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I remembered an old idea, to turn a cyclops into a somewhat classic beholder. Then a bunch of problems arose, for example, the head doesn't hang in the center, but on the edge of the square, there's nothing to cover the hole after removing the body, and it's problematic to add eyes on stalks (although now I think they aren't very important).

Does anyone have any ideas in general about the unit, about its implementation?

And does the beam reach across the entire arena? I once tried to make cyclops shoot, but it didn't work.

Perhaps, to make the head centered, you need to either shift the skeleton relative to zero, or use animations? And to close the hole, you can pull out the cyclops, close the hole in 3D, and put it back in...

You can get the beam from a Lich; you just need to set the firing point correctly.

I made one with the Lich's beam... the targeting bugs out and sometimes aims at the wrong enemy (like the effect from the Death Cloud). Plus, there were times when I shot at one enemy, but another one ended up taking the damage... And the funny thing is, I got the beam from the "Demilich," which is the alternative version that doesn't have the Death Cloud effect.

I actually like the red beam from the Cyclops... but it needs to stretch from the eye to the enemy, even if the enemy is far away, like 10 squares away.

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I was doing it with the lich's beam... targeting the enemy is buggy and sometimes it stretches to the wrong one (like the effect of death cloud). Plus there were times when you shoot at one, but another ends up taking the damage... And the funniest thing is that the beam was taken from "Demilich" — that's the alternative one which doesn't have the death cloud effect.

Actually, I like the cyclops' red beam... but it needs to stretch from the eye to the enemy even if they're 10 tiles away.

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I did some tinkering with the Cyclops model to make it look more like the Evil Eye... it's not finished yet; more appendages need to be added. The texture isn't drawn for the part that the Cyclops didn't have (the Cyclops texture is just placed on it to give it color), but at least the bone attachment is there. Fortunately, it's quite simple – either attach it to the head or the jaw (the lower appendage)....
Question for [email protected] - will the model be useful?

It turned out great! If it's not too much trouble, could you send it in fbx or obj format?

I can't guarantee anything will work, but it has potential.

It's not difficult, I'll finish it and send you the file, but I won't be able to help with inserting it into the game – I've never done that before, and I'll need to ask someone to finish the texture.

Amazing! 🥰 By the way, it seems the Poles used animations of the water elemental, scaled and oriented according to the position, for the animation of the snakes on Medusa's head. In theory, you could do the same with the tentacles here.

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Probably they were tying one skeleton to the bones of another. But I don't know how it's done.
If I understand correctly, comrade Zobr does many such things simply brilliantly.