Lol, if someone wants to draw it, I'll put it in. I wouldn't mind if you want to make a bit more bizzare like having the baby ostriches armed with lasers or something I dunno.

I would need to do a bit more programming to make a unit capable of dropping a dwelling (which what the egg would be) but that's ok, it would be time well spent.

thanks. ostriches remind me of llamas, and BAM! it hit me, power ostrich!! (russian hat is a must, it won't be power ostrich without it)

har har har, this is funny i like it

it kinda reminds me of the flamangos in MR 1

They weren't flamingos.
They were...what were they again Steve?

flamingos? you mean the prince vulture! ohhh! we need him back!!

that was a vulture? ehh... i guess it looks like one. yeah they should come back.

They were at the end of MR 3...

Way back ages ago, there was some page on the website which appeared to be some contest for entries for enemies for MR1, except the only thing listed was the Sarcastic Prince Vulture (which was the name given there, so I'm taking it as the 'official' name), so I'm not sure if that was the only suggestion, or just listed as it was used, if if I'm going crazy and it was never there at all. Whatever it was, it was originally suggested that it would 'say' (via speech bubbles) things like 'Nice try!' and other such stuff when you attacked it.

Of course, when MR1 came around, they didn't do that.

I'm not sure if the page still exists, and I don't have the patience to ---

Okay, I went looking. I'm talking about this page.

o yeah well they should still come back cause they weren't used very much.

really? must not have noticed them while i was creating mayhem.

Yeah, I always regretted not being able to do the sarcastic comments. In MR3, characters can speak: it probably wouldn't be too hard to have them say things as the battle continues. Taunts, if you will. But it would obscure the view and so on. Hmm... this should really be it's own suggestion.

Hmm. Well dragons display an animation between attacks (breathing smoke). Couldn't these gusy do the same thing, with the sarky comments?

"my grandmum/mom can kill faster than that!" yea i remember that. it was the giant baby that one though wasn't it? the rest were just put int he game. is there any chance of having the power llama team put in?

Darren, you're right, the speech could be built into the animation! Why didn't I think of that?

yea, and the object of that is to sorta throw of merlin while he's paying attention to the comments, and other people hit him and stuff. it would make the game a little more, suckerpunchy.

You didn't think of that because you are a bumbling buffoon, while I am an absolute genius who's intelligence knows no bounds! Bow before me!


lol


Anyway, are you gonna try and do that then?

nah.

What if someone else draws the sarcasm frames?

why not steve? that would be awsum!

ok, ive drawn him



the attack


reel


egg hatching


baby ostrich



and the baby attacking(there should be lasers coming out of his mouth)

lol! funny graphics!

on a technical note, you know where you've made stuff fade out, like in the reel anim and the egg hatching anim? In the game that will look like it's glowing white. If that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll try to explain.

dude! that's awesome!! and the glowing white would look cool wouldn't it steve? but thanks music!! (can i call you music cuz i can't get that symbol?) that's really awesome, and thanks for helping. =)

ok here: ♪(yay)

Do explain; I'm interested in knowing why.

AWSOME!!!!!!! MUST BE INCLUDED!!!!!

Looks neat but kinda creepy... the legs look like human legs.
Bird's legs are backwards and usually more yellow.
Really amusing to watch fun stuff

the legs are... interesting. looks like his wearing shoes.

they should all have transparent backrounds, so they should fade to transparent not white, shouldn't they?

here are two with the fade removed

First let me say I love the human legs - I find it amusing :)

Second, the reason it would glow rather than fade is that shockwave will treat pure white as transparent, but all other colours (including very very pale grey) will be drawn as they are.

It is technically possible to import graphics into shockwave with an alpha channel. An alpha channel allows you to define colours as being semi-transparent. But I don't do this in my games because it takes way too long to draw and slows the game down.

Third, thanks ♪, for removing the fade. Good job!

