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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: High Max on July 23, 2009, 06:57:58 pm

Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: High Max on July 23, 2009, 06:57:58 pm: ;-)
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: blowfish on July 23, 2009, 07:00:09 pm: Quote from: High Max on July 23, 2009, 06:57:58 pm
Maybe someday the SCP team will redo the mainhalls to increase their detail level and the level of detail being the only modification.

:wtf:
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: Commander Zane on July 23, 2009, 07:03:05 pm: Sure if you want to work on high detailed models and textures and slap them onto a few hundred frames...
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: General Battuta on July 23, 2009, 08:46:34 pm: Quote from: Droid803 on July 23, 2009, 06:09:06 pm
I've always thought that this was just some deck in the ship.
There's no fighters anywhere, unlike in the Terran mainhalls.

Nope, a Serapis comes up out of a hole in the middle on an elevator thing and flies outside.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 23, 2009, 08:48:46 pm: I thought that it was always outside, it just does a flyby.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: General Battuta on July 23, 2009, 08:50:07 pm: No, watch the mainhall for a while (shouldn't be more than 30 seconds or so.)
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: Droid803 on July 23, 2009, 08:54:18 pm: Oh hey wow it does.
A sled with jets comes up, launches a Serapis, and retrieves a Tauret.
I guess where it flies out to connects to the tube?
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: Mongoose on July 23, 2009, 09:17:36 pm: That always seemed like a terribly inefficient system to launch fighters, though it might explain the only one wing at a time thing.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 23, 2009, 09:23:09 pm: Also, the Bastion's hangar has the gaping hole in it, rather than the conventional Orion hole.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: High Max on July 23, 2009, 09:37:00 pm: ;-)
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: colecampbell666 on July 23, 2009, 09:54:09 pm: The thing is that to make an HQ mainhall (even 1) it would take a massive amount of texturing, animation and probably coding to do, as well as the fact that the mainhall alone would be several hundred MBs (source: somewhere on the INF board).
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: blowfish on July 24, 2009, 12:16:59 am: I sorta got what you were saying, but as cole said, do you realize the sheer amount of work that would go into doing something like that. Not to mention the fact that there are no original models for reference, and the fact that the game still only supports 1024x768 interface art, which it already is.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on July 24, 2009, 01:01:03 am: Quote from: Droid803 on July 23, 2009, 06:09:06 pm
I've always thought that this was just some deck in the ship.
There's no fighters anywhere, unlike in the Terran mainhalls.

The fighters are down the hole. A thruster-powered lift brings them up to the launch ramp where they take off. Very inefficient but whatever.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: High Max on July 24, 2009, 01:19:15 am: ;-)
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: Black Wolf on July 24, 2009, 03:44:33 am: Quote from: High Max on July 24, 2009, 01:19:15 am
I wonder how they make things like mainhalls. Maybe some special programs.

No special program, just a big, complicated, animated mesh that gets rendered.
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Post by: Dilmah G on July 24, 2009, 05:00:16 am: Quote from: Mongoose on July 23, 2009, 09:17:36 pm
That always seemed like a terribly inefficient system to launch fighters, though it might explain the only one wing at a time thing.
I thought that too the first time I saw it. :v: sacrificed a lot in the name of the rule of cool as far as realism is concerned.
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Post by: Snail on July 24, 2009, 01:41:08 pm: Quote from: Droid803 on July 23, 2009, 06:09:06 pm
I've always thought that this was just some deck in the ship.
There's no fighters anywhere, unlike in the Terran mainhalls.
Watch for a while and a fighter will enter through the hole.
Title: Mainhalls and such
Post by: Droid803 on July 24, 2009, 01:53:13 pm: Quote from: Snail on July 24, 2009, 01:41:08 pm
Quote from: Droid803 on July 23, 2009, 06:09:06 pm
I've always thought that this was just some deck in the ship.
There's no fighters anywhere, unlike in the Terran mainhalls.
Watch for a while and a fighter will enter through the hole.

That's already been pointed out...
You miss a page?

See:

Quote from: General Battuta on July 23, 2009, 08:46:34 pm
Nope, a Serapis comes up out of a hole in the middle on an elevator thing and flies outside.

Quote from: Droid803 on July 23, 2009, 08:54:18 pm
Oh hey wow it does.
A sled with jets comes up, launches a Serapis, and retrieves a Tauret.
I guess where it flies out to connects to the tube?