[WIP][MOD][OXCE] From the Apocalypse 0.29.0

[robin]

Robin, I noticed new cool smoke graphics on those screenshots. I`d like to ask if it is already implemented and functional?
Would you consider releasing it as a separate mod (or just sharing assets), pretty please? 

uploaded here:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3350.msg41624.html#msg41624

[Ridаn]

Many thanks.

[Dioxine]

uploaded here:
https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,3350.msg41624.html#msg41624

Prompty stolen.
This smoke is just so much better, it looks soft, has better coverage and more volume while actually not obscuring player's vision that much. No wonder, you're probably the best pixel artist on this forum (even if this smoke is obv. based on Apocalypse)

[niculinux]

It's a total conversion, explicitly based on Apocalypse but not bound by faithfulness, so I can redesign and re-imagine things freely (this is a necessity too, because Apocalypse simply can't be replicated in OpenXcom). When everything will be finished it'll be like TFTD compared to UFO, so a standalone new thing based on the same gameplay foundation.
But it'll take a lot of time to get there.

S U P E R!!! We surely need more TC, sadly only  Dioxine's piratex is avaiable ;(

[robin]

so many new tiles, so little time.

(3-levels base, from top to bottom)

[Yankes]

Quality of your work is mind blowing
It look better than original.

[Gifty]

HOLY MOLEY

[ivandogovich]

Quality of your work is mind blowing
It look better than original.

this. in spades.

[Meridian]

HOLY GRENADE! I can't take it no more... I want to play this sooooo baaaaad.... aaaaaaah!

[jackstraw2323]

Great work, very polished. I like that you've got the scientist civilians present similar to base defense in APOC. Is there a mechanism for that or are you always spawning civs in base defense? I.E. if I have no scientists are they still actually present in base defense?

[robin]

Great work, very polished. I like that you've got the scientist civilians present similar to base defense in APOC. Is there a mechanism for that or are you always spawning civs in base defense? I.E. if I have no scientists are they still actually present in base defense?

Yeah it's just reskinned civilians, so they're present regardless of whether you hired scientists/engineers or not; that's why I'm still not sold about having them appear.
I don't think there are other options (but I'm outdated on the ruleset new shinies, I've been doing nothing but tiles in the last 3 months).

[Hobbes]

Great work robin

What I'm curious though is about the Geoscape/Storyline of this Total Conversion. Lately I've been also getting very interested in developing TCs but this is a sort of project that I'd like to do together with someone else because of the work involved.

[jackstraw2323]

Yeah it's just reskinned civilians, so they're present regardless of whether you hired scientists/engineers or not; that's why I'm still not sold about having them appear.
I don't think there are other options (but I'm outdated on the ruleset new shinies, I've been doing nothing but tiles in the last 3 months).

I don't think anything in mapscript/mission script is yet fleshed out enough, but I'm hopeful that there will be some more options to do some interesting things with those once they are better documented. You can tie a race to a terrain now, so I wonder if there might be a way to hack that together with the civilians? I'd love to be able to do something like APOC defense stations, but there's just no way to do it right now.

[ivandogovich]

I'd love to be able to do something like APOC defense stations, but there's just no way to do it right now.

Zero movement Turret units?   I think Solarious was thinking about them.

[Solarius Scorch]

Zero movement Turret units?   I think Solarious was thinking about them.

I wasn't the first one to think about this, it was probably Dioxine, but the idea is to give the unit 0 energy to disallow movement but allow rotation and firing.