[Actor] new monsters: gretch and gobelin

[auspexRex]

Here's my first simple stab at some custom monsters.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k57ya51zdrp0azh/ar-hw-monsters-8-29-2013.zip

basic gretch:


elite gretch:


gobelin, with death animation:


Just unzip and put the .png and .xml files together in /actors under your campaign's directory to use them in the editor.

(edited 8-29-1013 to update file link, previews)

[Juschlan]

Pretty small, looks good though

[auspexRex]

They look quite a bit bigger in the game and in the editor.  The raw png's are really quite small for all the assets.

The game does some doubling, or maybe even quadrupling of the raw assets. So the end product looks about 4 times bigger.

[Hipshot]

This is awesome =)

[auspexRex]

Thanks! 

[Linaru]

These are really great.

you should add death animations and corpses, the game supports them but doesn't use them because the dev's didn't have the time or resources to draw them for every mob.

also goblins head is a little rectangular when going east or west.

really well done tough =3

[auspexRex]

Thanks! I tried to make the heads less blocky from the side but everything I tried looked worse. I maybe could get it right with a semi-transparent color touch-up.

What are the attributes for death and corpses? just name="death" and name="corpse" or?

[Linaru]

Thanks! I tried to make the heads less blocky from the side but everything I tried looked worse. I maybe could get it right with a semi-transparent color touch-up.

What are the attributes for death and corpses? just name="death" and name="corpse" or?

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<entry name="corpse"><string>actors/corpse/boss_lich_corpse.xml</string></entry> basically tells it to spawn a corpse on its death, usualy make the corpse look like the last frame of the death animation. be careful, if you add collisions they could potentially block passage so need to design the corpse to look like it can be walked on unless its amob you dont expect to be everywhere like a boss.

the corpse.xml it self looks like this:

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<doodad defaultlayer="-1" ao="false">
<sprite scale="16">
<texture>actors/boss_lich/boss_lich.png</texture>
<origin>12 14</origin>
<frame>216 72 24 24</frame>
</sprite>
</doodad>tough you could easily animate it if you wanted.
I put all my Corpses into a separate corpse folder, it really help to keep the actors folder tidy and it will make it easy for others to use if its more standard.


the death is an animation thats something like this :

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<!-- Death -->
<sprite scale="16" name="death">
<texture>actors/boss_lich/boss_lich.png</texture>
<origin>12 14</origin>
<frame time="125">192 0 24 24</frame>
<frame time="125">216 0 24 24</frame>
<frame time="125">192 24 24 24</frame>
<frame time="125">216 24 24 24</frame>
<frame time="125">192 48 24 24</frame>
<frame time="125">216 48 24 24</frame>
<frame time="175">192 72 24 24</frame>
<frame time="550">216 72 24 24</frame>
</sprite>


[auspexRex]

Excellent! Thanks.

I managed to make the head a little less blocky, I think. made a few minor tweaks and updated the files.

Now for some death animations and corpses.

[Linaru]

Excellent! Thanks.

I managed to make the head a little less blocky, I think. made a few minor tweaks and updated the files.

Now for some death animations and corpses.

i was considering doing a goblin cave tile set for my survival map, if your planning on doing more mobs perhaps we could collaborate a bit to produce a complete theme?

[auspexRex]

That sounds fun, but I'm mostly just playing around right now. I may make some more mobs though. I'm thinking of making something a bit bigger, a little bit more like a mini-boss.

[Linaru]

try some ogres,  as sort of goblin elites?

[auspexRex]

try some ogres,  as sort of goblin elites?

Yeah, that or some orcs, slightly bigger gobliny types and then ogres could be bigger. I dunno. I'll play around with it. I wish I had more time to do this sort of stuff

[auspexRex]

you should add death animations and corpses, the game supports them but doesn't use them because the dev's didn't have the time or resources to draw them for every mob.

I added death animations to the gobelin and I love it. I'll update the links with the new version later, but it feels a lot more satisfying to hack a bunch of gobelins and see them collapse in a pool of their own blood

[Linaru]

will you be doing some ranged goblins? goblin rock throwers perhaps?