Firestorm:
The reason it would glow is because in the MR game pure white is transparent. In his graphics he makes it appear to fade to transparancy by having the graphics go to white. Which works if the picture is on a solid white background but if the egg was on a grass tile the egg would just get brighter to near white and when it hit white it would disapear.
That is unless he is using a .png format that does support true transparancy.

they are wearing shoes

Hey, they do look like they're wearing trainers an' all!

Those legs are hilarious!

:D

Cool graphics!

well, since it's an animation, you can't save it as ,png, but .gif supports transparency also doesn't it? to model the eggs going to white, could you just have some render on a green backround and lighten the hue until it goes to white? just to see what would happen.

Donut, that doesn't seem to make sense. But in any case, as I said earlier, I won't have graphics with alphas in MR because they are too slow to draw in shockwave.

It's not a big deal. I think there is no difference between the transparancy and the scroll disappearance.

♪, I think you're becoming another Sketch! I have a question for you...

How do you type your name?

♪, I'm assuming that the ostrich would have a melee attack since he's laying the egg on Merlin?

whoops... there's no graves.

main ostrich grave


egg grave



baby grave(could use some work if anyone is willing to redraw it)

hey um,may we have them axualy shooting lassers and not nothing?(takinh about baby ostrich)cuz it opening mouth and nothing happening -.-.

This is kewl, i like it. Just 1 thing, in the 1st set of pics, is the atk supposed to say the laying, or sumtin instead, or is laying the eggs really an attack, or did u label it wrong???????????

cool graves. I might have a go at the baby grave if no one else does.

uhhm isn't it wise to add it to the roadmap now, everybody thinks its a cool idea.

i think it could lay eggs on enemies and it would hurt cuz the egg is huge and it's rolling down and,yea.but it would need a longer time to reload the egg.

i want sarcastic comments coming from my enemies cry....~lol~

*sizzie*

The attack seems a bit too slow.

Good point, arjan. Added.

*eats the egg* yummy.

Double post.

i heard you the first time steve, or is that a glich? am i a glich? idk.

Yeah, the site does generate double posts occasionally. Not just by me, but I spot double posts that other people have done. However, I don't tend to moderate my own comments before posting them up, so I missed this double post.

that's alright, if you hit submit more than once i think it posts things twice. i'mma not sure.

there is something about him that just deos'nt seem very much like MR

I know what you mean, animatordude.

why not? he looks alot like the sarcastic prince vulture which was in the first mr. there are alot of suggestions being put in that don't seem like mr, it's just changing with the world and stuff.. i'm sorry you don't really like it though =(

i agree with animatordude and Darren, personally, i only really like the egg, the rest of it is just fun to watch

Maybe if u had a little mage on it that would yell out stuff, that way there would be somthing from MR so u cant complain...mehehe. But then again that mite b hard to put a mage n each frame by now...

so cool

ehh im used to the weird stuff that goes into MR. This will be a fine idea. It will be better when its actually in the game.

thanks for the comment guys.

Np.

wow,thats cool.

i've been wondering...
where do you do to draw up all the anims?
sketch would probably know.
by the way, cool vulture. all it needs is a fez...
as soon as i can find how to animate, i'll submit a pirate vulture with a bandanna...

Perhaps he should be wearing rollerscates? After all, the Prince has a big unicycle.

if you ate the dead ostritch would you heal?

A thought/question about working the ostrich without any changes to the engine;

Would people mind if the egg didn't hatch until it gets hit by something/dies(assuming that on first hit, the egg dies)?

then, the egg could be an enemy, with a reel that is the hatching (I'm not sure if that would work), and then, when the ostrich lays an egg, it is a ranged attack, whose bullet reincarnates as the egg. The egg could even roll around towards a target!

Would this be okay with people, and work?(steve?)(even though I'll try it before getting a response)

This ostrich cycle is funny it is coool!

I suppose this could be done two ways:
1. the egg is from an attack
2. the egg is a building

The building side is kindof nice, as it lets the eggs be attacked before they hatch, and make it such that there is some amount of time before the babies need worrying about.

However, the attack would make things easier.