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Announcment! get your Player Character concept made! in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Monday, January 31 2005 16:46 Profile #21
quote:
Originally written by Retr-O:

Female Dark Elf Battlemage.

On a side note, since when was the abreviation for Avernum, "AV"? I literally felt sick everytime I encountered it in your post.
well, you might point to where the older abbreviation for Avernum was, before "AV"- an abbreviation I have encountered elsewhere mind you, so it has a set precedent for use.
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
Announcment! get your Player Character concept made! in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Monday, January 31 2005 13:23 Profile #15
quote:
Originally written by The Ripper:

Neo or Trinity
I refuse to do matrix character on moral principles- on the grounds that the last one sucked so bad (the creators COULD have continued on a grand adventure dealing with a massive example of "Platos Cave" style philiosphy. instead they made it a gigantic goody goody suck fest, where the machiens, enslavers of humanity, and all around bad guys, suddenlly turn into almost compassionate deal givers that let thier sourc eof power go as it pleases, because soem ninny happend to save them, and destroy the realm in which thier power supply was kept at bay with. wonderful. great philosophical mind bending end of plot thier.)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
Announcment! get your Player Character concept made! in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Monday, January 31 2005 11:59 Profile #12
@kitchen Toaster- choose one of your requests, as I only allow one *official* request per person- if you have other ideas, then get a friend to post them or somthing :P

@Angrey Ogre- I'm intrigued by your description, though, if its choosen you will need to be a good deal more specific on detials
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
Announcment! get your Player Character concept made! in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Monday, January 31 2005 01:44 Profile #8
so dose that mean you guys want a femal slith, or do you have some more ideas for me :P
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Monday, January 31 2005 01:42 Profile #27
@blersoul-

Okay, I have gimp- now what do I do? :P

@*i- soem us (like me) prefer the reguler engine to the geneforge monstrosity ;)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
Announcment! get your Player Character concept made! in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 17:06 Profile #2
hmmm; I'll actuall yhave to experiment and see if I can make such an ingame graphic look cool to be honest with you- it be new for me, as I;ve never been particulerya endeared to the Nephil mind you, so I''ll need to practice significantlly if this request is choosen (and it turns out to be in my realm of skills)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 16:53 Profile #24
quote:
Originally written by Nikolas:

[b]as the others said, those are very cool. I read what you said to help samurai but how do i get them too?
[/b]well, if you use a PC, the same direction apply- save them to your PC, change all graphics to the 24-bitmap format, and name them so they replace an existing character graphic- for the little facial partriat, you will need to open up a file that has all the reguler portriats for faces in it- you will need to select, and cut my characters portirat, and directlly overlay it ontop of the old charaters face whos graphic you have otherwise replaced.

save it, and start a new game- my custom will now have the place the now replaced graphic now had.

quote:

I know that there is a graphic for the Empire Dervish in BoA, is there also a way i can set it as my guy's character?
well, sort of- you coudl copy and paste all the existing graphics for the dervish into a full PCs "template", but you will end up with a very boring overall character who cannot go unarmoured, unsheilded, or be armed with a pole weapon or anything fancy like that.

[ Sunday, January 30, 2005 16:54: Message edited by: Xen ]
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 16:48 Profile #23
quote:
Originally written by genoforge:

sorry for being stupid but how do you use it for mac :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
I honestlly wish I knew- I'll try playing around with graphics (assming they can be accessed in BOA) on a friends mac, and perhaps I'll find out- until then, either you'll have to sit tight, and hope I can fidn out (doubtful, I'll go ahead and say) or ask one of the mac users on this forum- hopefully, someone can help you- I suppose, if worst comes to worst, you coudl e-mail Spider Web software directlly and ask.
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
Announcment! get your Player Character concept made! in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 16:40 Profile #0
Okay, a once in a lifetime (well, not really I suppose, but that description sounds neat) has comeith to ye; that is to say, I'm willign to create any single Player Character for mass consumption by the populace here, there, or anywhere where AV players are to be found.

The reason for this? Wel, a friend of mine on another forum, is a graphic artist- and damn good one at that- who dose many designs in the same sort of style that AV character portraits are done in- I was talking to him, via PM on that forum, and I was askign what happend to his link to an art site called "elfwood", and commented that soem of his art thier woudl go very well as Char Portraits in this little game called Avernum- well one, thing led to another, and he has offered to do a custom portrait for me :D

so, I figured that perhaps it woudl be best to leave the exact choice of what ismade up to the people who play AV- I have most of my own wants for char portiats taken care of, so I dont, necessarily, need to use this for any character concept of my own.

so, gather one, gather all, from near or far, here or there- get every one you know who plays AV, and has ever wanted thier own unique character crewated to come here, and make a post.

