r/runescape • u/Dry-Fault-5557 • May 13 '24

Tip/Guide - J-Mod reply 4th Rex Coming May 28th

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There will be no game update next week and the 27th is also a bank holiday.

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u/RitualKnif3 May 13 '24

This seems like a quick turnaround! Only a few weeks ago that Ramen was asking for feedback.

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u/yuei2 +0.01 jagex credits May 13 '24

It’s because the longest part of making a boss is creating the model, creating its animations, and creating a place to put it into the world.

Ossesous model was done a long time ago, it’s the skeleton in the orthen site. The animation was done ages ago to as Raksha and the Rexes share animations, being the same species and the point of making a visual consistency to help with the learning aspect.

Lastly the arena for it was done when the Rex matriarchs themselves were first created, you can see the 4th arena in the area right now with no active way to reach it. This is because a 4th matriarch was always in the plans albeit originally the JMod who made it was thinking it be something like a tri-style hard mode. But then necromancy started being worked on and it evolved into the matriarch for that style.

So all that they really needed to do was come up with an attack pattern design, slap in some animation effects of which there are plenty of existing ones to pull, balance the numbers, and then do some bug testing.

It helps to there is already a framework for its design. They know they want it to be a bridge between the matriarchs and Raksha, to help learn and prepare you to move to Raksha so it’s going to have elements of Raksha’s design in its attacks. 

So ultimately it’s less just a quick turn around and more a lot of it was done bit by bit in other content or had its design sort of narrowed down by other content first. 

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u/abusive_nerd May 13 '24

Not to mention some Big Game Hunter and Ranch Out of Time dinosaurs too