The original Bedokaan - found and released

[Drog Black Tooth]

What this could be?






It took a lot of time (and luck) to find this...

[rroyo]

Cool! Are you going to be restoring this?
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[wayne-scales]

I may sound stupid, but I'm confused. What is of importance here?

[Dark Elf]

It's the Bedokkan art. The Bedokkan in the above screenshots are the ones that were originally intended to be in Arcanum, but for some reason they were cut and replaced with the current. tamer Bedokkan.
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[wayne-scales]

Ah. Sorry for the confusion, I haven't played Arcanum in a while and didn't notice the new art.

Why did they use a tamer version?

[floyd]

Those are awesome!

[team a]

Fuck yeah, DBT! That's some really good work. I'm assuming that you wrote the restored Bedokaan over the others, but I can't wait to put both in a mod and have them be rival tribes.

Also, I'd go with the vanilla Arcanum Waroman portrait, although I realize you might just have been pointing out the existence of the cut out one.

Great job!


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EDIT: I nominate one of the animated ones at the bottom of Drog's post for an avatar for Jungle Japes or Wolfsbane.
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[Drog Black Tooth]

I'm going to rant a bit, please excuse me for my obsession with the game.

The models in the above screenshots are indeed the original lizard people/Melokaan/Bedokaan/etc. As of now, I have some files from an earlier build, and since the lizard people were changed really late in the development this build has the model. (Please don't ask me where did I get these files, or what files exactly do I have. I will release everything interesting eventually, anyway).

This model is in fact the only model that was cut from the game altogether. It was featured on the official site, and the ending slides for the Bedokaan were rendered using this model. Although, at the late point in the development (at some point after March) they made a new model for the lizard people, and changed the Waromon's portrait as well, so it'd suit the new model.

The original model actually had a few problems, that's why I didn't release it immediately. The walking animation had a minor glitch in the game--the shadow spot was switching places at some frames. I figured that some x and y's were wrong. And indeed I was right. Movement values were going back and forth, but positioning was compensating it, so the animation was fluid to an observer, but was wrong in actuality. I went through x and y's and figured the pattern of the glitch. Turns out, something went wrong with the program they used to generate x and y's, so some values were shifted by a certain number. With this knowledge, I've finally fixed the animation.

A bit more on the animations. Just like the final one this model has animations for fighting with a sword, a bow and a staff, but there are some other differences. It has animations for being stunned, a gory death (decapitation in this case) and a lower attack with a bow. The final model doesn't have such animations, although it has animations for walking with a sword, a bow, and a staff. Such animations occur extremely rare in the game, so the developers didn't render them for most monsters/unique NPCs. Probably the only way to see an NPC in such animation is to exhaust an NPC in combat. Moreover, if such animations are not present the engine will use the normal walking animation for them. Anyway, in order for this beta model to properly overwrite the final one I've just copied the normal walking animation for these extra animations.

(I explain it in details, just so you won't ask me why there are dupes).

Considering the artistic value of the model itself, I think it's pretty original. These lizard people look much more wild to me. Even a bit sly, perhaps. And (arguably) fit the Arcanum setting better than the colorful ones in the final version.

Well, this sums up it all, I guess. For now, the model (+ portrait) is released as a separate patch, you can just put the .dat file into your Arcanum folder and you will have the original lizard people. However, I may add this to the Extra Pack in the future.

I can't claim any credit for this masterpiece of Leonard Boyarsky, othen than the fact that it took me time (and luck) to procure it, and then fix the walking animation as well.

P.S. As it was said, it may be a good idea to use it as a separate monster race in mods (I hope we'll have a decent stand alone module in the future), as well. Number of slots for critters is hardcoded, so you may rename the model and put it in the unused slot #29, for example. Be sure to give me a credit for finding and fixing the model, though.

Enjoy!

http://rapidshare.de/files/39904879/LizardPeopleOriginal.zip.html

(I'd like this to be hosted at T-A as well, so it doesn't get lost)

[team a]

Once again, some fantastic work. I'll hold off on asking where some of it came from because you asked, but if/when you reveal more, you'll have my full attention.

I would like to ask this, though. Do you have the files that the models were compiled from, which I assume are 3d, or just a completed build from earlier in the development, without the source?
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[Drog Black Tooth]

[rroyo]

[Packersfan30_3]

I like these a lot. I always found the final build Bedokaan too tame. I couldn't imagine them waging war on the warm-bloods. These guys I can imagine swooping from trees and putting arrows in human's heads. I was wondering, are you going to rewrite waroman's stats to match his new appearance? For the best warrior in a tribe of warriors, I always found him to be a little weak?

One thing, how do you have large plate-armor for your ogres at this point? I am past this point, have Chukka Sogg and myself (an ogre) and we all still have guard leather.

[Grossenschwamm]

This is quite amazing...and Waromon actually looks like himself in the portrait. I definitely like the original art, but I can see why it was changed. They probably wanted the Bedokaan to appear less menacing so people would want to help them.
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[team a]