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[idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« on: 22 November 2010, 15:39:56 »
This is just an idea but I think it would be cool if you added some type of bug race to Glest. I think that would just be totally AWESOME! But that's just me. You all may think differently but to me it would be so cool.  :)  ;)
« Last Edit: 23 November 2010, 00:57:14 by John.d.h »

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Re: Bug Race Idea
« Reply #1 on: 22 November 2010, 16:17:13 »
Wrong section, this is the "Off Topic" section, it means that here, you are only allowed anything not related to glest, this should normally go to either a request in the two main engines, the mods or the general disguission section.

GAE request board:
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?board=22.0
MG request board:
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?board=21.0
Mods section:
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?board=4.0
General disguission board:
https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?board=3.0

Please post the topics in their related boards thanks ;)

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Re: Bug Race Idea
« Reply #2 on: 22 November 2010, 19:00:03 »
Oops... I'm sorry. I didn't know. Thanks for telling me.  :)

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Re: Bug Race Idea
« Reply #3 on: 22 November 2010, 23:27:48 »
What do you mean by "bug race"?

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New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #4 on: 22 November 2010, 23:36:04 »
 :) first off, I think the game is very cool. I like both the Tec and the Magic races. However, I believe it is lacking a race. Most strategy games like Star Craft and Sins Of A Solar Empire have at least three races. I am not saying that it is wrong to have just two races but I like to be able to fight off two different races at the same time. Here is my idea: I believe that a third race of giant bugs would give whole game a twist that would make everything that much more awesome and enjoyable than it already is and give everyone a little more of a choice as to who they stand for and who they are more against. If you all are interested, then next week I'll post some art of what I think some of the things should look like for the new race. Thank you and have a nice day!  :D

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Re: New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #5 on: 23 November 2010, 00:00:30 »
Ohhhh, that's what you meant by bug race!  When I saw "race", I automatically thought of a speed competition. :O

Anyway, if you think there are only two factions in Glest, you're missing out!  Have a look here: Factions Download Center, or just look around the Mods board.  Personally, I would recommend the Dwarves and the Woodsmen.

Edit: Moved and merged.
« Last Edit: 23 November 2010, 00:04:01 by John.d.h »

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Re: New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #6 on: 23 November 2010, 00:15:12 »
Woodsmen

they have my vote! if anything, download them and add them to the magitech folder

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Re: New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #7 on: 23 November 2010, 00:52:34 »
[Idea] should be added to the title... thought this was a new faction :/

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #8 on: 23 November 2010, 12:36:53 »
Well still if anyone is interested I'll make some artwork and some stats on what I think the characters ought to look like for the bug race.  :)  ;)

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #9 on: 23 November 2010, 16:21:52 »
I like the idea of a bug race, but as John said everyone (including myself) is busy making their own factions.

If you can provide me with some quality artwork I may spare the time to 3dize it, but only if it is good quality i.e not a crayon scribble on the back of a fag packet  :swordman:
Check out my new Goblin faction - https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=9658.0

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« Reply #10 on: 23 November 2010, 21:29:13 »
I like the idea of a bug race, but as John said everyone (including myself) is busy making their own factions.

If you can provide me with some quality artwork I may spare the time to 3dize it, but only if it is good quality i.e not a crayon scribble on the back of a fag packet  :swordman:
LOL :O :O, I agree though most of us are too tied up with other work

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #11 on: 23 November 2010, 22:49:44 »
Hmm...I guess this new bug faction could be against the older Vbros bug faction...

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #12 on: 24 November 2010, 22:36:17 »
I'll do my best. :)

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #13 on: 25 November 2010, 01:51:35 »
To wciow: Sir I do thank you for the opportunity to do these drawings. I do request one thing. Please give till the first day of feb. I really want to give you well designed pic and I need time to think things through on characters, building and such. Also, it may work out for all of you as well, since everyone is busy. I understand, this is a busy time of the year, and I admit I and going to be busy for a awhile. Please understand that I will get the uploaded soon, I just need a little time. Thank you once again for the opportunity and I wish that everyone on this forum have a Happy Thanksgiving!   :)  ;)  :)
 

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #14 on: 27 November 2010, 11:13:24 »
Oops, missed this reply  :look:

Sir Dog, I don't mind waiting as long as it takes so no pressure :) I have plenty of my own mod work to do in the meantime. As a modeler I love well drawn concept art because it takes the time out of modeling, no need to think what something is going to look like whilst making it. I enjoy designing my own stuff, but when it comes to making a mod quickly its best to have a concept artist/modeler team.
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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #15 on: 27 November 2010, 19:49:43 »
The Ryzom Asset Repository has fully textured human AND bug type models - you'll need to sift thru 2 gigs of textures to find the proper .filetype but.. eh.

