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Title: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Goober5000 on February 04, 2009, 08:10:02 am
Just cause I like this one better, and it's more mystery-y.

(http://scroll.hard-light.net/images/mystery02.jpg)
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Dilmah G on February 04, 2009, 08:14:18 am
Just cause I like this one better, and it's more mystery-y.

(http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8655/ngc64021aa9.jpg)

That 'thing' is insane, and the background pyschadelic  :pimp:

All-in-all  :yes:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: blowfish on February 04, 2009, 08:43:21 am
Interesting...
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on February 04, 2009, 11:46:52 am
Nice picture. But... Where's the mystery? :nervous:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: shiv on February 04, 2009, 02:18:34 pm
That 'thing' is insane, and the background pyschadelic  :pimp:

All-in-all  :yes:
Thank you :)
I really like designing backgrounds.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: eliex on February 04, 2009, 08:52:47 pm
If I could only design backgrounds like you can . . .  :sigh:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: carbine7 on February 04, 2009, 09:07:16 pm
Considering the Arachnas isn't anything new, where's the mystery? I'm mystified :lol:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: blowfish on February 04, 2009, 09:16:21 pm
Figuring out what the mystery is is half the mystery :P
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Droid803 on February 04, 2009, 10:32:58 pm
Where is the strange green light coming from?
Is it a SUN?
or is it a BEAM?
its a MYSTERY!
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: eliex on February 04, 2009, 11:11:33 pm
Um, sun?  :nervous:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 05, 2009, 01:45:49 pm
Isn't the campaign about Shivans on the other side of the Knossos?
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: shiv on February 05, 2009, 02:06:38 pm
Isn't the campaign about Shivans on the other side of the Knossos?
http://scroll.hard-light.net/website/story.html
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 05, 2009, 02:54:06 pm
Close enough. :P
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Goober5000 on February 05, 2009, 02:58:24 pm
Isn't the campaign about Shivans on the other side of the Knossos?
*makes vague gesture*

This is not the Knossos you're thinking of.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 05, 2009, 03:01:46 pm
*uses prequel plot hole*

I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks don't work on me, only money!


But srsly. Given how the description says stuff about myth and epic win, I suppose the story will be more interesting than just some random Shivan war. I'd like to see how it evolves.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Goober5000 on February 05, 2009, 03:11:20 pm
stupid plot holes...

But yes, the campaign will be full of epic win. :nod:  Stand by for hibernation cycle completion sometime this summer. :)
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 05, 2009, 03:45:15 pm
I know this isn't a FAQ thread but I has a question. What sort of SCP enhancements will SA be using? Will you be using skyboxes, high-poly sutff and so on, or go for the 158 'no-frills' approach?
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Goober5000 on February 05, 2009, 04:18:46 pm
I kind of get frustrated when people assume "SCP enhancement" = "prettier graphics". :doubt:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: shiv on February 06, 2009, 07:22:53 am
I'd rather ask for SCP sexps usage and other coolness stuff :D
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 06, 2009, 11:05:49 am
I kind of get frustrated when people assume "SCP enhancement" = "prettier graphics". :doubt:
What I meant was "graphical" enhancements...
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Rodo on February 06, 2009, 03:35:07 pm
what ship are you flying in that pic??
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Goober5000 on February 06, 2009, 03:45:46 pm
What I meant was "graphical" enhancements...
We already have all the models done (barring two or three extremely specialized ones that we won't need any time soon) as well as all the backgrounds and weapon effects done.  So, we won't be making further graphical enhancements if doing so will take manpower away from mission design.

However, the effects we already have are pretty good.  We use Lightspeed's background bitmaps and several enhanced weapon effects.  We don't have any skybox artists though.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 06, 2009, 04:08:14 pm
Sometimes I think optimizing ships is sometimes a waste of time. I hardly notice the enhancements on ships like fighters since they whizz by so fast.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: blowfish on February 06, 2009, 05:07:24 pm
what ship are you flying in that pic??

This one (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,60764.0.html) ;)
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Dilmah G on February 06, 2009, 06:46:20 pm
Sometimes I think optimizing ships is sometimes a waste of time. I hardly notice the enhancements on ships like fighters since they whizz by so fast.

You can't be serious! Don't you love flying next to a ship and admiring the graceful lines and the distorted look on the pilot's face?  :lol:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: eliex on February 06, 2009, 08:41:52 pm
The game works to fast in a dogfight for that unfortunately - apart from ships cruiser up of course.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 07, 2009, 05:09:35 pm
Sometimes I think optimizing ships is sometimes a waste of time. I hardly notice the enhancements on ships like fighters since they whizz by so fast.

You can't be serious! Don't you love flying next to a ship and admiring the graceful lines and the distorted look on the pilot's face?  :lol:
Well, sometimes it just defeats itself. The models themselves are gorgeous, but in-game the shading system and ****ed up maps and etc. just make it fugly.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Mobius on February 08, 2009, 05:56:36 am
*Mobius observes that Arachnas*

Uhm... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Droid803 on February 08, 2009, 11:45:10 am
Hmm...just noticed that it doesn't appear to have have glowmaps.
Not that they're decativated, but its using textures without em it seems?
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: blowfish on February 08, 2009, 12:21:18 pm
I don't think it's possible to tell the difference between deactivated and removed glowmaps...
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: Snail on February 08, 2009, 01:20:35 pm
I don't think it's possible to tell the difference between deactivated and removed glowmaps...
Well, on Shivan ships generally speaking "deactivated" means just the base textures are visible. In the MVPs this gives the effect of a black/grey Shivan ship.
Title: Re: Mystery pic #2
Post by: eliex on February 13, 2009, 03:08:37 am
Not to mention that they look really ugly on FRED.