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I thought it's worth a laugh or two for bay 12.
What do you guys think of it ?
For me, it looks like a dwarf that is about to have a bit of "fun"


http://de.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=23sdcon&s=8#.VYsqzFI71wg

Alien assault is a very obscure tactical turn based squad marine alien survival thingy to begin with.
And when i say obscure i mean really, since i didn't find it here on bay12!

What makes this game special is it's perma death, squad that suffers all sorts of scars and damage, promotion and decorative distinctions on them.

As you can see I'm not too good of a game describer and I feel like I'm doing more harm than good to the game's reputation so just head on here and get the game.

http://www.teardown.se/

(BE SURE not to click on the Alien Assault 2, or Alien assault - left 2 die; those have to do with the first AA)

Really want to hear your guys opinion on this one!

LINK to tutorial - http://www.ja-galaxy-forum.com/board/ubbthreads.php/topics/314786/Random_generated_Portraits_TUT.html#Post314786
It was written by me on another site, next to the same article as this one.


Ok, maybe there's a little more to go, than half way.
But what i want to promote today is this generator, take a look and read lower:


 

These are the animations - there is some quality loss due to the video conversion (sorry, my fault) as you can see in contrast with the actual pictures.Also, didn't handle the frame sequence and looping too well, so some animations may seem screwy.

 




   





These upper portraits were created by me (through the generator) as trying to show some of the features: male, female, ape generator plus hats and torture marks. Two portrait was personally created while others were selected from a list of randomly generated portraits.



Here i want to show the color ability of the program, you can manipulate every color component, even more you have a random color button which changes colors randomly from a given set of list. In my perspective, just by playing with the random color button on a character changes the way it is expressed, and can also reflect age to a certain degree.



   

     


These sets of portraits were generated through preferences settings ( you can tell the generator what "pieces of facial characteristics, and clothes to use) making this tool pretty easy to handle.

Here i tried to create a biker stereotype (i included lots of facial hair, excluded some "soft" facial characteristics, and added hats) so that every time you create a random character, a biker stereotype is created. I didn't work too much on it, but enough to understand for a demonstration of what you can do:


   


You name them

   



And these are some prisoners/slaves portraits




These other portraits (the two links under) were generated randomly and posted as they are here.


 


   


Here is a link to the portrait generator itself, for those interested in using it or seeing what it does. You'll find it quite flexible in editing, just explore the functions - further instructions on how to use i will gladly share, only ask.

http://www.mediafire.com/?thhvg6rjhhz4wk6

(There are some features that need explaining, but the most important heads up is, if you load female pack you can't save in a gallery of male portraits. If you load a gallery of male, and you have female selected, you will get an error. I guess i wasn't too clear on it, but you'll understand.)


TO note - Quality is a bit dimmer since i am not so good at manipulating screen shots and such.
        - Also, looking back, i can see not all the hair types manage to get in for the girls, total hair types being 20 in number.

 
A list of features from the generator:

a) A lot of variations on portraits
b) THEY. ARE. HAND-DRAWN. - this is the most important feature of all, since 3d rand-gen portraits are abundant, this one is unique
c) ANIMATED - lips, eyebrows, eyes.
d) Male, female and ape generator.
e) Features like tortured face marks, glasses, hats.

Another option the generator has is an ethnic criteria, being able to choose between arab, american or russian facial characteristics, thou don't expect for changes too radical. (Biggest contrast is between americans and russians, there are differences in beards, eyes and so forth; also arabs looks pretty much like US soldiers because they are mixed mercenaries, some white some with darker skin color)

So what i'm thinking is - how hard would it be, and I bet it is - to actually implement this in game? for people you recruit meet or fight?
Seeing also that a lot of color and background is adjustable we can tune the portraits down to look grimmer so it could try and fit the the ASCII graphics.
As an ending, i just threw this over here, only if anyone is interested in coding it, also to take a look at the program itself since it's loads of fun to work with.
I am not expecting anything but your opinions at this point.
Cheers!


NOTE: The generator itself i talked about as for the artwork are NOT part of my work. The generator is created by STUCUK (forum administrator and patcher of Original War) as for the art itself being part of a game, Original War.

I periodicly check bay 12 to see if any major updates occur for DF, one thing i don't know is weather updates, be them small or big, are backed up by graphical tilesets?

Ussualy i've seen mayday do an update of his graphical mod everytime there's a big update out, but in the mean time could there be a way to adjust the mod manualy to DF's small updates?

I mean i am pretty sure you guys do that, or at least some of you which preffer graphics
Also i've vistited the feature list reggarding future development of DF and my God it's so cool, other question is: what does Toady priorities on ? us adventure fans, or the Fortress mode?

And one last remark - i've been playing some -1 year old version- of DF and i noticed that the difficulty was more progressive than it is now, back then you would first go kill wolves ogres and such and after being pro you would go after dragons and demons. Now from what i feel, i just made an adventurer and just easily killed a dragon plus it's so hard to die now, than it was before, doesn't make much sense for me...

Did anyone else feel that this version is too easy?

Well since most of you people from this forum like rogue like games, i guess you also like the part where you get have only 1 life, and after that you're dead.

All i wanted to ask from you guys is to post ANY coop game that you know that has dragging functions, and even advanced medical aid...

I will post my own knowlage of these games in my past ''years research''

Enemy Infestation (quite nice)
Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers (superb game, the only part where they freaked up is that you could-not-die )
WW1 medic (crazy about this game ^^, only bad part is...you can't multy )
Operation Flashpoint with some kind of mod SLX or something like that (has medical treatment, dragging, and even prisoners capturing - bad part - you could not coop i think with the mod)
Arma again with some mods-ons i belive... (but it kinda sucks up the resource and i can't play it)

I guess i went through more games but i can't recall them right now...

Your Turn.

Are there any plannings for those things above? something like a skill?

Surgery? or first aid skill ?

would be very nice if there would also be a medical skill that can heal you while fast traveling the higher the medical the faster regen (supposedly the isnta' square walking regen  is removed)

first aid is for helping at the spot wounded creatures that will bleed to death (throut cuts and all)

and surgery for a more complex aproach on healing wounds (kinda unsure how to use this one, and on what)

But you guys got the rough idea.

Are the random encounters? i mean seriously how can i get some skills if i have to walk throughout the map 10 minutes for an encounter? i guess i am not doing something i must have been doing? should i keep walking in local area than in travel mode? Eh sorry but i started playing DF for a week and some things are confusing...

And where can i find some companions? i read wiki and the guide help for adventurers and it said to ask some drunkards, but i kept searching for them for hours in human cities.