Foundations of Hope: The Mounts

Game Name: Foundations of Hope Online
Technology: TGE + Torque MMO Kit
Genre: Christian Fantasy MMORPG
Company: Lethal Games Corporation
Game Website: Foundations of Hope Online

The Foundations of Hope Mounts

Ah, the mounts of FoHO. I really did not plan to implement any mounts until the very end but I decided to implement a portion early for testing purposes. The amount of work that will take to finish them will be rather immense. The FoHO mounts are not the typical mounts, but will more be a skill to switch the mesh so that the players are able to do mounted combat. This will include mounted combat on land and in the air on their dragon mounts. Doing it this way and having eight Professions(races), male and female, will require me to create and animate sixteen land mounts and sixteen dragon mounts. Alot of work, but I think it will be well worth it to be able to do mounted combat.

So far now, I have implemented the mount portion only. I am telling the testers to pretend their character is sitting in the saddle :) But the initial testing of mounted character meshes is pretty sweet. They keep the proper armor textures as well as weapons and helms. Armor and weapons switch with inventory swapping as well. I currently have the land mounts given to testers once they reach level 30. They then receive the Dragon mount at level 60.

If I ever get real crazy, I might look at setting up a new Mount gui system so armor and weapons could be added to the mounts, but that is a nicety and not a necessity at this point. The character models will atleast swap textures and weapons which is the most important to release the game.

Just a reminder I have permission to use models similar to Daz models because my books are all illustrated with Daz products, and this allows me to to tie the game and books together so everything looks very similar.

The Saurian Mounts



The design is based on the Daz3d's Dragons of Burden. The actual model however was originally MoM's Mammoth model from the MMOWorkshop Critter pack.







Human Mounts
The humans will be using the 3d-diggers horses. Had to pretty much remodify them for the kit, but they are in and working and looking great.





Dragon Mounts
Both Humans and Saurians will receive dragon mounts. Possibly different colors per realm, but I haven't had time to create new textures so everybody gets a grey dragon for now.






I wanted to pick on some players that were teasing not being able to ride the mounts yet. One is a Troll character which are like 8 foot, 600lb beasts. I hadn't yet created the Saurian Beast to be the Troll's mount so did a couple screenshots to show what would happen if they tried to use the current smaller mount. I said it would be faster for the Trolls just to pick up and carry the mounts, thus pic 2.