Dragon Ball Source

[vegnadragon]

Hello I am Vegnadragon , one of the staff members of Dragon Ball Source, a MOD for Half Life 2, you can check it our site out(http://www.preknown.com/dbsource/index.php) we have a weekly update , you can check out our progress at our forum (http://www.preknown.com/forums/index.php).

Dragonball Source (DBSource/DBS) is a RPG Half-Life 2 mod, based on the popular anime, Dragonball Z. DBSource follows the Dragonball Z storyline from start to finish, starting with the Saiyan Saga and ending with the Kid Buu Saga, staying as faithful as possible to the show. You will play as all major characters from the show that are involved with the storyline.

As well as the main story, you'll be able to complete side quests and explore our vast world which includes all locations from the show, including Kami's Lookout, Room of Spirit & Time, Roshi's Island, West City, among but a few locations that will make an appearance in the game.

After you've completed the Single Player game, there will also be a Multiplayer version available to play, including transformations, characters and attacks from the show, and if it appears in the single player, you'll be able to do it in Multiplayer, including playing as all the characters, from Vegeta to Roshi.

We are doing great progress (even a closed alpha) but we still have lots of stuff to complete, and we are in need of some extra members to make the mod better and quicker

We need Coder, Animators, Modelers, Mappers, Riggers, Texturer and more, if you are interested you can apply for staff from the forum or contact me at [email protected] .

Some Media:

Pics:

Roushi's Islands

Beam Pic .

Kami Lookout

Vegeta and Goku (both unskinned) Teaser thing

West City

Character Sheet (Menu)

Videos (host by DLSwimmer) :

ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/vegeta_animations.rar
Some Vegeta's Animation

ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/energyblast1.rar
Energy Blaster Video

ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/powerup_animation1.rar
Vegeta Powering it up.

ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/dbs_teaser1.rar
Our first media teaser, you can see Goku lunching some blast against 200 vegetas, and they fire ki back, kind of cool.

Music:

http://web92.bces-1650.de/dj/Music/Fighting6_Copyright_-_dj-PaRTiCle+Aktulua.mp3

And there are much more on the forum, hope you guys enjoy it.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I'm really interesting to see this done on the Source engine. I've been following this mod a bit, just never registered on the forum there. Best of luck to you.

 

[JoeCLawrence]

DBZ mods are always entertaining. Good luck.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

That looks awesome. I've always loved DBZ and your models didn't let me down.

Roshi's island could use a little more sand though.

 

[Yuri]

How did you manage to get permission from whoever owns DragonBall?

 

[OCybrManO]

How did you manage to get permission from whoever owns DragonBall?

 

[Lucid]

DBZ sucks... but it's good game material.

Loved ESF, will keep my eye on this.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

How did you manage to get permission from whoever owns DragonBall?

FUNimation hasn't really cared about ESF, so I doubt there really is any major issues, seeing as ESF has been around for 2-4 years.

 

[AmishSlayer]

FUNimation hasn't really cared about ESF, so I doubt there really is any major issues, seeing as ESF has been around for 2-4 years.

I've only seen them intervene on that Quake 3 mod Bid For Power. They kept everything in and just changed player models. That was a decent mod too.

Looking forward to this mod now too.

 

[Captain M4d]

The beam looks like a nice stream of protein. ^_^ jk!

 

[Asuka]

Wow looks really cool.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

I've only seen them intervene on that Quake 3 mod Bid For Power. They kept everything in and just changed player models. That was a decent mod too.

Looking forward to this mod now too.

Thats straight up BULLSHIT, Chris made that up. DBQ supposedly got a C&D but its turned out it was bullshit aswell. I mean hell Rodney has released several of his DBZ characters for use in BFP.

http://www.rodneyolmos.com/

 

[WhiteZero]

I've only seen them intervene on that Quake 3 mod Bid For Power. They kept everything in and just changed player models. That was a decent mod too.

Looking forward to this mod now too.

lol, yeah, what DiSTuRbEd said.
I was an avid follower of that MOD for years (was even one of the most active forum members).

FUNi didnt do shit to BFP.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

It's pretty well known that the Japanese game/media industry don't consider mods as threat to their IP at this time, so they very rarely intervene. Doesn't mean they won't in the future D:

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Yuri]

It's just confusing to me that games like this will be free while the company that owns it will be selling other DB games.

Whatevar.

 

[Shinobi]

they been doing this forever,,, same reason lucasarts lets people make star wars mods

 

[AmishSlayer]

Thats straight up BULLSHIT, Chris made that up. DBQ supposedly got a C&D but its turned out it was bullshit aswell. I mean hell Rodney has released several of his DBZ characters for use in BFP.

http://www.rodneyolmos.com/

Didn't know that Either way...it's the only mod I've even heard of alleged action being taken against. Most companies don't see these mods as a thread...just as more support for the overall franchise if anything.

