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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => The FreeSpace Port Upgrade => Topic started by: Galemp on October 04, 2008, 11:27:17 am

Title: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 04, 2008, 11:27:17 am
OK, thanks to the coordinated efforts of the FSU team, MediaVPs 3.6.10 Gamma has been compiled and is going internal testing. It's definitely a release candidate as it includes all the hotfixes and updates of the past year as well as all kinds of new, fun stuff.

3.6.10 is a requirement for the FSPort MVPs, and I'm going to attempt to release it hot on their heels, so that necessitates a deadline for inclusion. Mainly, I want to have high-poly model replacements for all the FS1-era missiles.

By the end of the month, I will need models for the Fury, Tsunami, Cluster Bomb and EMP, or else I'll model them myself. So! Save me the work? :D
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: peterv on October 04, 2008, 11:33:11 am
I'll take the Tsunami
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 04, 2008, 02:57:21 pm
No staked claims. We already have WIP model shots of the Tsunami, Fury, and EMP. I need access to the models.

If you, like others, say
I'll take the Tsunami
then nobody else makes a Tsunami, and so it might not get done.

First one to deliver a Tsunami gets a cookie. And an early preview of the MVP. There, how's that for an incentive?
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Titan on October 04, 2008, 07:27:25 pm
How about i telepathically send you the perfect mental image of all the missles.

will i get half a cookie?
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 04, 2008, 07:42:32 pm
You get one chocolate chip.

. <--- There it is.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: blowfish on October 04, 2008, 08:52:41 pm
First one to deliver a Tsunami gets a cookie. And an early preview of the MVP. There, how's that for an incentive?

Does this apply to other missiles too? ;7  I've had a semi-finished HTL tempest sitting on my HD for a while... :nervous:
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 04, 2008, 09:04:36 pm
Semi-finished? It's so simple, how could you possibly half-finish it?

Whatever. Post it and I'll do my best. :blah:
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: blowfish on October 04, 2008, 09:09:45 pm
Semi-finished? It's so simple, how could you possibly half-finish it?

Well, the mesh is done, but the mapping is kinda screwy.  In the first version, I took orthographic pictures of it in SketchUp, then applied the textures to 1/4 of the missile and rotated it 3 times...  In this version, I managed to get a game model and tech model converted.  EDIT: tech model in the loadout screen (http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj251/blowfishpro/My_Stuff/tempest_t1.jpg).  Then I imported the tech model into Blender and properly unwrapped it, though as it turns out, the main part of the texture is stretched by about a factor of three. :nervous:  Should I try to fix the mapping?  I could probably do it...
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 04, 2008, 10:59:13 pm
Hey wait, that's a Tempest, from FS2. I'm looking for FS1 weapons; the counterpart would be the Fury.

And for goodness sake, why are you trying to rip textures to the model? It's nothing more than solid colors. Save yourself the work! Take a look at some of the textures I made for the other weapons and learn from them.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: blowfish on October 04, 2008, 11:09:07 pm
Hey wait, that's a Tempest, from FS2. I'm looking for FS1 weapons; the counterpart would be the Fury.

Yeah, just realized that :nervous:

I could probably make the fury pretty easily though...
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Mars on October 04, 2008, 11:53:27 pm
Can't you just make it red, cut off three of the fins, and call it a Fury? ( I say in my supreme ignorance)
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: blowfish on October 04, 2008, 11:55:23 pm
Can't you just make it red, cut off three of the fins, and call it a Fury? ( I say in my supreme ignorance)

The model looks fundamentally different.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Admiral Cheater on October 05, 2008, 01:00:00 am
I have uploaded the model of the Tsunami here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,53499.msg1119749.html#msg1119749)

I'll try modeling the Cluster Bomb.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 05, 2008, 02:07:50 am
Awesome, thanks Cheater. Must have missed it first time around.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: peterv on October 05, 2008, 10:33:01 pm
I've made a Tsunami but i guess it's not needed anymore  :(
And did'nt need any incentive really  :)
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Droid803 on October 05, 2008, 11:08:06 pm
If it's done I'd post it. Yours may be better. Never know.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: peterv on October 05, 2008, 11:10:37 pm
I tried but this "The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator" came up. (its about 280Kb 'cause i've included all the working files in it).
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Droid803 on October 05, 2008, 11:16:42 pm
You could always upload it somewhere like MediaFire.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: peterv on October 06, 2008, 12:13:09 am
There it is: http://www.fileqube.com/shared/ctcJF125845
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 07, 2008, 11:40:27 pm
Thanks for those, guys. I just finished the Disruptor Missile tonight, as well as the in-game weapon effects.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: peterv on October 08, 2008, 10:54:08 pm
Galemp the end off the month is the deadline for all kinds off models? (I'm asking because the Thoth and the Centaur are both almost finished).  :)
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Galemp on October 09, 2008, 08:00:36 am
ooh, are they? ;7

Well, the Thoth is a FS2 ship and would be going into the main VPs, so I really can't help you there. I'd be glad to have the Centaur, though.

The deadline for submission is the end of the month because the new MVPs are most likely going to be out by then. I need to stop feature creep so we have time to test and debug what we have before release.
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: chief1983 on October 21, 2008, 05:51:55 pm
Yes, I'd rather have stable MediaVPs than more broken stuff :)
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: azile0 on November 12, 2008, 10:06:49 pm
You get one chocolate chip.

. <--- There it is.

Sigg'd
Title: Re: Incoming deadline! MediaVP configuration!
Post by: Titan on November 13, 2008, 03:08:58 pm
Bump maybe?

THat's now the biggest sig i've seen   :eek: