new tutorial zone vid

[Sakrateri]

This is a small clip (about 1and a half MB) of something Ive been working on in a new tutorial zone made with Openzone. just right click it and save as.


On a Boat to nowhere (http://www.kheprigames.com/newtutorial.wmv)


couple of screens also

http://www.kheprigames.com/tut1.jpg

http://www.kheprigames.com/tut2.jpg

http://www.kheprigames.com/tut3.jpg

[gernblan]

WOWOWOW!!!

Are you going to give this to the community when it is done? This is INCREDIBLE.

[Damilis]

Puuuuuuuuuurty sexy there slick!

[beerbong]

Wiiiiiicked.

[John Adams]

Wow, now that does look sezy. Nice work!

[Alacres]

Man I really like this, great work! ^^

This beats the cruddy SOE live tutorial by a verrrry long shot.

I hope you decide to release this to the public someday soon :).

[Ueguvil]

You even put Frumpy Irontoe in there ;)

[Sakrateri]

I had not planned on releasing this as I hadn't really thought anyone would like it enough to want it, however once I have all the quest done in it I will release it along with the quests, I am however redoing the sign textures so there will be no soe content in it. It does use ALL of the original tutorial NPCs along with alot of custom ones.

[Windcatcher]

I like the path textures. Did you make those?

[Sakrateri]

Yes i made all the textures , except for the tree textures which are yours of course , here are a few more showing more of the paths


http://www.kheprigames.com/tut10.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/tut11.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/tut12.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/tut13.jpg

[Damilis]

Wonderful work slick!
BUT i must admit that I liked this link a whole lot also:

http://www.kheprigames.com/tut14.jpg

I lol'ed



(http://www.kheprigames.com/tut14.jpg)

[Strake]

Wonderful work slick!
BUT i must admit that I liked this link a whole lot also:

http://www.kheprigames.com/tut14.jpg

I lol'ed



(http://www.kheprigames.com/tut14.jpg)

404 but I must admit that was the funniest 404 message I've ever seen... Long... but funny... I actually read it all :-D

[Damilis]

...the UPS looks pale... BUWAHAHAHAHA.

[gernblan]

Can't wait for this release! This looks really, REALLY nice!

[Sakrateri]

Ok , here it is, the rar file also contains the linkermap so put that in your eqemu\server\maps folder and then replace your tutorial zone with the rest. I dont have time to finish all the quest im working on for the zone yet so you have to fill it up how you want , Hope ya like it.


New Tutorial Zone (http://www.kheprigames.com/tutorial.rar)



and if you add this to your everquest\resources\waterswap\WaterSwap.config file then you will have new water in that zone

[NewWaterTutorial]
DiffuseMap=water_c.bmp
NormalMap=water_n.dds
EnvironmentMap=water_e.dds
FresnelBias=0.25
FresnelPower=8.0
ReflectionAmount=0.7
ReflectionColorRed=1.0
ReflectionColorGreen=1.0
ReflectionColorBlue=1.0
BlendColor1Red=0.0
BlendColor1Green=0.04
BlendColor1Blue=0.11
BlendColor1Alpha=1.0
BlendColor2Red=0.0
BlendColor2Green=0.23
BlendColor2Blue=0.17
BlendColor2Alpha=1.0
UVScale=80.0

[tutorial]
ReplaceThis1=Water1.bmp
ReplaceWith1=NewWater

[leslamarch]

hello all,
I'm not sure if i'm doing something wrong but when i tried this zone out, all i'm getting is the Original tutorial zone with some buildings and trees missing. So I guess i'm not to sure what to try next, I probably missed soemthing very simple just can;t seem to find it.
Thanks
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Damn , i messed that up. I forgot a file in there , try the link now. Im sorry.



