the gameplay will have everything.
i thought probably about some space missions on the stargate space ship fighting goa'ould ships or stuff, and also there could be a lone wolf 3rd person creepy mission on a dead space ship or something.
everything is possible :D i love that :)
this sounds very cool for a tutorial intro mission!
if you didnt noticed it, i created a team here on sc2mapster - currently were 3 guys.
there is also a team forum with the concept picture - post every idea you have, infos on your map like screenshots and all stuff related into that forum please, so we have all things together.
im currently working on that multiplayer map changing thing. ill give you infos as soon as i tested serval things out.
well.. even if this wont work, i think this could be a great singleplayer experience - and you probably could be able to load up the stargate center with others, and trade items with them, fight them for fun with your heroes or something like that.
and i thought on something.. didnt blizzard said somewhere that it will be possible to make coop campaigns?
so loading multiplayer maps HAS to work.
i saked on the battlenet forums, and hope to get some blue answers.
well yeah, see it as a tech demo.. 7, 8 or 9 "chevrons" or 250 chevrons is just a copy and paste of code, so this is no problem.
if everything works like i imagine it, that DHD (dial home device) will be replaced by a original one, u know, round thing, symbols around it, and press the middle to dial.
about that changing in multiplayer.. im not sure, i didnt thest it.. that could be a problem.
i would like to add you to the project.
small problem i have now is organizing the idea.
this stargate function and the main idea to make it an rpg that plays in the stargate universe is kinda all i got yet, but i will figure out the bigger stuff behind that today i think.
well to that global databse stuff.. this project would be some kind of a mod..
you would start starcraft2 with a loader, that uploads your bank files to a server and stuffl ike that...
this is doable, problem is the security of the file it self - and seriously, i dont wanna let people type "-load fosdjüpg8ozse78ftgosfdgfzw43h5tw4htg8hsi7twa74töoshröot78wa4eht6ölgrdhsö8" because that sucks. i played a lot of rpg´s in wc3 and this just sucked.
probably blizzard themselfes is giving some support for it adding some possibilities.. who knows..
Is a bank easily accessible? IE. Could someone go into it and screw around with the numbers to make themselves awesome in-game?
looks like it is.
i found the banks in my Banks folder, under documents.
there is the bank, easy to open with notepad and you can edit the values.
thats what suck right now, because i wanted to create a community around my project, with kinda globale databases, but if they are editable that easy, everyone would cheat.
hope there is any way to protect them or something, but i think its not :/
like the title say, i would like to know how save and load stuff actually works.
i read some stuff, about creating banks etc.. but what are these?
are they actual files?
my problem is the transport of heroes, items and other informations into another map, being able to save and load them from that other map etc.
also having access to a file and being able to backup it or something - is this possible?
the base idea of it is my stargate galaxies project.
it works like serval maps are "connected" as planets tthrough staargates, so you pla an RPG, and travel to another planet (map), probably collect something there and travel back home.
im having some problems right now, hope someones able to help...
first one, is it possible to change units in heigth? i want to simulate the wormhole inside the stargate, but just dont know how to change things in heigth, if its possible.
second is, any ideas on how to change the initial stargate model on a unit to the "powered off" stargate, and change it on trigger execute to "powered stargate"?
hey!
nice that at least someone wants to join this project :D
im kinda happy, this one has some potential and could really grow to an big project.
i will add you to the project.
there is nothing done yet, this idea just popped out in the last 2 days, so i dont have a real plan what needs to be done etc.
ill let you know if there is work to do, and also how i thought this might work. also if you have some ideas, youre welcome to tell them.
and thanks for the model stuff - i figured it out already, and it looks okay for now.
now im going to bed, tomorrow i think about the plan behind this thing.
also i forgot to add a needed team member to the list..
- storywriter
very important!
and to the stargate model stuff..well im not sure, but things like garrys mod are using them and are still there.
probably i could send an email to mgm (i think its mgm.. im not sure) and ask about it.
will do that later.
i dont know if this already existed in broodwar, but i just had the idea yesterday thought about it and it works well.
@iHaveReturnd
thanks. yeah the idea behind that is to make it infinite upgradable..
im not sure how much people would like it, but i thought in the future about a community that creates the planet maps, and it grows and grows.
its just adding a new "gate address" to the gate mechanic, and the new planet is accesible.
i was thinking if its possible to create a tool that ppatches the needed new planet address into an map - think that will work.
the heroes and all will be traveling through the planets and finish quests and storys just on every single planet taking hours like it would be on an single rpg right now - if someone creates the planet.
i also thought a lil bit further, im not sure if this is possible, but the storing of heroes and stuff is possible to take to another map, so it should also be possible to upload it to an database..? well time will tell, thats all just ideas.
now i have to gather a team around me because this is a lot of work, and i would need too long for it alone.
btw if someones interested.. heres a list of needed team members.
- terrain artist.
- trigger and data editor artist able to help me out with some stuff.
- someones able to create models like an actual stargate from the tv series and stuff like that.
i know that i have some projects up already, but that idea is just new and very epic i think, so this is my main project now.
