Ta: Kingdoms Spring

[WredXIII]

Your Elves remind me a lot of the undead elves in Warcraft III... They're cool.

[azaremoth]

Your Elves remind me a lot of the undead elves in Warcraft III... They're cool.

Well, actually the blade dancer was a heavily inspired by a fallen demonic elf (this blind guy - I don't remember the name) from WC3.

[WredXIII]

I knew it ^_^! Your units own.

[Pressure Line]

N-n-n-n-necro!

the almighty button reveals...

http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=18667

[azaremoth]

Ok just once again - I am NOT working on a TA:K for Spring. What I was talking here is my old mod "the Cursed" for TA:K. This one was finished in 2002 - loooong time ago. My current project is a science fiction/fantasy hybrid. Not a pure fantasy game and especially no TA:K port for spring. Expect the guiding theme to be more like Doom II as a rts.

Take a look - robots and guns included. Not a pure fantasy game. I hope that is clear now





Btw. WredXIII hasn't been around here for half a year. I guess there is noone actually working on the TA:K port. Feel free to do so guys. Melee is working quite well and I would love to see TA:K in spring. There are even enough 3rd party races to avoid legal problems.

[Hoi]

WredXIII hasn't been around here for half a year.

Wasn't he banned?

[Pressure Line]

I don't think anything happened to it. A lot of people show up here and are all piss and wind about how they are gonna do this and that, but never actually do it (probably because they find its not just a case of click a few buttons and its done)

And thus they disappear into the mists of time, where they belong.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

surely TA:K was shite

[Red XIII]

Hey everyone, and yeah, I'm back. I wanna say a few things before I get this thread back on topic:

I was banned for being completely arrogant and immature. I don't think that I need to get into detail about the things I've done, as they would only be a waste of everyones valuable time.
and I am sorry for reviving this thread too. If you have a problem with it, then I'll gladly stop using the forums. I don't want to get on anyones nerves here. If anyone has any objections to my existence on the forums then please let me know. I promise I won't get all pissed like last time and that's all I wanted to say, I think.

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So, to get to the point, I am going to start working on the mod again. No one has shown it any interest lately, despite the working melee (I think it's working, at least I recall it working pretty well in CA).

If you don't like TA: Kingdoms, then that's alright, you don't have to play the mod. I'm only doing this for the people who enjoyed Kingdoms. For legal reasons, I'm going to try and remove all OTAK content and try to use all 3rd party races. I'm certainly not expecting anyone to help me make this mod, but if it's something that you just really really wanna do, feel free to do so.

Yep, that's it... any comments?

[MidKnight]

Woo! Get to it! I want to see how this'll turn out.

[smoth]

It is not that simple to port the third party races.
I doubt you have the authors permission to port their work.

[azaremoth]

Feel free to port the cursed race and the elven mini race. Good luck! Porting the animation scripts will be a mess...

As fas as the "legal reasons" are concerned - keep in mind that most 3rd party races use textures from TA:K. You won't be free of copyright issues just because you are using 3rd party races. I guess no one will actually mind though...

Get it done man!

[Red XIII]

I appreciate it azaremoth. As of now, the cursed race is the only race that I will be using until I figure some of this stuff out.

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To be comepletely honest I've forgotten a lot about spring, and I didn't really even have a lot of experience to begin with anyway (I was hoping to find a copy of TA2SPRING to help me get started, but I was unsuccessful lol). But it's alright, 'cause I'm looking forward to learning the functions of spring (such as LUA scripting) as a product of working on this mod. So my main point is, making this mod is gonna take me a while, and it's not gonna be anywhere near perfect.

Just so everyone's aware, I'm only a rookie and I apprectiate not getting totally shot down on the TA:K idea. lol

EDIT: I did manage to get a good bit of the first version finished tonight. I have a lot a tdf and fbi editing to do and I still need to do something with all the COB scripts (not sure what yet..) and I need to find my old TA:K cd so I can actually get all the textures and stuff off of it.

[Google_Frog]

Though I like TAK I think you'd be better off making a generic Fantasy RTS inspired by TAK. By slowly building up from scratch you'd avoid all the IP mess and the hassel of porting a whole lot of stuff in at once.

[Red XIII]

Definitely. I'm using 3rd party races and units created for TA:K right now (the OTA:K models are fugly in Spring), yet, most of them still rely on the textures from TA:K itself. So I'm kinda bummed out about that, but, isn't it possible to replace them all with my own textures?

[azaremoth]

isn't it possible to replace them all with my own textures?

It is. It is just lots of work. But you won't need to redo all textures. I guess there is only a small amount of the textures that are actually used. What about the Azurian race and Illohir - didn't they have their own (or at least some own) textures?!

[Red XIII]

I didn't think of that. Drr, lol. Yeah, I could just redo the textures that your race depends on (I won't right now though because at the moment there are far more complex things to worry about.)
Also, Illohir was one of the 3rd party races that I hope to add after I finish adding yours.

Also, I've searched high and low for it, but I can't find a copy of TA2SPRING anywhere. If anyone has any idea where I could get a copy of it (if it even still exists on the net...) I would greatly appreciate it.

EDIT: Nevermind, most of the things that the program converts, I could do a lot better by hand.

[wilbefast]

Glad to see someone is working on this - I really am!

I'm one of the freaks who loved TA and Kingdoms, despite the latter's flaws. I remember Azaremoth's Cursed race too (didn't realise it was the same guy working with Spring!)

Let me know if I can help out somehow - I'm a total noob when it comes to TA and Spring modding but I'm a fast learner, and I really want to see this made!

William

[Dream Focus]

I love Total Annihilation Kingdoms. You had some well balanced factions, with their own style of play.

The story was crap of course, but I had a lot of fun playing the game on Boneyards back in the day. Lot of constant balancing done by the staff to compensate for problems, and make it more playable.

Have you contacted all the people who worked at creating the various mods for it? I see one of those guys has given permission to use their stuff. You might find others willing to help with this. It takes a lot of work to make those things, so they aren't going to slack off for their share of the work, if they believe others are involved.

Just playing TA:K as it is now, but having the ability to load up different AIs, would be fun. I can play any fraction and defeat seven allied AI players at once, any faction, any map, easily.

If you release anything, please make an entry at the Total Annihilation Wikia. http://totalannihilation.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

[Manolo]

heyy someone???

what happen with TA:K Spring guys!!

is it working???

give me links.... pls