 

[houndeye]

Legalities aside, if you are gonna be a two-bit hack, find good source material.

 

[blackflag486]

yeah, BFP was fun, didnt they have one on the hl1 engine tho? I remember playing one i think.

 

[vegnadragon]

More updates anyone?

Well, BFP tried to sell their game, and since the DB didn't belong to them their got their ass sued. And most of prefer using that term isntead of saying that there were dead. Either way all the staff still huge DB fans.

Anyway:

Well here are some of our update:

On this update, you can see the character sheet in-game and it is under development.
ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/charactersheet1.rar
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Our coder Gundy, has programed this effect for the power up aura, this still a wip, and we are planning to added extra stuff like particle system, sounds, alpha texture and other stuffs to look better.
ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/yellow-aura.rar
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And this pic, show us another wip, from our cel-shading (made by Gundy) toggle button. Keep in mind it still a wip, and it was rendered with tien realistic skin. Either way the black outline is a extra toggle button.

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This are some of our update, again more info, updates and media can be accessed by our forum.

Alright, thank you for you time and see you all on our Forum

 

[vegnadragon]

1 Year Anniversary

Hello, DBZ Fans. First let me start by saying that today 15 April, 2006 DBS made 1 Year Anniversary. Hurray!!1 (so happy). With the new spirit, we have changed our web site, with more info and pics, you should check it out either on:

http://www.preknown.com/dbsource/index.php

or

dragonballsource.com

Your choice.

Well, Update Time :wink: :

Here it is a download of Raditiz dancing the numa numa dance:

This pic will show you that we have him rigged, skinned and ready for action.

ftp://65.185.35.228/teasers/DBS_Walk_Animation.rar (DLSwimmer Host)
http://moddb.com/scripts/topsite.php?ts=3139 (moddb host)

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On this pics you can see how the blast effect are coming along:

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You can come to this archive (at moddb) to see some of our current download. And this week you can listen DJParticle new music for the fighting theme for the bad guys and some more.

http://mods.moddb.com/5026/downloads/DragonBall-Source/

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And here gundy developed his wip of the aura a little further and implanted on Tien for testing.

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We still looking for some more staff members, specially on the rig/animation part.

Well, hope you liked these update, ill post more in time. But for now this is i, until then.

 

[prob101]

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1491

Spot where you might fit in

 

[AmishSlayer]

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1491

Spot where you might fit in

You just linked this because it's a DBZ mod ? Nothing else in that article applies to this mod.

I'm not crazy about the overly spiky charging aura as it stands right now but I'm sure that'll change. If the SP gameplay delivers as described then I'm happy.

EDIT: I also like your release schedule. Releasing Sagas at a time is a much better idea than burning yourselves out on trying to make all the content for every saga to be released at once. Not to mention (I'd imagine) once you have your coding established the next sagas will be a bit easier to create.

 

[blackflag486]

I'm not crazy about the overly spiky charging aura as it stands right now but I'm sure that'll change. If the SP gameplay delivers as described then I'm happy.

I agree with the overly spiky charging, that looked kinda jacked up. If you remember what it looked like on BFP, it was a lot less then that, they did a good job, for a UT mod... I also enjoyed the online multiplayer capibilities. With the keyboard combinations to do a power move, it made the game funner, and more challenging then just point and click.

 

[AmishSlayer]

I agree with the overly spiky charging, that looked kinda jacked up. If you remember what it looked like on BFP, it was a lot less then that, they did a good job, for a UT mod... I also enjoyed the online multiplayer capibilities. With the keyboard combinations to do a power move, it made the game funner, and more challenging then just point and click.

Bid for Power was for Quake 3 but yeah, that was fun. The best DBZ mod out there right now is ESF (www.esforces.com) for HL1. There's a good melee system and stuff. I really want to see their next release.

 

[Insano]

But ESF is MP, not a SP campaign

 

[NeoNight]

Bid for Power was for Quake 3 but yeah, that was fun. The best DBZ mod out there right now is ESF (www.esforces.com) for HL1. There's a good melee system and stuff. I really want to see their next release.

yeah, to bad they aren't going to make a move ot hl2 :/ or at least port what they have already and take advantage of the physics advancements.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

Updates look great. I'm not crazy about that spikey aura deal but it probably looks better in action.

What's on the books for voice acting?

 

[blackflag486]

that esforce looks good. Didnt they have another one for HL1 engine also? BFP was my fav, but I remmeber back in the day another HL1 mod for DBZ. Hopefully this one will not crash...

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

that esforce looks good. Didnt they have another one for HL1 engine also? BFP was my fav, but I remmeber back in the day another HL1 mod for DBZ. Hopefully this one will not crash...

DMZ IIRC, it died off do to the team just dying off completely, wasn't that good either.

 

[blackflag486]

oh, rgr that then...

 

[Double_Blade]

Hate to resurrect posts, but I really love this mod.

Has this mod still active? I really love DBZ and Half life 2.