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the gameplay will have everything.
i thought probably about some space missions on the stargate space ship fighting goa'ould ships or stuff, and also there could be a lone wolf 3rd person creepy mission on a dead space ship or something.
everything is possible :D i love that :)
this sounds very cool for a tutorial intro mission!
if you didnt noticed it, i created a team here on sc2mapster - currently were 3 guys.
there is also a team forum with the concept picture - post every idea you have, infos on your map like screenshots and all stuff related into that forum please, so we have all things together.
im currently working on that multiplayer map changing thing. ill give you infos as soon as i tested serval things out.
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i figured the base of the RPG now, so this is what it will be, if everything works like it should.
feedback? thoughts?
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well.. even if this wont work, i think this could be a great singleplayer experience - and you probably could be able to load up the stargate center with others, and trade items with them, fight them for fun with your heroes or something like that.
and i thought on something.. didnt blizzard said somewhere that it will be possible to make coop campaigns?
so loading multiplayer maps HAS to work.
i saked on the battlenet forums, and hope to get some blue answers.
0
well yeah, see it as a tech demo.. 7, 8 or 9 "chevrons" or 250 chevrons is just a copy and paste of code, so this is no problem.
if everything works like i imagine it, that DHD (dial home device) will be replaced by a original one, u know, round thing, symbols around it, and press the middle to dial.
about that changing in multiplayer.. im not sure, i didnt thest it.. that could be a problem.
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first of all, thanks guys :>
Zarakk, your work looks very nice!
i would like to add you to the project.
small problem i have now is organizing the idea.
this stargate function and the main idea to make it an rpg that plays in the stargate universe is kinda all i got yet, but i will figure out the bigger stuff behind that today i think.
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even if you had a tool that can read it - this is starcraft 2 and not wc3 - there has to be another, easier and better way.
i guess i have to figure out a way that is easy to use but safe and globally possible, like a 3rd party tool that uploads the banks onto a server.
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well to that global databse stuff.. this project would be some kind of a mod..
you would start starcraft2 with a loader, that uploads your bank files to a server and stuffl ike that...
this is doable, problem is the security of the file it self - and seriously, i dont wanna let people type "-load fosdjüpg8ozse78ftgosfdgfzw43h5tw4htg8hsi7twa74töoshröot78wa4eht6ölgrdhsö8" because that sucks. i played a lot of rpg´s in wc3 and this just sucked.
probably blizzard themselfes is giving some support for it adding some possibilities.. who knows..
0
looks like it is.
i found the banks in my Banks folder, under documents.
there is the bank, easy to open with notepad and you can edit the values.
thats what suck right now, because i wanted to create a community around my project, with kinda globale databases, but if they are editable that easy, everyone would cheat.
hope there is any way to protect them or something, but i think its not :/
0
thanks for the info, this is just very nice.
this makes kinda database synchrionizing available.
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hi.
like the title say, i would like to know how save and load stuff actually works.
i read some stuff, about creating banks etc.. but what are these?
are they actual files?
my problem is the transport of heroes, items and other informations into another map, being able to save and load them from that other map etc.
also having access to a file and being able to backup it or something - is this possible?
the base idea of it is my stargate galaxies project.
it works like serval maps are "connected" as planets tthrough staargates, so you pla an RPG, and travel to another planet (map), probably collect something there and travel back home.
0
im having some problems right now, hope someones able to help...
first one, is it possible to change units in heigth? i want to simulate the wormhole inside the stargate, but just dont know how to change things in heigth, if its possible.
second is, any ideas on how to change the initial stargate model on a unit to the "powered off" stargate, and change it on trigger execute to "powered stargate"?
0
@Pinworm45: Go
hey!
nice that at least someone wants to join this project :D
im kinda happy, this one has some potential and could really grow to an big project.
i will add you to the project.
there is nothing done yet, this idea just popped out in the last 2 days, so i dont have a real plan what needs to be done etc.
ill let you know if there is work to do, and also how i thought this might work. also if you have some ideas, youre welcome to tell them.
and thanks for the model stuff - i figured it out already, and it looks okay for now.
now im going to bed, tomorrow i think about the plan behind this thing.
also i forgot to add a needed team member to the list..
- storywriter
very important!
and to the stargate model stuff..well im not sure, but things like garrys mod are using them and are still there.
probably i could send an email to mgm (i think its mgm.. im not sure) and ask about it.
will do that later.
0
@OkagesAri
i dont know if this already existed in broodwar, but i just had the idea yesterday thought about it and it works well.
@iHaveReturnd
thanks. yeah the idea behind that is to make it infinite upgradable..
im not sure how much people would like it, but i thought in the future about a community that creates the planet maps, and it grows and grows.
its just adding a new "gate address" to the gate mechanic, and the new planet is accesible.
i was thinking if its possible to create a tool that ppatches the needed new planet address into an map - think that will work.
the heroes and all will be traveling through the planets and finish quests and storys just on every single planet taking hours like it would be on an single rpg right now - if someone creates the planet.
i also thought a lil bit further, im not sure if this is possible, but the storing of heroes and stuff is possible to take to another map, so it should also be possible to upload it to an database..? well time will tell, thats all just ideas.
now i have to gather a team around me because this is a lot of work, and i would need too long for it alone.
btw if someones interested.. heres a list of needed team members.
- terrain artist.
- trigger and data editor artist able to help me out with some stuff.
- someones able to create models like an actual stargate from the tv series and stuff like that.
i know that i have some projects up already, but that idea is just new and very epic i think, so this is my main project now.
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if anyone is interested in this, i finally got the answer myself.