Free and open CC-SA-BY license.

FOSS http://media.ryzom.com/

Heh, look here:

http://media.ryzom.com/?query=image&asset=949e0ff492965f86329d737401b00db1

http://media.ryzom.com/?query=image&asset=bc34656be033dea1212b84c485c36c62

http://media.ryzom.com/?query=image&asset=9bf488304f8047508565a1e3efc90147
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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #16 on: 22 January 2011, 23:29:58 »
How do you upload pics? I have the first picture prepared but don't have a clue how to upload it. thanks Sir Dog. :swordman: :archer: :) ;D ;)

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #17 on: 23 January 2011, 02:34:11 »
Edit the MegaGlest wiki: http://docs.megaglest.org/

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #18 on: 23 January 2011, 19:50:45 »
Thanks Omega, well here it is the first picture I have to present to you. I have to backtrack a little bit and tell you all that has occurred since last time I wrote.  ;D First of all, after you told me not to draw stick men and scribbles, I knew what needed to be done. I went to one of my best friends and an awesome artist  :) and asked her if she would help me with this task. She agreed and that was just about the time I went and asked for more time on the glest forum. Then the holidays hit and a lot of things that we (me and my family) didn't expect, happened. We had another preacher speak at our church for several days and on the first night I went afterward and gave Allison (the excellent Artist) some pictures of the game which I had printed and some other pictures of some cool bug type things I found on the internet. (All of which won't ever be recognizable by anyone by the time we get done with them because we intend to rearrange body parts, add some body parts in, switch cloths on some of them, and add our own unique ideas to make them look more like bugs and make them our own.)  ;) So anyway, this was the first picture. Alison drew it, and I think she did an Awesome job. I know he doesn't look really bug like, but that's because we pictured him as sort of the main character of this race of bugs, he's the bug tamer. ;D ;D

Bug Tamer  :D
Changed URL to thumbnail :) - Ultifd

Here I will explain the picture.
He's the Bug Tamer. He summons hoards of bugs, all of which are under his control. Over in the bottom right hand corner you'll see four images. The one that's above the other three is an image of what he is supposed to look like like when he's idling, (just standing there.) Then the second one that nearly directly below the idling pic, in the middle, is a picture of what he is supposed to look like when he's walking around. Then the pictures to the left and to the right of that, you see a number one picture and a number two picture. The number one picture is a picture of what he's supposed to look like when he's just about to summon his hoard of bugs. Then in picture number two he plant's his staff into the ground to summon his hoard of bugs. When he plant's staff into the ground firefly's come out of his staff and fly around his staff. Those pictures are also used for when he calls his army's back to him. In the center of his staff is where the firefly's are when there not being used to summon bugs, it's there home. His hair, you'll see that the top part of his hair is silver, and then that silver fades into the inner part of his hair which is black. All of the colors are written on the picture. I hope this pleases you all. She worked very hard on this picture. I helped his all of the different colors and stuff.

There are more pictures coming, but I wanted to give you all this picture now because I told you all I would get you some pic by Feb, 1. I didn't want anyone to think I had forgotten. But there are definitely more pics being made. Have a nice day. Sir Dog. :) :) :)
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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #19 on: 26 February 2011, 20:37:14 »
So how's the progress so far?  :)

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #20 on: 13 March 2011, 01:39:33 »
I am so sorry I haven't replied in a while. I been very busy. :)
We are currently working on two more photos at the moment. we are pretty much new to this, I do need to ask you a couple of questions. :) How many pictures should we make of each thing? What did you think of the Bug Tamer? Also was there enough information included on the Bug Tamer picture? Please forgive me for giving an update sooner, both me and Alison have very busy since my last update. I hope to get you the two pictures soon, and probably will if nothing goes wrong.  :) Hope to hear from you soon. Sir Dog ;D

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #21 on: 13 March 2011, 02:06:30 »
How many pictures should we make of each thing?
Frankly, if it's not a completed (and preferably textured) model, I wouldn't bother.  Ideas and concepts are a dime a dozen.  If you need help getting started, just ask and we can point you toward some tutorials and/or resources.

If you have some completed models, however many pictures you think is necessarily to get people's interest is fine.  Some thread have one screenshot for the entire mod, whereas others have multiple for a single unit, so it's really up to you.

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #22 on: 13 March 2011, 15:07:20 »
Some tutorials and/or resources could prove very useful thank you.  :)

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Re: [idea] New Race: A third race of Bugs
« Reply #23 on: 14 March 2011, 05:25:11 »
Some tutorials and/or resources could prove very useful thank you.  :)
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