Foundations of Hope: Some AFX

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

Well I was hoping my AFX blog would have some cool new spells and special effects, but well, it doesn't. I will go back and modify and create my own effects at a later time, but most of my time was going through the current AFX scripts and splitting it up into elements that would not kill the frame rates of a MMORPG and that would work with the PG MMOKIT. The kit does not use AFX like base TGE does and the effects need to be split into a casting, projectile, and target(end) phase. This required alot of timing changes. Not huge work, just time consuming to start game, modify, start game, modify, until I was finally happy with the timing of events. All in all, I had an absolute blast(pun included) with it. The special effects are probably my favorite part so far of the game development.

Add in the Explosion Pack and even more fun.

I developed many different combos, but FRAPS would kill my machine and cause some very jerky movies. So these are the ones I could get some good movies of.

These are all higher level type spells. The frame rates would drop 10-15 during the casting and explosion, so really wouldn't want everybody doing these all the time.

Example 1:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTqm4SPbjYc

Example 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHWHbOQW1ek

Example 3:
Not much with Example 3. In my book series the lizard species is able to create the illusion that they are actually humans. I wanted to show my players how this has been incorporated into the game. It is going to make some fun PvP :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz6bQVlsSl4