Heroes of Might and Magic Community
visiting hero! Register | Today's Posts | Games | Search! | FAQ/Rules | AvatarList | MemberList | Profile


Age of Heroes Headlines:  
5 Oct 2016: Heroes VII development comes to an end.. - read more
6 Aug 2016: Troubled Heroes VII Expansion Release - read more
26 Apr 2016: Heroes VII XPack - Trial by Fire - Coming out in June! - read more
17 Apr 2016: Global Alternative Creatures MOD for H7 after 1.8 Patch! - read more
7 Mar 2016: Romero launches a Piano Sonata Album Kickstarter! - read more
19 Feb 2016: Heroes 5.5 RC6, Heroes VII patch 1.7 are out! - read more
13 Jan 2016: Horn of the Abyss 1.4 Available for Download! - read more
17 Dec 2015: Heroes 5.5 update, 1.6 out for H7 - read more
23 Nov 2015: H7 1.4 & 1.5 patches Released - read more
31 Oct 2015: First H7 patches are out, End of DoC development - read more
5 Oct 2016: Heroes VII development comes to an end.. - read more
[X] Remove Ads
LOGIN:     Username:     Password:         [ Register ]
HOMM1: info forum | HOMM2: info forum | HOMM3: info mods forum | HOMM4: info CTG forum | HOMM5: info mods forum | MMH6: wiki forum | MMH7: wiki forum
Heroes Community > Heroes 3.5 - WoG and Beyond > Thread: Possible Creature
Thread: Possible Creature This Popular Thread is 247 pages long: 1 ... 24 25 26 27 28 ... 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 247 · «PREV / NEXT»
Homer171
Homer171


Promising
Supreme Hero
posted August 18, 2006 09:47 PM

It would not been so hard cause really i didn't do anything. Just copied some parts of other creatures and compined them. Adding Black Dragon wings to Thunderbird and re-colouring each frame would do the job. Still it would take hours and i have allready given up on editing.

I first thinked making animation to Fallen Angels but my "inspiration" gone to zero!

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 24, 2006 11:48 AM
Edited by baklava at 11:50, 24 Aug 2006.

I just can't believe no one made this before, but here it goes.
Behold ye mortals, for what you now see before you is...
SUPERMAN!

EDIT: It looks kinda small though... Funny how I didn't notice that until now...

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Homer171
Homer171


Promising
Supreme Hero
posted August 24, 2006 02:19 PM

Superman man fas fun When i see that picture i was sure nobody havne't tough that one before! It's nice to see new fun ideas

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 24, 2006 04:14 PM

I'm glad to hear that. I just realized I became infected by creature-making. I've been sitting in front of my computer for almost two hours now making creatures in photoshop.
Here's some of my new stuff:
First I wanted to make an antipaladin/black crusader/dark templar but seeing there's like 5000 zillion of them I made something that's just a bit different, the blood knight:



After that, I decided to make a lion-man, for no reason whatsoever. I called it the leotaur.



Now there's a lot of weapon possibilities for it. Since there's not a lot of whip-wielding creatures around, I decided to make the leotaur overseer.



It could also work with axes, pikes, spears, swords, clubs and actually just about any weapon that can be found in heroes III. A whole leotaur faction can be made with a little effort.

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Homer171
Homer171


Promising
Supreme Hero
posted August 24, 2006 04:23 PM

leotaur looks good. I personally dissliked Ogres head so this works fine whit me. For the weapon minours axe would be nice

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 25, 2006 12:09 PM

Alright, here are two axe versions; the woodcutter and the elite axeman:
 
For those who dislike blunt weapons, I made the blademaster:
Finally I experimented with colors trying to make an elderly leotaur so I got the shaman:
I think that's enough different leotaurs for now.
____________
"Let me tell you what the blues
is. When you ain't got no
money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Fnord
Fnord


Promising
Famous Hero
posted August 25, 2006 07:56 PM

The Leotaur would be a cool unit if you could do all the frames to animate him.
____________

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 25, 2006 08:56 PM

Yeah but I kinda suck at animating units. I could try, but I doubt it'll be too good. Oh, and, call me a noob, but how do I post sprites here? Do I just post a .def file like a picture or do I have to reformat it?

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
yasmiel
yasmiel


Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
posted August 26, 2006 01:09 AM

Creature looks realy good... but i dont like the name.... leotaur... sounds like bull-lion mixture, not human-lion one...

Good work on the pics
____________

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 26, 2006 01:29 PM

Thanks but I disagree about it sounding like a bull-lion mixture as there are also centaurs as mythological creatures, and taur is obviously supposed to mean something like "human" or "being" or something like that.
I think that warcraft tauren probably cause a lot of naming confusion.

