Good news: the model is very easy to animate with the editor as it only has a custom scaling of 0.01 but no translations or rotations in the model (luck!).
I've done these animations for you to test, if you want others just tell me (like a sinusoidal floating for a little of buoyancy effect ?):
Fly : flies 3 units in Z direction (I hope is the right direction)
Rot90: rotation of 90° smooth
Rot90linear: rotation of 90° linear (why ? I don't know )
Rot360: rotation of 360° linear (ideal for loop)
All of these were tested in GMT but not in game as sadly I have very little time today but I hope this will get the thing started.
I tried using the Uggardian as a guideline, as it is a floating monster that casts fireballs. After adding the daemon head model and animations, I get this error when trying to spawn it in the editor:
[string "Map.lua"]:0: table index is nil
stack traceback:
[string "Map.lua"]: in function 'registerNode'
[string "Monster.lua"]: in function 'entityAddedToMap'
[string "Map.lua"]: in function 'addEntity'
[string "Monster.lua"]: in function 'spawn'
[string "Arch.lua"]: in function 'spawn'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'addObjectTool'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'mapView'
[string "DungeonEditor.lua"]: in function 'update'
[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in main chunk
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Device string: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
State flags: 00000000
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Xanathar wrote:I will try in the game later if I 'm able to.
In the meantime I had a cool idea...
what if the head rotates after each attack and each attack fires a different elemental bolt ? 4 faces == 4 elements
I also had that idea, but it sounds pretty complex.
Naaah... wait till you see my framework. I can do prismatic elemental spells that change elements every square if you wish. The question is wether we can make the model rotate without the monster rotating himself. (Eg, it still "faces" you, but the model rotates). If not, at least turning elements around each time it's fired is easy, so that the monster "front" shoots a different element each time.
Did some test, not crashing but seeing nothing.
For a second test, can you export a version with two copies of MainObject inside (however odd it sounds) ?
Will check tomorrow anyway, now I have to go
In my head I see this monster as bouncing down the hallway like a rubber ball, making a lot of stone clashing noise and shaking the room. Much cooler than floating but then much harder to animate!
Hmm, I sort of have a working rolling ball ready that I was saving for my dungeon
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it is easier than you think. Just upsize a rock, then spawnProjectile with the right gravity, damage, rotation and direction will get you quite close to Indiana Jones and the rolling ball that crushes everything.
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but I hope this will get the thing started.
