Akin C. Dev

@incrementis.bsky.social

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NOTE: I don't condemn the use of AI, but rather how (much) it is used. I love and mod the Infinity Engine Games. Studied CS/Game Engineering. I rarely follow back(just put me on a list). GitHub: http://github.com/Incrementis

The image shows a road leading to the great oak of Kuldahar. There is a ravine on the left side of the road. In the distance, lights and dwellings can be seen on the roots.
A walking animation of a self-made Blender ogre model. The model holds a morning star in its right hand and wears plate armor. It moves slowly, with its shoulders swinging from side to side to demonstrate its massive size through large, clunky movements.
Compare the self-made ogre model from its rough condition to its more smooth and detailed condition.
Image shows the pant area.
Left: Weapon sprite Right: Ingame self-made ogre mage model
The video was slightly edited so that the left and right UI parts are not visible.
The Ogre Mage shifts the blade from one hand to the other and back to his primary hand, followed by a simple attack swing.
Sword
Closest Match: Kier Starmer
Portrait of a human woman with shoulder-length red hair, freckles, a top with a green stripe, and leather armor.
A man holding both open hands against his head as if he had antlers.
Round Progressbars show: * Chapter 4/5 * New Areas 78/82 * Minor QUests 169/169 * Medium Quest 20/20 * Large Quests 3/10
A female halfling with short hair, looking slightly upward. She wears a cloak and a shirt. The cloak is held in place by brooches connected by one or more strips.
The flail model as shown in Blender, specifically highlighting the chains and the in-game flail representation for comparison.
Left side: Model with color errors Left side: Corrected version
This is an image of all the weapons when they are made visible in Blender. They were all rendered individually, so this is not the final result, although it looks funny, so I'm sharing it anyway.
While the interview focuses on the Fallout games, he also shares two interesting and very short views on the IE games. Timestamp 1:43:11 An interview with Chris Avellone (Lead Designer of PST) reveals that he finds Imoen annoying. [...] try and make the player care about this family member to go seek them out is always a tough job in any RPG. Like [BG] couldn't even do it effectively for me where I'm like, I don't care that she's my sister. Like for she's annoying like there's no real blood between us.[...] This could be interesting, as these views of his may have influenced PST, which is why they have a certain historical relevance on a design level. Timestamp 3:11:33 Chris Avellone praises the collaboration with BioWare and emphasizes the importance of technology, narrative structure, and design. [...] And also [...] if you do the same comparison with BioWare and them giving like Black Isle Infinity Engine to do [...] you know, [IWD] and [PST] and all the other stuff [...] at no point did BioWare get frustrated at us using their. I mean actually they took code from us, too. [...] We shared that stuff, but BioWare was already great stuff on their own where [...] it wasn't even a question that [...] we were even outshining them. They were just doing a better job with it. so, like that's the best defense. [...] Your studio has to do the best job it can with your tech. And it's great that you're giving tech to other studios, but if they do a better narrative or a better design structure than you, tha's kind of on you.[...]
The weapons usable in IE AutoSpriter have been activated. Still missing: Axe, club, two maces, katana, scimitar, morning star and warhammer
The image shows Sarevok being attacked and surrounded by party members of Gorion's ward. Image by: [lathander1987] a digital and traditional painting artist X: https://x.com/lathander87 Commissions: https://vgen.co/lathander e-mail : zpffldhtm87@naver.com
Title: "Plot 127" A warrior reminiscent of Conan, wearing a black fur coat. The scene resembles a fantasy wasteland, but contains no science fiction elements. The warrior holds a sword in each hand, the points of which are facing the ground.
Displays a list of animations that are part of the IE AutoSpriter add-on. 13 of the 15 animations are marked as usable.
The image shows portraits of IE game developers, which may have been used to create the in-game portraits. Apparently, not all the images for the portraits have been found.
Morte from PST
The video shows the Burning Man model, where the attack animation is played once and then the geometry nodes for the "hot" veins are activated, resulting in a significant performance loss.
In ToB, the player character enters a room in the fire giant's fortress. The room contains a fire elemental and two burning men. The burning men are custom-made models. The video shows various animations (attack, walking, and death).
Flowers from one of my high-resolution images. It was edited with Gimp and inserted into the background of the IE item description. This is one of many examples of how the images can be used.
A fire golem with glowing veins and fire inside, mixed with black material (e.g., coal or stone).
