Damn you have beat me to it  haha too much to do and never enough time..

Looking good though efko, nice job and I like the use of the Telkine concept art.  If you want to list some areas of the forums that could use banners/ art / title work then I'll see what I can come up with 

Yep I'm pretty hyped for the next expansion, I'm planning on entering it in Ultimate difficulty for maximum challenge with my 'Paladin' build :O

Medea, will you be gaining exclusive testing access to Forgotten Gods when closed beta begins (if it hasn't already..)  You are a longtime playtester if I'm not mistaken? In any case, that'll be so kool

Alright alright, back in action xD

Almost finished off the overworld and tombs for the 'D2' inspired area.  Pretty satisfied with how it's all turned out - my new favourite area! Man I'm always surprised by how flexible and user friendly the TQ world editor is, it's awesome   ..only wish this extended to the Quest Editor. 

Here's an editor shot of the Ancient City:



Ancient City Screenshots:
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aaaand a familiar tomb entrance....

Awesome feedback guys, thanks!

Seems like there's votes for both sides in terms of "balance is the sweet spot!" and "the darkness needs to be more dark!".  As you say though CrocMagnum, there's always different preferences and can't please everyone.  Of course we know this all too well, but yeah I think ill stick with the lighter-ish, more natural looking lighting for the moment.  Best of both worlds is that as you go deeper it gets darker...   

And yeah! loving Act II in Diablo atm - the Arcane Sanctuary was truly unique.  Not sure if any of you are following the Reign of Terror mod by Ram over on the GD forums but his work is exceptional and am really looking forward to seeing his version of Lut Gholein.

@Bumbleguppy and Tauceti
Kool ideas with the light radius  Man I need to pick your brain BG about some of this stuff aye

A new adventure in egyptian map ? Great  Good luck for your project Prosoro.

Hey Tauceti  Thanks for the encouragement!

@CrocMagnum @Bumbleguppy

Apologies for my lack of activity on here lately, just the usual work/real life stuff getting in the way of things >.> BUT! great suggestions  gotta get onto these and see what I can achieve

Man, sorry to hear of your struggles and this news BG.. Hopefully after a bit of a break from the project you'll re-new your energy reserves, activate the Rally skill and smash this bug!

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help 

Hey there, I found this in my archives of useful info I've gathered over the years from the old tq.net forums (..rip)

These are the tags you can use to change text ingame to your desired colour.  I've only used them so far on items and region names but I assume they can be used for most other text purposes such as monster names or dialog? etc.

Using the Art Manager and your own mod (or the base game if you know how), go to the Sources tab then click on Text and double click ModStrings.txt in the right-hand pane.

This will open up a notepad style document.  Type in the tag to the item (or your own chosen record) you are adding to your mod/game here.  For example, for an item I usually write tagCMSword01 which points to the tag I entered when I edited the Item Parameters (CM for 'Custom Mod').  This will make sense if you've ever edited an item record ...but that's a whole other thing that either myself or someone else I'm sure will write a guide to in the near future 

So you've got your tag in the notepad-looking ModStrings.txt document. So then just add one of the below tags directly after it to change the colour.  Eg: tagCMSword01=^R(your name here - eg: Blade of Leonidas) Now the item name will be Red.

Also, note at the bottom likewise you can change font to italics, bold or normal.

After you have entered your complete tag close the doc, switch to the Assets tab, go to Text and right click on ModStrings.txt then Build. Now it'll be added in-game! 


List of Font Changing Tags:

^A    change color to aqua
^B    change color to blue
^C    change color to cyan
^D   change color to dark gray
^F    change color to fuchsia
^G   change color to green
^I   change color to indigo
^K   change color to khaki
^M   change color to maroon
^O   change color to orange
^P   change color to purple
^R   change color to red
^S   change color to silver
^W   change color to white
^Y   change color to yellow
&I   change font to italics
&B   change font to bold
&S   change font to normal

Enjoy :J