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
yasmiel
yasmiel


Supreme Hero
Former Chessmaster
posted August 26, 2006 08:50 PM
Edited by yasmiel at 20:54, 26 Aug 2006.

Well, i was thinking about latin name, not warcraft..

if memory serves its:

Taurus/Tauri  means  Bull/Bulls

Even the  bull star sign is called "Taurus" in english i think

Furthermore "minotaur" means "King Minos' Bull" (minos was ruler on some greek island))

But ye, centaurs make a lot of confusion now ... how didnt i notice it before
____________

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 26, 2006 09:17 PM
Edited by baklava at 21:24, 26 Aug 2006.

Hmmm... Yeah that's all quite strange, but if I wanted to call him lion-man it would sound something like leohomo and that would sound like a gay lion, so I guess "leotaur" is good enough.
Anyway, I finished the walking animation, but it's a bit different than the leotaur on the picture, as I had to change the skin a little to make it easier to make frames. Here it is:

What do you think?
EDIT: It somehow doesn't seem to work. I made the .gif and it works on my PC. How can I actually post it here so that it's animated?
ANOTHER EDIT: Anyhow, I think it works when you right click on the pic itself and save it to your PC as a gif. Strange.
____________
"Let me tell you what the blues
is. When you ain't got no
money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Vlaad
Vlaad


Admirable
Legendary Hero
ghost of the past
posted August 26, 2006 10:01 PM

Quote:
Well, i was thinking about latin name, not warcraft..

if memory serves its:

Taurus/Tauri  means  Bull/Bulls

Even the  bull star sign is called "Taurus" in english i think

Furthermore "minotaur" means "King Minos' Bull" (minos was ruler on some greek island))

But ye, centaurs make a lot of confusion now ... how didnt i notice it before
"Taurus" does mean "bull".

Wikipedia offers this explanation for the Centaur:

The Greek word kentauros could be etymologized as ken - tauros = "piercing bull". Another possible etymology can be "bulls slayer". Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name "piercing bull", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought. (In Greece, Mot became the constellation of Lupus.) Later in Greece, the constellation of Centaurus was reinterpreted as a man riding a horse, and linked to legends of Greece being invaded by tribes of horsemen from the north. The idea of a combined monster may have arisen as an attempt to fit the pictorial figure to the stars better.

Excellent work, Baklava. I'd LOVE to see that creature in the game.

P.S. Strangely, the only name which would fit would be Narasimha. Lionman sounds best, though.
____________

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Fnord
Fnord


Promising
Famous Hero
posted August 27, 2006 02:48 AM
Edited by Fnord at 02:48, 27 Aug 2006.

Leotaur seems to be used more as a name for a human/lion with the lion's body and the human head and torso. In other words, it's like a centaur but instead of a horse, there's a lion.

Anyway, your Leotaur looks really nice, Baklava. The animation in the gif (when I downloaded it) is too fast to see properly but I expect it would look good in the game.


____________

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 27, 2006 11:18 AM

I'm glad you guys like it. Ok then, I'll continue animating it.
And I think you can slow the gif down in Adobe ImageReady if you want...

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
bigjocker
bigjocker


Responsible
Supreme Hero
Forgotten but not Forsaken
posted August 27, 2006 11:33 AM

This one should work:

____________
HoMM3Lite

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Homer171
Homer171


Promising
Supreme Hero
posted August 27, 2006 11:33 AM

I slowed the animation and made it to repeat itself. Are you coing to do some more? Meaning hit,death,defence animations.

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 27, 2006 01:15 PM

Thanks for making it work, BigJoker.
Quote:
Are you coing to do some more? Meaning hit,death,defence animations.

Of course. I just finished the "idle" animation:

I was planning to do one animation per day, so that I can finish all of them before the summer brake ends. Since I'm beginning to go to high school this year I don't think I'll have that much free time when it starts.

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
radar
radar


Responsible
Legendary Hero
Castle/Haven player
posted August 27, 2006 04:09 PM

can anybody tell me which program is needed to create new creatures?

 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
baklava
baklava


Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
posted August 27, 2006 10:24 PM

@ vinius
Thanx

@ radar
Well I used the following (there's probably other solutions though):
resedit, defview, adobe photoshop CS2, adobe imageready 9.0
what I do is extract the desired .def file using resedit, take the desired pics from the .def using defview, edit them using photoshop and animate them using imageready.
Quite simple, theoretically.
By the way, I finished the "take damage" animation:


 Send Instant Message | Send E-Mail | View Profile | Quote Reply | Link
Jump To: « Prev Thread . . . Next Thread » This Popular Thread is 247 pages long: 1 ... 24 25 26 27 28 ... 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 247 · «PREV / NEXT»
Post New Poll    Post New Topic    Post New Reply

Page compiled in 0.3374 seconds