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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Inquisitor on March 01, 2002, 07:39:13 am

Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 01, 2002, 07:39:13 am: Check out the screens from the SSC video game, I'm p1mping, but i think it is relevant here :)

http://forums.shatteredstar.com/user-cgi/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=000099

Gotta love making games :)

If anyone has REAL suggestions for comparative physics for these ships, please post in that thread.
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Setekh on March 01, 2002, 07:45:39 am: Oh, physics. You're unlucky that I got to this thread first; my physics is, at best, primary-school level. Yay for Newton! :D

I will say, though, that the engine's looking really cool. Is that fogging I spy? Volumetric, even? :D You should do some ice mountains... shake up the screenshots a little, it wouldn't be so hard. ;)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 01, 2002, 07:55:03 am: Yeah, fog :)

I haven't touched the base maps since I did them for my venus project (http://www.deckersds.com/endeavor ) but I have some nice green rolling hills and what not, just not in the game yet :)

The engine is great, if you have 100 bucks, MORE than worth the investment for learning alone.
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: CP5670 on March 01, 2002, 08:51:54 am: Friendly Fire is looking great!:) Regarding the physics, it might be nice to have the inertia and momentum effects, but you don't really need anything else. If you specify a mass for each object and drop in some of the standard mechanics formulas, it should work fine.;)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Thorn on March 01, 2002, 08:55:07 am: Physics...
Physics..
You mean those two courses I took last year? The ones I cant remember anything from? The ones I somehow managed to pass with a 70?
Nope..
Doesnt ring a bell...
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: CP5670 on March 01, 2002, 09:12:40 am: lol, I love physics...:D (along with math and some types of engineering)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Jabu on March 01, 2002, 10:00:20 am: Hehe. If you go by real comparative calcs, the Uly's firepower is somewhere around 100x that of the Pyro :p
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 01, 2002, 10:27:34 am: That's apparently debateable :)

But that IS the kind of info I want :)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: CP5670 on March 01, 2002, 11:31:29 am: Quote
That's apparently debateable :)

as shown by that FS2 vs D3 thread...lol:D
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Nico on March 01, 2002, 04:36:04 pm: the maps on the thrusters are flipped :p
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 01, 2002, 07:11:17 pm: Wanna help?

:)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: JR2000Z on March 01, 2002, 09:04:33 pm: What gaming engine does it use?
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 01, 2002, 09:10:27 pm: Torque.

Same engine as Tribes 2.

Interested in looking at this?
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Bobboau on March 01, 2002, 10:33:50 pm: what is this, a new mod, a new game engine
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 01, 2002, 10:47:00 pm: Wait a second, is that a Mad Cat from Battletech!??!
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 02, 2002, 12:10:02 am: No matter what they say about you guys, I have faith :)

Can't sneak anything past ya!

Yes, it is a Mad Cat :)

Torque game engine can be found here: http://www.garagegames.com for 100 USD :)

Everything else, I scrounged for (including the Uly model, Thanks T)!
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 02, 2002, 07:01:33 pm: About how big do you expect it to be when you're done?
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 03, 2002, 09:34:51 am: it's riding about 28 megs right now.

Pop over to the SSC forums if your interested, I'll hook ya up with a "beta" :)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 03, 2002, 01:41:25 pm: Noooooo! The poor Mad Cat! How could you!? :eek:
Looks fun...especially the part with the Ully blowing up the Descent fighter. :D
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Fineus on March 03, 2002, 01:49:08 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Inquisitor
Everything else, I scrounged for (including the Uly model, Thanks T)!

Not at all - :V: made it ;)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 03, 2002, 02:01:47 pm: Yeah, but you converted it for me :)

I need to redo the texture map on that, it got pixelated :(

Yeah, the Uly killing the Pyro was great fun on PLanet Descent :)

Everyone is welcome to stop by the forums, the more the merrier :)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 03, 2002, 06:56:59 pm: I've registered over there. I'm just named 'Grey Wolf'. Unfortunately, the link for the Friendly Fire d/load is broken.
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 03, 2002, 07:04:39 pm: I fxed it :)

Was moving stuff around.

Gonna put a new full build up tonight though.
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Alikchi on March 03, 2002, 07:23:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
Wait a second, is that a Mad Cat from Battletech!??!

Timber Wolf, TIMBER WOLF!! :mad:

damned spheroids..
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Grey Wolf on March 03, 2002, 08:31:41 pm: 14.5 MB down, 13.3 to go....
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 03, 2002, 08:45:07 pm: Mad Cat to us, tubie :)
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: WMCoolmon on March 03, 2002, 10:36:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Alikchi

Timber Wolf, TIMBER WOLF!! :mad:
damned spheroids..

Quiet, or you'll get us both killed.

So, anyone else like the graphics? :D
Title: Freespace versus Descent-SSC style
Post by: Inquisitor on March 04, 2002, 09:27:16 am: The Mad Cat model kinda blows, it's an old World Craft export from a half life map. Took it into Milkshape, rebuilt the missile racks so they didn't take 4000 polys and made the arms longer. The skin is kinda a hack job too, too a custom skin for the mad cat from mektek, but no map for it, so I kinda guessed in milkshape what it should look like :)

The terrain is fun, everything else is a function of how well my buddy knows worldcraft and how good the models look when I get done with them in MS. Someone with REAL modelling skill could probably make this look REAL professional, I just make it work :)