New Tutorial. (http://www.kheprigames.com/tutorial.rar)

[leslamarch]

This is just unreal, GREAT job!!! The detail that went into this is perfect, thanks so much for sharing this. :D
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Your welcome, I hope you all can get some enjoyment out of it, I have another that I am working on but I have tons of trees I have made in 3ds max that I want to use and I'm just trying to find out how to get transparent textures to work in open zone then I can finish it.

[Sakrateri]

I am making some more zones to replace the MMC zones that was mirigauls minagiera or whatever the hell it was called that was some of the instance zones, I will put some screens here and if anyones interested I will give those out also, If anyone wants a custom zone made with openzone and does not want to mess with doing it their self let me know, just draw a rough sketch of what you want and what zone you want replaced with it and I will see what I can do. I like creating zones more then playing the game now lol.

[leslamarch]

I am making some more zones to replace the MMC zones that was mirigauls minagiera or whatever the hell it was called that was some of the instance zones, I will put some screens here and if anyones interested I will give those out also, If anyone wants a custom zone made with openzone and does not want to mess with doing it their self let me know, just draw a rough sketch of what you want and what zone you want replaced with it and I will see what I can do. I like creating zones more then playing the game now lol.

I Look Forward to any of your Releases, The 2 that you already made and posted were Just Great. Still trying to fill tutorial zone lol, Thanks so much for your efforts.

[gernblan]

THANK YOU!

Very very cool!

Do you happen to have a serverside .map for this too for spellcasting purposes?

Would be really helpful and appreciated!

[gernblan]

One other question, please. Is there any chance that you'd release the openzone files for this so that people who want to use it could, perhaps customize it a bit further? For example, maybe change the signs a little... or perhaps add some more or different windows.. or put in more furniture and objects?

You know, stuff like that.

It's an incredible piece of work you did, and it can also serve as an excellent tutorial for a lot more than EQ... it can also serve as a tutorial on Openzone, which could perhaps help more people get into that facet of world building easier.

Especially in terms of trees, which are oh so difficult to do, especially considering there are no zones like this available in OZ format to study (that I know of).

Please consider making the source for this zone available?

[Sakrateri]

yes I put a linkermap file in with the zip. I dont mind giving out the scene file either but you would need all the textures also that I have. may take a bit for me to get that all into a file and put it up for download.


but anyway , heres a pic of another zone im workin on and i got the trees to work finally thanks to Scorp.


http://www.kheprigames.com/newzone1.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/newzone2.jpg

[leslamarch]

@Sakrateri
WOW, That zone looks Great, But then again they all have been great. very talented indeed, Thanks so much for sharing your Hard work.

[Sakrateri]

Here is three zones, Nektropos, MMCA and Tutorial, I have fixed the zone point in the Tutorial to zone to MMCA and then theres a zone point in MMCA to zone into Nektropos. I have antoher zone that Nektropos will zone into but its not finished yet.


Nektropos (http://www.kheprigames.com/nektropos.rar)

MMCA (http://www.kheprigames.com/mmca.rar)

Tutorial (http://www.kheprigames.com/tutorial.rar)

And there are linker maps in each rar file for each zone.

[leslamarch]

Great, Can;t wait to test them thanks so much :)

[leslamarch]

The textures in mmc Are unreal."only map i have gotten to yet" The brick walls look so real, Excellent Excellent work. The things that could be done with that zone are just endless, Thanks again for This great share
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Got heightmaps to work now, here are a couple of shots from my first zone made with a heightmap.


http://www.kheprigames.com/hmzone1.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/hmzone2.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/hmzone3.jpg

[leslamarch]

Another beautiful zone in the works, excellent work on that one.
a quick question for you, would you know how i would go about zoning into nektropos ? when i try the zone command i get zone not available, not sure if i did something wrong or need to add that zone to the emu some how.
Thanks again for all this great work
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

oh yeah , you will have to add it to the database if you dont have it allready. You can try this.


