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Offline XCOMFan419

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #345 on: August 28, 2014, 04:53:49 am »
Yeah. I had a Tank/Plasma Cannon from my own Tanks, Drones, Sectopods? Oh my! engage an MiB tank. Needless to say, we all know who won that engagement.

But it was pretty cool if I may say so. Kinda makes me wish for recording equipment. It was an epic battle.

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #346 on: August 31, 2014, 11:17:57 pm »
Robin, can you please tell me how you ripped these graphics from the Apocalypse tilesets? I've tried several tools and all of them failed.
Or better yet, is there a repository of unpacked files?

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« Reply #347 on: August 31, 2014, 11:20:51 pm »
I haven't ripped them, I re-drew them from scratch looking at the screenshots.

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #348 on: August 31, 2014, 11:28:04 pm »
I re-drew them from scratch looking at the screenshots.

Mother of God. I am in sheer awe.

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #349 on: August 31, 2014, 11:32:11 pm »
I haven't ripped them, I re-drew them from scratch looking at the screenshots.

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #350 on: August 31, 2014, 11:48:39 pm »
OK, same here. Hands down.

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #351 on: September 01, 2014, 01:13:27 am »
Wow.

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« Reply #352 on: September 03, 2014, 12:17:47 am »
some more

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #353 on: September 03, 2014, 02:39:51 am »
when is leo mobil suit armor :P and gundom wepons beem swords ect

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #354 on: September 03, 2014, 06:17:36 pm »
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They seem pretty accurate representations of the Temple of Sirius maps. However, one thing I've started noticing is that the individual tiles look too blocky/geometrical.

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #355 on: September 04, 2014, 12:19:13 pm »
They seem pretty accurate representations of the Temple of Sirius maps. However, one thing I've started noticing is that the individual tiles look too blocky/geometrical.
Yeah I'm making some modifications that hopefully will reduce this effect.
Having to draw things using so few pixel makes several things easier, but you can also end up with indecipherable clusters of pixels :-X

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Re: Men in Black | Cover Alien | Gazer Alien | WIP new thing
« Reply #356 on: September 05, 2014, 12:32:20 pm »
Robin, I try to modify your holodrone unit for making it able to respawn (the first shot laser, and the respawned shot explosive) but I don't known how to add picture. While you have already made it for spitter, surely you know what I must to add to the sprite sheet work make this work ?

My ruleset work with the zombie sprites, but crash with the holodrone's.

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« Reply #357 on: September 05, 2014, 12:38:24 pm »
You have to make second holodrone unit with the abilities you want, then you give the first unit the respawn ability, linking it to that second unit you added.
Look at how the zombie unit respawns into a chryssalid, in the default 'Xcom1Ruleset.rul'.

Ops, didn't read last sentence. Mmmh maybe the problem is a wrong drawingRoutine?
« Last Edit: September 05, 2014, 12:42:43 pm by robin »

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« Reply #358 on: September 05, 2014, 01:56:20 pm »
Really like all your new sprites!  They're really professionally done

Microprose should have employed you back in the 90s :)

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« Reply #359 on: September 05, 2014, 03:14:53 pm »
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Ops, didn't read last sentence. Mmmh maybe the problem is a wrong drawingRoutine?

It's clearly a graphical problem, but I don't know how it's work.

for now I have this :
Code: [Select]
- type: HOLODRONE_ARMOR
    spriteSheet: HOLODRONE.PCK
    corpseBattle:
      - STR_HOLODRONE_CORPSE
    frontArmor: 70
    sideArmor: 70
    rearArmor: 70
    underArmor: 70
    drawingRoutine: 8
    movementType: 1
    damageModifier:
      - 1.0
      - 1.0
      - 0.0
      - 1.0
      - 1.0
      - 1.0
      - 0.0
      - 1.0
      - 2.2
      - 0.0
    loftempsSet: [ 4 ]

And the game crash when the holodrone2 respawn (the holodrone2 have the same armor, maybe it's the problem ? )