as everyone here knows I'm pretty good at making models I'm also pretty good at converting them to the sword of moonlight format. So since I'm going to be making another attempt at building a complete SoM game, I figured I would offer my services to anybody else it is working on a current title. I would also like to say I was very honored when some of my trees were used in the kings of field. So anyone that need some artwork or a nice model done either low poly or high poly, I'm your guy. Plus working on a good new model always is a good break from the usual grind of creating maps and levels.
For anyone who doesn't, know my skill, I am proficient in auto desk Maya, blender, and 3dxmax.
I build in maya then convert to X in meta, to drop poly or dumb down model or remove non visable sides, then I hand texture them, then convert to SoM. I even got props once from Holy Diver once, anyone who knows him knows, that ain't easy :-) Happy modeling. ML
I don't know if anyone here likes turn based strategy games such as Brigandine, but I'll post anyways. The Playstation game Brigandine Legend of Forsena was developed by Hearty Robin in Japan and translated by Atlus in the US. A few years later, Hearty Robin released a much improved remake called Brigandine Grand Edition. It had a considerable number of improvements like anime cut scenes, voice acting, and multiplayer, but it was never released in the US.
A few different people tried to translate but Brigandine Grand Edition through the years, but they all gave up fairly quickly. Grand Edition has a MASSIVE amount of text, an insanely complicated text drawing system, and a lot of Japanese audio that would need to be subtitled or re-recorded. It's quite an intimidating project. I actually did some work on translating it before King's Field (Jap), but never made it much past deciphering its "proprietary" graphic setup thereby translating some menu labels.
Recently, I was contacted by a fan wondering if any new progress had been made which got me working on it again. So far, I've made some progress: added English text support to all four (ugh) of the text drawing routines Grand Editions uses, added a couple different variable width fonts, made some tools to help with editing text pointers and such, and translated a few items and names.
Ben mentioned in a different thread about maybe getting some sound bites for NPCs from the people here (BTW Ben, I'd be happy to record something for you if you decide to go that way); when/if I get to the point of re-recording the Japanese voice acting for Grand Edition. it would be cool if anyone here wanted to voice a character from the game. The game is set in a medieval/fantasy world heavily influenced by Norse mythology. There are around 40 different Knights , most of whom have a short voiced script at some point, so there's plenty of room for 'character acting'.
Note to self: finish implementing variable width font for lower menu text.
Hello all, Madison here with a question. I am trying to set up a laptop for SoM, and I have Win7 Ultimate x64.... well no luck with running it in x64.... So I setup a virtual machine of Winxp pro (full legal).... the editor works ok I guess.... but I can't test nothing or see anything for that matter....In fact I cant even exit by the escape key * catches breath* So my question is , Can I run SoM in x64 some way or do I have to install x32 version? , and will it work..... I have no way to run XP natively.... machines are too new:) and this running in VMware xp mode SUCKS monkey parts. My Toshiba wont even install XP drivers for this laptop......I have reformatted the poor thing like 6 times now trying to get my beloved SoM running again........ Any ideas? kinda makes restarting a project a tad discouraging ya know. thanks ML
PS earliest my Toshiba can run natively is vista....... xp will install but there are NO drivers for it in xp only vista and up :)
Hello, community. I just got my Ouya today, and am seriously looking forward to what will come. I think it has a bright future. At any rate, one thought that stuck out in my mind was that this would be a great platform for playing SOM-style games. So I will lob this out there: would it be feasible to wrap SOM executables in a format that would work with Ouya (based on Android)?
Forgive my ignorance - I have never looked into cross-platform coding/wrapping/etc, but thought it would be an interesting idea to bring up on the forum.
Something ive just come up with and thought i'd share, is setting one NPC to a specific position for your game (standing or sitting) and using the non-used animations for different reactions. So if you wanted a sitting NPC and have finished their sitting animation numbers (16-22), then you could pose the character in a sitting position for the 'standing' animation numbers (0-6) and have them give different reactions to their generic nod or such.
This idea would work with positive / negative feedback from NPCs if you had such a feature of good and bad counters based on player behaviour.
So I could use the standing function in the parameter editor for the Taltareg NPC in my demo. We'l call him Taltareg1 in the parameter editor, and who will have a mutual pose when you first meet him. But after breaking his barrels change the NPC to the 'sitting' version, Taltareg2 in the parameter editor, who will have a negative set of animations, but stay standing in the animations.
More examples...
After defeating an NPC have them assume a 'wounded' pose elsewhere.
NPCs working / resting.
NPCs awake / asleep.
You could do this with first time greetings from NPCs too. SOMs got immersive perks, like this, that you wont find in other game making tools.
Somehow a new batch of malicious files crept its way back onto one of the domains of this account. Anyhow, the files are gone, and I have yet again updated security against hackers for all things sword of moonlight so we should hopefully stay safe from this in the future. Just fyi, the domain that got this site taken down is not at all related to som.com so the attacks are not targetting this site or its community directly...I will see about moving that domain to another account if the trouble persists.
This program is a front end for Sword of Moonlight's command line converter programs, and it also includes a PRT file maker with the same features as the "Map Piece Editor", but with a more convenient (hopefully) layout.
Some of the converter programs (x2mdo etc) require d3drm.dll to function. Since Microsoft removed it from Win7 onward, you'll need copy if you don't already have one.
If you find any bugs, have an idea for an improvement feel free to post.
I expect Verdite is the only one using the Fromsoft command-line tools right now, but I'll still ask everyone:
Would a "front end" tool for x2msm/x2mdo be of helpful?
If anyone doesn't know, a front-end is a tool that lets you run a command line program by pushing buttons etc rather than typing commands into "the black window of confusion".
And if a front end would be helpful, would a "drag and drop" converter or a multiple-file-select window format be more useful. I ask because I'm setting up something similar to a front-end for part of a Map project and it wouldn't be far out of the way to throw one together for MSM/MDO if it would be useful.
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