daggerfall in-game bestiary?

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daggerfall in-game bestiary?

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Based on some old posts in the loading screen mod thread, I went looking for concept art to use as loading screens. I found this page, which contains some Bestiary screens that look to be in-game:

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Was this part of Daggerfall at one point - perhaps in the demo - and later removed? Has there been any efforts made to re-introduce a bestiary?

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That's a screenshot from one of the demos, I don't remember which one exactly
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pango wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:09 pm That's a screenshot from one of the demos, I don't remember which one exactly
Thanks. Has there been any community interest in re-introducing an in-game bestiary?

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That's this demo: https://archive.org/details/TheElderScr ... rfall_1020
(mouse support is a bit finicky, had to switch to/from full screen until mouse cursor dare moving and clicking didn't just close the demo).
The good thing is that it's an example of animations before Mark Jones had to remove 75% of the frames to save memory. The bad thing is that only 9 monsters are depicted
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pango wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:21 pmThe good thing is that it's an example of animations before Mark Jones had to remove 75% of the frames to save memory
If there's higher frame-count animations in this demo, that seems like great material to harvest for a DFU mod. Rather than the odd-looking upscaled sprites, keep the original pixelated goodness but improve the smoothness of the animation.

Is anyone working on pulling old content from these demos (higher frame count animations, beastiary) and implementing it as a mod in DFU?

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Please don't tell me there is higher frame count attack animations hiding in these demos I could of harvested. If so, I'll have to consider it in future work on FPS combat systems.
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agris wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 5:39 pm
pango wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:21 pmThe good thing is that it's an example of animations before Mark Jones had to remove 75% of the frames to save memory
If there's higher frame-count animations in this demo, that seems like great material to harvest for a DFU mod. Rather than the odd-looking upscaled sprites, keep the original pixelated goodness but improve the smoothness of the animation.

Is anyone working on pulling old content from these demos (higher frame count animations, beastiary) and implementing it as a mod in DFU?
Recently I got the Demo faces, and enemies with higher frame count from the 1995 demo. Replacing the games texture files will make them use the higher frame count without issue.

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I just replaced the files in my Arena2 folder.


You can find some pretty cool stuff in there.
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Interesting you can switch these enemies to have higher frame count.
Because doing so thru modding is not possible :X

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King of Worms wrote: Thu Feb 11, 2021 8:16 pm Interesting you can switch these enemies to have higher frame count.
Because doing so thru modding is not possible :X
Being the question, since this is possible, could we mod in new frames from vanilla game files? Then have your DREAM mod upscale the new frames? Would be interesting. Honestly I was surprised it worked myself.

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