MOD IS NOT DOING ANYTHING AT THE MOMENT
Update: 4/3/10
Could come out of hibernation what with the advances in mod tools, however I have another mod now. The main thing holding it back is scene props, map, coding and the animation stuff (I haven't played with custom skeletons).. aside from that I reckon it'd be quite easy to put together. If someone with mod experience did approach me wanting to help resurrect it, I'd definitely consider it. They'd have to prove they weren't just going to take the current art and release some half-arsed native reskin though.
So these are the reasons I'm still not working on the mod
- Working on another slightly more traditional but very art heavy mod which is getting a lot more support. Which I'm therefore having more fun working on atm and needs less animation work, plus I have people helping with coding and other such things.
- Being sodding busy in the real world.
Brick and Blade is a mod currently under development by myself and Stefano. It will transform M&B into a lego fantasy world, heavily based off the classic castle sets. Expect to see Royal Knights, Forestmen, Black Falcons, Vikings and the Wolf pack battling it out in a plastic world! Due to the nature of Lego and the enormous resources available online, we can also add whatever we want really! Lego versions of River pirates and other M&B favorites will also appear.
At the moment, this mod is still very much in the early art development stages. I've experimented with fitting the minifigure to the M&B skeleton and am convinced that we need a custom skeleton, therefore I'm eagerly awaiting the new BRF edit to let me have a hack at bringing these models to life.
FACTIONS:
Royal Knights
Forestmen
Black Falcons
Wolf Pack
Vikings
Bandits
Here are a preview renders though
World map preview.
http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~tarini/tmp/newmap/lego/legowip1.pnga selection of helmets to be worn (and plate armour to be worn by minifigures) and hair. Obviously there'll be colour variation and things
a selection weapons to be wielded. Once again there'll obviously be variations in colour and loads of different shield designs. And possibly shiny weapons if I can wrangle it ingame
a selection of horses to be ridden.
Now for the most important bit: the minifgure, pictured here with the M&B skeleton. He is now totally rigged up (the cloak as well) and ready to go ingame. However as you can see, he doesn't fit the M&B skeleton. However, a new skeleton
shouldn't be needed. What I should be able to do is grab the root dummy (or bone 0 as M&B calls it) and shift the whole skeleton down, so his feet are on the ground. Unfortunately the
current brf edit can't do this. However it should be possible to do it in a future version. after which it's just a hard slog of fixing all the animations. Oh and me working out how to replace the body head and hand meshes entirely
Curse my lack of scripting.
On another note in the design, the legs meshes will go in boots slot. Heads, hands, torso and legs will be separate pieces, so you can customise your character as you would with real lego.
Anyway... still looking for any volunteers to help, even if it's only with ideas and names for companions.
Obviously anyone who wants to help with any aspect is more than welcome
These show a small example of the variety of weapons and armour that will be in Brick and Blade. Expect to see more soon.
Anyone who wants to contribute scene props need only download http://leocad.org/ and try building a few things. The export is horrible but I'm sure we'd work around it.Credits so far:
Stefano
Yoshiboy
mtarini
Anthony Sava for the excelent torso stickers and a great reference site
