[DECORATE] Monster Contest - Winners! (p12)

Post by **Ryan Cordell** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:59 am

Project Dark Fox wrote:The same can be said about Megaman, Sonic, Mario, etc., all of those spriting communities.
However, the one particular one I'm in, they've evolved to heavy edits and/or MS-Paint customs (good customs, though)...

With the admin being a pixel artist who doesn't know jack shit about color conservation?

Project Shadowcat · Post by **Project Shadowcat** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:05 am

He's disappeared off the face of the map. I'm in charge now.

And ugh, yes, his "sprites" are such a bitch to edit from.

neoworm · Post by **neoworm** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:37 am

Nash wrote:Those sprite rip databases are disgusting because of all this bullshit I see on the sprite sheets like "CREDIT ME/US OR PLZDIEKTHX" when all they did was rip from commercial games.

Its just pointless shit, ignore it.
I sometimes use sprite sheets from these sites as a base for my own modifications - because I am too lazy to make my own. (and why, if someone already made it...)

Post by **Ghastly** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:52 pm

Heh, my little brother makes Quake 4 monster remakes out of Sonic the Hedgehog sprite sets he finds. Sometime I'll post the Heavy Hovertank and Iron Maiden so you guys can laugh at them (They're quite good, but they're funny).

Back ontopic, I'm done with the Balor: http://www.badongo.com/file/4496108. It doesn't teleport nearly as far as I would like (usually just a few feet to the side), but one time he teleported across the map in Doom 2 Map13. It can also summon Barons, has a nasty explosive hitscan attack and explodes when it dies (like the D&D Balor).

I'm incredibly proud of its teleportation ability

. I'd like to give credit to the people who made the Heresy Lord, which this is an obvious recolor of, and Eriance for the projectile sprites. The sounds are from Doom 3, and the explosion sprites are from UTNT. While it looks pretty good how it is, I hope someone'll pick this up and put a different head on it to make it look more apart from the Heresy Lord and more like the D&D Balor.

I don't expect either the Bezekira nor the Balor to win, but I just hope they get into the beastiary.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:33 pm

*tests*
Neoworm might be the right one for such an edit

neoworm · Post by **neoworm** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:58 pm

I am sorry but I am quite busy right now...

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:14 pm

Sadly I feel strangely uninspired and am having trouble thinking of anything beyond some slight variation to something from Hideous Destructor. Maybe later...

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:18 am

Just play or think about other 3D shooters and I am sure you will get some ideas. I mean, I got my own ideas for my latest two new monsters (Catharsi, Suicide Bomber) from Serious Sam and I am sure that there are other sources you can get inspired from

neoworm · Post by **neoworm** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:09 pm

I finished Hellrose today, it needs only sounds. Sound info from Blood beta says that dying sound should sound like Cacodemon death.

JL_Harkster · Post by **JL_Harkster** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:32 pm

Here's one I made for my own personal challenge wad a while back. It's an Arachnotron that uses the Railgun Arachnotron sprites, but has custom sounds and a really unique attack. I call it the "SpatterTron".

You cannot escape the SpatterTron!

I submit this one because I don't think any of the monsters already in the Bestiary have an attack anything like this.

(By the way: Isn't it spelled "Bestiary"?)

Penguinator · Post by **Penguinator** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:39 pm

JL_Harkster wrote:(By the way: Isn't it spelled "Bestiary"?)

Beastiary, root word beast.
I may contribute something to this, but I still need to learn Decorate.

JL_Harkster · Post by **JL_Harkster** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 7:44 pm

Penguinator wrote:Beastiary, root word beast.

Yeah, but it's not actually spelled that way (unless it's a stylistic choice of Tormentor's, of course)

No results for "Beastiary"

A "Bestiary" is a collection of information on beasts

Firefox and MSWord's spellcheck features also agree with this.

Penguinator · Post by **Penguinator** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 8:10 pm

Very interesting. Still, everyone but a dictionary that I have noticed has mis-spelled the word with an a in it, which makes sense. Guess you learn something every day.

Post by **Gez** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:03 pm

You could say it's a stylistic choice, Torm named it such because of this site (last updated four years ago).

The root word is actually "bestia" (Latin for beast), which became "beste" in Old French and from there "beast" in English. I'm not sure why an 'a' got added, though it at least prevents confusion with the superlative of good.

A google comparison of "beastiary" and "bestiary" shows that the proper spelling yields nearly three millions results, the first of which being all from serious sources; while the wrong words yield not even two hundred thousand results, which appears to be usually be game-related.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:52 am

Gez wrote:You could say it's a stylistic choice, Torm named it such because of this site (last updated four years ago).

Exactly!