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Outdated Mantis Race 0.6.7 [Spirited Giraffe]

A race of paleontologist insects bent on unravelling the secrets of the universe.

  1. Deathsdoll

    Deathsdoll Pangalactic Porcupine

    So glad that worked for u hun :) Put your mods one by one back in the mod folder, as u do this run your game after putting a mod in to see if it still works. Thats the way I find what mod is not working well with others.
     
  2. RainBatRi

    RainBatRi Scruffy Nerf-Herder

    I truly love this mod! Amber and mantids are two of may favorite things and this mod puts them together. My one regret with this mod is that I use the Dreadnoughts for All Races ship mod so I've been using the Apex ship for my mantids instead of the default amber one. I would love to have a mantis amber ship for that mod, but the Apex one works. I can't wait for the rest of the features to get finished. I'd offer to help with the sprites but I'm no good at making stuff from scratch, the best I can do is tweaking and fine-tuning (yay for much time spent personalizing Minecraft texture packs for family server use). Overall, a very well done mod!

    Edit: I looked back through the rest of this thread and saw you weren't going to include purple. If you look up the spiny flower praying mantis they can be purple.
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    Last edited: Feb 17, 2014
  3. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

  4. Kayhighwindrox

    Kayhighwindrox Void-Bound Voyager

    I like this mod, it's very creative, I couldn't help but noticing the reanimation sequence kinda reminds me of awakening the Klaxxi Paragons in WoW, as you had to break them out of amber and the klaxxi are a praying mantis like race, was that any inspiration for you for the respawn animation?
     
  5. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

    Yea, that was where I got a lot of the amber idea from, also from Jurassic Park. Good eye! xD
     
  6. Kayhighwindrox

    Kayhighwindrox Void-Bound Voyager

    well I'm not a nerd for nothing
     
  7. beari78

    beari78 Guest

    Do they eat Florans? Is the latest version compatible with the newest stable update? Is this alive?
     
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  8. wolfboyft

    wolfboyft Pangalactic Porcupine

    Love it. FTL, right?
     
  9. Wiredwrong

    Wiredwrong Astral Cartographer

    Are you still actively developing this?
     
  10. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

    I pretty much just stopped working on it a while ago, but that doesn't mean I can't come back. I do still like this mod and have a ton of interest in Starbound. I really should update this to the latest version, at least.
     
  11. Wiredwrong

    Wiredwrong Astral Cartographer

    I was hoping you'd continue it, Starbound really needs an insectoid like race!
     
  12. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

    I agree completely haha. So it looks like (unless I'm crazy or doing something wrong) that my mod is perfectly up to date and playable, which means I can jump right back in to making new features! If you have any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
     
  13. Wiredwrong

    Wiredwrong Astral Cartographer

    Tiered armor, Settlements and dungeons! I'm pretty sure you already had those in the works though! haha :D
     
  14. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

    Yea, those have been priority number one for a while. I've had little to no good inspiration for what the tiered armor should be, but I'm sure something will come to mind. As for animating the armor itself, I'm not the best with spriting, but I'll give it my best shot. Dungeons, on the other hand, I have WAY too many good ideas for. I'm already a decent way into creating a full-length one so I might pick up on that first.

    I'm also looking into designing ship A.I.'s and improvements to the ship itself. I'm going to need to finalize my ship design soon so I can start working on a destroyed version for the new updates.
     
    Last edited: Jul 14, 2014
  15. beari78

    beari78 Guest

    Yay! I loved this mod but didn't use it cause I was unsure of the game version. :rofl: Downloading next update.
     
  16. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

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    Not even close to done, but I thought I'd upload my progress on the Mantis Ship's A.I. (for whenever the new update comes out). I'm absolutely dirt terrible at spriting and 3D things in general, but I figured I might as well get a head start so I'm not discouraged to work on it later.
     
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  17. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

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    What I ended up with. I would MUCH rather have it be more humanoid, with an actual body, but for right now this is the best I could do. There's always time to change it later I suppose, especially since the update is a long way away...

    In other news...

    By the end of the day, I'm going to have posted an update to the mod including full racial dialogue options (until now it only had lines written for Apex/Avian/Human). I think I'll work on finishing up all the weapon tiers next. After that I'll try and make some armor sets, or maybe start editing the ship consoles/doors.
     
  18. Wiredwrong

    Wiredwrong Astral Cartographer

    i think it looks nice as is! You probably have quite awhile until they actually release the next update anyway.
     
  19. Setrilo

    Setrilo Phantasmal Quasar

    Okay I definitely underestimated how long it would take to get good, quality lines written for racial dialogue lol. I'll release the update tomorrow hopefully. They are pretty amazing so far though.

    My favorites (of the new ones):
    Human -> Mantis: "Look, it's a scyther! Pokemon DO exist!"
    Mantis -> Apex: "Please, that's a delicate fossil, not a toothpick."
    Mantis -> Avian: "Hmm. Wings, beak, no flight. Clearly a biped...you must be a penguin."
    Mantis -> Avian: "You can't eat me, I'm endangered!"
    Mantis -> Human: "Those are...well...WERE archaeological records."
     
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  20. Disco2

    Disco2 Existential Complex

    Nice mod idea, good job!
     

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