I read something about new creatures. is it possible?
i have some new ideas for new creatures. is an make a creatur for everyone possible?
I read something about new creatures. is it possible?
i have some new ideas for new creatures. is an make a creatur for everyone possible?
The Awakening
(current status: not awake) The Awakening Creatures Archive Keeper Animus of Faircoast Skios the Arachnid Warrior
Location: Faircoast Cavern
Level: 7
Gold: 0Krua the Icy Arachnid Witch
Location: Faircoast Cavern
Level: 7
Gold: 0Ouroboros & Ragnarok the Hellhound
Location: Faircoast Cavern
Level: 3
Gold: 0Vampire Ray the Vampire Fly
Location: Northland Iceland
Level: 3
Gold: 0Fortise the Violent Salamander
Location: Northland Iceland
Level: 3
Gold: 0Scutus the Metal Shield
Location: Red Crystal Islands
Level: 2
Gold: 0
It is now possible to generate JTY file (with creature sprites) from a series of PNG files.
So, we're now able to import new sprites into KeeperFX, or make higher resolution of existing sprites.
For now size of sprite is limited to 255x255, but that will change over time.
The first generated sprites file is attached to this post - please test it and let me know if there are any graphics corruptions (I'm not sure if I got all the half-transparent sprites correctly).
keeperfx_generated_creature_jty.7z
OMFg..... Best of both worlds? DK2 CREATURES IN DK1?!?!?!?
That would require extracting the models and animations from DK2's creatures and making arrays of sprites out of them.
Not sure how feasible it is to extract models and/or animations from DK2. If both are possible, then I suppose it's possible to render sprites from them (though that'd take quite a bit of work, and might be tricky to look decent).
It seems exporting models from DK2 is possible, but I haven't looked much into it.
The Awakening
(current status: not awake) The Awakening Creatures Archive Keeper Animus of Faircoast Skios the Arachnid Warrior
Location: Faircoast Cavern
Level: 7
Gold: 0Krua the Icy Arachnid Witch
Location: Faircoast Cavern
Level: 7
Gold: 0Ouroboros & Ragnarok the Hellhound
Location: Faircoast Cavern
Level: 3
Gold: 0Vampire Ray the Vampire Fly
Location: Northland Iceland
Level: 3
Gold: 0Fortise the Violent Salamander
Location: Northland Iceland
Level: 3
Gold: 0Scutus the Metal Shield
Location: Red Crystal Islands
Level: 2
Gold: 0
Why restrict oneself to DK2 creatures? This opens up so many more possibilities.
Dungeon Keeper 2 Patch: With More Balance and Pie [Hiatus]
Forever Hiatus. Probably. Latest Version: 3.5 w/Levels 1-11 Revised.
The Awakening: GM Powers Activate!
Tesonu is napping!
Sure, it's all possible, but it has still restrictions and requires lots of work. If I'm not wrong, it still requires the limitation of the game's colour palette. Sound effects of creatures are also limited, but I think it's still possible to add new sound slots or use the unused ones. Same goes for the text, in all the possible languages. So, yeah, if you manage all that, addition of creatures is possible, but requires efforts and time.
I like dragons! They're the center of my life! I'll never forget them...
That reminds me, I tried to add in this unused Rebound sound effect because I thought it would be pretty nice, but I seem to randomly hear the sound in the middle of battle. Used one of the null ones. Sound ID#508. Works fine with Rebound but the sound popping up in battle is weird. Not sure why but that could be an issue when trying to add new sounds.
Dungeon Keeper 2 Patch: With More Balance and Pie [Hiatus]
Forever Hiatus. Probably. Latest Version: 3.5 w/Levels 1-11 Revised.
The Awakening: GM Powers Activate!
Tesonu is napping!
Yeah, we still need some work for adding new creatures. Creature array still has only 32 entries (entry 0 is unused), and there's no tool to create sound banks (we have DKTools, but it's not command line and not open source).
But this is an important step. We could prepare a scene which generates proper PNGs from a 3D model, and use them to create new sprites. We can also add new items to the game.
The palette problem isn't that important - I mean we are restricted to 256 colors in the JTY file, but the tool which generates JTY from PNGs will match color values and find a most similar one for every color inside PNG file, so it's done automatically.