Lord Vile done!

bartwart · Post by **bartwart** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:12 am

Please tell me what you think needs improving.

lordvilebeta2

Giest118 · Post by **Giest118** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:20 am

That's a cool monster... The only thing which I would do is give the homing projectiles some explode sprites.

BetaSword · Post by **BetaSword** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:05 am

Pretty cool. Besides the exploding sprites suggested by Geist, I also think the flying should perhaps be worked on a bit... It doesn't exactly seem like he's flying... If somehow you could have the sprites change to be more... Flying like... Even having energy around it like it's hovering or something. But it is quite spiffy.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:29 am

Hmm, he's a bit of a pain in the ass with all those archviles

killingblair · Post by **killingblair** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:34 am

agreed, the arch-viles own us all. Cool sprites though. 4/5 *

bartwart · Post by **bartwart** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:58 pm

better flying....check. He'll has some flames that spawn around him. At this point I don't want to make more sprites, but I think the flames will look cool and give the desired effect.

less archviles....right now it they spawn 33% of the time he goes to attack. I could reduce that to 20% to 25%

death frames for the homing missile....done.

bartwart · Post by **bartwart** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 2:15 pm

Does anyone notice that the "death" sounds sometimes stutter? I do. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

bartwart · Post by **bartwart** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:22 pm

lordvile done!

I took the suggestions and made him better. Less archviles, better flying, death frames for the homing face, plus the flame attack is much improved!

lordvile

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 1:32 pm

I think he needs to use his flame attack more and less homing orbs. Other than that good job

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 2:56 pm

The monster itself looks cool but I am very sad concerning the death and attack frames

They could have been much better!

Post by **Kirby** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:44 pm

How do you think torm?

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:46 pm

Well, real bloody death sequence for death like the arch-vile one and for attack... well, there is something wrong with the brightness and colors... can't actually say what, just watch it

Post by **TheDarkArchon** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 3:51 pm

You could have two sequences, Bartwart.

bartwart · Post by **bartwart** » Wed Dec 29, 2004 5:28 pm

Tormentor667 wrote:Well, real bloody death sequence for death like the arch-vile one and for attack... well, there is something wrong with the brightness and colors... can't actually say what, just watch it

The Hexen palette has a lot more purples than doom, so when I converted palettes the closest match for some of the purples were blues.

Hexen monster sprites don't have the fire-reflecting-off-the-skin look like the Doom monsters have, so I had to improvise. The brightness was done by The Gimp. It has a feature which lets you place a light source of any color within the image. I purposely made it that bright to create the sense of him conjuring a really bright missile attack. And besides, he's doing magic; it's supposed to be all funky and colorful.

As far as his death goes, it was never my intention to have a bloody death. Doom can have at least one monster that doesn't really "die." Even if I wanted to make a bloody sequence, the Heresiarch's death sequence doesn't even come close to a "bloody" death, he just sort of disintegrates.