Zahaqiel

Hey all.

The Tyranid Mod (new web address!) is still chugging (albeit slowly). But we're lacking for members.

Specifically, we need:
- animators
- a UI specialist
- a sound/voice tech

At the moment, here's where we're at:
We have a Hive Tyrant fully tricked out with every possible upgrade option it could need. But our main animator - Kaveman - no longer has the free time to do our animations anymore. So this baby's been sitting around waiting for the right person to come and animate it. We also have at least one more unit that the public don't know about yet which will need animating after our 0.5 release, and also the possibility of new codex units when GW re-releases Tyranids in January.

We're also in the middle of setting up a new method of building - similar to the DE soul abilities bar (build bar runs along the top of the menu UI, click a button, place a building). But, we need someone to actually do the UI modifications to get it in place. Also, we're trying to gear the Ork resource to function like Faith (since Faith is apparently hardcoded) as a second resource.

And mysteriously all our sound guys seem to disappear after about 2 months of being with us. We're not sure whether this is the work of ninjas, or whether they've managed to actually record the psychic keening of a genestealer brood and consequently become part of a hivefleet. Regardless, we could really use someone to do it - we currently have no sighting sounds, and a lot of our units are short on the audio front (and sadly, we actually don't know where on half of them!).

So if any of this sounds like the sort of thing you want to be doing, please visit our forum (the address again is: http://tyranids.gameapollo.com) and talk to us about it.

Reaper R66

With the UI thing how much is there left to do and what parts have been done for it?

Zahaqiel

For the build bar:
At the moment Croaxleigh is working on the mechanics for the "click button -> place building" part. It should be complete soon (fingers crossed) once he overcomes his current troubles.

On the UI front itself, if you've played our 0.45 release (or any of the previous versions), that's the extent of the UI modifications so far. Basically, we'd need someone to sort out that taskbar from scratch.

For the resource tinkering:
I honestly couldn't say, that's something Croax has had in progress for a while now.

Khorney

IIRC melooo knows things about taskbars (he did the FoK one), if you tell him what you need i'm sure he could help explain it

Gorb

As does Octopus Rex and I, and that mythical taskbar tutorial is hovering around 70% completion; I'm hoping to get it finished sometime soon. However, I would presume Croaxleigh is proceeding perfectly well without any help, as Zahaqiel only needs people for the art side of the taskbar, correct?

Reaper R66

This unit the public hasn't seen before, is it a Bio-Titan? I only ask this because I saw Thudmeizer with a picture of one on FileFront.

Zahaqiel

Croaxleigh needs a little of the load taken off (combination of time constraints, sheer quantity of our new coding issues and god-awful luck with real world events), so code and art are both wanted.

I saw that too, no it isn't ours, sorry. We're of the opinion that most bio-titans are not really multiplayer game material (and we have no current plans for Apocalypse style games, what with all the stuff we already have in the works).

I will say that it has to do with our plan for divergent hivefleet mutations.

thudmeizer

Yeah and its not like a Hierophant is remotely fair to play against in skirmish/mp! Well it could be balanced I think quite easily but again the style is not the same as Kavey's models.

Gorb

Zaha, could you PM me the details of your coding issues? I don't have enough free time to commit to another coding project, however I can help in an advisory capacity. I already have Croax on MSN, so if you want to let him know he can talk to me, that's fine with me.

Croaxleigh

Gorb: That'd require you being on MSN. *grins* I've given you a rundown of the UI stuff previously, and you gave me a quick overview of things and said something like, "If you need more help than that, let me know." As for the coding issues, it was originally a crash bug in the DS/spawn thing, so I went back to the beginning and started working through it step by step. Then the AE decided that it hated my files, so I've been trying to figure out why they won't load.

Add to this assorted computer problems, a kidney stone, and the move from Hell that's finally almost over as I gave someone money in exchange for keys earlier today, and you can see how things could be taking a while to get fixed.

Reaper R66

No Bio-Titan, ah well I still can't wait to see this new unit.

Zahaqiel

It's nothing really worth hyping, it's just that we like keeping secrets.

Zahaqiel

Just thought I'd say that this is still an ongoing issue, and if anyone would like to take up any of the positions mentioned in the opening post that they should contact us at the Tyranid Mod forum.

Ronal10

What do you mean by Sighting Sounds?

Do you mean like when the tyranids spot a race they will make that sound?
I would certainly like to help

In what format would you prefer the sound to be?

Zahaqiel

Exactly.

It'd require voice-acting, since the only real way of doing them in a way the player can understand is to make them what the Tyranid player "overhears" of his enemies (ie, player is Tyranids, AI is Orks, his gaunts encounter some orks so the player hears "Boss! Dem bugz is 'ere!"). They can't really be done as "Tyranid sounds". That cool?

Otherwise, .wavs generally do I guess.

Zahaqiel

Just thought I'd say thanks to everyone, we seem to have the guys we need now.