[2.08] New Monster Characters

[Dragofer]

TDM 2.08 comes with a wealth of new monster characters that’ll be sure to enrich future missions:

• Manbeast by Kingsal
• Werebeast by Diego, Springheel, Obsttorte & Destined
• Clothed and running zombies by Springheel
• Flame bearing skeletons by Springheel

There are some things to be aware of if you are a mission author interested in working with the werebeast or manbeast:

1. The werebeast is only partially completed in terms of animations and vocals for now, so it’s recommended not to use it the same way you would a regular AI.
2. Some important issues were found in the last minutes of this dev cycle, in particular concerning the manbeast (i.e. LOD and material definitions). The fixes came too late to make it into this release, so please download this patch and place it in your mission’s folder if you intend to make a mission with manbeasts.

If the patch was successful you’ll see a new top-level folder named after your FM in ‘Create Entity’ listing all the changed entities. There’s no need to extract the .pk4.

If you see someone working with the manbeast characters, please point them to this patch to make sure they’re using it.

[STiFU]

Just FYI, your text is all black, which doesn't work so well in the dark theme.

[Anderson]

1 hour ago, STiFU said:

Just FYI, your text is all black, which doesn't work so well in the dark theme.

Sorry, but it seems to work for me. I use the dark theme of the forum and I'm on Mozilla Firefox. What browser do you use?

Edited June 30, 2020 by Anderson

[Dragofer]

@STiFU thanks for pointing it out, I've fixed it. It seems the new forums don't really like text getting copy-pasted in.

[nbohr1more]

Moddb mirror:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-dark-mod/addons/manbeast-patch

[MirceaKitsune]

I can't help but congratulate the team once more on their phenomenal work and effort! Wanted everyone in the team to know I really appreciate every bit of work they've been doing for this project, even when I thought it couldn't get all that better compared to how much it already is

[Geep]

I'm updating to 2.08 today, and look forward in particular to using the new visportal dev tools this coming month. And fewer black rectangle artifacts. Thanks!

[Petike the Taffer]

Wonderful work and congratulations !

 

Seems I'll have to update the wiki.

[PranQster]

On 6/30/2020 at 5:25 AM, Dragofer said:

@STiFU thanks for pointing it out, I've fixed it. It seems the new forums don't really like text getting copy-pasted in.

Tip o-the-day for these problems. Keep a text editor or desktop sticky notes widget open and paste the text there first (unformatted, if given the option when pasting), then re-copy to paste to forums.

[JackFarmer]

I already forgot the cool idle animations and barks!

https://streamable.com/qtfh9y

The ground patches are not monsterclipped till now, yet the beasts navigate on them as if they had been doing so since the dawn of men!

I am afraid they will most probably not make it into B&M (they simply do not fit with the storyline and I don't feel like doing another XL mission so shortly after HHTLC), but I`ll surely use them in the future.

Thank you for your hard work! @Dragofer@kingsal

[kingsal]

Hey awesome, hope you get a chance to use them!

AI will kind of path over some patches, but just a heads up if the angles get too steep or jagged they won't like it and you'll have to use some monster clip brushes.  

[JackFarmer]

20 hours ago, kingsal said:

Hey awesome, hope you get a chance to use them!

AI will kind of path over some patches, but just a heads up if the angles get too steep or jagged they won't like it and you'll have to use some monster clip brushes.  

Noted, I will look into that when necessary, thank you.

How long did you work on the manbeast? That must have been a hell of a lot of work.