extra boring, so I guess next stream will cover dungeon modelling. Plus, i have to put some level secrets without your knowledge about them
Anyway, the stream covers:
making of portal platform
decorating "abandoned mines" area
modelling Boat House and the boat itself
decorating small islands located outside the "active play area"
tweaking water animations for wells, barrels and fountains
Looks grand! It's quite strange to see clearly an M&M game, yet completely new locations
Kaltenberg wrote: ↑04 Nov 2022, 20:06
Absolutely beautiful work, congratulations! Every detail is spot on, I don't think they could have done it so well in the original game! In my opinion it is an etalon for all modders. For me too.
May I ask when it will be playable?
Thanks Kaltenberg
I really want to and will try to deliver around christmas/new year time, altough no promises yet.The mod's birthday was at some day of December.
Right now, i making quests and writing npc topics. I'll do few more dungeons and one extra location.
Minimally, it needs to have +2 dungeons and few side quests. At that point the game will offer at least 4 - 5 hours of gameplay (given that player will do everything flawlessly which is not a common case)
Echo wrote: ↑05 Nov 2022, 08:20
Looks grand! It's quite strange to see clearly an M&M game, yet completely new locations
Yep. Got the same feelings - it's like discovering some hidden location that you weren't aware of for last 20 years. Something like analogue of Vori island
Blake wrote: ↑07 Nov 2022, 08:23
Saw you posting on one of the discords, visited your site, watched some vids, saw the link to this thread and figured I'd say great job here too!
I've just released a new dev stream video. I got carried away, so it's quite lengthy - a first of its kind. Feel free to only watch the sections that particularly interest you.
Now, let's dive into the features of this video:
The process of slicing or dividing levels into smaller rooms
Collision checks and fixes to prevent the player from getting stuck "in textures"
The resolution of several issues and bugs
Pedantic hunt for texture inconsistencies
Making of doors and chests
Introduction of a new monster: the Ratman from MM8
Including the level into the game
Be Aware!
Long Video
This stream may be a major spoiler, as it reveals almost the entire dungeon.
I hope you find the stream enjoyable and educational, especially if you plan to make mods. The dungeon is 99% complete and is about to enter its final stage - Game Design stage. This involves proper monster placement, careful planning for items in the chest, and overall balancing and tweaking of the level.
Oh boy, you finished it! If I'm not mistaken, it's the first complete lotsa-new-locations MM6-8 mod since TCC part 2. (And we have at least one more to look forward to! Good times.) I'll certainly play it as soon as I find the time, but for now, could you estimate the size of all the new maps, as, say, a fraction of MM8? Is it 25% as big as (the playable part of) Jadame? 40%? Just to know how much gameplay to expect.
Tomsod wrote: ↑07 Jun 2024, 19:08
Oh boy, you finished it! If I'm not mistaken, it's the first complete lotsa-new-locations MM6-8 mod since TCC part 2. (And we have at least one more to look forward to! Good times.) I'll certainly play it as soon as I find the time, but for now, could you estimate the size of all the new maps, as, say, a fraction of MM8? Is it 25% as big as (the playable part of) Jadame? 40%? Just to know how much gameplay to expect.
It's hard to tell. There are two outdoor maps and 6 dungeons, but content-per-square-meter is much better than in vanilla games. Empty areas are not quite a thing in this mod.
It takes around 6 to 12 hours to complete the whole game. Might take more... it depends.
You can contact me here: maestro_mod@yahoo.com
vladud @ yandex.ru - preferred one
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I downloaded this mod and played through it in one long session today. I really enjoyed it. This truly showed the potential of MM7, which you took further than the developers did when it comes to intricate dungeon design. You've created unique and fun environments with surprising levels of complexity. It must've taken a long time to design those convoluted and immersive dungeons. The story was well thought-out, and I was invested in it, curious how it would end. I liked the backstory of the island and the npc's on it. Your choices of monsters were exciting and varied, and the presence of strong monsters as bosses added excitement, because I never knew what power level to expect. The challenge level was, however, spot-on. The restrictions helped a lot with that. You've done a marvellous job! I'll be sure to play this again.
I managed to complete every quest on Amber Island except for one... Spoiler
The missing pet quest. I found a bunch of carrots that I imagine are connected to it, and also the picture of a rabbit with some carrots in the archmage's mansion, but that doesn't seem to do anything. I've searched the maps for the bunny but no luck so far. Could you give a hint about its location? Or is it possible without spoiling too much?
You might want to replace the trees, Flowers, rocks etc. with HD images. If you like, you can have the images from MM7Rev4modR1 Redone Patch Two. It has the best HD images. You do not have to worry about palettes because I did not create new palettes. I used palettes from the MM7 game. I use coreldraw to extract the palettes from MM7 images and then applied them to my new images. All you have to do is (using MMAchive) open my sprites.lod and your sprites.lod and drag and drop from mine to yours. After the drag and drop, check the palette name at the bottom left-hand corner of the MMAchive. If it changes (it should not change), you will need to edit the SFT.txt file. At the bottom of the SFT.txt file is a list of all the new sprites I added to the game. If you use those, you will need to add the line to your SFT.txt file and also from the DecList.txt to your DecList.txt file.
Maybe I missed something...
