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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Krackers87 on July 26, 2003, 11:27:14 am
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anyone heard of or play TA? I think we should get a TA to FS thing goin. And i know most of the stuff in TA are walkers, but why not add a little gundam to it? And some stuff (pelican in its amphibious mode or the ships) would make good looking Capships/Fighters (albeit strange ones.) Plus theres all the stuff that people modded into that game which we could mod into this one. We also could always change the look of some units and call them MKII's.
What do you think?
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I have played with it. I liked it, but somehow I couldn't play with that more than a month.
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Yeah, I know of it. Great game. No, they're not gonna let you add it.
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Isn't even older than FS1? Or at the least the same age. If we want to start supporting yet another game, how about something a little newer. And besides, as good as TA was, Starcraft was more fun IMHO.
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I think if you're gonna be talking up Starcraft as a great strategy game, you need to take the "H" out of that last abbreviation. It was to gaming what Basket Weaving 101 is to education- and that's saying a lot, since most games are pretty intellectually lightweight as it is.
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I somehow never liked Starcraft much, but thought that TA was simply amazing for its time (and still is to some extent).
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I have it, haven't played it in ages though. Sandwich is also a big fan and still plays IIRC.
But if you are going to bring up some big, monstrousterous modding project, why not put FS into TA via a TC?
fear my abbreviations...
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I think if you're gonna be talking up Starcraft as a great strategy game...
No I'm not. I like it better than TA though.
It was to gaming what Basket Weaving 101 is to education- and that's saying a lot, since most games are pretty intellectually lightweight as it is. [/B]
Agreed
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There are rumors the TA2 is being developed.
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I really don't want to get anybody's mood away from the Total Annihilation -- FS2 Convention, just keep that in mind that how old the Star Wars convention is, for example, or the 158th, and where they are standing now. As I know SW has most of the most popular ships done, and FREDing, voicing, testing etc. are still not an option.
Anybody from SWC? Am I right or you are standing better than I think?
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KT: Correction - I would still be playing it if I had my darn discs! :doubt:
Anyway, TA had zero story-line, so methinks that the most anyone could reasonably do is to take some of the unit models and plug them into Freespace. Since TA uses Rhino (which, incidentally, is how I got started on Rhino), you can use the Rhino -> FS2 tutorial (link in siggy) to help you out.
Anyway, the most I see coming out of this is a unit pack, really. It's nigh on impossible to take a planet-based unit set and project the designs into space ships.
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG :eek:
I had the same idea with Drako about making a TA to FS mod!!... but no one mentioned it since :(
and oddly enough Iv just learned how to mod units, I just reacently took the quake units and gave them realer names and weapons :D
but I would help on what I can for a FreeSpace mod if some1 just models and crap for me, and I'll be willing to do the sounds and UFO packing too ;) :yes:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
Anyway, TA had zero story-line, [/B]
There was a story, you just had to dig a little deep, and who says we cantmake one up?
Originally posted by Sandwich
It's nigh on impossible to take a planet-based unit set and project the designs into space ships. [/B]
Oh yeah? Watch me. :cool:
TA was one hell of a game and it is older than FS1 but its community is still larger than FS2 and SC. I hated the SC campaign ( to much base building) TA has alot of base builkding but somehow its more fun.
Also TA was cutting edge and still is. Only game with realistic fighter physics, Shooting physics (like the way tanks could futily try to shoot airborne targets even though they were meanbt to shoot ground ones, Futile but they COULD) and terrain physics.
i know some games have done the fighter and terrain but none have come close to its amazing shooting physics.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
KT: Correction - I would still be playing it if I had my darn discs! :doubt:
Anyway, TA had zero story-line, so methinks that the most anyone could reasonably do is to take some of the unit models and plug them into Freespace. Since TA uses Rhino (which, incidentally, is how I got started on Rhino), you can use the Rhino -> FS2 tutorial (link in siggy) to help you out.
Anyway, the most I see coming out of this is a unit pack, really. It's nigh on impossible to take a planet-based unit set and project the designs into space ships.
Or just convert the airplanes... some of them were actually pretty cool :nod:
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bah, lets look at some of the classics that had no story line... DooM is a great example, only story to me was just killing a bunch of demons and zombies, and pac man for another example, hell screw the stroy line on that, lets od on power pills :devil:
so really, who cares about story, all the classics dont have one :p:yes:
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Originally posted by Dr.Zer0
....I had the same idea with Drako about making a TA to FS mod!!... but no one mentioned it since :(
And I had the same with Imperium Galactica 2. That's really a space game. But it would be difficult to model the ships, because there are so many of them.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I think if you're gonna be talking up Starcraft as a great strategy game, you need to take the "H" out of that last abbreviation. It was to gaming what Basket Weaving 101 is to education- and that's saying a lot, since most games are pretty intellectually lightweight as it is.
good old stryke, always rambling on the same things :o
should call you strykegeezer :doubt:
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Funny how you never have anything worth saying to say, just garbage about other people you make up on the spot. It's depressing to think that your posts make up a huge percentage of the board, while the content makes up nearly none.