INSERT INTO `zone` VALUES ('nektropos',NULL,'Nektropos',0,0,0,0,0,28,0,0,1,-2030,1500,2000,500,2000,0,0,0,2,255,0.75,0.666,2,0 ,0,0,0,0,500,2000,0,0,0,500,2000,0,0,0,500,2000,'' ,1);


Hope that helps.

[leslamarch]

oh yeah , you will have to add it to the database if you dont have it allready. You can try this.


INSERT INTO `zone` VALUES ('nektropos',NULL,'Nektropos',0,0,0,0,0,28,0,0,1,-2030,1500,2000,500,2000,0,0,0,2,255,0.75,0.666,2,0 ,0,0,0,0,500,2000,0,0,0,500,2000,0,0,0,500,2000,'' ,1);


Hope that helps.

Worked perfect, thank you very much for the help. The zone is yet another masterpiece, love it. Since your so busy making these zones i wasn't sure if you wanted or had time for in game maps? I have them all made for the maps you have released so far so if you did want them just let me know.
Thank so Much
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Actually I had though about making zone maps with them but I thought self exploration is a large part of the game lure so I left them out. However if anyone else here needs or wants them you can give them to them. Thanks.

[Sakrateri]

The new MMCB zone is available now here

MMCB (http://kheprigames.com/mmcb.rar)

[Sakrateri]

Got a new one in the works.... replacing MMCG


http://kheprigames.com/mmcg1.jpg

http://kheprigames.com/mmcg2.jpg

[Sakrateri]

I am going to start putting these zones onto my forums for people to download, they are at the bottom of the forums.


Forums (http://kinanu.proboards26.com/index.cgi)

[leslamarch]

I am going to start putting these zones onto my forums for people to download, they are at the bottom of the forums.


Forums (http://kinanu.proboards26.com/index.cgi)

Nice Idea!!! I love it :-D

[Sakrateri]

Another one coming up


http://www.kheprigames.com/mmch1.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/mmch2.jpg


This one will be replacing MMCH and is done with a heightmap also

[leslamarch]

Unreal :D can;t wait to try this one out also, every time you release a new map its like Christmas time all over again :)
Thanks again!!
~LL~

[gernblan]

I cannot tell you how much this means.. not just to myself, but I am sure, to the whole community.

THANK YOU.

And yes, if you WOULD be willing to package up the OZ files so that people can play with them in the editor too, it would be incredible. I can't imagine what people can learn from this and then also share (myself being one of them).

You could very well be the catalyst that starts a whole wave of incredible new zones for people to enjoy.

[Sakrateri]

Here are the two new zones replacing mmcg and mmch, both are made using heightmaps and I hope you find them useful.


MMCG (http://www.kheprigames.com/mmcg.rar)

MMCH (http://www.kheprigames.com/mmch.rar)


All of these Openzone zones can also be found on my forums

[Sakrateri]

Building a castle....



http://www.kheprigames.com/casle1.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/castle2.jpg


http://www.kheprigames.com/casle3.jpg

[Sakrateri]

Anyone get a chance to check out the MMCH zone I made by chance? just curious how you may have liked that made with a heightmap.

[leslamarch]

Sorry there,
I have been out of town for the holiday and just got those last 2 connected and WOW like i said before they just get better every time you release them. There now getting to the point that they top sony's best zones. :D I have every zone you created linked together so when you zone from one you end up to another :)
I only have 2 of them spawed though lol. The Castle Idea Looks great, the only thing i could think of adding is maybe like Sakrateri's INN to give you some kind of credit for this great work. 8-)
On a side note i was wondering how much a person can do to changing the size of a zone? like the loading zone seems to be a waste, could that be made larger with open zone?
ok enough rambling here :grin:
Thanks Once again for your great work
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Yes you can change the loading zone also to whatever size you want, there are actually three loading zones though , 1: Load 2: Load2 and 3: Clz If you would like me to make something up for one of those let me know . And thanks for getting back and trying these out.

[anthonyjaltman]

you made that zone!? i didnt know u could make zones. or is it completely retextured old zone?

