Vengeance of the deceased [New effect]

[Seven]

UPDATED this post on 18th july 2011

Now all animations are done.
- Ancient ghost of the fallen
- Relieved souls of the enslaved


Hello,

Do you remember, how the game "Quake" was described 15 years ago ?
--> scary
And yes, it was (and still is) !
I remember clearly that I threw my mouse away as a fiend jumped out of the dark the first time.

The target of this animation is to scare the player.

This time I had to code some "ai" as well... totally new for me.
This effect will always look for the player, doesnt matter in wich angle/direction the corpse is lying.
Even if the player is moving away, the effect will follow him.
That was difficult....

The difference to the other animations is, that every monster has a different one.
Be aware, that most monsters have 2 vengeance animations (melee and shoot)
Those animations are spawned randomly (50/50 %)
This has nothing to do and is totally independent to the TWO original ID1 death sequences.
As you know, most of the monsters have 2 different death sequences in original Quake.
These original sequences are always played backwards at the beginning of each animation.
The random selection of the new "Vengeance of the deceased" animations is done right after it.

I implemented some new sounds for the monsters, as well as a flying burning skull (for magic users)

This animation gives you new 1 cvar: vengeancedamage (default = 0)
Only if you enable it, you will get the damage.
Otherwise it will be like "god"-mode according these animations.

You will always see both animations in this clip: melee and shoot.
You will also see both versions of the melee one:
- When you stay to near you will get damage from it
- When you stay far enough you will not be harmed.

I hope you like it.

Please feel free to use the source in your own mods.
Please read included documentations for details.

DOWNLOAD

Scary regards,
Seven

PS: It is fully integrated in the "small mod compilation".

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knjODEQukfQ]‪Vengeance of the deceased Final‬‏ - YouTube[/ame]

[LambentHammerBurst]

Looks awesome This effect would be ideal for custom mods. One could combine this with a custom powerup idea - kill a enemy, this effect happens, player gets a powerup.

[Phenom]

Whoa! excellent effect! Almost like its been missing from Quake until just now!

A+ stuff!

[nahuel]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You only have great ideas seven!!!!!!!!!!

[seanstar]

hmm i dont know what to make of this new effect Seven.

i think the best effect so fas uses the ghost model...i just edited the twirling to very slow and its rises up a little slower.


made these nice textures for the ghost that i sent to seven...he didnt reply.


here is an image of the ghost skin i made with a new alpha channel.

[bluntz]

Creepy

I think the ghost should have a different sound than the live one though.

Top shelf!!!

[Baker]

Seanstar always has the most funky HUD of them all

[DaniOcampo1992]

Seven you're a genius! A GENIUS!

[monsta]

whoa!

me wants this effect.

[grave_digga]

Absolutely great looking.

[osjclatchford]

really makes you un-nerved! great stuff!

[keropi]

awesome fx!!!
but I really feel this would suit better enemies that are "possesed/magical" like the stone knights in MP2 for example...

[jakub1]

hi seven,
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you've done a great job, as usual. i like this ghost effect much more than any of the previous ghost attemts of yours. semi transparent ghost model elevating/spining upwards is quite boring, but this one is a totally diferent case. and it would be even more scarier if this "dead fiend" had the ability to hurt player. if the fiend ghost were invulnerable by any weapon, but still were able to inflict a minor demage to the player (if only for a 2-3 seconds after the death), it would be really scary. player would be forced to avoid the ghost and the fiend would become more dangerous enemy. fiends, as they are now, are too easy. they can jump, but they are easily avoidable.
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jakub

[Seven]

Thank you for all for your comments !

I�d like to reply to some:

bluntz,
yes I will try to make the sounds more suitable. Maybe some echo...

keropi,
every monster will get this effect. You will decide personally via a cvar, which effect you choose for the enemies.

jakub1 & monsta (via PM),
This is only an effect. It doesnt use "walkmonster_start" with all its abilities.
It was hard already to give it some "ai", like moving or turning towards player and interacting.
But as you know, everything is possible in QC.
So I will try to make this:
If the vengeance effect (doesnt matter which monster) will touch the player, the player will receive damage.
Lets say 3 points. The player cannot kill the effect. He can only avoid the touch by moving away from it.
The effect is designed to remove itself after a specific series of frames (= time).

Maybe this is not what everybody wants though.
Because the main idea was to create effects, nothing more.
But this vengeance effect (just like the name describes it already) screams for it !

I am working on the dog at the moment and it looks scary too.

The ogre will running with his saw up high (scraming) towards the player (like kamikaze).

I think every monster will look good with it. We just need the correct frames put together (creating a scary sequence).


But a negative thing I also have to mention:
I will have to draw back a little the next couple of days due to family/real life.

I am happy that you like the effect.
Best wishes,
Seven

[Seven]

...just drove by to give some new informations.

- I finished all ID1 monsters (now fine tuning).
- Suprisingly I managed to get the effect causing damage to the player (if he stays in the effect area).
I had to read through endless sites of other qc-code to get an understanding of how it works.
But thats the most important thing if you want to learn something new: read, read, read.

It is really fun to play with qc.

Regards,
Seven