Mk, so I've been hinting about this project awhile, it's about time I made a thread here. I'm still not as far along as AA, but I've finished the script for the first level (script meaning all the lines, not game code... already confused someone with that today >.<) and I should start both the remaining skins AND the actual coding sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, here are the backdrops I put together for the mod (In both widescreen and fullscreen flavors... not sure if I can implement it, but I'd like to have a widescreen option for those of us who use laptops and such)
Fullscreen:
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(http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9426/fullscreenn.png)
Widescreen:
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(http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/2865/widescreen.png)
You'll notice that there are 30 FR avatars across the bottom. These are most of the avatars I currently have on my comp (don't feel bad if yours isn't there... I left out a few avatars I have just because I missed them going down my ctool list). I might offer something to whomever manages to guess them all... but keep in mind, some were collabs that have not been released, and I believe one hasn't even been previewed by the skinner yet.
They're all in order though, so that at least should make things simpler.
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Just a list of avatars that have been correctly guessed, since I don't feel like doing any real modding right now.
01. Afghan Ant - spydermann93
02. Alaric - Himself
03. Benton Grey - Himself
04. Carrivagio - Alaric
05. Courtnall6 - Alaric
06. Damnage - spydermann93
07. Detourne Me - Reepicheep
08. Dognoodle - Podmark
09. Figure Fan - spydermann93
10. Flesheater - Podmark
11. Glitch Girl - Alaric
12. God Girl - Alaric
13. Hellscorp - Reepicheep
14. Ink - Podmark
15. Intensity - Alaric
16. Lionheart - Reepicheep
17. Lunarman - Reepicheep
18. MikeB7 - Podmark
19. Murs - Reepicheep
20. Phantom Eyebrow - Alaric
21. Podmark - Himself
22. Premonitioner - Reepicheep
23. Pwime - Podmark
24. Raijin - Alaric
25. Reepicheep - Himself
26. Revenant - Alaric
27. Syn - Alaric
28. Unko - Podmark
29. Vamp - Alaric
30. Yellow Lantern - Alaric
Hey, neat! I look forward to hearing more about this 'Mato...and I think I see Benton Grey in the shadows there! :D
Looks very cool Tomato!
Ah - right there between your legs. Took me a while to spot.
I can only name 10 of that group, plus a handful of maybes.
Looks like its gonna be fun! Might make the effort to put FF on my laptop for this.
Quote from: Reepicheep on October 22, 2010, 01:41:46 PM
Ah - right there between your legs. Took me a while to spot.
That's what she said.
Quote from: Previsionary on October 22, 2010, 01:55:50 PM
That's what she said.
Quote from: Reepicheep on October 22, 2010, 01:41:46 PM
Looks like its gonna be fun! Might make the effort to put FF on my laptop for this.
No,
that's what she said.
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Phantom Bunburyist and Whirled Braker
Like I've already told you I can't wait. :D
Since I can't be at home actually working on it (stuck at some boring work indoor picnic thing.) Here's a summary of how things are going to work.
Rather then just doing one humongazoid mod with all the levels I'm going to make, I'm splitting the story into more manageable "chapters." Each chapter will have a certain number of levels, or "episodes," and will encompas a single story arc. They will be released by episode, then when each chapter is finished I'll be starting a new mod.
The first chapter will be five episodes long, and serves to introduce the characters and the world. The first episode has none of the members of Influx at all, but features Electric Freedom facing off against Randy Ripoff and his Sharkmen.
Cool, it's gonna' an old fashioned forum mod. :thumbup:
Sounds cool. I believe I see a little Pod in there.
Wow! Looking forward to this!
I believe I see my vowelish alter ego in there.
I can't name them all offhand, but I can recognize enough to know exactly what kind of order they're in...
Just edited the initial post with the correct guesses so far... if I do decide to do something for the correct guesses, it'll be whoever gets the most for now.
(and don't feel bad if no one guesses all of them... just to goof off I went through all of them, and even having done it yesterday I still had to look one of them up.)
