WH Discussion Thread

[Quinzy]

@stormrage: that beast has 3 attacks. 2 sword attacks, and a "cast" attack (for c&p'ing in a spell).
@lizardmenrule!@: its great to see the skaven becoming a real civ. i cant wait.

 

[Stormrage]

Yay! 3 attacks is awesome!
Quinzy, are you a FilePlanet subscriber, or you found that material somewhere else?

LR, check out these, some sweet Skaven material!

http://infinitum.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/anims-craniumrat.php
http://infinitum.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/anims-mantuok.php
http://infinitum.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/anims-wererat.php
http://infinitum.planetdiablo.gamespy.com/anims-wererat2.php

That place is like a holy grail to fantasy mods! Thank you Darque!

 

[Quinzy]

well, i dont know what i did. i signed up, so im a member, but not a subscriber, so i dont gotta pay. i'll take a look at those skaven.

ok, just looked at them rat-men. they look cool, so i'll try my best to do them. thanks Stormrage.

 

[Stormrage]

I`m a member too, for a long time now, but some of the files seem restricted to subscribers... I can`t remember which one I tried to DL...

Those pics represent these: the Rat Swarms (m-unit), the Throt the Unclean, and those two are Clanrat Slaves, or just some C`n`P material.

 

[Quinzy]

ok, cool. well, i apparently can d/l them. i'll try more and see.

 

[Stormrage]

LR... I downloade the flicster, its cute (now i don`t have to open the game to see what a unit looks like, if the creator hasn`t posted a preview)! But I have no idea what to do with it! And that Gimp is confusing me big time!

Paint shop pro costs 100 $? %$&"%/&"%/!!!

Help!

 

[Quinzy]

follow the readme that came with it. it explanes all.

 

[Stormrage]

I followed the readme... edited the cossack like it told me to... and when I double clicked on him in the preview (pop-up) it all got messed up, and all i did was add a little black dot on his arm.. I`m using GIMP, does that have anything to do with it?

I wanna go over to the Dark side with the rest of you guys

Edit: I tried with the little 5 by 5 X in the upper left corner of the frame, exactly like the tutorial says (so its not the little black dot˙s fault), and it happened again...

 

[Quinzy]

ooo. well, i use Adobe Photoshop, and it works like a charm.

 

[Stormrage]

Dude... it costs 650 $!!!!!!!!!

:suicide:

 

[Quinzy]

really? i didnt know that, cos one day i went on the pc, and dad had installed... dunno where he got it. prolly from work...

 

[Stormrage]

My dad thinks PC is an evil magic box from Hell on Mars, nothing like a TV set, so waiting for him to install it is not an option

I`ll ask around, maybe some of my friends has it, or more likely the Paintshop Pro (cheaper).

 

[Quinzy]

that might be the best thing to do

 

[Stormrage]

I`m downloading the Paint shop Pro Trial version, I`ll try to work with that...
New units, here I come! Weeee!

Edit: It worked! The flashing X thingy worked! Woohoo! Cooookiiieees!

Now I tried to put horns on the uruk-hai... I drew them myself, I didn`t paste them, it looks horrible, they are animated like they are jiggling
It really, really sucks.. you might notice me smiling, that`s cos I`m happy it worked, although it was ugly.

 

[LMR]

I've put horns on the Chaos Infantry now, so i just need to try and recolour the skin for the run and default animations. i need to add horns to the attack, and need to completely edit and death, fortifty and fidget animations.

perhaps i will be finished in a week or two.

 

[Stormrage]

Any chance of a preview?

that's just a brief explaination. if you are serious about making units this way, i will explain in depth later.

Please do, I`m thinking of doing the Amazon pike-chick! Removing the horns from R8XFT`s Ieceni Guard shouldn`t be too hard.
It`s a girl! Spank!

 

[LMR]

Here's a preview of the run animation so far.

this is how i make a CnP unit:

1. open an animation in Flicster

2. export it to a folder of my choice

3. click "yes" when asked if you want to open new FXM file.

4. open the .pcx file in Paint Shop Pro

5. make changes to the first few frames and then go back to flicster to check how its looking.

6. if you are already looking at the SE direction animation, you will have to change to another direction then change back to SE to see the editing you have done to the animation.

7. if you make changes to the palette, you will have to close the animation window in flicster then reopen it, otherwise it will look weird and funky.

8. keep checking how the animation is looking so anything you add on doesn't look like it is jumping around (like you said your horns were doing )

9. once you're finished editing all eight directions, export the storyboard as a flic, naming it whatever you want, and into whatever folder you want.

if you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to ask. good luck, Darth Stormrage! hope this helps

 

[Stormrage]

7. if you make changes to the palette, you will have to close the animation window in flicster then reopen it, otherwise it will look weird and funky.

8. keep checking how the animation is looking so anything you add on doesn't look like it is jumping around (like you said your horns were doing )

9. once you're finished editing all eight directions, export the storyboard as a flic, naming it whatever you want, and into whatever folder you want.

The first part I understood, but this helped a lot

Thanks for the preview! The shield is looking awesome! And I love the horns (where did you get them? I don`t recognize them...Minotaur?), but his head is moving kinda funky.. You did something with it? `cept for the horns?

 

[LMR]

i drew the horns myself, and the head does look kinda weird at this slow speed. the actual animation is much faster and the head movement looks a little more natural

glad it helps

 

[Stormrage]

So let me get this straigt... you chopped off his head evil, stuck some horns on it, and pasted it back? Thats how it looks like to me... His head (the orig. unit) usually doesn`t move like that in Flicster.. I just tried to put some horns on the head..