Database of monsters

[chefranov]

Is it possible to create DB of monsters? It would be cool.

[fonsleenaars]

Definitely possible, what kind of setup are you looking for? A list of monsters with their skills, statistics, etc?

More details = better!

To be fair though, this won't have priority in the immediate future, but after all the bugs have been fixed and item database things are implemented, we can begin on the monster list.

[chefranov]

Thank you for your reply. A list with monsters should include:

• image of monster
• name
• skills
• characteristics depend on difficulty of game
• where we can find this monster
• somthing else

[LordVampir1983]

website It would also be useful to have references to charms, which they can drop off. And links back, for easy navigation

[fonsleenaars]

Sure, charms & relics are already indexed so the reverse index will be simple to add.

I think the Monster Database will just be a new menu item (I think I'll reorganize the menu once we're there, looks like we're expanding quite a bit) and it'll have a similar look and feel to the current database.

That way navigating back and forth will be simple & smooth.

[TheImmorthal]

Hei. Any news about this database of monsters? I would be really glad if we would have one.

[fonsleenaars]

Some news, after 1.2.0 is released I'm adding the monster database. It's a little bit of a mess because a lot of monsters have properties that are messing up the parser a little bit (weird things like 1% Lightning Resistance, who cares about that!)

It shouldn't be TOO much longer, but I'll be able to give you a better estimate in a week or so

[TheImmorthal]

Hello. I'm glad work is in progress. Well about those 1% resistances or so they can be forgotten and focus on the important things

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Some news, after 1.2.0 is released I'm adding the monster database. It's a little bit of a mess because a lot of monsters have properties that are messing up the parser a little bit (weird things like 1% Lightning Resistance, who cares about that!)

It shouldn't be TOO much longer, but I'll be able to give you a better estimate in a week or so

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[fonsleenaars]

Agreed, the tricky part is that I have to know when to skip those properties and when they can be important, unfortunately I can't just tell the parser "if it's a silly property, skip it".

But I've made some progress. I'm not sure yet how I'll handle the images for monsters but we'll get to that later, indexing them by name and properties comes first.

[TheImmorthal]

Of course you can also forget about the images of monsters at beginning and focusing on that later bro.  On Friday, July 6, 2018, 1:15:39 PM GMT+2, Fons Leenaars notifications@github.com wrote:

Agreed, the tricky part is that I have to know when to skip those properties and when they can be important, unfortunately I can't just tell the parser "if it's a silly property, skip it".

But I've made some progress. I'm not sure yet how I'll handle the images for monsters but we'll get to that later, indexing them by name and properties comes first.

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[fonsleenaars]

I've finished the first preview: https://staging.tq-db.net/monsters

The first setup has the following details per monster:

• Properties
  • HP/MP
  • Damage (right click attack)
  • Defensive resistances
• Abilities
  • Regular skills
  • Summons
  • Some misc. skills that need to be fixed (defensive res. skills that should just be added to primary stats)
• Loot table

Then these monsters are indexed by difficulty as well (at the bottom it has Normal/Epic/Legendary).

There's still quite a bit of work to do here, but this first setup will be deployed pretty soon to the live website. Just wanted to keep you guys updated!

[chefranov]

Awesome! How about images of monsters? Is it possible?

[fonsleenaars]

I'm not sure, I have absolutely no experience with 3D modeling and after some quick research I see that creatures only have the mesh and texture files available. If I'm not mistaken this is because the mesh can be viewed in different angles/positions (which makes sense for in-game) but I'm not sure how I can go about converting a mesh with a bunch of textures into something static like a JPG of PNG.

I'll look around online and see if I can find some tools that can do so. If it ends up being possible, I'll add them for sure.

[chefranov]

@fonsleenaars Titan Quest has tool Viewer.exe where we can see 3D models. Maybe it can help you. There is a little bit information http://titanquest.wikia.com/wiki/Viewer

[fonsleenaars]

Thanks, I've been looking into that tool but I can't seem to get the list of available models loaded, once I have it working I'll see if I can somehow export a camera-locked image from there.

[chefranov]

@fonsleenaars thanks for your work! Can you add information about location of monsters? TQ DB contains this information? And I have some ideas about new features for your site/project. I can write about it in other topic.

[fonsleenaars]

I'll see what I can do about locations, I don't believe the database record files contain any information about that, but perhaps some other resources will.