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clearing on 14/10/2011 at 18:02

Don't know who the author is, just found old screen

Inline Image:

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/2913/templewaterglass.jpg

Springheel on 14/10/2011 at 21:33

Wow, that's really, REALLY old....probably the first year of development. Check out the old mock-up health bar in the bottom corner.

SiyahParsomen on 15/10/2011 at 22:16

I tought it was from TII or something. :cheeky:

Yandros on 16/10/2011 at 01:33

If not for the water, I could believe that.

Springheel on 16/10/2011 at 12:28

Btw, for those that aren't aware, we have a new facebook page for TDM. We're posting frequent updates there, including a recent video about updates to combat for 1.07.

(https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dark-Mod/188641261206944) Facebook Page

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIo_Xv_At0A) Combat video

Boxsmith on 16/10/2011 at 19:45

That looks pretty cool, but I feel as though they don't move around enough. They just kind of stand in one place and swing their arms around. The fact that their upper body doesn't seem to influence the lower at all looks weird.

My suggestion is: have them walk around a bit more as they fight -- this could result in cool stuff like a guy getting backed into a corner, for instance. Maybe some attacks could make the AI's opponent stumble backward. I also recall hammerites sometimes hopping briefly when carrying out an overhead swing in Thief. A few more dramatic moves like that could really improve fights, I think.

Springheel on 16/10/2011 at 20:21

Their legs are controlled by the combat code, so AI can turn or move forward to track the player independent of the animation that is playing. When it's AI on AI fighting, however, they just move within range and then stay there. Adding some side-stepping or something might be a nice addition for the future though.

Beleg Cúthalion on 17/10/2011 at 09:16

I think their animations can be made faster, right? This would be the easiest way I guess to avoid making it look like bad old Conan. I don't expect you to add a (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnC7ypBlPN4) Schü(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPmOZlSCtE4) tzen animation, but a bit more dynamic would be nice if you guys fing the time at some point. Oh, and of course I know Thief isn't about fencing.

clearing on 17/10/2011 at 14:35

New website :) (http://www.thedarkmod.com/main) :thumb:

edit: forum don't work (http://www.modetwo.net/darkmod)

SiyahParsomen on 17/10/2011 at 16:15

great! I was worrying since forum doesn't work, but this is very nice surprise!