[Sakrateri]

Its a completely home made zone from scratch using Windcatchers OpenZone you can find it on the forums here to download and use.

[leslamarch]

Yes you can change the loading zone also to whatever size you want, there are actually three loading zones though , 1: Load 2: Load2 and 3: Clz If you would like me to make something up for one of those let me know . And thanks for getting back and trying these out.

Thanks for the great offer, i'm just looking for something very simple kind of a starter zone if you will, to replace loading zone. I did attempt this my self lol, was not pretty :( I would for sure take anything at all that you created for those loading zones or any other for that matter lol.
Thanks again
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Here is a replacement for the Load zone

http://www.kheprigames.com/load1.jpg

http://www.kheprigames.com/load2.jpg

http://www.kheprigames.com/load3.jpg

VV Link here VV
LOAD (http://www.kheprigames.com/load.rar)

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[DarkGothic]

The House looks grate!! I need to check OZ :grin:

[Richardo]

Yeah, openzone is an incredible peice of software thanks to windcatcher, i'v been making zones for quite some time now as well.. here's some of mine (I used some wow models in this compilation)

http://www.xonos.net/Haz/castlesiege3.png

http://www.xonos.net/Haz/castlesiege5.png

http://www.xonos.net/Haz/ghaz5.png

http://www.xonos.net/Haz/hazg2.png

http://www.xonos.net/Haz

I used to work on this project a lot, and I used a lot of wow models... The project was called Hazard Adventure VII but I got married and lost the time to do it :p

[KhaN]

and I used a lot of wow models...*far voice* Ripping WoW models is baaaaddd.

Hi Richardo :p

[Richardo]

Holy crap.. KhaN? Please get in contact with me.. my aim is RichardoXS, Msn: Lexen802@gmail.com

I didn't realize the name until I saw it!!

[Sakrateri]

leslamarch does that new load work ok for you? or would you like something bigger mabey?

[leslamarch]

leslamarch does that new load work ok for you? or would you like something bigger mabey?

OMG its just perfect i love it, sorry for the late reply i was out of town.
PERFECT is the best way to describe it lol.
Thanks so much
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

Here is a new CLZ zone, to use it rename your clz.eqg to something else then extract these files into it and see a new character select screen:)


clz (http://www.kheprigames.com/clz.rar)

[Windcatcher]

Any chance on exporting some of these to .XWA so I can try them with SimpleClient?

[Sakrateri]

Of course, let me get em uploaded, and sorry I didnt think if that before.

[Sakrateri]

XWA's are on my forums to download now.

XWA Zones (http://kinanu.proboards26.com/index.cgi?board=ozzones&action=display&thread=1188220235)

[Sakrateri]

Got a brand new way of making zones, One will be available soon !

http://www.kheprigames.com/newstyle1.jpg

http://www.kheprigames.com/newstyle2.jpg

[leslamarch]

Very nice!!! can;t wait to check out the release!! I just love these custom zones :)
Thanks ever so much
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

More of the new zones, one is almost finished


http://kheprigames.com/mounts1.jpg


Trails carved out of the ground !
http://kheprigames.com/trails1.jpg


http://kheprigames.com/trails2.jpg


Many thanks go to Windcatcher not only for developing Openzone but also for his GREAT support of it , Thanks WC :)

[Sakrateri]

Here is a new mmci zone , as before it includes a linker map in the rar file. Let me know what you think of the new style.


Link>MMCI (http://kheprigames.com/mmci.rar)<Link



http://www.kheprigames.com/newstyle4

[Windcatcher]

Sakrateri, any more progress? Just curious.

[Sakrateri]

Yeah I'm still working on them, just got abit sidetracked with the Old EQ I'm working on too now lol. Getting ready to download the OZ 8.0 ......8.0 !! Geeze thats come a long ways ! Thanks !

[leslamarch]

Here is a new mmci zone , as before it includes a linker map in the rar file. Let me know what you think of the new style.


