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Monster rqst: Living spells - elementals

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 9:07 pm
by spectre900
I looked around a bit but did not really find anything.

But would it be possible to create a monster by simply using a spell effect (such as fireball or frost bolt)?
I may need some for my next dungeon but I have never even touched monster creation before (copy pasta an existing monster in the .lua doesn't really count).

What I would need is some sort of "spirit" or "elemental" monsters that are fairly similar to a Uggardian but use Burst spells instead of the usual ball spells. And also is just a bigger spell effect as mentioned earlier, and not an actual modeled monster. (for example a fireball flying around and fireburst'ing anything that gets too close)

Could this be made without any particular extra tools such a 3D programs or would they still be required to a create a ".model" file with attack animations and such (not that it would have any really)?

Re: Monster rqst: Living spells - elementals

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 1:03 pm
by Sutekh
I took the Uggardians that I made a while ago and 'stripped' them with a transparent texture, leaving just the particle effects visible. Is this anything like what you're after?

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Daniv

Re: Monster rqst: Living spells - elementals

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 1:57 pm
by spectre900
Oh, that looks pretty cool actually. And yeah, that's pretty much what I had in mind.

Tho can they be reprogrammed to only fight and cast at melee range? (fireburst spell as an example)

Re: Monster rqst: Living spells - elementals

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 2:14 pm
by Sutekh
I'm not sure about the Fire Burst attack, but I imagine it can be done. Here's the files as they are now, if you or anyone else wants to play around with them and see what's possible.

http://www.flameon-guild.com/daniv/sutekh_spirits.zip

Re: Monster rqst: Living spells - elementals

Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 7:17 pm
by Eleven Warrior
Hi all.

Sutekh ahhhhhh yesssss I was after these Monsters thxs for the unintentional help there man..:) I hope you don't mind me using these babies they will be the Main feature of my Crystals - BOSSES :)

Thxs again :)