19-01-2008, 12:48 PM
NARRATED VIDEO VERSION
Hello and welcome to the Development Chronicle VIII for Legacy of the Zodiac II. This week I mainly worked on NPCs for the Haven Area but I had to do a few other things as well.
When I began the week I was starting off with the first NPC; so I made that and than when I was testing the damage it did I realized that there was a mistake with the Helmets (on my part). In X-Realms for Helmets when you put 15 speed it meant it reduced the damage by 7; since it divided it by 2 I believe. But anyhow; for Helmets I basically forgot that what you put for the Defense on the Helmet is what the Helmets Defense is; so I had put 15 Defense, which was far too much defense; same would go for every helm; so after I finally figured out what I did wrong (consulting DD as well) I just had to go back and divide the Defense on every Helmet by 2 and round down if there was a decimal. This was also the time to change around the stupid 30 speed crap; which I will explain below.
Basically rather than having to get 30 speed to get 3 points per level; you just get 3 points right off the bat and that's what you get forever. It's basically stupid to make someone have to get 30 speed; since everyone just gets 30 speed first anyways to get the 3 points per level and it doesn't really effect you much. So I just figured it's stupid and made you get 3 points all the time. But since you don't need to get 30 speed first there's no reason to start with 15 speed so I lowered that to 5, 6 or 8 depending on your faction; since Speed is only mainly used for Helmets now.
So now that Speed and Helmets were all fixed and worked out I went back to making the NPCs. First I made the NPC's for the Outskirts of Haven, than the Sewers of Haven, Forest of Haven, Den of Thieves and all I have to do now is make the NPCs for the Nyru Ruins as well as some other NPC's for the Forest of Haven. I also made some other NPC's but I don't want to tell all about the NPC's and that kind of stuff; I'd rather you waited to see this kind of stuff.
Once I am done with the NPC's I will start adding in the equipment and quests. Once that is all set and done I can move on to the next part of Inngard. I HOPE, HOPE; did I mention HOPE? To be done with all the NPC's and Quests etc by the end of this weekend; which is a three day weekend. But I'm not sure if that will happen or not.
As far as the In-Game GUI goes; DD has been studying for Mid-Terms all this week so he hasn't had a chance to do anymore work on it (luckily my school doesn't have Mid-Terms ;D).
I don't have anything to show such as screenshots since this week I wasn't mapping; just working on NPCs and that kind of stuff.
That is all for this week, see everyone next week!
Thanks for listening,
-Scythe
Hello and welcome to the Development Chronicle VIII for Legacy of the Zodiac II. This week I mainly worked on NPCs for the Haven Area but I had to do a few other things as well.
When I began the week I was starting off with the first NPC; so I made that and than when I was testing the damage it did I realized that there was a mistake with the Helmets (on my part). In X-Realms for Helmets when you put 15 speed it meant it reduced the damage by 7; since it divided it by 2 I believe. But anyhow; for Helmets I basically forgot that what you put for the Defense on the Helmet is what the Helmets Defense is; so I had put 15 Defense, which was far too much defense; same would go for every helm; so after I finally figured out what I did wrong (consulting DD as well) I just had to go back and divide the Defense on every Helmet by 2 and round down if there was a decimal. This was also the time to change around the stupid 30 speed crap; which I will explain below.
Basically rather than having to get 30 speed to get 3 points per level; you just get 3 points right off the bat and that's what you get forever. It's basically stupid to make someone have to get 30 speed; since everyone just gets 30 speed first anyways to get the 3 points per level and it doesn't really effect you much. So I just figured it's stupid and made you get 3 points all the time. But since you don't need to get 30 speed first there's no reason to start with 15 speed so I lowered that to 5, 6 or 8 depending on your faction; since Speed is only mainly used for Helmets now.
So now that Speed and Helmets were all fixed and worked out I went back to making the NPCs. First I made the NPC's for the Outskirts of Haven, than the Sewers of Haven, Forest of Haven, Den of Thieves and all I have to do now is make the NPCs for the Nyru Ruins as well as some other NPC's for the Forest of Haven. I also made some other NPC's but I don't want to tell all about the NPC's and that kind of stuff; I'd rather you waited to see this kind of stuff.
Once I am done with the NPC's I will start adding in the equipment and quests. Once that is all set and done I can move on to the next part of Inngard. I HOPE, HOPE; did I mention HOPE? To be done with all the NPC's and Quests etc by the end of this weekend; which is a three day weekend. But I'm not sure if that will happen or not.
As far as the In-Game GUI goes; DD has been studying for Mid-Terms all this week so he hasn't had a chance to do anymore work on it (luckily my school doesn't have Mid-Terms ;D).
I don't have anything to show such as screenshots since this week I wasn't mapping; just working on NPCs and that kind of stuff.
That is all for this week, see everyone next week!
Thanks for listening,
-Scythe