The cover of the Shadowrun book depicts at least two elves in a science fiction world. They are carrying modern ballistic weapons (e.g., shotguns). Two characters are engaged in a firefight with other figures from behind cover, while the third elf hacks a terminal computer by connecting a cable that extends from his head.
A young elf with long hair, painted in watercolor style, except for her face.
Left: Winterwolf Right: Self-made wolf
Left: Self made wolf model Right: Original wolf model
Wolf walk animation in blender.
The player character converses with a wolf, transforms into a wolf, knocks a cow unconscious, and summons a hostile worg, causing the prisoners to flee. Finally, the player character kills the worg while in wolf form.
A running wolf seen from the side.
The model in Blender is animated and the meshes are made visible one after the other.
The sleeping fat man in the game. Legs and belt marked as problem areas.
The image above shows the self-built model; below it is an image of the original model.
A sleeping, fat man in Baldur's Gate is attacked by the player character. The player character then transforms into the sleeping, fat man on a sleeping bag.
BG2 area map of the Sahuagin settlement
First image on the topic of legs.
[...]To explain, one thing that happens as a writer is once you establish what you believe to be the foundation for a character, that character starts writing their own story based on that foundation… and often, the character can get away from you.[...] [...]Now another thing that builds upon a companion character’s own “voice” and autonomy is if there’s also other similarly-detailed characters in the party, say in even an atypical D&D party like Torment, the other companions will act as sounding boards for each other… and then their reactions to each other can also start making story decisions.[...] [...]In general, you want companions that represent a range of personalities, races, representatives of castes/factions important to the game, and so on.[...] [...]…we drilled down into the narrative aspects:[...] [...]… we wanted each companion in the party to be wrestling with something that had deeply wounded them emotionally.[...]
A female fighter holding a sword high in front of a bright flash of light (Dark Alliance)
An eagle model flaps its wings.
Various model examples. Also, clickable topics (tutorials, scenarios, rules).
Journal of classic BG;
Horse seen from a slightly angled front view. The horse is raising its left foreleg and its right hind leg slightly.
Thieves' Maze
- Baldur's Gate - Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition - Baldur's Gate 2 Shadow of Amn - Baldur's Gate 2 Enhanced Edition
A man in steel plate armor with long hair holds a longsword in one hand, the other gripping the blade with his thumb and forefinger. His expression is arrogant, almost emotionless. He wears a long cloak.
The Baldur's Gate logo (a skull) features the year "2026" in gold on its forehead and the words "Happy New Year" at the bottom. Fireworks are visible in the lower section.
“Back then the individual designers were free to populate their areas with whatever they wanted, [...] so I took the liberty of including a lot of the D&D characters from my youth (i.e., the alter egos of my high school friends).” [...] “One of them, Andorian, the minotaur, still raises questions on the message boards. I love the speculation involving him, people thinking he belongs to a hidden quest and so on. Sorry to disappoint, he’s just the D&D character of one of my friends and I had nowhere else to put him.” src: https://medium.com/covering-baldurs-gate/unfinished-quests-and-inaccurate-rumours-inside-baldurs-gate-ii-s-minotaur-secret-cd98db0b388d
Question: Skin Dancing, played a major role in the creation of a quest, [...] What was it like, to see your previously created story, brought into life and added into the game? Answer: At the time it was very cool. [...] I think this became my “first story published” albeit in a very bizarre way. I really appreciated the effort of, I think, Luke Kristjanson and Kevin Martens to make the various subplots connected to this story work well together. Question: What did you like about working on Baldur’s Gate 2? Answer: Honestly, the team was amazing [...] we were all on equal footing. [...] Because it was an established engine we had more time to focus on the design, art, and story aspects… [...]. Question: You’ve also worked with Beamdog. What is Beamdog’s culture like? Answer: Beamdog was more relaxed than BioWare when I was there — generally a mix of veteran game developers and newcomers. Question: What’s your favourite (in-game) Baldur’s Gate 2 memory? Answer: [...] On a related note, I always enjoyed playing through other designer’s sections and we also tried to help each other, with suggestions and tweaks. However, there was maybe also a bit of rivalry when it came to boss battles. Some of those encounters went through dozens of iterations. [...] There are some players who thrive on min/maxing their combat builds and overcoming challenging encounters. [...] Others… not so much! Misc: More practically, being a writer, and having published an article in Dragon Magazine, helped me get the job at BioWare.