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Originally posted by Venom
good old stryke, always rambling on the same things :o
should call you strykegeezer :doubt:
allright stop this nonsense at once. i don't want see these kind of things around here. if want to throw pies at eachother do it somewhere else.
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Total Annihilation is one of the best strategy games I have ever played. The bets thing to do is stick to the air units because if we follow a gundam idea it will run into some problems. If some of the crafts could be redesigned then you could have a sporting chance into making a campain on this sort of thing. Best of luck;)
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Originally posted by Windrunner
allright stop this nonsense at once. i don't want see these kind of things around here. if want to throw pies at eachother do it somewhere else.
This won't prevent them from 'throwing pies' to each other, they would PM each other after this.
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TA was fun, though the AI was pretty bad. My brother is playing it at this very moment. Looking forward to TA2, which is still in production AFAIK.
Also check this mod for C&C Generals out. (http://www.cncseries.com/ga/)
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Originally posted by Krackers87
TA was one hell of a game and it is older than FS1 but its community is still larger than FS2 and SC. I hated the SC campaign ( to much base building) TA has alot of base builkding but somehow its more fun.
Also TA was cutting edge and still is. Only game with realistic fighter physics, Shooting physics (like the way tanks could futily try to shoot airborne targets even though they were meanbt to shoot ground ones, Futile but they COULD) and terrain physics.
i know some games have done the fighter and terrain but none have come close to its amazing shooting physics.
:nod: :nod: :nod:
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Originally posted by Makil Heru
Total Annihilation is one of the best strategy games I have ever played. The bets thing to do is stick to the air units because if we follow a gundam idea it will run into some problems. If some of the crafts could be redesigned then you could have a sporting chance into making a campain on this sort of thing. Best of luck;)
Im planning to get started in a month. Although it would be quite bizare it would be quite easy to port the tanks over to FS. Add engines to the back and rework the treads and vviola!! one atrange ass ship but it might be fun. All im talking about with gundam is just to put engines on the feet or back.
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I'd recommend to ignore the tanks at first and concentrate on the air units, but you're free to do whatever you prefer, of course. :p
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You want Space Tanks? I had had this idea previously, but threw it out to the recycle bin. :D
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Originally posted by TopAce
I had had this idea previously, but threw it out to the recycle bin. :D
:nod: ;)
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and oddly enough Iv just learned how to mod units
Here's (http://www.planetannihilation.com/coreprime/) some custom made units for TA. :yes:
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A TA thread, and I wasn't informed?!?
This will not stand!
I've got TA, still play it a lot, and the TAUCP is quite bodacious.
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Originally posted by SKYNET-011
Here's (http://www.planetannihilation.com/coreprime/) some custom made units for TA. :yes:
bah theres more other places
i have collected a good 4000 TA units
bet theres not that many FS2 mods :P
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First TA unit port
The ORCA from TAUCP
(http://swooh.com/peon/Bubsy87/pictures/orca.gif)
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Originally posted by Krackers87
First TA unit port
The ORCA from TAUCP
Orca, eh? I'm not sure that quite qualifies as a TA port.... not completely... ;) :p
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might do the freedom fighter next.
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I DL'ed the starcraft ones but when I tried to convert I found out all the units were simply sprites (AARGH!)
IF there is a gundam TA would you be willing to convert the units for me? So far I am a mod team of 1 for Gundam TC as well and only have a poor version of White Base to show for it...
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Ahhh, sweet TA.
I've not played it online for an age. Probably because I'm crap.
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
....I've not played it online for an age. Probably because I'm crap.
Or you are engaged with the FS projects you are involved in. :D
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Originally posted by Star Dragon
I DL'ed the starcraft ones but when I tried to convert I found out all the units were simply sprites (AARGH!)
IF there is a gundam TA would you be willing to convert the units for me? So far I am a mod team of 1 for Gundam TC as well and only have a poor version of White Base to show for it...
NP i know there is a gundam TC for TA just gotta find it
hell.. theres even a WWII mod for TA and a Warhammer fantasy mod and...
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the orca is finished with 4 lods tht work!!!
www.hades-combine.com/mods/ships/dl/CAFOrca.zip
with a new sound and 2 weapons!!!!
Super L337!!!1
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if you convert any TA models you should convert the freedom fighter or the hawk, I love those things ;)
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TA? Currently, the best strategy game in excistence. Far better than Star Craft if you ask me. Been playing it for years and I am still downloading mods, maps and such.
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Just recently played the Final Frontier mod. A few issues with it overall mainly due to the way the game was programmed, but fun.