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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 19, 2010, 10:44:19 am

Title: In the Pasture
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 19, 2010, 10:44:19 am
Ok, I redid CoW.

Did a lot of work on CoW2.

First Screenies of Mission 1 CoW3, the screenies feature Trashman's Blade Cruiser, weapons adapted for CoW.

(http://mt.hard-light.net/devel/Blade 1.jpg)

(http://mt.hard-light.net/devel/Blade 2.jpg)

(http://mt.hard-light.net/devel/Blade 3.jpg)
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Dragon on January 19, 2010, 11:09:28 am
Looks retail-ish.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: General Battuta on January 19, 2010, 11:35:15 am
I feel like I should give this a shot. Nice work, ShadowWolf.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 19, 2010, 12:26:24 pm
Thanks but the work isn't mine, except for one of the nameplates, and even then i just modified the one on the Blade.  Icefire's backgrounds, circa 9 years ago, Trashman's ship, and Aldo's effects, also about 9 years old.  I'm just a fredder and a guy who hacks other people's models (although I did once model and texture a box). 

I'm just bringing some things together.  Adding a few ideas of my own, hopefully using ships in ways that are new and inventive.

Don't check out Casualties of War, I did a horrid job of fredding it, it's been redone, as have parts of CoW 2, and I'll be re-releasing them with CoW3.

But thanks for the vote.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Stormkeeper on January 19, 2010, 05:32:03 pm
I like the beam bolts. And the blue flak.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 19, 2010, 07:44:09 pm
can someone tell me what font that is on the cruisers and where to get it?
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: General Battuta on January 19, 2010, 07:51:57 pm
I believe it's 'Stop', the usual FS font? Or is the usual FS font something different?
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Galemp on January 19, 2010, 08:01:37 pm
can someone tell me what font that is on the cruisers and where to get it?

STOP (http://fsport.hard-light.net/extras/stop.ttf) is the font used on textures in FreeSpace. It's on the original Galatea and Bastion nameplates, the GTI Arcadia and GTDR Amazon, and even the main halls.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 19, 2010, 08:12:40 pm
Sweet, thanks.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: dragonsniper on January 19, 2010, 08:41:46 pm
Blue flak. Like the looks of those a lot.  :yes:
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Cobra on January 19, 2010, 10:46:26 pm
Dear God, I want.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Droid803 on January 19, 2010, 11:11:17 pm
The blue flak was in the original CoW.
That's where I stole the explosion effect from to make the Negator Flak in ToD. :P
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 20, 2010, 10:39:16 am
The long green lasers look waaay too much Star-Wars-ish. I suggest you to do something about it, it breaks the atmosphere big time.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Dragon on January 20, 2010, 10:48:49 am
And add a proper starfiled and Lightspeed's nebulae.
Also, normal maps for Blades would be usefull.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: BS403 on January 20, 2010, 01:11:58 pm
Hey people, why don't you stop back-seat modding and be silent.  
Only noobs say stuff like, "I don't like your mod, redo everything to fit my criteria, oh and I don't care what you want in your mod."

Seriously people.

EDIT: This is why I shouldn't get blazed on week days.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Rodo on January 20, 2010, 02:07:38 pm
Hey people, why don't you stop back-seat modding and be silent. 
Only noobs say stuff like, "I don't like your mod, redo everything to fit my criteria, oh and I don't care what you want in your mod."

Seriously people.

Don't take those so seriously, some of the tips will make the campaign improve. Besides they are doing nothing wrong as long as their are not flaming the work.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 20, 2010, 02:30:18 pm
The "I suggest" part of my comment was, as it suggests, a suggestion. Would you be suggesting a suggestion might be doing anything worse than suggesting ?
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 21, 2010, 04:50:31 am
Those aren't lasers.  Those are Tracer rounds.  Developed for the Original CoW.  Cow3 takes place in the same system as CoW, so Icefire's nebulae remain.  Now what do you mean normal maps?
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: starwolf1991 on January 21, 2010, 05:14:56 am
If I may? The Blade needs more than just normal maps. It looks like it is using retail textures. What it needs is MediaVPS textures, which include normals. Although I do think a lot of the COW additions need normals and texture revamps.

With a lot of polishing, COW could become a superb trilogy.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on January 21, 2010, 06:50:06 am
Is that an offer?
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Dragon on January 21, 2010, 12:11:53 pm
Now what do you mean normal maps?
Are you using FS2Open?
Normal maps are one of the greatest improvements implemented by FSO, it's recent, so you need 3.6.10 final for it (that screen looks like retail or some very early versions of FS2Open).
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: chief1983 on January 21, 2010, 02:22:25 pm
HUD Presets (http://swc.fs2downloads.com/files/hud_presets.7z).  You might want to use them.  Please.  :)

Just drop them in your data/players folder (already in players in the archive actually) and then edit your HUD, you can select any of the retail color presets.  That full green is just not as appealing as the gray-green in the presets, I think.
Title: Re: In the Pasture
Post by: Jeff Vader on January 21, 2010, 02:26:39 pm
Now what do you mean normal maps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_mapping