I see Afghan Ant in there :P
Oh, and I think I see Bildamn and Figure Fan (I apologize if I misspell a name).
In addition to those already mentioned, I see Glitch Girl and I think Yellow Lantern (that's him at the end, right?)...
Of course, knowing what the order is helps- should be getting more obvious as this goes on.
Huh. Should have spotted that earlier.
That means I'm right in saying I see Detourne_me. Theres a caped fella who is in around the right place to be Hellscorp, and maybe Murs further along there. I'm gonna throw Prem out there as well, as the guy three to the left of my own av.
Flesheater (UE) is between Figure Fan and Glitch Girl. Ink is to the right of Hellscorp.
I'm embarrassed that I didn't get detourne_me or Hellscorp...
Okay, just to the (our) right of Benton would be Carrivagio. To the right of Glitch Girl we have God Girl, and to the right of Reep is Revenant, then Syn.
(I was going to do this post as an edit to my previous post, but it occurred to me that in a contest, even an informal one, editing previous posts for whatever reason seemed kind of unethical)
I believe beside Pre would be Pwime Omega.
I think number 5 might be Courtnall6... and between Murs and Podmark that could be the Phantom Eyebrow...
I'm guessing that 16 is Lord Jay (Lord Jay), and 18 could be Mike B7.
Quote from: Podmark on October 24, 2010, 12:23:48 AM
I'm guessing that 16 is Lord Jay
Sorry... but no. It's unfortunate his av has a cap, if you could see the full pose that one would be easier.
Suprised Mike took so long... I know you can't see his nipple-hoses, but the pose is fairly unique to his keyframe set.
Quote from: Tomato on October 24, 2010, 01:25:40 AM
Quote from: Podmark on October 24, 2010, 12:23:48 AM
I'm guessing that 16 is Lord Jay
Sorry... but no. It's unfortunate his av has a cap, if you could see the full pose that one would be easier.
Hmm then I'll go with Matrix.
29 is Vamp.
It's driving me crazy that I can't figure out who 8 is- that's such an unusual silhouette...
This is fun. 8 is Dognoodle and 28 is Unko.
17 is bugging me. I think it could be MJB.
Quote from: Podmark on October 24, 2010, 02:47:45 AM
This is fun. 8 is Dognoodle and 28 is Unko.
17 is bugging me. I think it could be MJB.
Dognoodle! Of course!
I've been thinking that about 17, too, but that would be slightly out of order, wouldn't it?
Quote from: Alaric on October 24, 2010, 03:21:34 AM
Quote from: Podmark on October 24, 2010, 02:47:45 AM
This is fun. 8 is Dognoodle and 28 is Unko.
17 is bugging me. I think it could be MJB.
Dognoodle! Of course!
I've been thinking that about 17, too, but that would be slightly out of order, wouldn't it?
Wasn't MJB's av called Meejeb? If so then it would fit.
17 is not MJB, nor is 16 Matrix. Mike is top of the M's here, literally.
Edit: Oh, coincidentally... you might want to consider why I would have 1,7,9,15,17,20,24,28, and 29 already on my comp... as well as 6,7, and 16.
Any chance that no. 16 is Lionheart, followed by Lunarman? (I don't see a sword, though. The only other name I can think of is Lugaru, but I admittedly have no idea what his avatar looks like)
Edit: A small footnote: In alphabetical order, shouldn't Alaric's avatar (The Verdant Vowel) come later on along the lineup? I'm eyeing a few spots where you're using the member names instead of the avatar names and visa versa, myself included.
This seems cool. I can't really get excited for it since I know my avatar isn't in there, but it seems cool for the people who's avatar is. Good luck with it.
I think Reep's right about Lunarman. I also think that 15 is Intensity, and 24 is Raijin.
Quote from: laughing paradox on October 24, 2010, 01:00:42 PM
This seems cool. I can't really get excited for it since I know my avatar isn't in there, but it seems cool for the people who's avatar is. Good luck with it.
eh that's not true, exactly. The avatars I put in the title screen were more or less what I had on my comp, not a preview of who is showing up... heck, Volt and Randy aren't even there. So just because you aren't there doesn't mean you won't be in the story.
