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Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 19, 2003, 08:46:37 am
Here it is! The first screenshot from my first ever mission for my campaign! Woohoo :)

It shows the GTF Angel in action :)

(http://kefren.kicks-ass.net:10000/www.kefren.be/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/ESB/04192003/screen12.jpg)

There are nine more on my site (www.kefren.be (http://www.kefren.be))

Cheers,
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Nico on April 19, 2003, 10:17:58 am
oh, my ship
anyway:
P-chan :D
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: IceFire on April 19, 2003, 10:33:04 am
Can you guys please take a course for screen shot making or something.  All I see is two lasers...and the bare outline of a ship.  For the love of god...get some lighting into the picture or a nebula or something so we can see the shape even if its dark.

This has been a public service annoucement. :D

I'm sure whatever you've got is ultra cool...I'd just like to be able to see it without going into photoshop :D (and yes, my monitor has a high level of brightness and contrast and I still cannot see).
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 19, 2003, 10:42:44 am
I already made some more screenshots, and changed things in that mission, i'll post'm when i'm satisfied with them :)

BTW, venom, is it ok if i include this ship with my campaign? The file i obtained didn't contain any readme file so i don't know what i can & can not do to it ;)

[EDIT]
venom, when i clicked on your portfolio link, this is what i got:

Great Frollicking Llamas!
The page you requested was not found!

seems that alot of pages hosted there give me that error :(

Cheers,
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Deepblue on April 19, 2003, 10:55:50 am
Unless you know french Venoms portfolio is :wtf:
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: KARMA on April 19, 2003, 11:12:44 am
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Originally posted by IceFire
Can you guys please take a course for screen shot making or something.  All I see is two lasers...and the bare outline of a ship.  For the love of god...get some lighting into the picture or a nebula or something so we can see the shape even if its dark.

This has been a public service annoucement. :D

I'm sure whatever you've got is ultra cool...I'd just like to be able to see it without going into photoshop :D (and yes, my monitor has a high level of brightness and contrast and I still cannot see).


i'm beginning to think that making screens of dark ships over a black background without any lighting is one of the rules of the universe:)
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 19, 2003, 11:26:08 am
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Originally posted by Deepblue
Unless you know french Venoms portfolio is :wtf:


Oui, je suis Belge moi, je peut lire francais ;)

(Translation: Yes, i'm Belgian, i know french ;))

So where is it? :)
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: WMCoolmon on April 19, 2003, 02:19:32 pm
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Originally posted by IceFire
Can you guys please take a course for screen shot making or something.  All I see is two lasers...and the bare outline of a ship.  For the love of god...get some lighting into the picture or a nebula or something so we can see the shape even if its dark.

This has been a public service annoucement. :D

I'm sure whatever you've got is ultra cool...I'd just like to be able to see it without going into photoshop :D (and yes, my monitor has a high level of brightness and contrast and I still cannot see).
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: J.F.K. on April 19, 2003, 10:00:44 pm
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Originally posted by IceFire
Can you guys please take a course for screen shot making or something.  All I see is two lasers...and the bare outline of a ship.  For the love of god...get some lighting into the picture or a nebula or something so we can see the shape even if its dark.

This has been a public service annoucement. :D

I'm sure whatever you've got is ultra cool...I'd just like to be able to see it without going into photoshop :D (and yes, my monitor has a high level of brightness and contrast and I still cannot see).


:nod:

They're nice lasers, btw. :D
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Tar-Palantir on April 20, 2003, 03:05:51 am
Is that just a standard Valkyrie (sp?) with some table modifications?

My GTF Angel for 'Time of Change' I coloured white* (why white I have no idea), via the tbl file remove a gun and made it slower. If you haven't change the colour to make it look different to the Val.

*I'm thinking of putting some stylised feather on the under side of the wings - to make the look more angelish.
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Black Wolf on April 20, 2003, 04:50:45 am
Re the screenies on your site -

Keep in mind that the Angel and TC TRI are at the absolute least about 20 years apart, so unless this campaign takes place around the FS2 timeline and just uses the Angel in the same way the Apollo has been used (as an old/civillian ship) change the containers to TAC 1s.
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Peter on April 20, 2003, 05:09:59 am
From what I could see of it one pair of engines had been removed. If you remember the first breifing where the Valkeryie shows up it says somthing like a couple of engines had been added to the Angel Scout fighter to make the Valkeryie.
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 20, 2003, 05:27:20 am
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Originally posted by Tar-Palantir
Is that just a standard Valkyrie (sp?) with some table modifications?


No, it's a ship by venom2506, only 2 engines, it has it's own .pof & texturemap aswell.