RULES

1)For starters, I belive I will be using a random number generator to choose which entry is chosen to be made -UNLESS- thier is an outcry for one particuler idea, in which it will win by default

2)if thier are less then 10 entires, I dont knwo if I will bother with this little random lot, and will just go for soem sort of frige idea I might come up with for a character- so it is to your benifit to tell everyone you know abotu this contest, and have them enter it

3)each person who enter may have ONE idea submitted by a post- if you have more then one idea, then you'll have to get a friend to submit it for you or somthing

4)you must clear, and offer a good descritpion, or even pictures or sketches from variosu other sources, at what you want your character to look like; you must specify sex of character, physical features, skin colour, what sprt of role your character has and what not, so that I can make a good in game graphic, and my friend, a good offical portrait.

5)I have not decided when the submissions will end- but no more then two weeks will be alloted to submissions, and likelly only one week, ending by next sunday

6)if your character is choosen, please dont expect them to be made in hurry- we do this of our charity, and good will, and for me at least, can only work on this when I both have the free time, and desire to work on it, which is somtimes fleeting, at best- so a full out character could take some substantial time to fully flesh out- but it will be worth it, in the end, when you have your dream graphic created :)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
Complete the Wallset Project in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 08:51 Profile #2
well, I have no idea how well I woudl do in such a competition, or how well i woudl do in makign walls- it coudl be that I end up sucking mightyll at it, give up, never to attempt walls again. then again, I could rule it.

I guess I'd give it a try- people seem to be pleased enough with my recent PC, and I;d liek to give to the community some.
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
naming a character in Avernum in The Avernum Trilogy
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 05:32 Profile #14
I go for names from claaasical sources- "lead character: names have been alogn the lines of ;

-Odysseus
-Achilles
-Agamemnon
*All from the Trojan War

-Xenophon
-Academus
*two men of Athneian origin, Xenophon is perhaps the most awesoem character in classical greek history

-Tiberius
-Aurelian
*Roman emperors, I dislike Tiberius, he a mediocre emperor, but was good for the provincials, and they loved him as emperor, and didnt rebel- he was a semi-insane pervert though, but hew has a kick-ass name
**Aurelian is my current favorite, followed closelly by Xenophon, Aurelian is also a Roman emperors name, and this case, a truelly noble an dmighty leader of men.
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Sunday, January 30 2005 05:01 Profile #20
quote:
Originally written by bleusoul:

[b]i definitely like that goblin more than the default ones. good work.
thanks- I [refer my new dervish more more personally though ;)

that said, its should be noted that all th egoblins I will be making, in slow time, are based directlly on the reguler goblins that come with the game, only a painstaking pixel per pixel colour conversion, and then reconstructive anatomy applied ;)

quote:
i think the icon for the PC needs to be smoothed a bit.
try it out in game- its looks fine- after all, when you look at all fo those graphics when "stand alone" on no back ground, they all look like they need smoothing.

quote:

i want to see anything new you get. send me an IM if you use AIM.[/b]
sory about that- I dont use AIM any more -trashed my old computer, not about to trash my new one with spyware
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Saturday, January 29 2005 07:30 Profile #15
Indeed, i do- its slow going (very much so for the more ambitious projects)

as far as full blown Player Characters go, a friend of mine desires a rogue to use, and I have found suitible inventory portrait art to make a fully rounded character; I've also foune othe rimperration for a very erika like "PC" along with some others, and, of course, I plan to eventully to remake this character to look more true to the portriat

as far as NPCs go, I have soem work done-

1)a Goblin king, along with some other styles of Gonlins

2)an "Imperial Dervish"- that to say, a dervish but with a very Roman style flair to him, and one that dose not all that evil at all

heres a preview of things to come;

IMAGE(http://img192.exs.cx/img192/6776/previe13um.png)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Saturday, January 29 2005 01:48 Profile #13
quote:
Originally written by samurai56:

OK, I use windows XP. That's PC, right?
yes :)

okay, I can definatelly help you-

STEP 1) I need for you to decide a character you want to get rid of, personally, I got rid of the barbarian dude, but it dosent matter who you choose, you just need to make sure to tell me who it is, and perhaps include a pic so i can be sure- I will take care of all the re-nameing parts

STEP 2)one i rename the pics, and bring them here, you are going to have left-click them with your mous ebutton, and save them- you will then have to open them up in paint, and save them a bitmap file (thier are several types, you would want to as a "24-bit bitmap) but I'll make sure for you

