[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
Sounds like we have our first art related task.

So we're all agreed? Tech room display will, if specified, display a pre-rendered ANI of the object. If not, it will hook into the 3D engine to display the object over a green grid, with appropriate camera movements, etc. This means that someone will have to model/texture some decent versions of all the player weapons in the game.

Or..... () I wonder if we could manage to convince DaveB to get his hands on the original models that :V: used render those tech ANIs...

[Inquisitor]

Well, the artists in the community have been chomping at the bit to do something.

I vote we let 'em

[Nico]

Originally posted by sandwich


Or..... () I wonder if we could manage to convince DaveB to get his hands on the original models that :V: used render those tech ANIs...

that were the ingame models with reflection and self ilum maps if I'm not mistaken.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by venom2506


that were the ingame models with reflection and self ilum maps if I'm not mistaken.

No way - the in-game models have very low polyconuts, and those used for the ANI's were, well... production-quality!

[Bobboau]

he's talking about the models used for the weapons animations venom, not the ships

[Nuke]

i always make a quickie model of my weapon for my renders on my "official nukemod" weapons (which can be seen if you downloaded my mod). i use flat shading mostly, some very simple textures.

since of people just do single frame ani files for there ships and weapons, could we also be able to use pcx files instead of anis. when freespace sees a *.pcx file attached to the animation tag, it loads it, and omits the little sound effect. or you can have a fade-in effect and keep the sound.

for the 3d effect you could overlay it over a generic moving  grid aiumation (render a grid that rotates the way the normal ani does except with out the ship and scan effect). you can then sync the movment of the model with the generic animation to produce a similar effect to the one in the freespace animations. i dont know how difficult it would be to get a ship to render on top of an animation, but its worth a try.