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The Suggestion...

By: Roxblaster on 25 Jan 2007
Rating: 4.60 in 15 votes
Status: rate | *In Roadmap*
mr4 | spells | [Suggestion_4948]

Hammer Shot

You find this one in the Black Scorcerer's tool factory. Once you get it, you can use it by charging it up and realeasing it. A hammer falls from the sky and crushes anything it hits. It gets bigger the longer you charged for. (I think it should look like a wooden Mallet, just because it's funnier!)
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19 Oct 2008 [comment_24627]
NEW! Roxblaster
True that!


21 Dec 2008 [comment_25382]
NEW! h
Can someone tell me how to upload images from my pictures so i can show you my ideas?

Soz about this im new with all this images thing.


21 Dec 2008 [comment_25383]
NEW! Roxblaster
Sure. First, you need to upload the image to Photobucket or some other online picture storage. An address will be made for it, which you can normally find pretty close to the image. Copy it, write out the HTML code to either make a link or put in a picture (check the HTML code box for info :) ) then replace "http://www.themetalbox.com" or "http://www.themetalbox.com/images/icons/games.gif" (respecively) with whatever the link was. (That you already copied, right?)

If you have more questions, just ask.


21 Dec 2008 [comment_25384]
NEW! Roxblaster
You know, I was reading through this, (very fun to do) and I saw that ♪ suggested a shadow. That could be really useful, really.

You cast a spell like a normal spell- save it's a slightly transparent black and it's an oval when you cast it. Once it hits the point that the person clicks on, it starts to shrink. At the same time, an object appears relative to the size of the shadow, right above it, but off-screen (so like yShadow + y20 or whatever number seems good enough). As the shadow shrinks, the object falls, and when it hits, it transforms into an "impact object" which looks exactly the same, (save a small shock-wave) and damages any enemies touching it.

So, in that matter, you are charging the "shadow", and the "shadow" selects the "object", which falls on the "shadow", which is shrinking and dissapears exactly when the "impact object" hits...

If you made sense of that, then you deserve a cookie.


21 Dec 2008 [comment_25385]
NEW! Hobbes
In other words the object changes as you charge it, starts falling as soon as you fire it and changes from a shadow into whatever object you charged the shadow to when it hits?


21 Dec 2008 [comment_25386]
NEW! Super_merlin
YAAYYYY!!! I get a cookie.

ps. it made sense!


21 Dec 2008 [comment_25395]
NEW! Roxblaster
Close, but no.

1. Merlin charges his spell.
2. He casts the shadow, not the object.
3. The object appears high above the shadow.
4. The object falls to the shadow as the shadow shrinks.
5. When it collides with the shadow, it becomes its impact sprite (damaging the enemies around it) and the shadow dissapears.
6. The object dissapears (or perhaps forms a grave? Like the mallet top sticking out or some scattered piano keys)
7. Super_Merlin gets a cookie. And I buy a hot tub.


22 Dec 2008 [comment_25400]
NEW!
I was picturing it being like:
1. merlin charges a the spell
2. merlin releases the spell
3. a blackish splotch on the ground (shadow) moves towards the target (like energy pulse , but doesn't hit stuff that is in the way(eg. goblins))
4. when it reaches the target, the explosion animation starts
•begin animation: shadow sprite is replaced with explosion/landing sprite which has its own shadow included
•object starts falling down(shadow grows/becomes more defined edges(less diffraction of sunlight (I think)))
•object hits the ground/explodes or whatever(does damage on this frame)
5. object fades/disapears (likely does not fade(transparence problems))


22 Dec 2008 [comment_25408]
NEW! Roxblaster
Actually the shadow would shrink, due to being closer to its object, but it would get darker and more defined.

The above is sort of what I was thinking, except I just imagined Merlin shooting out the shadow, which essentially looks like it is moving across the field, just at spell-cast speed. The two concepts seem different, but I don't know why, lol


22 Dec 2008 [comment_25417]
NEW! Darren
Trouble with the object coming in from offscreen is that it would have to...like...start of huge then shrink as it gets further from the bird (who's eye-view we see the game from) and closer to the ground...


23 Dec 2008 [comment_25423]
NEW! Roxblaster
No, I mean it just falls from the top of the screen. Yes, technically, it would be moving in from the side, but I think it will look enough like falling to pass. Subconscious brain-waves and what-not. :)


27 Dec 2008 [comment_25435]
NEW! Darren
That would look lame to me :/


27 Dec 2008 [comment_25436]
NEW! Roxblaster
w00t! Comment 100!

ahem

Well, well...it would look lame, lol

I guess you could have it big and then shrink as it's falling...but I don't know, it misses something. I gues you can't really do falling in a game like this without a certain level of "lameness", lol

We could forget falling, of course. Just have Merlin launch it like a regular spell, just with a curved arch so it looks like it's falling.

