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Title: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: Black Wolf on January 12, 2012, 09:28:48 am: Stumbled upon Kelly Snapka's Freespace 2 page (http://www.kellysnapka.com/my_career/games/freespace-2/) where he's done a tiny bit of a writeup on the stuff he contributed. Of note is confirmation that the Hippocrates was indeed meant to echo the Nebulon B, and that the light textures on the Ganymede actually served a sensible purpose.

Dunno if this'll be of interest to anyone else, thought I'd throw it up anyway :)
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: Goober5000 on January 12, 2012, 10:05:29 am: Cool. :)
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Post by: headdie on January 12, 2012, 10:30:39 am: downloaded that cover and nice shout there BW
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: SypheDMar on January 12, 2012, 10:48:09 am: Awesome stuff. Over ten years and there's still (new) info from :v:
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Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on January 12, 2012, 11:42:22 am: That trailer is great as a development snapshot... The intro monologue with different music and another voice, the FS1 HUD and backgrounds... And then the bits of background on the game - good find, BW!
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 12, 2012, 12:47:51 pm: Is kelly...... Female ;7

Srsly though, good find, and.55mp image? Back then? Wow!

Dont.suppose we could get.the drone in 3ds?
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: MatthTheGeek on January 12, 2012, 12:50:25 pm: ...you realize we already have it, right ? (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=77700.0)
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: Colonol Dekker on January 12, 2012, 01:16:43 pm: Realisation implies lack of prior knowledge. I am completely grateful for MJ's efforts. Just thought it'd be neat.

Also.... I'm curious about teh "privaet" tab on kellys site :)
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: Aardwolf on January 12, 2012, 07:21:06 pm: Er... was Snapka\Flegel one of the canon corporations, or was it fan-made? Just now noticing the names now.
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: yuezhi on January 12, 2012, 07:37:05 pm: Quote from: Dekker on January 12, 2012, 12:47:51 pm
Is kelly...... Female ;7
(http://www.kellysnapka.com/wp-content/plugins/image-shadow/cache/319eeeda0c15352fc577ef061c922e93.jpg)
apparently not.

the nebula on that box cover doesn't look like any background i've seen ingame so far.
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: SypheDMar on January 12, 2012, 09:34:20 pm: Quote from: Aardwolf on January 12, 2012, 07:21:06 pm
Er... was Snapka\Flegel one of the canon corporations, or was it fan-made? Just now noticing the names now.
Canon like most nods to :v: staff.
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: mjn.mixael on January 12, 2012, 11:10:20 pm: Quote from: Aardwolf on January 12, 2012, 07:21:06 pm
Er... was Snapka\Flegel one of the canon corporations, or was it fan-made? Just now noticing the names now.

Funny you should say that... It took some deciphering but myself and some people on IRC worked over the manufacturing logos from the Colossus cutscene and intel_GTVA.ani (for my remake of the ANI). It didn't take long to realize that most were references to staff which we were able to pick out from the credits.tbl from retail.

Here's the logo remakes (http://s282.photobucket.com/albums/kk264/mjnmixael/FreeSpace%20Logos/Company%20Logos/).. Come to think of it, I should put these on the Wiki.
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Post by: yuezhi on January 12, 2012, 11:50:34 pm: Kulas Management Group?

great post Mixael. :yes:
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Post by: Mongoose on January 13, 2012, 12:03:44 am: Heh, Wentz Acoustics. Clearly they handled the Colossus's *****in' sound system. :D
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: mjn.mixael on January 13, 2012, 12:50:03 am: There, I whipped up logos for the few canon companies that didn't have canon logos and put everything on the Wiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Corporations) as PNGs with transparent backgrounds. Enjoy.
Title: Re: Tiny bits of new [V] info
Post by: LordMelvin on January 13, 2012, 03:16:46 am: Quote from: yuezhi on January 12, 2012, 07:37:05 pm
the nebula on that box cover doesn't look like any background i've seen ingame so far.

It looks like one of the Hubble Space Telescope images of the Eagle Nebula that gets used/imitated as standard space-background filler a lot in ninties-era stuff. I'm pretty sure it was used in the ~~space combat~~ opening bits of Babylon 5, season 4, episode 6, Into the Fire, among other things.