I like this but what about having the peasants be innocent villagers who are bravely (but hopelessly) fighting the evil forces when you enter the screen.

Nothing like the slaughter of innocent villagers to encourage righteous indignation in the mind of the player!

I think that these would be better as friends that are already on the screen and can't be brought into your army.

Sketch and Steve are right.
Or, of course, they could be farmers. It wouldn't take much work to use the ones from Rebellion.

yeah... nothing like an angry mob on your side to get things going. and yes, they should be angry, because these monsters are intruding on their villiage

Got it!

I have 2 suggestional graphics.

Low quality, but I'm proud of it.

The house needs work, but I think the actual characters are O.K still images.

Hopefully someone with expertise can turn these into anims.

:D

Well, here they are...


#1: Farmer/Peasant is pretty good... but house looks rather mundane.


http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/355025_Farmers2.bmp.html


#2: Farmer/Peasant is rather mundane, but the house is much better than the one before.


http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/355026_Farmers.bmp.html


I hope that I can be part of MR4!! Can't wait to see what you guys think!

My third attempt at graphics making! By the way, I'm writing this while I'm waiting for the images to be uploaded on Imagehosting.

Oh, and if you guys think it's O.K, I might even try it with torches.

By the way, Sketch, how do you morph pics to make an anim? It's so hard, because 1 pixel out of place makes the whole thing look weird.

Guess what?!!

I made one with a farmer with a torch!!

Here's the pic:

http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php/355066_Farmers3.bmp.html

Again, this may take a while to load, so go browse something while you're waiting.

Everybody is right!!!!

Your side, not recritable (maybe in rare instances though?)
weak, and the rebellion ones would look good.
Just a little support for a good idea.

I don't want to put you off Carefree_Buterfly, but I'd always imagined using the peasents from Rebellion for this.

It's great that you're having a go at graphics though.

What I do for animation is generally make a few key frames (pictures) then copy them over to make the animations between but all the work is done by hand and generally pixel by pixel. Sometimes I get a lucky breakand can just move an arm and fill in the gaps but not often.

Your peasant looks kinda tall and skinny. What I would recomend is load a picture from MR (the fanpack is in the downloads) like the archer or \"bloke with sword\" and work right next to it. That is how I started with the mace guy. It really helps me to see generally what it should look like. I do it all the time with my own images.

They load pretty much instantly with me...

*sigh*

I worked hard on those graphics.

Anyways, could you tell me if there\'s anything I could have a go at, rather than trying to take initiative and ending up doing it for nothing?

Thanks.

i think the bs should kill some in the begining thay\'d be funny

I just don't know about your sense of humor midjet mage... I really don't know

erm i think that when you first meet them and then when they're fighting the enemies and you help they thank you and you become their friend.

They should be on Merlin's side, but they cant be "unsummoned" and if you blast them, theres no effect like with Berlin and Merlin's army.

cool thre coud be houses and farms on fire too

Then Trogdor shows up...

Arrowed!


Heheh...

TROGDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

burninated

I really don't understand this conversation.

ahhhhh... gotta love trogdor!!!

Now would be a good time to ask who Trogdor is, I think.

care free: go to homestarrunner.com and find games. then find something about trogdor or burning or peasants. or go to the movie file and look up trogdor but that might take a while.

trogdor is a 'dragon'. if you go to homestarrunner.com it won't take long to find.

peasents quest!!!!!!!

you can't be a peasent without being on fire

not for long anyway. its such a good game!!

yesssss, somebody else has beaten that game

Heh, I remember peasant's quest. Sad to say, I managed to answer all the questions at the end correctly the first time. Even the one about the tree...

you guys are going a little of topic. trogdor is cool and all but the peasents are more important at the moment.

merlin should start in the peasent village and then leave to fight monsters then when your 1 sixth across the map you hit a wall that you need a bunch of peasents to push down you head back to the village and there under attack. that sorta sounds coll =).

I drew some pictures of some peasents. one with a pitchfork and one with a torch:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7425/peasentsd7.gif

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/2226/peasent2or7.gif

hmmmm. maybe i should have read the comments on this page before i drew the pictures. did i waste my time drawing them?

It would be awesome if their would be a peasent base and if you get in, cutscene the peasents open a gate, then their would be a cutscene about the enemy's that attack the peasent base, their would be a huge fight with you with the peasents against the army of the black sorcerer with some of those huge skeletons sketch made, sort of final fight.

Dr Destiny, they're good pictures, but there seems little point in animating new peasants when i already have some perfectly good ones. However, if you want to animate them anyway, go ahead. So long as they're better than the ones I did for Rebellion, I'll use them.

I like Dr. Destiny's peasants better.

Nah, the farmers are cool.

I really like his peasant as well they are teh awesome.

Hmm. I prefer the rebellion ones, myself.


Change the settings a bit, and... Long range pitchfork!

I think that peasents could spawn from these

i like that hut, but not the farmland as much

Wait, what's rebellion?

It's a game on this website. I'm slighty shocked you didn't know that

I HAVE RETURNED!!! MWAH-HA-HA.
Hello.

I don't really do much here outside of MR and suggestions.

greetings Darren How has your trip?

Did you have a nice fall?

Trip?
Trip?
What trip?
I left when Steve said he couldn't go on then randomly returned.

It was very nice, thank you.
Yours?
lol

I went sprawling. lol

Not bad although the food at my hotel wasn't too good.

...can you fly?

Sure. Flap flap flap.

CRASH

i'd like some of the peasants to make more houses where even more peasents come from and make even more houses which make even more peasents which will make even more houses.....



you get the idea i think...

lol

that might get a little hectic. too many villagers to worry about.

now that we have peasants... lets revive the Tech Ninja Warriors!!!
There would be one nostalgic screen where 50 peasants fight two ninjas but get totally owned.
Just a little death for Midget mage...

Hey Steve, Are the rebellion peasents in the mr2 fan game kit? I'm thinking of making a team dubbed villagers, who are allied with aldevar, and are the ennemies of every one else to hold these villagers and the town watches.

Towards lokey ninja comenter: can you direct Steve's attention to this?

Lokey Ninja Admin Comment: Sure.

I don't think so. I'll add them and upload the new gfx.

Ok you'll find them in the MR4 GFX pack on the download page. Or just use this link:
http://www.themetalbox.com/downloads/mr4_gfx_001.zip

Thanks:)

oh, also, Steve, what does the "#power: point(x,y);" tag do? Determine where the the strongest point of attack is?

Peasents are a great idea for the game it really adds the medieval time to this game.

I like the rebellion ones much more than anything else. But they are already in MRopen 16/18 right? Anything with a graphic is good for me anyway=)

Well they are all good but ya rebellion kicks but

well the peasants are good since my playings of MR open.:)

*done*