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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Vertigo1 on August 29, 2001, 10:04:00 pm

Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Vertigo1 on August 29, 2001, 10:04:00 pm
Ok, I'm willing to bet that some of you have played Engages version of the first Descent game (called Descent Online).  Remember the Tigg?  Well, a while back I took the liberty of modelling it.  It didn't look all that great, but all I had modelling experience with at the time was spheres.  Needless to say that not only was the polygon count un-necessarily high, but it didn't look all that great either.  So, for the past couple of days, I've been re-vamping the model.  I redid the main body, fixed some silly errors, and made the sucker look much better all-around...but I'll let you be the judge of that.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

Before (//"http://vertigo1-2.freeyellow.com/Tigg.jpg")

and

After:
 (http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/Images/TiggV2.jpg)

more views:
Top View (//"http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/Images/TiggV2_top.jpg")
Bottom View (//"http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/Images/TiggV2_bottom.jpg")
Side View (//"http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/Images/TiggV2_side.jpg")
Front View (//"http://www.mdstudios.f2s.com/Images/TiggV2_front.jpg")

Comments?

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Fineus on August 30, 2001, 01:13:00 am
Nice! Could be a bit more rounded around the main body, but apart from that it looks much better  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Vertigo1 on August 30, 2001, 02:36:00 pm
My reference material ("http://vertigo1-2.freeyellow.com/Tigg.gif")..

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Inquisitor on August 31, 2001, 09:09:00 pm
You wouldn't happen to have a 3ds version of that would you?
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Joey_21 on August 31, 2001, 09:19:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Thunder:
Nice! Could be a bit more rounded around the main body, but apart from that it looks much better   (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

I agree.

I was fixing to say that the previous model looked better because of that.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Setekh on August 31, 2001, 11:52:00 pm
Whoa... that looks... really cool.  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Thorn on September 01, 2001, 12:03:00 am
I just went and got D3 the other day.. man that game kicks..

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Setekh on September 01, 2001, 12:05:00 am
I should borrow that from my friend. He kept on telling me that it made him have motion sickness.
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Fineus on September 01, 2001, 01:59:00 am
 
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Originally posted by Setekh:
I should borrow that from my friend. He kept on telling me that it made him have motion sickness.
He must have a weak stomach... or my computer never ran it fast enough to make it make me feel sick...
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Thorn on September 01, 2001, 03:01:00 am
Sick? maybe not.. Dis (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/spineyes.gif)riented? very...

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: QXMX on September 01, 2001, 03:01:00 pm
Sweet  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 03, 2001, 01:33:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Inquisitor:
You wouldn't happen to have a 3ds version of that would you?

Of the game model?  No.

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 03, 2001, 01:40:00 pm
 
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Originally posted by Setekh:
I should borrow that from my friend. He kept on telling me that it made him have motion sickness.

Tell him to use the framecap...and quit playing those groundpounders!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Thorn on September 04, 2001, 02:46:00 pm
My computer can run it fast enough (barely).
but Ive never gotten sick..
I've gotten lost...
at one point i couldnt tell which way was up(not that it matters much)...
and then I managed to light myself on fire with a napalm rocket...
that was fun...
and I'm rambling.. so I'll stop...

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Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Fineus on September 05, 2001, 01:46:00 am
My computer still has trouble running it, which is somewhat annoying considering it'll run the vastly more advanced IW2 without much trouble.

As for motion sickness - pah!  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/wink.gif)
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Nico on September 05, 2001, 06:36:00 am
 
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Originally posted by Thunder:
the vastly more advanced IW2 without much trouble.

You must be jocking. The Iwar2 engine has nowhere like the huge amount of stuff to run than the descent3 engine has to (not sure what I just said is very correct, grammar speaking.



[This message has been edited by venom2506 (edited 09-05-2001).]
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: IceFire on September 05, 2001, 03:40:00 pm
The I-War2 engine is just really refined, optomized, and boosted by the very latest in technology.

Descent 3 had a truly unique dual engine that worked for wide open spaces as well as the closed tunnels.  That was something special.
Title: A blast from the Descent 1 days...
Post by: Vertigo1 on September 05, 2001, 08:26:00 pm
Agreed.  If Interpunks had given them more time, alot of the bugs would've been worked out.

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