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Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 05:22:10 am: Did some playtesting last night and while I was doing so I thought I might as well show you this.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/MindGames-Pics/MGScreenShot.jpg)
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: Col. Fishguts on December 20, 2004, 05:52:27 am: Hey.... I can see my house from there.
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Post by: TopAce on December 20, 2004, 05:54:31 am: I haven't seen this yet. Is this Earth skybox new?
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Post by: Singh on December 20, 2004, 06:07:45 am: not exactly no. its supposedly a placeholder for the moment tho :drevil:
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Post by: Lt.Cannonfodder on December 20, 2004, 06:29:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by Singh
not exactly no. its supposedly a placeholder for the moment tho :drevil:

It is a placeholder :nod:
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 07:09:45 am: Quote
Originally posted by TopAce
I haven't seen this yet. Is this Earth skybox new?

It's on the FTP. You'll need it to playtest Singh's latest mission :)
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: aldo_14 on December 20, 2004, 10:08:31 am: Whee!

Please tell me you're not still using that (*hack* *spit*) Valkyrie Mk.2 model, though....
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 10:20:50 am: We're still in the process of changing over.

The Valkyrie is likely to stay. It will get a bit of a facelift from DaBrain though. With decent shinemaps and glows it's actually quite a nice looking ship.

If you don't like it you could always make us a high poly version ;)
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Post by: Miburo on December 20, 2004, 10:39:10 am: Well Valkyrie on my opinnion is good looking replacement for its ancestor ;)

Oh and can't see my house, but can be seen still, at least in cruel skandinavia (look on your euro coins around finland and sweden) :D
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: karajorma on December 20, 2004, 10:48:35 am: Quote
Originally posted by Miburo
And Banshee and earth? Late war weapon in early days? :rolleyes:

Placeholder. I didn't bother to correct Singh cause we're going to have to rebalance all the missions when we swap over anyway.
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Post by: Roanoke on December 20, 2004, 03:28:17 pm: ooohh....aaahhh.....
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Post by: Gloriano on December 23, 2004, 09:46:32 am: Earth looks good :yes:
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Post by: Black Wolf on December 23, 2004, 10:49:44 am: OH MY GOD!!! EUROPE IS UPSIDE DOWN!!! THEY ARE ALL GOING TO FALL OFF!!!!!
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Post by: Kosh on December 24, 2004, 06:47:34 pm: I seriously hope you guys got rid of the Vesuvius. No offence Aldo, but I didn't like at all when it made its appearence in Inferno.
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 24, 2004, 08:00:22 pm: The Vesuvius is t3h bomb. Gun configuration, it's all about the gun configuration. 4 hits, first time, every time.
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: karajorma on December 25, 2004, 04:14:25 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kosh
I seriously hope you guys got rid of the Vesuvius. No offence Aldo, but I didn't like at all when it made its appearence in Inferno.

The Vesuvius is likely to stay. It won't be the one you saw in Inferno though.
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Post by: Kosh on December 25, 2004, 04:21:59 am: How will it be different? Will it not look like the "franken-fighter" we saw in Inferno?
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: karajorma on December 25, 2004, 05:23:19 am: Imagine this

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/MindGames-Pics/Replacements/Vesuvius2.jpg)

With one of DaBrain's textures on it.
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: Night Hammer on December 25, 2004, 07:17:00 pm: that will look very good, i hope
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Post by: Taristin on December 25, 2004, 10:04:36 pm: Hm... Gives me an idea for a model...
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: Moonsword on December 26, 2004, 06:44:19 am: Please tell me the paint job is different... dear God, I hate that paint job...
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: aldo_14 on December 26, 2004, 06:52:22 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kosh
I seriously hope you guys got rid of the Vesuvius. No offence Aldo, but I didn't like at all when it made its appearence in Inferno.

I don't like it either; that's why i started yon HTL version....at one point after I abandoned Reci I was just going to produce HTL versions of my older models that I knew were being used by campaigns.

(NB: did I ever UV that thing?)

Still might remake the Valk 2 i the new year, natch. We shall see.......
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Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on December 26, 2004, 06:57:18 am: who is making these skyboxes?
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Post by: karajorma on December 26, 2004, 12:56:18 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Moonsword
Please tell me the paint job is different... dear God, I hate that paint job...

As I said It will have one of DaBrain's textures on it. All you're seeing there is the basic colouring Aldo would hav given it while modelling it. :)

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Originally posted by aldo_14
(NB: did I ever UV that thing?)

Still might remake the Valk 2 i the new year, natch. We shall see.......

Yep. You UV'd it. That's why we're still using it. At the moment while we have modellers and a texturer no one on the team can UV map (Well Fractux can but he doesn't have that much free time).

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Originally posted by ShadowWolf_IH
who is making these skyboxes?

CannonFodder is responsible for those. :) Apparently though that one isn't good enough so he's working on a new one :)
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: Roanoke on December 28, 2004, 04:29:03 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
At the moment while we have modellers and a texturer no one on the team can UV map (Well Fractux can but he doesn't have that much free time).

A thankless task in IMO. Only people who notice a decent UV job are modelers. A poor UV effort is plain to see to anyone.
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: Moonsword on December 28, 2004, 04:46:25 pm: Karajorma, that's not the paintjob, that's the model. I'm not talking about the model. Heck, it looks good.

I'm talking about that god-awful paintjob it had in Inferno R1.
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: Kosh on December 29, 2004, 01:50:11 am: I'm talking about the model and the paintjob. :p
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 29, 2004, 04:07:37 am: Bah.

I tried for a bit of original colouring and it just gets blown back in me face.......... (had I got round to it, I would have ket that same colour scheme for the Ves, y'know - how many other red ships are there?)
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Post by: Moonsword on December 29, 2004, 06:19:44 am: Lots and lots of them. They all have 'Shivan' stenciled on the side.
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Post by: aldo_14 on December 29, 2004, 07:15:14 am: They're black + red

and shivans don't count :p
Title: Without even being prodded
Post by: DaBrain on January 02, 2005, 04:36:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
Imagine this

With one of DaBrain's textures on it.

I'm back from holidays. Looks like I've work to do. ;)