I mean like, it's a semi circle like ( , save it's rotated 90 degrees to the right and lengthened as far as the object is thrown. That might work.


27 Dec 2008 [comment_25439]
NEW! The master of wizards
YEAH COMMENT 100 CHAMPAGE TIME *pops open a champage cap*


28 Dec 2008 [comment_25441]
NEW! Darren
That would be tricky...why can't it just start quite big? Say, the size of the blast, then quickly shrink until it lands (solid gold objects fall fast enough that you wouldn't need many shrinking frames)


28 Dec 2008 [comment_25443]
NEW! Roxblaster
Yes, that would work...as long as there is some sort of impact sprite that sends out shockwaves at the bottom.


29 Dec 2008 [comment_25454]
NEW! lokey57
What's a Champage? :o, never knew such a thing existed.

*drinks his champagne while TMOW drinks champage*


29 Dec 2008 [comment_25456]
NEW!
You've never heard of Champage, lokey!?
...you need to get out more;)


29 Dec 2008 [comment_25462]
NEW! The master of wizards
.....what about the turtle one ozzy made


30 Dec 2008 [comment_25467]
NEW! Darren
He made a turtle champagne???


30 Dec 2008 [comment_25476]
NEW! Super_merlin
I'm only 11!!! I can't drink!!!!!


30 Dec 2008 [comment_25483]
NEW! The master of wizards
no no XD be funny tohugh but in the comment lokey said something about champage time


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31712]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
You mean like this?


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31741]
NEW! Super_merlin
No, not at all.


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31752]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
then what more bigger?


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31775]
NEW! Super_merlin
Read all the comments on this page for what you need. Golden, bigger, other stuff.


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31777]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
So i have to make a golden safe,a golden anvil,sledgehammer,weight lfting set and a Piano.All golden...wow i got some work to do


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31788]
NEW! Super_merlin
Have fun!


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31791]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
I'll try to have fun ok time to get sweaty!


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31816]
NEW! megaman4ever
At least there will be no need for animation I guess? Just make them rotating... Or not.


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31820]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
I prefer not


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31825]
NEW! megaman4ever
Yeah, they can be tilted afterwards is need calls.

Isn't it classical to have a piano tilted by 25 degrees when falling?


30 Apr 2010 [comment_31830]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Ya classical but very painful


1 May 2010 [comment_31894]
NEW! Darren
Especially when it lands on you.


1 May 2010 [comment_31897]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Event thinking about it makes me shiver.


1 May 2010 [comment_31991]
NEW! steve
I think it's classical for a grand piano, but a classical piano is tilted at 45 degrees.

Uprights can be dropped parallel to the ground such that the dropee can go up inside said piano and re-appear unscathed but humorously dusty as piano collapses around him, one side at a time. A couple of blinks to imply "why does this always happen to me?" should suffice to leave the cinematograph audience in uproarious laughter.


1 May 2010 [comment_32006]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Could you imagine a goblin getting hit by a piano?


2 May 2010 [comment_32104]
NEW! Darren
It would squish like a tomato.


2 May 2010 [comment_32107]
NEW! Roxblaster
No, it would squish like a tomato.


2 May 2010 [comment_32112]
NEW!
No, it would become a tomato. Then squish.


2 May 2010 [comment_32114]
NEW! Roxblaster
No, you're both saying it wrong. It's "tomato", not "tomato". Sheesh, get it right.


2 May 2010 [comment_32115]
NEW! megaman4ever
What difference is there between "tomato" and "tomato"?
I just don't get it.


2 May 2010 [comment_32119]
NEW!
I know that the difference is there, I just choose to ignore it.


2 May 2010 [comment_32127]
NEW! Hobbes
megaman: Something we say in the states, "Some say tomato, some say tomato".

The difference is the second time it's said they say it like "Tom auto" instead of "Tom ate oh".


2 May 2010 [comment_32134]
NEW! steve
Basically tomato is the American version, whereas tomato is the European version. Curiously, potato is the same in both areas.