See, this isn't a forum mod, at least not traditionally. This is about my characters, but it's set in my interpretation of the "Freedom Reborn" universe. For example, the second level features the Gamma Patrol... except in my world, it's made up of guys like Afghan Ant, Ink, etc. as opposed to Hans, Zeigel, and that whole crew.
The reason the first level has so many avatars is because it's meant to introduce the world. Beyond that, it's mainly just cameo appearances.
I can't wait for the first release. It sounds amazing!
I'm going to guess that 15 is Lightshear.
Sorry, you guys had actually gotten it before my last post, I just didn't see page 2 :wacko:
Quote from: Tomato on October 24, 2010, 03:55:58 PM
Quote from: laughing paradox on October 24, 2010, 01:00:42 PM
This seems cool. I can't really get excited for it since I know my avatar isn't in there, but it seems cool for the people who's avatar is. Good luck with it.
eh that's not true, exactly. The avatars I put in the title screen were more or less what I had on my comp, not a preview of who is showing up... heck, Volt and Randy aren't even there. So just because you aren't there doesn't mean you won't be in the story.
See, this isn't a forum mod, at least not traditionally. This is about my characters, but it's set in my interpretation of the "Freedom Reborn" universe. For example, the second level features the Gamma Patrol... except in my world, it's made up of guys like Afghan Ant, Ink, etc. as opposed to Hans, Zeigel, and that whole crew.
The reason the first level has so many avatars is because it's meant to introduce the world. Beyond that, it's mainly just cameo appearances.
So more or less with Electric Freedom appearing, I guess that measn I'llb e making an appearance, eh? What other teams you planning on showing off besides EF and GP?
Man, this is totally cool. Man, there are cool mods coming out.
Man... I should start playing Freedom Force again.
Meh... much as I would wish it DJ, you probably won't make an appearance... FF limits the number of playables, so I had to limit the ef members I used. Gamma Patrol doesn't really even get shown... it's heavily alluded to, but the only one to appear is AA.
If I could, I'd throw in cameos for everyone. It's just a matter of doing it tastefully, and not interferring with the story.
Edit: Since I'm at a bit of a standstill (unfortunately I need 5 new skins for episode 1... to put that in perspective, I have 4 skins to do for the rest of the chapter... I've got AA helping out, but it's still a hassle.) I'm going to go Ahead and post the episode titles:
Episode 1
Rebirth of Freedom!
The Beginning of a New Era.
Episode 2
Have You Got What It Takes?
Enter the Gamma Patrol!
Episode 3
Everything's a Mystery.
Meet the Queen of Cats!
Episode 4
Interesting Situation!
The Plight of Two Brothers
Episode 5
Devastation!
The New Threat
My only quirk (which I'm sure you've already justified) is if Afghan Ant is the only appearing member of a european-themed group, isn't he a bit misplaced? I'm sure I remember reading he's from somewhere in Australia. But as I said, I have no idea what the script you've cooked up reads like.
If its skins that you're struggling with and not models, can you not piece together the mod with temporary skins and evade the standstill?
Sitting here very excited about all this. I've not been this giddy since NSNC's Forum Battle Royal.
Quote from: Reepicheep on October 26, 2010, 04:47:41 PM
My only quirk (which I'm sure you've already justified) is if Afghan Ant is the only appearing member of a european-themed group, isn't he a bit misplaced? I'm sure I remember reading he's from somewhere in Australia. But as I said, I have no idea what the script you've cooked up reads like.
If its skins that you're struggling with and not models, can you not piece together the mod with temporary skins and evade the standstill?
Sitting here very excited about all this. I've not been this giddy since NSNC's Forum Battle Royal.
I don't want to go too in-depth to it, but it had to specifically be AA for a number of reasons. And as I said before, this is my rendition of the Gamma Patrol too... in the Influx world, it acts as sort of the Justice League or Avengers for the universe.
