The Mike on 25/2/2004 at 21:21
Great FM man! If the upcoming contest 5 FMs are half as clever as this one was, then next week is going to be sheer bliss for Thief fans. I was going to put this in a spoiler, but others have already talked about it so I'll just say it- the haunt doing the macarena had me rolling! A really entertaining short mission- now I'm all hyped for Komags new contest, as I know I can expect more FMs set up like this.
Sunday can't come soon enough...:cool:
{edit} OH! By the way-
[SPOILER]Most atmospheric graveyard scene ever![/SPOILER]
Yandros on 25/2/2004 at 21:48
The one C5 mission I've betatested is quite remarkable... in fact, utterly amazing. :ebil:
Don't forget that although this Sunday is the deadline, it will be at least a week after that probably before Komag opens the floodgates. He has to preview all of them and make sure they conform to the rules, etc. So don't expect to see the C5 missions before the 8th or 9th, would be my guess.
The Mike on 25/2/2004 at 22:13
Aaawww....way to crush my hopes and dreams Yandros...:nono:
Sluggs on 25/2/2004 at 22:34
Why do the Girls always have to show us Blokes how to do things? :joke:
This FM is utterly amazing! I just finished it without coming here for spoilers. (I didn't want to cheat with this FM) Gives Yandros the Eye's of Doom!
What can i say?
[SPOILER]Well, first thing i noticed were the Dancing Nobles, with thier custom Motions and cutom Skins! WOW! Then you have all the new objects and i just loved those new rail objects in the rooms. The little button was easy to find. I guess i looked in all the right places in this FM![/SPOILER]
[SPOILER]Anyway, as i progress down below, i noticed those Candles and the Spider inside the crack. Those were neat touches. Then i got outside! :eek: Spooky! I loved the new Backgrounds too. That has given me an idea for my FM's. I could build some backdrops in Dromed and take some screenies of them then convert them to use as SkyBox textures![/SPOILER] WOOT! Thanx Raetsel.
This FM is a winner in my book. Congratulations Raetsel. Sit back and be proud of yourself. :thumb
BTW Yandros, you should be ashamed of yourself! :nono:
Yandros on 26/2/2004 at 01:48
:o
john9818a on 26/2/2004 at 04:16
This FM was awesome!! I haven't found the secrets and all of the loot yet but I finished in one piece. It took me a while how to get [SPOILER] the gold cup from the lone survivor. [/SPOILER]
:D
John
raetsel on 26/2/2004 at 04:29
thank you all! :)
and i was so worried it would bomb (all that ai scripting stuff - telling them what to do just doesn't work out a lot of the time - was worried it would be too buggy somehow)
i'm glad i finally finished one and got it out, geesh! ;)
what a day for my internet connection to not work all day, grr!!
sorry if you found the getting out of there difficult - i thought the crumpled note upstairs in the first blue room would give it away :)
and yeah - the stuff the ai were holding - i thought about removing all those links since thief is weird about attachment links, but how can you have a party with people not holding the stuff? ;) when they're dead, i throw them on a table to get their loot if the position they die in has the item in the floor.
and the backgrounds - i -had- to do that (took some screenshots from the escape om, hehe) - because of that tiny area constraint komag had on that last contest - tried to make the area look a lot bigger than it really was :)
and the motions - they are old, in a way - they're all in the regular motion database for thief - just not available to use by normal means :ebil:
edit: oh yeah, one of the secrets may be more difficult:
[SPOILER]because of custom textures not so looking very woodlike in the dark... but you do get rope arrows in a certain room...[/SPOILER]
Moghedian on 26/2/2004 at 05:40
Wow ! That was a lot of fun ! I've got one save at the beginning so I can just wander around and [SPOILER]watch the AI dance[/SPOILER] . Great job, Raetzel :thumb:
Sluggs on 26/2/2004 at 09:25
Did i forget to mention the music? I sure did! I loved it! :cheeky: I'm singing that first song in my head right now!
Those AI's again, ha, they're the best i've seen yet. Must have took ages to make the movements right! :eek: My favourite one's were the one's in the room with the Victrola playing that awesome music. I just loaded it up again just to watch them dance to that fine music! The skins are as good as everything else here too. NEAT!
raetsel on 26/2/2004 at 10:33
i really -used- to like that music too ;)
but was really glad when i put in that you can bash the victrola later (but then i listened to it way too many times) :p
the first time i got an ai to do the macarena, i had a long laughing fit, heheh
(there was another pretty good motion in the database of a kind-of dance too - sorta like break-dancing or something, but sadly it got all messy half way through the motion and the ai kinda crumpled up and weirded out - so i couldn't use it)
i put a loot list and stuff on my website too if anyone has any trouble with loot or secrets (pretty sure i got it all in there)