2 May 2010 [comment_32138]
NEW!
we use both toh-may-doe an to-ma-doh and poe-tae-doh and poh-tah-toe.


2 May 2010 [comment_32147]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
I love saying pat tat to


3 May 2010 [comment_32200]
NEW! Darren
Poh-TAY-to. So fun to say.


3 May 2010 [comment_32241]
NEW! Hobbes
Steve, we can't hear you speak through comments, you have to type how it's pronounced in Europe for us to get it. lol! You so did that on purpose!


3 May 2010 [comment_32258]
NEW! megaman4ever
I guess I pronounce it like:
fonetics:
pot-ei-toeh
the way you guys have been doing:
pot-tay-to


3 May 2010 [comment_32259]
NEW! megaman4ever
I meant pot-ay-to, not to have a long 't' there.

......For the lulz, I could record it with my microfone.


4 May 2010 [comment_32266]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Pot-ay-to...i hate writing how to pronoucne things.


4 May 2010 [comment_32308]
NEW! Darren
Interesting how you spelled phonetics half-phonetically. I'm not sure what the term for that is.

Oh yeah.
"Bad spelling".
hehehe.


4 May 2010 [comment_32320]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Ya could you imagine on a spelling test someone writes the words in phonetics.0/20


4 May 2010 [comment_32332]
NEW! megaman4ever
Well excuuuuuuse mee for not being English - I believe phonetics are written just like Finnish, so I just wrote how I say potato if I would have to write it in Finnish.

I believe, though, that the phonetics are right and the pot-ay-to was wrong, since I had to use alot of time to think about it, since... Well, writing 'pot-ay-to' is weird, and I've never tried that before.


autologic.

Phonetic is heterologic.


5 May 2010 [comment_32346]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Megaman4ever,how do you write potato in Finnish?


5 May 2010 [comment_32372]
NEW! megaman4ever
It's written 'peruna', why?


5 May 2010 [comment_32373]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
I don't know,i just wanted to know.


5 May 2010 [comment_32374]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Just asking.:)


31 May 2010 [comment_33776]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
ummm so it has to be huge, and golden,and it should leave a mark like the sumo guy from MR2.

Image,and the hammer should follow the curser of couse:Photobucketsomtin like this?


31 May 2010 [comment_33777]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
tht was only the sledge,like others say,have fun crazy merlin! ^^


31 May 2010 [comment_33778]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
OH OH BOWLING BALLS TO!!!
MAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!!

Photobucket


31 May 2010 [comment_33779]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
ALSO A STATUE OF METAL BOX!

Photobucket


31 May 2010 [comment_33780]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
opps didnt crop it T.T Photobucket


31 May 2010 [comment_33781]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
wth!it still didnt do it T.T i give on trying to crop it T.T
PS.I do know how to crop!!!


31 May 2010 [comment_33783]
NEW! Super_merlin
Meh. Not bad. Not good. Just meh.


31 May 2010 [comment_33800]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
yea i doesnt look nice,but i like the bowling balls a little to be hoenest.


1 Jun 2010 [comment_33850]
NEW! megaman4ever
The hammer gives off that you have no three-dimensional visualisation of the object you are about to draw, if the hammer is supposed to even remotely look like a real one.


You should leave one end look like that, but if both ends are towards the guy who's looking at the hammer, that must mean that it's curved back to the looker.

Yeah, some of the bowling balls actually look ok, and are about appropriate size. Or would be, if we weren't making an piano, but I would prefer few 4x4 or 6x6 balls which somehow look exactly like bowling balls, rather than giant balls like that.


1 Jun 2010 [comment_33883]
NEW! Roxblaster
Hehe...the bowling balls look like a bunch of those smileys that Steve never got around to coding into the site.


1 Jun 2010 [comment_33886]
NEW! Super_merlin
Dang, you're right!


1 Jun 2010 [comment_33895]
NEW! megaman4ever
All of those images are cropped well enough, I don't see how you didn't crop one.

The hammer is really big, that's why it takes many rows, if you were wondering about that.


2 Jun 2010 [comment_33919]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
How are we going to do the piano? It sounds very hard.


3 Jun 2010 [comment_34140]
NEW! Erik Rodriguez
be4 it wasnt cropped then now it suddenly cropped wat is happining?


3 Jun 2010 [comment_34143]
NEW! Roxblaster
"You are going through a metamorphosis. Two sides of your body are in conflict, as they try to determine who you really are. The process will not be pleasant. But in the end, you will become the man you were meant to be."




...or perhaps you're just looking at it differently? I don't think it was cropped any other way before.


3 Jun 2010 [comment_34159]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Like in some cartoons, there is a angel on the right and a devil on the right. They argue.


