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Lord_Immortal
Famous Hero
DoR Dev Team
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posted May 26, 2015 10:12 PM |
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HD Future of Heroes III?
With the release of Heroes III RoE HD, I was wondering what will be the future of the big Heroes III projects: WoG, HotA, VCMI?
Technically, if there will be a Heroes III Complete HD; WoG and HotA could be adapted to it. VCMI has no graphics of its own so I don't think it will have problems.
So, the first issue is - will there be a Heroes III Complete HD and will there be the goodwill of forwarding VCMI and HotA?
The classical WoG might feature some changes such as in Graphics.
For example, this is my version of theEmerald Tower. As you can see, it changes completely from the original, pink-bricked Emerald Tower.
It needs though, animation and resizing on which I will work later.
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verriker
Honorable
Legendary Hero
We don't need another 'eroes
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posted May 26, 2015 10:19 PM |
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I think the original Heroes 3 Complete will continue to thrive indefinitely as the definitive platform for all these great mods, while Ubi's Heroes 3 HD will be completely abandoned and forgotten about, if it hasn't already been lol
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frostymuaddib
Promising
Supreme Hero
育碧是白痴
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posted May 26, 2015 10:25 PM |
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Heroes III HD is pointless, the way it is now. Devs should have considered existence of Era, HotA and HD mod. New HD version gives nothing new to Heroes III, and should be forgotten.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted May 26, 2015 10:28 PM |
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Personally I am persuaded the future of H3 is VCMI while I have the fear it won't be finished, at least in reasonable time.
Both Era and Hota have serious problems, era being unable to properly integrate new content, then Hota being unable to propose scripting language. VCMI will mix the best of two, new content + scripting language = all you need, any taste is satisfied. Now it only remains the dilemma if will be ever finished, means multiplayer ready, quality random map generator, working AI, then possibly integrate erm. Wish all the best.
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LizardWarrior
Honorable
Legendary Hero
the reckoning is at hand
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posted May 26, 2015 10:28 PM |
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HD mod works just fine and it's compatible with all new platforms and mods, heroes 3 hd by ubi is a joke, a quick money grabbing scheme, nothing more.
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Lord_Immortal
Famous Hero
DoR Dev Team
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posted May 26, 2015 10:54 PM |
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I know that Ubi's Heroes III HD is "money-grabbing" but I like how I detailed H3 looks in my 1600x900. Especially monsters look pretty nice. It would be a pity to end it there.
EDIT: As for the three mods WOG, HotA and VCMI, I agree with Salamandre: VCMI will merge them properly. And VCMI is on 0.98 so we can expect a 1.00 soon. The best thing VCMI would do would be: adding all HotA elements in WoG.
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted May 26, 2015 10:59 PM |
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And VCMI is on 0.98 so we can expect a 1.00 soon.
These are only numbers. I can release 1.00 or 6.66 tommorow, but it doesn't change the game itself 
As to HD Edition, it was pointless from the very beginning
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The future of Heroes 3 is here!
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Lord_Immortal
Famous Hero
DoR Dev Team
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posted May 26, 2015 11:06 PM |
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Just out of curiosity, what method did they use to speedpaint the Hydra?
It seemed as if they were capable of modifying the whole walking animation file just retouching one image.
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Macron1
Supreme Hero
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posted May 27, 2015 09:26 AM |
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To make HD is to repaint all graphics.
And this means that most of all new towns/creatures for HMM3 must be thrown out.
So i don't think it will be done for battle creatures/map objects at all.
The only one easy solution is to allow resolutions for town screens other than 800X374 in VCMI (using HD townscreen for one town and 800X374 in other is not breaking game at all).
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Sguazz
Known Hero
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posted May 27, 2015 02:27 PM |
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I love the old style of Heroes3: cubes, pixels... Maybe because I grew up with these: blush:
Perhaps the new Heroes HD is "useless" for us old fans, but I think (hope) that this restyling will bring new players in this community.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted May 27, 2015 08:18 PM |
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after working on the new HD graphics, i'm finding that many of the new graphics aren't as good as the old(but obviously that isn't always the case). as far as anyone attempting to undertake the task of completely upgrading graphics with every mod/addon out there, not even including the expansions that Ubi missed, that would be a ridiculous task, indeed. maybe if we had a hundred great graphics guys(or gals) working around the clock, it would still take a couple years. without that many, you're looking at a decade at least; which is why the idea won't see fruition.
the best you can hope for, graphically, is to have everything look just as good as the next thing, without any bad graphics. that's my outlook, anyway.
as far as coding goes, i haven't the slightest. i don't work with anything other than graphics.
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