ok have finished a metroid.

It chases you down when in range of it, latches to your head and drains your life. It absorbs extra life slowly returning to 100hp from a total of 200hp life absorbed.

I am thinking of making invisible ones that can cloak when within attacking range and reappears when it latches on to you.

or should it cloak in waiting then when in attacking range uncloak?

or alternate from cloak mode to visible for a certain time? - like on off on off light bulb style?

LOL! Invisible metroids... those would suck, but would also be a lot of fun. Maybe if they were just kind of dormant until you were in range, or floated aimlessly and couldn't "see" you until you were pretty close? I think they should also be a touch weaker.

Maybe you can look into what Abdul Alhazred had done with the wheels on his armored car...

Best music to listen to while doing this:

http://www.metroidmetal.com/songs/

Hey tophat how the sprites coming along?

I have almost finshed the metroids. The script has grown from a small one to a huge one lol those floating muppets have to be told what to do with eveything, first they float off screen then need random movement script, then I even have to tell them what an actor is... gee can't think for themself can they.

But they are ALOT of fun to play against especially the cloaking ones, its like dum de dum dum dumm.., OH ♥♥♥♥ metroid! BAM. its sucking your brains out man!

I have one more metroid to make its the tallon metroid which can attack dropships and brain cases because of its big claws. Its the only metroid to be able to attack the brain case and brain actors.

Care to share?

I have begun to split up and recolour the power suit sprites, you can use them if you would like them.

Sorry about the lack of updates, I pulled a 4 day work weekend with 2 of the days being 12 hour shifts before jumping back into school where upon I was greeted with tests in genetics, cal II, and toxicology.

I'll have some good sprites for you within the next day or two.

Also, I actually tried using sprites from Super Metroid the first time, but they just wouldn't work. I intended to take the easy way out and went through sprites of every Metroid game that I could find but they either wouldn't resize properly, or didn't look right. What started as a few modifications to a Zero Mission Samus sprite turned into me erasing the entire thing and doing it from scratch.

The metroids are turning out great so far... Just putting that out there

Could someone pm me when the samus thing is finished. I most likely won't be checking this forum that often but would love if someone would pm me when its done.

Ha. The addition of the Zero Laser ( link ) would be hilarious. Working on Samus leg animations now, I've messed around with the helmet, but still like my original. Maybe I'll just make 6 or 7 and let folks choose. Read a post in here earlier asking for Phazon Suit Samus - seeing as how it's one of my favorites, I see it happening (eventually). Until then, here is why I could not use the usual CC side view for Samus. Obviously it is missing detail because I ditched it before I added them.

Edit:
Yeah, I lied. No Samus legs tonight. Have a Morphball!

Update, Update, Update....

A quick hello still working on this update.

Weapons:
Digger: Digs, yeah.

Flamer: Sets targets on fire. Burns.

Ice Beam: slows target down.

Charge Beam: Hold down trigger to charge up your shot.

Wide Beam: Like a shotgun.

Sharp Beam: Sniper weapon.

MBB(Mini Ball Bomb) launcher: Grenade launcher.

I may do alt fire for Ice beam and flamer, it would be kinda like a charge shot insta-kill thing maybe.
We shall see.

Pics of digger and flamer.

**Note: Nothing is final yet so tell us if you want anything changed. Also Samus in the picture is not the final actor just one I am playing around with for coding purposes.**

*Above*

Looks really cool but when your done and you release it, release in mod release because its that cool, could you sprite the body better. I don't know it just doesn't have enough detail.

i agree with joesycop@ , this looks so coll i,v been checking this every day to see your guys posts, this looks like its going to be the best mod ever!



i would like him to share too...

Did you make the head bigger? In my opinion it looks ugly.
But hey, it's your mod, sprite it as you wish.
Otherwise it looks pretty damn good.