[MOD] Eye of the Beholder: Waterdeep Sewers

Talk about creating Grimrock 1 levels and mods here. Warning: forum contains spoilers!
User avatar
djoldgames
Posts: 107
Joined: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:28 pm
Contact:

[MOD] Eye of the Beholder - Waterdeep Sewers

Post by djoldgames »

I move this post to the beginning of thread...
Last edited by djoldgames on Tue Sep 25, 2012 10:40 pm, edited 2 times in total.
User avatar
Montis
Posts: 340
Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:25 am
Location: Grimrock II 2nd playthrough (hard/oldschool)

Re: [MOD] Eye of the Beholder - Waterdeep Sewers

Post by Montis »

This looks so great! I might actually interrupt making my own dungeon and play this.
Must... stay... strong! :D
When destiny calls, the chosen have no choice.

My completed dungeon (LoG1): Hypercube
User avatar
Komag
Posts: 3654
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:55 pm
Location: Boston, USA

Re: [MOD] Eye of the Beholder - Waterdeep Sewers

Post by Komag »

djoldgames wrote: For moderators: Please move here all posts from the thread: EOB Custom Levels,
I would like to edit and update this first post. Thank you!
did the best I could, ended up a little weird. your other post is now the new first post, so you can edit and rearrange stuff I guess
Finished Dungeons - complete mods to play
User avatar
xdeath
Posts: 75
Joined: Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:23 am

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers

Post by xdeath »

If I may make a suggestion, perhaps you should change the wall textures to a more realistic brownish red. The current red is kind of hard on the eyes.

Anyways I'm glad someone has taken up this project, I never got a chance to finish EOB when I played it.
User avatar
Komag
Posts: 3654
Joined: Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:55 pm
Location: Boston, USA

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers

Post by Komag »

Yeah, a re-creation doesn't have to be exactly as garish as the original ;)
Finished Dungeons - complete mods to play
User avatar
thomson
Posts: 337
Joined: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:55 pm
Location: R'lyeh
Contact:

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers

Post by thomson »

Great to see the intro in your last update (0.02.5). Very impressive. On some screens you show couple images from the original intro at the same time. I think you may try to experiment with putting several slides quickly one after another to get a crude animation of a movement (like drawing a sword or the party approaching the lord).

On the other hand, it would be more productive to work on the actual dungeons :)

As for the "red hurting someone's eyes", I think it is ok as it is now. I propose to stick as close to the original as possible. One will say that red is too red, then someone else will say that the straight corridor is too boring, let's add some loot there. Other will comment on monsters being too easy, so will we have ogres on level 1. See? That's a road to nowhere.

My understanding is that goal of this work is to recreate EOB1 as closely as possible.

p.s.
In the changelog you haven't mentioned that snails now have different coloring. They now have reddish stripes and their underbelly is brownish-reddish. (Not sure if that is your change or the change introduced by grimrock 1.2.10 that came out at the same time).
[MOD] Eye of the Beholder: Waterdeep sewers forum sources; Grimtools (LoG1 -> LoG2 converter) sources
User avatar
djoldgames
Posts: 107
Joined: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:28 pm
Contact:

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers

Post by djoldgames »

@thomson: thanx for playing and reporting. FIxed. Now it is level 1 almost complete with all logic including Special Quest.

@Komag: thank you very much for moving the posts.

@xdeath: change textures to more realistic brownish color - maybe later (after first 3 sewer levels completed), not for now, it is lot of work. In actual textures I ispired by colors of Amiga version (my favourite) of Eye of the Beholder :-)

@thomson: yes, Intro will be changed, this is only first version I test the cinematic feature. BTW: what about the music track ;-)
And the retextured slime is my (funny) substitute for Kobold...
User avatar
djoldgames
Posts: 107
Joined: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:28 pm
Contact:

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers - v0.02.6

Post by djoldgames »

With new version of editor I do some scripts refactoring. Thank you AH for the destroy() function!

Level 1: Upper Sewer Level
Logic is complete, equal to original. For all testers of specific level (in the future) I added to the starting location Teleporter to Level 2. Special Quest 1 reward - Guinsoo - is now throwing dagger (model and icon is cloned Assassin, and dagger inserted in the alcove is disappeared.
TODO:
- scrolls and spells implementatioin
- model/texture/icon for Lock Picks and its implementation to game (maybe as a new skill for rogue)
- better model/texture for sewer doors
- models/textures for decorations as drainage grate and drain pipe with clickable areas on it (for the text messages)
- enemies: Leechs and Kobolds!

Level 2: Middle Sewer Level
First 3 sections completed. For the Special Quest L2 (insert the daggers in carvings on the wall) I used standard Lock (with changed height) under the carving.
Section with pits: there are not real pits, becouse it is not conneced with next level, the room where party fall through these pits is in the same level. Open pits are scripted as teleports. I use teleport as substitute for Ladder for now...

Image
User avatar
thomson
Posts: 337
Joined: Thu Sep 13, 2012 9:55 pm
Location: R'lyeh
Contact:

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers

Post by thomson »

djoldgames wrote:@thomson: thanx for playing and reporting. FIxed. Now it is level 1 almost complete with all logic including Special Quest.
Thank you for doing this dungeon.
djoldgames wrote:@thomson: BTW: what about the music track ;-)
It's very nice. I wonder if there's a way to extract the sounds from the original. With couple images separated by sleep(0.5), it should be possible to make a closing sewer gate animation with a sound.

Hah, I never knew that there are secret quests in EOB1. I've played it so long ago...
[MOD] Eye of the Beholder: Waterdeep sewers forum sources; Grimtools (LoG1 -> LoG2 converter) sources
User avatar
takis76
Posts: 78
Joined: Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:01 pm
Location: Athens - Greece

Re: EOB: Waterdeep Sewers

Post by takis76 »

Guys how to create wallsets?
I have a lots of wallsets ready from my Eye of the Beholder 4, but how do I put them and create custom wallsets for Legend of Grimrock?

Any Idea to start play?

Also the wallset from EOB1 will be available for other players to create dungeons?

I have seen there is and another wallset from "This rotten place" does this wallset will be available to the public to able to put them in our dungeons?

Thank you :)
Last edited by takis76 on Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Post Reply