Link>MMCI (http://kheprigames.com/mmci.rar)<Link





Now Thats a Unreal Zone, I think that tops the best of any original zone
Excellent Work Sakrateri and thanks so much for sharing
Best Regards,
~LL~

[Sakrateri]

A new tree top city video, the zone is unfinished as of yet but will soon be !

High Above (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb-PttrKSnQ)

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[ChaosSlayer]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG....

<<<< speechless......

Sakrateri - you are my personal Tunare , Mother of Nature... :cool:

tell me just one thing - does old zones have to be overwriten to use any new ones?
Also what is this Necro...somehting zone? Where that comes from? I never herd of such zone in eq.


PS I also prase Windcatcher and all others who working on this project =)

[Sakrateri]

Yes, rename your zone name to something else before copying the ones I make to your EQ folder, eg, change gfaydark.s3d to ORIGgfaydark.s3d or something of that sort.

Nectropos was a zone that had never been used (until recently I believe) I have it set to zone to the nexus and mmce I believe, been awhile i would have to check, I made an NPC on my server in the nexus that ports you to Nectropos.

[ChaosSlayer]

does this Nectropos has original files?
or its just a reserved zone name?

[Sakrateri]

No, no original files for it.

[ChaosSlayer]

thanks Sakrateri !
I got your nektropos files, but when i went inside it seems the zone some sort of invisable maze? whatsup with that?

[leslamarch]

thanks Sakrateri !
I got your nektropos files, but when i went inside it seems the zone some sort of invisable maze? whatsup with that?

try this and see if this works for ya

REPLACE `zone` VALUES ('nektropos', '', 'Nektropos', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '28', '0', '0', '1', null, '-2030', '1500', '2000', '500', '2000', '0', '0', '0', '2', '255', '1.00', '1', '2', '0', '0', '0', '500', '2000', '0', '0', '0', '500', '2000', '0', '0', '0', '500', '2000', '0', '0', '0', '500', '2000', '', '1', '1', '1');

[ChaosSlayer]

hmm this don't seem to be changing anythign beyond clip planes for fog...
could you explain what this should do?

oh another thing, it seems like your line has more values than I have collums in the zone table...

[Sakrateri]

Yes with some newer databases there have been new colums added, try this and it should work with the newest AX and PEQ DB.

INSERT INTO `zone` VALUES ('nektropos','','Nektropos',0,0,0,0,0,28,0,0,1,NUL L,-2030,1500,2000,500,2000,0,0,0,2,1,1,0.4,2,0,0,0,45 0,450,0,0,0,450,450,0,0,0,450,450,0,0,0,450,450,'' ,1);

[Sakrateri]

As for an invisible maze I am not sure, I downloaded the file myself and tried and it works fine, the only thing I can think is that they did finally use that zone and mabey there is an eqg file in there, See if you have a file called nektropos.eqg in your EQ folder and if so rename that file to something else and try.

[ChaosSlayer]

don't seem to work
my DB is latest from Cavedude, but your insert line has like 3 values more than i have collumns =)

Also there is no .eqg for Nektropos

oh while we on subject of new zone and graphics- is it posible to change the splash screen? The stupid DoD werewolf is hideously annoying....
I won't mind going to a splash screen from one of the previous expansions

[uglybob]

Silly me. Tried to use this with the standalone tutorial from SOE and it didn't work. Teaches me to read the entire thread next time.

[Sakrateri]

Hey all, been awhile but I have been trying to perfect my zone making ability and here is one to replace ruja it is a massive zone made entirely in 3dmax...hope you like.

http://www.kheprigames.com/maxter1.jpg

http://www.kheprigames.com/maxter2.jpg

It is not finished yet as i still have to add all the zone models (trees , shrubs, ect.) but heres a taste...


Ruja (http://www.kheprigames.com/ruja.rar)

Once perfected these will be the kind of zones seen in my game FatesDestiny I am working on.

[Richardo]

Cool zone! :D