I might change the textures tho (with venom2506's permission offcourse ;))

Cheers,
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 20, 2003, 05:28:41 am
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Re the screenies on your site -

Keep in mind that the Angel and TC TRI are at the absolute least about 20 years apart, so unless this campaign takes place around the FS2 timeline and just uses the Angel in the same way the Apollo has been used (as an old/civillian ship) change the containers to TAC 1s.


Thx alot for the info :) I had no idea about the age of the TR-TCI's, i'll be changing them to TAC-1's later today.

The GTDR-Amazon should be about the same age as the angel, right?
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 20, 2003, 06:29:24 am
A new screenshot :)

I dedicate this one to IceFire, hope you can see the ship now ;)

(http://kefren.kicks-ass.net:10000/www.kefren.be/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/ESB/04202003/screen14.jpg)

More can be found here (http://kefren.kicks-ass.net:10000/www.kefren.be/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=19).

Cheers,
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Sigma on April 20, 2003, 07:07:03 am
This looks much better! :yes:
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 20, 2003, 07:37:23 am
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Originally posted by Sigma
This looks much better! :yes:


I think so too, but the trail on that ship bugs me, the top 2 trails should be lower if you ask me, they should be just above the engines, but alas, i have no clue is this can be edited or not :)

Cheers
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Black Wolf on April 20, 2003, 08:56:37 am
Amazon Drone is fine, they were present in FS1 and presumeably well before it as well (or at least to my knowledge there's nothing that says they're new, so there's nothing stopping you from saying they're old :D)

And :wtf: on those trails... They look like nebula trails, but you don't appear top be in a nebula... is this some kind of SCP thing? Meh. If they are nebula trails, then they can be edited in the ships table entry in the ships.tbl file. Use Modelview 32 to get the exact coordinates (place a dummy firing point to find the correct spot on your fighter, then put the coordinates into the spot in the ships table entry.)
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 20, 2003, 09:10:20 am
Thx for the info :-)
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Nico on April 20, 2003, 10:01:31 am
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Originally posted by Amon_Re


No, it's a ship by venom2506, only 2 engines, it has it's own .pof & texturemap aswell.

I might change the textures tho (with venom2506's permission offcourse ;))

Cheers,


yeah, yeah, you can use it, it's been done for that ;)
You can reskin it too if you want. As for the changes, I removed two engines, made the nose pointyn removed the gun pod under the ship "nose", I think i've changed some stuff in the wings too, and removed small winglets on the back. changed map brightness too. all in all, a 10 minutes job, I didn't push it much ;) ( it was a request ).


for my website, well the link was good before, then the forums crashed, when they came back they switched all the sigs to the ones people had a year or so ago, didn't bother changing it.

it's there (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/ott/index2.html)
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 20, 2003, 02:03:59 pm
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Originally posted by venom2506


yeah, yeah, you can use it, it's been done for that ;)
You can reskin it too if you want. As for the changes, I removed two engines, made the nose pointyn removed the gun pod under the ship "nose", I think i've changed some stuff in the wings too, and removed small winglets on the back. changed map brightness too. all in all, a 10 minutes job, I didn't push it much ;) ( it was a request ).


Thx alot :)


Quote
for my website, well the link was good before, then the forums crashed, when they came back they switched all the sigs to the ones people had a year or so ago, didn't bother changing it.

it's there (http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/ott/index2.html) [/B]


No it isn't,

Great Frollicking Llamas!
The page you requested was not found!

:ha:

Cheers,
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Nico on April 21, 2003, 07:04:24 am
well, it should be. after checking, even my ott site si down :doubt:
wtf...

edit: after checking my ftp, my site is simply gone :wtf:
someone gotta explain that to me
:doubt:
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 21, 2003, 07:56:40 am
I hope you got a backup somewhere, seems ALOT of hosted sites are gone, 9/10 when going to one i get thet Llamas thing

Cheers,
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: IceFire on April 21, 2003, 09:34:38 am
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Originally posted by Amon_Re
A new screenshot :)

I dedicate this one to IceFire, hope you can see the ship now ;)

More can be found here (http://kefren.kicks-ass.net:10000/www.kefren.be/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=19).

Cheers,


EXCELLENT work, much better.  I can see the ship and the colors convey the mood.  Excellent.
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Amon_Re on April 21, 2003, 10:06:09 am
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Originally posted by IceFire


EXCELLENT work, much better.  I can see the ship and the colors convey the mood.  Excellent.


Thx for the compliments ;) please don't stop :) hehe J/k :)
Title: The end of the beginning, first screenshots
Post by: Nico on April 21, 2003, 10:06:50 am
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Originally posted by Amon_Re
I hope you got a backup somewhere, seems ALOT of hosted sites are gone, 9/10 when going to one i get thet Llamas thing

Cheers,


yeah, I have everything on my HD.