Tithian on 17/5/2006 at 17:46
Has anyone ever thought about using DromEd or T3Ed to make comics?
I tried it out a little today and what I did was to open up one of the OM's, made the AI friendly, put them at desired location, took a screenie, edited the picture to add speechbubbles and that's it.
The editors has it's limits though but you can still do a lot to make the AI look more alive. e.g. make them sit, sleep, drunk, move around, fight, dance, hold things and so on...
Whatcha think?
TF on 17/5/2006 at 18:14
Yeah, Thief has been avoiding having the equivalent of shitty sprite comics for far too long.
I think we shouldn't do something that cheap with Thief, basically.
june gloom on 17/5/2006 at 18:28
i agree. hand-drawn would be much better.
for a while last year i used gmod to make a HL2 comic, but i ran it through a lot of photoshop filters to make it look more max payne-ish (as well as blueish greyscale... there was some artistic reason for that. also had another idea to make another comic centered around ravenholm, done in black and white for the night of the living dead effect.)
Thief13x on 18/5/2006 at 03:00
A freind over on the ThieveryUT forums make Thievery comics for the longest times, pretty damn funny too! they were all drawn and stuff though.
jtr7 on 18/5/2006 at 03:04
Of course, if the comic is well-written above all else, using an editor to stage the visuals is perfectly acceptable, especially if the screenshots are lit correctly. T3Ed would give you a range of facial expressions and lip-synching to match to the text. If you could innovate a way to paste effective expressions onto the AI in DromEd it could work. This way, you can make up for that which the hand-drawn comics has in its favor: emotion.
Many very funny macros have been made with in-game shots and pasted on speech bubbles.
For a challenge, and practice, too, take a comic (with adaptable text) that already exists and try to match the panels. See what it might take to adapt the humor of the Thiefy panels at
ctrlaltdel-online, fer instance, to a different style.
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http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20040621.jpg)
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http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20040616.jpg)
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http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comics/20040220.jpg)
I'm kidding, but there may be a bit of constructive advice here.
Just make the writing good and the accompanying image won't be so much of an issue. Have fun, anyway, regardless of others' opinions. You don't always have to share, but I know the attraction.
I do like the concept. I'm planning on using an editor to stage scenes for my fanfiction.
Spiders on 19/5/2006 at 15:58
There was a TDP "comic" a long time back. It wasn't really in comic format, per se, but it did use screenshots from the game. It was set in the Haunted Cathedral and the Bonehoard as I recall, and one version featured the adventures of a haunt. The only shot I remember clearly from the comic was one featuring Constantine's portal appearing in the opening chamber of the Bonehoard.
Does anybody else remember anything like this?
