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Game Notes:
Note: I will move this off to a separate page ASAP but for
now I will be including all the interesting information I can cull from
the forum and direct responses from the ToD Dev team.
LeJohn:
Will a map generator/tools be included with TOD?
Koji: Those will
be in the Expansion.
LeJohn: Will the Avatars be able to be imported from standard 3d
packages
(Truespace, 3DS, Poser)?
Koji: No. The characters are sprites, not like 3D shooters, so it's a lot
more insane to incorporate customized characters.
LeJohn: Sprites are a catch all phrase for an animated sequence. For
instance I
could create a 3d model and keframe a walk sequence. I then render that to
LeJohnwalk.gif (this is a sprite)
So let me redirect the question, will there be a conversion tool so that
sprites can be created from animated gifs, flys(3ds) flms(Truespace) Movs
or
assembled jpgs. I did a TC using the DukeNukem3D engine where my coworkers
and I captured our movements and replaced all the sprites in the games
with
our own images. Let me tell you there is nothing more satisfying than
fragging your boss with a pipe bomb. :)
Koji: No.
LeJohn: Will scripting be allowed (server side) so that things such as
skill
points can affect throwing, moving, jumping, running, aim, etc...
Koji: No. Points will be used for stats and spell lvls only.
LeJohn: Will a voting system (server regulated) be installed so that
cheaters,
hackers, lamers TK/Pkers can be majority kicked?
Koji: TK is impossible, Pking is actually part of the game (wacking other
clans). Some system admin functions will exist, but no voting.
LeJohn: So there is no friendly fire damage?
Koji: No, we took the easy way out. Besides, there's going to be enough
bad
news in the game to make life hard enough as is.
LeJohn: Will a follow into game from chat screen be included?
Koji: I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but (if it's what we think
you're referring to) this has been turned off due to problems we foresaw
in
game mechanics.
LeJohn: As in example, in tribes to you can meet in the chat area(s)and
when anyone
jumps into a game a notice "player has entered gamename". this
is actually a
link that allows you to follow someone into the game. We use this very heavily
by meeting in our clan chat room. Then when we have enough ppl to do a
server raid one of us jumps into a game, the responding link allows the
rest of us to follow by simply clicking on the link. This is one of the
best features of Tribes.
Koji: Ah. I think there were problems with that, so it will be turned off.
LeJohn: One last Question, can I post my questions and your responses on
my site?
>>No problem. Just make sure "throne of darkness" is
"tm"ed, and is cited
as a game by Sierra. yadda yadda. All that good stuff. Check out
www.throneofdarkness.com for their "use our stuff" protocols.
Sincerely,
Koji Goto
Content Designer
Click Entertainment
tel: (415) 643-8650
fax: (415) 970-9541]
I'll
add more info as I get it. Right now it looks like Fortune city's server
took a dump and lost my site. Since this is only the 3rd time in 4 years I
have had the site on their server I will simply mirror this on my other
account.
Thank
god for back ups. =)
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