DOWNLOAD: QUICK OVERVIEW: Old Skool Monsta Toolz (OSMT) is a mod/add-on for UT2004 that is designed to reintroduce the complex old skool Unreal monster AI and it's related actors for use in any gametype. These tools mimic the original Unreal actors and settings so that "old timers" can easily pick it up and "newcomers" have lots of online reference documentation already available. The toolset also includes a new gametype, OSM Adventure (OSM), which makes use of all classes in the toolset to facilitate story-driven adventures through progressive Objectives comprised of puzzles, traps and monsters. PROJECT AIM: The project's aim is to allow the vast community of UT2004 mappers to create maps that take advantage of this well-designed AI scheme in any gametype, especially in story-driven SinglePlayer and CoOperative adventures. This even allows aspiring game designers to easily develop whole game prototypes within the UT2004 framework, by providing a foundation...
This model, created by King Mango, uses roughly
the same number of polys as a Leviathan, looking
more like the next-gen models in UT3, yet tests
show that this custom scriptedMonster will
run just fine in UT2004. He boasts fully
articulated face, hands and feet, as demonstrated
by the fierce expression in the running pose test.
I've made a rough skin for him (shown; will
be updated by another artist), rigged him for
animation and I'm plugging away the long list
of animation sequences he'll need. Along with
the basics (run, punch, death, etc), he'll
make use of a weapon attachment, a series of four
clubs he can weild for extra damage. Shown at
bottom is the stand-in club I'll use during
animation, but the final four designs will be
clubs made of wood, stone, iron and bone.
This custom creature will be used to demonstrate
how OSMT can be easily expanded upon to accomodate
any designer's theme. While more than 25
creatures come with OSMT, additional creatures
such as this guy or any of the other original
Unreal creatures (Titan, Queen, Mercenary, etc)
will be made available as a separate download.
This modularizes the extra creatures, allowing
mappers to pick and choose only the creatures they
need, which avoids unnecessary bandwidth.
What a cutie!