Ataxia Sanctuary (SP) Created 18 years ago2006-03-08 10:30:58 UTC by Strider

Alright iv'e begun work on a new mini-mod for HL2 not set in City 17 or the HL2 timeframe!! Hooray for me..

It's got a minor background story (not telling!) and hopefully alot of custom content, so far iv'e started work on some custom skins for the npc's, some texture work and a little mapping work. For those who are wondering 'Ataxia' is both a muscle problem and a word for chaos/disorder. Sanctuary means.. well you should all know what that is.

The plan so far is to have the core gameplay based around traps and puzzles with the occasional fight thrown in for good measure, aiming for around 3 - 4 maps thus far. It's all in it's VERY early stages so far, here are some WIP screens:A reskinned Citizen as a slighly rotted corpse (not a zombeh!)The Fast Zombie reskinned to look more old/decayed, custom sounds are currently being applied to it.What's this? Oh it's a nice little floorswitch, no biggy.

Things planned for mod:

• Numerous custom sounds (Npc's, weaponry and ambience);
• Reskinned Antlions and weaponry;

(Im looking for a replacement model for the crowbar too)

• Some models from C-strike because they suit it so well;
• No sprint/aux power function;
• Healing pools rather than medkits;
• Very little weaponry picked up (1 melee, 1 gun, possibly 1 other special type of weapon)

And more ideas i'm still working on!

I may need some help further down the track so keep an eye out ok? Progress updates will be infrequent due to a severe lack of work-time recently. What do you think so far? Constructive criticism welcome.

Custom floorswitch for tem win!!
The models look ok, nice skinning..

Curse your good texture skills! Looking great! I like how you made a hole in the citizen zombie...Looks scary but it also reminds me of this mod:

http://www.blackwidowgames.com/

Neat texturing.

@Habboi: PHL is too slow but I presume your refering too 'They Hunger' (I still love the original) but like he said its just a corpse and not a zombie.

@Strider: Are you going to give us any of the back story?

Its only a minor story at the moment, plan so far is to have it set sometime around 1980 or 1990 and the player is an explorer/archeologist of sorts who discovers a temple with evidence that the Xen creatures have been on earth before. But alas the story is not what i'm concentrating heavily on so far... it is after all a mini-mod!

Some people might notice i introduced bump-maps to the citizen model to make him look all... scabby. The original citizen model was only vertex-lit, with no-bumpmapping applied.

The original citizen model was only vertex-lit, with no-bumpmapping applied.

I noticed that too so I bumpmapped all of my citizens.

I also noticed that Eli, Mossman and Alyx do not have decals enables on their textures so I applied those as well.

This sounds interesting

Well ta' Daubster, Habboi, 7th and Urb!

SKINNING UPDATE:

I have finished re-skinning the Fast Zombie model, i'm quite pleased with how he turned out too:I've done a little work on the citizen-corpse model, mainly around the hole, i'm quite definate he's gonna' stay like this from now on:I'm about 80-90% done skinning the Antlion model (my premise was to make the Antlion look as it would if it was adapted to a jungle or forest-like climate), still some work to be done on the rear of the model:REST OF THE MOD:
I'm moving on to re-skinning the weapon models and the players hand next. Work on maps is slow right now, im pretty much in process of researching a range of ancient architecture to decide how my sanctuary will look and making the materials. A little bit of sound work has been done on the weapons and monsters, not much else.

Strider ffs...Stop making such good skins! Gah it makes me want to explode with envy...seriously...

Hehe

very very very nice skins

Thank you! Im looking for a replacement for the crowbar (A machette or spikey-wooden club-like thing... something!) but i cant find anything suitable.. :S

Make it then...Perhaps replace with the 'Electric Stick'...or if you have seen Valves concept then look for weapon ideas.

Very nice skins and texturing.

Does the model for the 'ice-axe' still exist somewhere out there in the world-wide-web? That would be a nice replacement if i skinned it right. And thankyou G_KID!

this is for source? the team at kzmod have modelled their own iceaxe, i dont know if they will let you have it, but you never know if you ask reallllllllllly nice, they might. or you could just steal it when it comes out sometime this month
(not really - stealing stuff (from other modders) is bad)

Nice skins.

/me has a gander...

EDIT: Cheers Ant!

2nd EDIT: That Model isn't really what i'm looking for anyway..

oh well.

If i cant find anything a rusty ol' crowbar will have to do!
ED: That is unless someone is willing to model me a nice machette in place of it wink wink

[Bumpedy Bump Bump (I can do it cause it's my B'day :P]

Is this mod still alive Strider? I am interested in an update if there is one...If not let this thread rot away again.