STEP 3)okay, by this time, you have decided who you want to ditch, I have uploaded the pictures of this guy with the right names to replace it with, and you have saved the pictures as the right type of bit-map. all that is needed is to go to;

my computer--->Local Disk(C:)--->Program Files--->Blades of Avernum Folder--->Data--->Art Graphics

one you have opend this long chain of folders. and gotten to art graphics, all you have to do is drag my artwork, aved in the bitmap format, into that folder, and click yes to replaceing the old art. when you do this, my art will replace the old art

STEP 4)well you rdone- all that is left to do now is to start up a new game, look at the character select, and make sure everythign is working good :)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Friday, January 28 2005 02:30 Profile #11
thank you; after workign on some other characters, I hope to be able to :refine" the entire look to match the big (and awesome IMO) inventory picture (and I still need to fix the chairs)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Thursday, January 27 2005 15:59 Profile #9
quote:
Originally written by samurai56:

[b]Wow!! Really good. I would use them, but:
1. I don't know how...
if you are a PC user, I can help you with that

quote:

2. My warriors are slith and nephilim!! He doesn't look like a priest.... Can you switch races?[/b]
well, I know that at least in AV3, usign the character editor, you can change everything about a character, including race, IIRC

as for the priest part; hes a mighty warrior priest of the god Sol Invictus, god of loyalty, courage honour, the sun, and all things good!
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 16:52 Profile #7
I adapted it from artwork i found on the internet, actually; changed the face and hair around alot and what; woudl provide a link, but it seems the site is down at the moment; for future refernce, go here, and lets pray he dosent mind me using some of his work, even if I did make some changes to it;

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Pozas/fdp_counter.html
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 15:03 Profile #5
I'll think about it, but I dont think I'll submit until I transfer said Aurelian graphic to proper BOA chairs.

though when that will be, I cant say; I'm tempted to go onto a another project, but looking for a neat concept is the hard part
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
BoA Graphics Entries and Judging Details in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 15:00 Profile #85
well, might as well give the link to my new graphic, even if it is in the post below;

http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001089
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:33 Profile #3
I though that site only accpeted the "in game" graphic, so to speak, and made no effort to support the various portriats, or mounted graphics though
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:21 Profile #1
oh yes, please post any suggestion, critiques, or other such comments in thread, and dont be shy :)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
COMPLETE- Player Character graphics set in Blades of Avernum
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Tuesday, January 25 2005 14:18 Profile #0
Hope you all enjoy him, and put him to Good use;

my oen name for this pet project of mine, is Aurelian, a fine late Roman name, meant to be somwhat symbolic of Imperial orgins-

NOTE 1; the chairs are currentlly those used for Avernum 3; this will be changed in due time, but not necissarilly any time soon; the reason si because I wanted to play through AV3 with said character, so, I made him, and then I did it :)

NOTE 2;these graphics are in PNG format, because that what i had to upload them as; you wil need to save them, open them up in a paint program, and change them to the needed format for either windows, or Mac- to that end I can olny help with installation, if help is needed, for the windows platform.

IMAGE(http://img187.exs.cx/img187/1558/aureliangamegraphic0uz.png)

IMAGE(http://img187.exs.cx/img187/152/aurelianfaceport8of.png)

IMAGE(http://img187.exs.cx/img187/9142/aurelianpclgport2ts.png)

IMAGE(http://img187.exs.cx/img187/7946/aurelianpcmountedlarge6ab.png)

IMAGE(http://img187.exs.cx/img187/2947/aurelianlittlemounted4rv.png)
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
turned off chrater editor in The Avernum Trilogy
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Thursday, January 20 2005 12:02 Profile #1
that said, i tshoudl be noted I am a windows user
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
turned off chrater editor in The Avernum Trilogy
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Thursday, January 20 2005 12:01 Profile #0
accidentally turne dit off; how dose one turn it back on? The main website was of no help whatso ever in this, and again, i do really need thi sinformation
Posts: 59 | Registered: Friday, December 24 2004 08:00
In the Spirit of fantasy... in General
Xen
Warrior
Member # 5321
 written Wednesday, January 12 2005 09:53 Profile #14
hnady tip; when lookign for authenitc goods, try to find an Itallian good first, and foremost- Italy was th epreimire foundary for all europe, and while its quality os stell was not as good as Toledo in Spain, or Damasquus in SYria (two area that had steel production to such a fine art, that in all history, only th emodern steels surpass them)

but Italy was the forefront for military, and artisitc development during th emiddle ages, and renaissance; it has the most beutiful arms and armours, as well as th emost effective designs.
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