RPG Vault has launched a new feature series on War of the Ring with this diary. In it, designer Jack Davis from Liquid Entertainment describes a typical day:Cirith Ungol is the home of a very nasty creature named Shelob, an ancient and immense spider. Shelob makes a guest appearance in my mission, but currently we have no Shelob model. We do, however, have a Giant Spider unit in the game. But still, this unit is not large enough to represent the great Shelob. Rather than creating a whole new Shelob model, we can save time by scaling up the existing Giant Spider model and doing some texture changes to make it look unique. To find out about scaling the model, I visit the programming area and talk to the programmer who is responsible for scripting my mission, Jacob Aldridge, and he tells me they already have a script function that can alter the scale of a unit as it is spawned into the world. Great! |