[M&B + Warband SP] - WIP - AntWars

[vahadar]

i guess that's possible i was planning to set the world limit as a brick wall anyway. i could use the same texture for the swimming pool border, i'll test that.

i'll need anyway to figure what texture i'll use and what for, because i dont think you can have more than the 13 texture tiles from the map editor (and not sure if you can set their behavior, like if they prevent walking or not, like mountains/ocean are in vanilla)

[Grumph]

Do you have any ideas on what factions there will be ? (Names, NPC's, and so on.) You could go with the Red Anthill and the Black Anthill and the pink anthill, but that doesn't leave room for very much creativity in the factions.

[Míriel]

Great idea.

[zumbum]

DO IT!

[FrisianDude]

Sounds very original, at least. I'm looking forward to it.

[Silver Wolf]

Just a small suggestion for factions : black, red and yellow ants (yes they exist and they are not termites)

I'm looking forward to this...

[Rule zum Rabensang]

nice idea, that could turn out very interesting...
sounds silly, looks like a ridiculously huge amount of work....and yeah, that's the spirit of an outstanding mod i guess. 
with some help from some of the expert modellers/riggers on this forum, this might indeed become a fun mod!

do away with the black knights, fear the assassin bugs....
oh, and don't forget the overall threat every mommy-ant tells about to her reluctant children: the giant anteater! (told to be even worse than the notorious pit of the sarlacc, ehm, antlion...)

[Leopardo]

Very interesting!
I could lend a hand in texturing and/or modelling if you wish

[Grumph]

Just a small suggestion for factions : black, red and yellow ants (yes they exist and they are not termites)

You could expand that to actual ants,

As for example, the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_crazy_ant
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_imported_fire_ant
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasmannia_auropunctata
And the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linepithema_humile

This also leaves room for one more faction and they're quite distinctive from each other.

[vahadar]

Do you have any ideas on what factions there will be ? (Names, NPC's, and so on.) You could go with the Red Anthill and the Black Anthill and the pink anthill, but that doesn't leave room for very much creativity in the factions.

Like Silver Wolf suggested i was thinking of faction with black/red/yellow ants . But within those factions you wont find the same types of ants.

Edit : i just saw your post when posting this one, i'll take a look at those links Grumph, i bet those will be interesting stuff

for example black ants will be small and weak, but fast walking and cheap to recruit/maintain and would act mainly as a swarm when attacking. Of course they would have some strong soldier aswell but weaker than the reds.

red ants could be a little bigger, more aggressive, slow and bulky, thus more expansive to recruit/maintain
and so on

some specialized ants from castles could be those flying ants (behaving like a cavalry)

Leopardo has posted in the french section a database link with lots of free models. I'm gathering models that are licence free and could fit in the mod. i will post their link here if some modelers want to have fun with those later.


edit2 : i've modified the first post to link those models and some more ideas from everyone here, thanks for the faction ideas Grumph, i've added the black garden ant and green ants to your proposal

[Lord Benrir]

I take it that you have watched some of the many ant movies like A Bug's Life or Ant Bully, if you haven't I think that you should. Actually there are a lot of good ideas for food, scenery etc.. Also, adopting the cartoon style ant might work out well since it would allow them to have hands rather than legs only.

P.S: These are only ideas. Always do what you want to do!

[vahadar]

I take it that you have watched some of the many ant movies like A Bug's Life or Ant Bully, if you haven't I think that you should. Actually there are a lot of good ideas for food, scenery etc.. Also, adopting the cartoon style ant might work out well since it would allow them to have hands rather than legs only.

P.S: These are only ideas. Always do what you want to do!

its true that having a cartoonish style would be awsome, personnaly i would go for a cartoonish style myself, but that's if there are modelers willing to do so hehe (anyone around?  ) would be cool if those free models i found wre more "cartoon" like...

and i hope this mod to not only be my idea a good mod is i guess one mod people would like to play when they already know what it will be, so contributing to the ideas is definitly a must for now !

[del]

Instead of having the insects be like the ones we know as in 6 or 8 legged walkers what about having them more like humanoids ?
This would take away the need for new animations etc which will be the hardest thing to do for the mod.
Have a look here http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php/topic,82850.0.html  under factions The Xiticix and also look at
-IYI-O-R-T-s  brilliant Red Planet mod.

Great idea by the way.

[Black-knight-blues]

http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/store/images/products/a076-cartoon-ant-clipart.jpg
if the ants are abit unrealistic and use weapons and such, Im in

[vahadar]

Also, adopting the cartoon style ant might work out well since it would allow them to have hands rather than legs only.

This would take away the need for new animations etc which will be the hardest thing to do for the mod.

http://www.bradfitzpatrick.com/store/images/products/a076-cartoon-ant-clipart.jpg
if the ants are abit unrealistic and use weapons and such, Im in

i guess you are all right. would be easier to go this way than making some realistic models, not mentionning it would be funny
thanks for all those advices, i bet something really good and fun could be made out of it