As far as the standstill, that's what I'm more or less doing for now while I work on herofiles (I'm doing one skin first, but that's because I didn't feel like doing a placeholder and then reskinning it), but I still have to get them done before the episode can be released anyway.
It just really kills me because I did a rundown of what all I'd need for the rest of the chapter... I need 2 characters in civies, and 2 skins for the final villain character, and that's it. And right now I am rocking the one of the hardest burnouts ever, so right now skin progress has me sitting down, doing 5 minutes of work, and then getting frustrated and giving it up for the day.
Umm..this sounds incredible, and I'm in it?! Amazing.
Not exactly... the main image is just a compilation of avatars I had on hand... it was mainly stressing that this takes place in the "Freedom Reborn" Universe, and as such, there are likely to be hidden (and not so hidden) cameos from lots of FR members.
Because the team doesn't even form until the last episode, I'm choosing not to involve any other FR cameos beyond the plot-centric ones in episodes 1 and 2. That will change in later chapters... If I can shoehorn a cameo into the game, I will. That said, I do have plans for certain avs to have a larger role in the story, not just a cameo.
Sadly, however, Murs will probably never see the light of day... trying to keep this mod at at least a T rating.
Quote from: Tomato on October 30, 2010, 12:05:28 AMSadly, however, Murs will probably never see the light of day... trying to keep this mod at at least a T rating.
I've been absolutely terrified until you clarified that.
Ha!
Might finally have some skinning mojo back!
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/2806/volt.jpg)
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Looks like another great skin in the making Tomato. Whose avatar is that? Or is it one of your original characters?
Quote from: Tomato on October 26, 2010, 03:43:59 PM
Episode 1
Rebirth of Freedom!
The Beginning of a New Era.
Episode 2
Have You Got What It Takes?
Enter the Gamma Patrol!
Episode 3
Everything's a Mystery.
Meet the Queen of Cats!
Episode 4
Interesting Situation!
The Plight of Two Brothers
Episode 5
Devastation!
The New Threat
Those are some very good and interesting titles for your mod. :cool:
This looks awesome, Tom! Can't wait to play it!
Great skin Tomato!
Skin looks great!
Really looking forward to this.
So, some of you probably saw my explosion over in the meshing thread already... I kinda overreacted (especially on poor herodad :( ) but I've gotten some PMs and such that were both selfish and disrespectful with regards to getting avatars in the mod. At least for now, I don't want to see anyone pushing their own avatar... the ones I'm using for the first chapter are set, and I'll hold off on making any concrete decisions about cameos in later chapters until I get a few levels under my belt.
That said... my main irritation is just with people pushing their own stuff down my throat, not with the community as a whole. The main reason I want to include cameos and such is because I love the community. If anyone has any ideas for levels and things that would involve non-self avatars, I'd love to hear them (keep in mind though, it's still part of the Influx mod... ). Even if I don't use the idea itself, proving you can use knowledge about someone else's characters to make something interesting says a lot.
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Dude,I just read that you needed villains and was trying to be helpful and offered an option,if ya don't want to use my av,no prob.Also,I used PM because I didn't want to clutter your thread with a minor suggestion,not to hide from anyone.
Guys... I'm not blaming anyone, except maybe myself. I've been getting PMs like this since I started announcing the mod, and instead of saying something earlier I let it all build up until I ended up blowing my lid over it. The whole situation should have been dealt with better, and I sincerely apologize for that.
That said... right now I have yet to write a single line of code. I've got at least 2 more skins to do for the first level, I've got to go in and tweak the heck out of my hero files so things are properly balanced when it comes time to actually play, and I need to finish actual scripts for episodes 2-5 (not to mention getting some VPs together). It is WAY too dang early to be plotting out cameos, and constantly getting PMs about it is incredibly distracting.
Its cool dude,I'm sorry if I came off as rude or anything,I just get really touchy when I get described as a "bully".(had to deal with that myself for way too many years :angry:)
I really do like your mod idea and yer av is very cool,so if ya need any help just holla.Good luck with the mod and I hope there isn't no hard feelings ;)
I recently got access to a good sound recording device, so if you want a voice or two, just send a shout my way.