Mod Team Theta - Official Thread

[darkhaven3]

To coincide with a PM sent to Patch, I would like to offer my services to Theta. Mapper, musician, sound engineer, hacker and programmer for hire.

[Zola]

I will cheer at your work, so will many others once the mod tools will keep Rollin for sure~

[SpiderFighter]

To coincide with a PM sent to Patch, I would like to offer my services to Theta. Mapper, musician, sound engineer, hacker and programmer for hire.

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Darkhaven3! He's got some great ideas that are sure to keep you on your toes once this train gets rollin'.

[gambit37]

How will this work? Are you planning a full mod/dungeon/scenario with all the ideas in it, or will you create lots of little mods that people can mix-and-match as they choose?

[Dragonkin]

How will this work? Are you planning a full mod/dungeon/scenario with all the ideas in it, or will you create lots of little mods that people can mix-and-match as they choose?

We are planing to do a complete new scenario wth its own story, dungeons and levels.

[Patch]

How will this work? Are you planning a full mod/dungeon/scenario with all the ideas in it, or will you create lots of little mods that people can mix-and-match as they choose?

For the most part, this will be decided as we learn the limitations we'll have as the tools are released.

We are planning on working in stages. For example, a weapon pack, a class pack, a monster pack, an environment pack. We'll also be doing custom campaigns that take advantage of these packs, which we may release in 'episodes' so as to not bog down production.

Whether all of these ideas ever come to fruition, or the others we have tucked away, we'll see. At this point it's still brainstorming until we actually have tools to work with.

[gambit37]

Cool, sounds exciting! If I had more spare time, I'd like to be involved too, but I just have too much other stuff going on.... I'll probably just tinker with the editor and release dungeons, that's easier than a full mod

[SpiderFighter]

How will this work? Are you planning a full mod/dungeon/scenario with all the ideas in it, or will you create lots of little mods that people can mix-and-match as they choose?

For the most part, this will be decided as we learn the limitations we'll have as the tools are released.

We are planning on working in stages. For example, a weapon pack, a class pack, a monster pack, an environment pack. We'll also be doing custom campaigns that take advantage of these packs, which we may release in 'episodes' so as to not bog down production.

Whether all of these ideas ever come to fruition, or the others we have tucked away, we'll see. At this point it's still brainstorming until we actually have tools to work with.

This. The idea is that we want to be able to release quality mods as we learn the game's engine and scripting. In our experiences, most mod teams fail because they over reach, and we're trying to avoid that. That's not to say that we won't be doing a full scale total conversion. In fact, we're tossing some great story ideas around the virtual room and, as Dragonkin said, a TC is in our plans...but it won't be the first thing we release.

[Bek]

About the weapon pack:

I was considering making a few weapons myself (I already have a few models on my hdd I could probably use), but would your team consider releasing a weaponpack as a.. not sure how to put it, but as a standalone pack for modders? That way custom dungeon designers could (theoretically) make a dungeon, include weapons from the weapon pack, and assuming it can work this way, have their mod + the weapon pack as a prerequisite for their dungeon? Is that what you were thinking all along? Personally I wouldn't mind releasing a bunch of models I've made for use by all modders, but it'd have to be quite a diverse pack supported and well known for it to be of any real use.

Thoughts Patch + other modders who would consider using such a pack?

edit: Do we know what types of normal maps LoG supports? tangent and/or object space? I haven't looked at extracted files (or even finished the game..) myself yet.

[Patch]

About the weapon pack:

I was considering making a few weapons myself (I already have a few models on my hdd I could probably use), but would your team consider releasing a weaponpack as a.. not sure how to put it, but as a standalone pack for modders? That way custom dungeon designers could (theoretically) make a dungeon, include weapons from the weapon pack, and assuming it can work this way, have their mod + the weapon pack as a prerequisite for their dungeon? Is that what you were thinking all along? Personally I wouldn't mind releasing a bunch of models I've made for use by all modders, but it'd have to be quite a diverse pack supported and well known for it to be of any real use.

Thoughts Patch + other modders who would consider using such a pack?

edit: Do we know what types of normal maps LoG supports? tangent and/or object space? I haven't looked at extracted files (or even finished the game..) myself yet.

Absolutely. We'll be working in stages. So we'll release a weapon pack lets say, and (as long as the modding tools work as such) people will be able to add them into their game as they would any other mod, and use them to make their own modifications. We'll eventually take our individually released packs, and make a 'full' campaign that incorporates them all together.

We're not interested in being the be-all end-all of the modding community. We should absolutely support each other into creating great things!

As for what types of maps LoG supports. No idea. Unless someone who has looked at the extracted files (I did a little, but it went way over my head) can chime in about it, I guess we may have to wait to find out.


We are looking for more 3D modelers/texture artists/2D artists btw.