OpenZone 8.4 in the works

[GeorgeS]

Wow WC, those wolves look good in the zone!
Lizardman looks excellent. I think there was another lizardman model if I recall correctly. I think I also gave you some snakes - those should be easy to animate.

A puma should be no problem. I'll start this week.


My models for OZ/SimpleClient
http://wizardportal.dyndns.org/eqemu...k_to_date.html


GeorgeS

[GeorgeS]

I spend a few hours modeling these puma/lion body type.

Newest models for OZ/SimpleClient

http://wizardportal.dyndns.org/eqemu..._to_date2.html

I'll export these to .x later. Textures must be smooth and not faceted to diplay right, as are the normals.

GeorgeS

[Windcatcher]

Very nice! Sort of prehistoric-looking. Let us know when the download link is up. I had the hardest time finding something that could convert your .x files to another format so I added a .x importer to OpenZone 8.5. I can't guarantee it can load any .x file, but it loads yours and I added a way for OpenZone to convert them to an Anim8or files.

In the meantime I'm adding spawns, pathing, and loot to my existing zones, but those cats will be perfect roamers for the Peshara Highlands, which aside from some goblin camps is largely empty.

[Windcatcher]

GeorgeS, your wolf textures are also great for making bears:



I started this model a long time ago and it looks like I can finally finish it.

[GeorgeS]

Very nice.

I have the puma/lion models ready for dl. They are in .X, and textures in BMP.

http://wizardportal.dyndns.org/eqemu/pumas.zip

GeorgeS

[Windcatcher]

Bears, finally...



Hunting bears by moonlight?

[Windcatcher]

A new lair, somewhere...



I'm adding lots of spawns and pathing to the six zones that come with SimpleClient, and loot where applicable. I'm also improving some zones as necessary, as with The Namtarn, here. I had hoped for a release this weekend, but there is simply too much to do. At this point I'm planning on releasing everything around Christmas. There will be new versions of OpenZone, the Admin Tool, SimpleClient, and OpenZone textures. I want to make every zone viable for play, which means mobs and loot, and merchants, guildmasters, etc. in player zones. The Namtarn will allow play up to level 20, though you will probably need to group for the rooms in it. There are also lots of new spells since the last release, though no visible spell effects as yet, and of course lots of bugfixes and some new features in each app.