3 Jun 2010 [comment_34161]
NEW!
Turf War. Nobody wants to be stuck on the left shoulder;)


3 Jun 2010 [comment_34165]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Whoopsy daisy! I meant devil on the left shoulder!


27 Oct 2010 [comment_39787]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Oops. I have to get started on this.


29 Oct 2010 [comment_39801]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Well, I made most of the objects. I have yet to do the weights and the piano.


29 Oct 2010 [comment_39813]
NEW! megaman4ever
Upload please! =O


29 Oct 2010 [comment_39814]
NEW!
You will also need to make summon tiles.

Making the spell might be possible under the current set: if you want to, it will need to be a mix between a multistage spell(like undead summon, for example), and energy pulse(act_energyPulseSpell). You will also need to make some data for each projectile. They will be very similar to the energy pulse bullets(act_energyPulse)

That should be all the info you would need to make the spell, if it will work without extra code.


29 Oct 2010 [comment_39819]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Ya but don't I have to add te gfx?


29 Oct 2010 [comment_39820]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Oh. The images. They were all made in the size of 38x38. I was thinking that the piano should surpass that size and just be bigger, like 46x46.
Here is the safe.

Here is the anvil.

Here is the sledgehammer.


30 Oct 2010 [comment_39831]
NEW! Phoenix
Hehe, the sledgehammer reminds me of the hammer in Super Smash Bros Brawl. :)
Anyways, I honestly think that the golden safe's shading should look more...natural shall I say? The dark side is ok but the light side just looks a little irregular. Also, since it will be slanted while it is falling or atleast spinning, you should make slanted images with the shading because we can't keep the same shading in the same spots while it is rotating.

As for the anvil. Just needs a little touching. :)

Sledgehammer is ok. The shading needs to be more natural again.

So overall, work on the shading and it will lead you to awesome hammershotness!

Cool, I think I created a word. :)


30 Oct 2010 [comment_39836]
NEW!
I think that the safe should look more like this:
http://www.picturesof.net/_images/Falling_Safe_Royalty_Free_Clipart_Picture_090202-140463-810048.jpg


30 Oct 2010 [comment_39848]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
So I have to make an image of it slanting?


30 Oct 2010 [comment_39854]
NEW! Phoenix
Yes.


20 Jun 2012 [comment_43027]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Sorry that I remove this from my roadmap. I was actually looking forward to this but when I started working on it, I realized I lacked the graphics expertise.

Like a golden piano? I can't do that lol.


20 Jun 2012 [comment_43038]
NEW! megaman4ever
I bet I could.

Like, just some four slanted outlines of varying lengths, the legs, and a nice shading.

But, you know, it's like 3:33 am, so I'll give a thought on that later. Or, I guess more accurate would be to say "never", but meh.


20 Jun 2012 [comment_43047]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
I wish you luck...if you ever start working on them. Maybe on a day where I feel REALLY good and no one has worked on this, I could do a couple of the objects like the safe or something.


21 Jun 2012 [comment_43067]
NEW! megaman4ever
I'm feeling pretty good right now. I'll give it a try.

...

And after 15 minutes in Paint:


That's.. alright. But I messed up for the variety, and couldn't decide which was the most comically destructive between these alternatives:

and

and


So, what do you think?


21 Jun 2012 [comment_43070]
NEW! crazymerlinman321
Wow, that's with Paint and it's better than anything I could ever make.

I like the last one most.


9 Jul 2012 [comment_43219]
NEW!
Dat's pretty.


11 Jul 2012 [comment_43240]
NEW! Super_merlin
In my completely nonprofessional opinion, it needs more gradient and twinkle.

For 15 minutes in Paint, Awesome!


12 Jul 2012 [comment_43247]
NEW! steve
cool!


12 Jul 2012 [comment_43250]
NEW! megaman4ever
I tried to add some twinkle and it looked good on my monitor, but right now I'm on another computer and.. There's no noticeable difference even close up. Maybe my desktop's contrast settings are messed up.

Well, as I said, it's alright. Feel free to edit if you're up for it, but that's pretty much the limit of my nonprofessional ability ^^;

At least it's something :D


13 Jul 2012 [comment_43256]
NEW! steve
It's surprising how much difference there is between different monitors.


14 Jul 2012 [comment_43261]
NEW!
I think xkcd's survey had something to say about the differences in rgb colours between different screens. Or maybe that was one of the input conditions.

Screen angle would also make a pretty big difference, along with having programs like f.lux



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