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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Deepblue on May 11, 2004, 03:41:40 pm

Title: New debris
Post by: Deepblue on May 11, 2004, 03:41:40 pm

In case people have not checked the asteroid thread recently...
Yeah! New debris!!! (http://www.freewebs.com/expeditions/newdebris.zip)
And yes, there are four of them now.

Title: New debris
Post by: Deepblue on May 12, 2004, 09:25:20 am

*bump*

Title: New debris
Post by: Nico on May 12, 2004, 09:31:18 am

w/o pics, people won't check. basic HLP rule ;)

Title: New debris
Post by: Deepblue on May 12, 2004, 09:35:44 am

Then take pics or wait cause I cant run FS right now. :p

Title: New debris
Post by: Nico on May 12, 2004, 10:20:54 am

Sorry, I'm way too lazy :p
Besides, I can't connect to swooh ftp, seems down again.

Title: New debris
Post by: Lightspeed on May 12, 2004, 03:14:40 pm

I've seen it.

It looks pretty nice, but I wont bother installing untill you've got all (four?) debris ANIs changed.

You will have to do one additional thing though. The original ANIs have a transparent colour which your debris lacks - you will have to fill the outer area with it or you will get black boxes around the debris.

Just finish this, i'd even be willing to post screenies of it to attract more people :D

Title: New debris
Post by: TopAce on May 12, 2004, 03:14:52 pm

Swooh is operating again. ;)

Title: New debris
Post by: JarC on May 12, 2004, 03:17:22 pm

sheesh, download the stuf and open it in the appropriate viewer...pic's don't say squat most times, specially with animated stuf...

Title: New debris
Post by: Flipside on May 12, 2004, 03:33:21 pm

That looks pretty good! Try to keep the sizes to something like 64 x 64 though, else it wastes texture memory iirc :)

Title: New debris
Post by: Nico on May 12, 2004, 03:35:56 pm

Quote

Originally posted by TopAce
Swooh is operating again. ;)

swooh, yeah, never stopped working. FTP tho, still won't, I just tried. That or it's my connection acting up.

Title: New debris
Post by: Lightspeed on May 12, 2004, 06:28:30 pm

Yeah, use 2^n sizes.

But c'mon, we all want to have a complete release with this (i.e. four debris ANIs) :D

Title: New debris
Post by: StratComm on May 12, 2004, 07:06:29 pm

I thought that there was four.  The version I have certainly has 4 seperate ani's, though I haven't looked to see if they are all the same.

Title: New debris
Post by: Flipside on May 12, 2004, 07:08:36 pm

They are Lods I think, they are certainly smaller versions of the same Ani :D

Title: New debris
Post by: Deepblue on May 12, 2004, 09:37:15 pm

Actually, there arent lods, just differently sized animations that are used to give the debris "veriety" as far as transparency is concerned it has to do with the way fs renders the debris, since it is pure black (if sandwich did it right)

Title: New debris
Post by: Turambar on May 13, 2004, 06:55:21 am

now we need different types of .anis for each file, to give supreme debris variety, even though this one does mannage to give the appearance quality of FS2 a HUGE bost.  It can always be better...

(don't have them all rotate the same way, )

Title: New debris
Post by: Bobboau on May 13, 2004, 09:30:35 am

could someone post a screen, I can't DL, and ATM I'm away from my computer (ie can't view the files)

Title: New debris
Post by: Deepblue on May 13, 2004, 01:11:41 pm

Essentially it looks like the debris but brown and darker and rotating versus randomly moving around.

Title: New debris
Post by: J3Vr6 on May 13, 2004, 01:34:57 pm

Picture could explain it better :D

Title: New debris
Post by: Unknown Target on May 13, 2004, 02:08:57 pm

You know what I think would make a good debris field? If you took all the debris, or just one of the debris sections from every ship, and made it into one big field. You could have a GTVA field, a Shivan field, a Vasudan Field, a Terran field, and an altogether field.

Title: New debris
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 13, 2004, 03:25:18 pm

*downloads*

Erm... what are these supposed to replace? The little grey poofy things that float about?

Title: New debris
Post by: Flipside on May 13, 2004, 04:09:54 pm

Yup, that's the beggars :)

They work really well, but they DO need some variation to my mind :)

Title: New debris
Post by: Deepblue on May 13, 2004, 04:36:13 pm

Go complain to sandwich. I personally almost prefer making all but one or two of the animations blank so their arent so many of the buggers.

Title: New debris
Post by: Flipside on May 13, 2004, 04:52:51 pm

LOL Now, if you could define your debris set in Fred.....All sorts of possibilities are available ;)