[jc4jc]

This is a Special Annoucment:

I would like to announce the One Year Anniversery of the conception and creation of the Stargate SG-1: Earth's Defence, SG1ED for short, Total Convertion Modification by VWBB member Ghostavo, supported by VWBB members Black Wolf and myself (VWBB handel 'jc4jc'), and unoffical help from VWBB member karajorma.

Interst in a SG-1 mod has sprung up here at HLP as well. This thread by Fuzzy Stargate Mod Idea is the first sign that support at HLP would be, and is, possible.

As of today Earth's Defence is One Year and Fourteen Days Old, and as such we are in need of staff members. As the present Project Lead of SG1ED I now ask for you support for this mod. I ask that no one sign up for the staff at this time unless you have the true passion to drive this load. I say this due to many of HLP hosted projects dieing for life, as members are returning to our community from the rest of life that has, in the past few months, take the time needed. Now for those that do wish to join the team please send me a PM or E-mail me at [email protected].

Some of you may know that I am a member of the TAP staff. We are hard at work over there and making progress. However after one year of work most support for SG1ED at VWBB has all but diminshed as life has taken our passive members over there away from this work.

We now have a Website setup at Geocites for the time being - Stargate SG-1 Earth's Defence Webpage . Major overhaul of some pages will be underway for some time, but it is there. Any noticable change will not accure any time soon.

I thank you for your time in reading this post on this matter. I hope to hear from all of you soon.

[karajorma]

If only I had the time for more than unofficial help.

Like TBP this is the sort of thing that draws outside interest to the game so I'm very much in favour of it.

As I've said before if you need playtesting or have any FRED questions I'm always happy to help

[Raptor]

This is spooky, I was thinking about adding SG-1 ships to FS2...

Now, if this gets off the ground (sorry, can't realy help ATM, kinda focused on BSG), and we gain a Farscape mod, then NeilGartner's excellent fanfiction could be replayed in FS2:drevil:

Oh, and jc4jc, you have Apophis's name spelled wrong on the website.

[jc4jc]

Thanks That is the type of thing I need to know Raptor. Well until I get at least the Death Glider, and the X-302 I could get basic dogfighting missions done. Please feed me more info.

[Getter Robo G]

*Cough*  Had to dust this one off cause I wouldn't feel right starting a thread for JC's project at GW.
Back in the Saddle so to speak. With a very special Christmas Wish for you all...


"Death to False GODS!!!" 





Lets get REALLY close...


Now if only Santa (an Ancient probably) would put a "Big Honking Space Gun"(TM) in my stocking I could blow those pesky Ori straight to hell...

[Raptor]

Nice work.  Little low poly on the Hatak there, but it's certainly workable.  Which is what you need.

[Getter Robo G]

Yeah it's 2.8k and change, BUT park of Dkealt's pack (permission granted!!!). wait till you see to 50k deadelus but unfortunately no one is available to convert that puppy.

"SO come out all you CLOSET sg-1 fans who can alter models!"...

We have the ships/textures, we just need the technical skills...

[BS403]

What format are the models in?

[Getter Robo G]

I believe I converted 99% of the relevant models to .cob already. Any failures is due to milkshake crashing trying to open BC's native .nif format. If cross conversion textures errors happen I redo the process but save in .obj format and then use 3DExploration to save as a cob after tryign to deal with texture issues best I can.

[BS403]

So do you just need someone to make pof's?
I can convert cob's to pof's but not much else.
edit: I can't do LOD's

[Getter Robo G]

That's all I am, a CONVERTER, I make 3d formats into .cob and then the minimum needed to get them into .pofs and thus into game... FYI Every conversion I've ever done over the last 4-5 years is only LOD 0, with no debris.

What JC (and myself) need is someone who can do things like FIX geometry, or poly reduction on high-poly models we have use of down to FS2 limits...  Turrets would be nice. (I can handle single part, but I just butchered Yamato trying to "improve it" with non-FS2 type boxes so multi-parts are a NO NO for me)

I've just about reached the limit of my abilities for conversions for the SG-1 project. There were still a handful of ships on my bad HD I'll try to recover when I can get to it and finish them, but for now the ball is in someone else's corner who has the skills I lack. JC has some measure of skill, but is short on time.

Me, all I got is time (but no skills), that's why I bounce from project to project (or just screw around on my own... Hell I might even dig up some old star wars stuff I started way back when but put on hold in lieu of the SW TC...)


Anyone remember these screenies?
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/getter_robo_g_2004/detail?.dir=a628&.dnm=a603.jpg&.src=ph
Was a direct port from my copy of XWA, for retail.
This wasn't
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/getter_robo_g_2004/detail?.dir=a628&.dnm=7911.jpg&.src=ph


Heck I might have even been the first to post a type of skybox when we were trying to figure out how to do the inside of SDF-1 for Robotech. I ended up using the Death Star as a test of concept as I didn't even know the term "skyboxes" then.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/getter_robo_g_2004/detail?.dir=a628&.dnm=a0f7.jpg&.src=ph
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/getter_robo_g_2004/detail?.dir=a628&.dnm=5313.jpg&.src=ph

Meh, nuff reminiscing.

[Raptor]

Well, I've ganed some experiance in poly reduction (taking 600K ship down to FSO standards is a sharp learning curve!)  Not so hot with LODS and debris, but my real speicality is turrets.

I'll won't have much time come January, but if you like I can whip together some multi-parts for you.  Any referance or guidelines (ie arrangement of barrels, general look etc) you have would be very nice...

Bob's new turret code should make arming your ships SO much easier... that's something else I do really well... (see my GTD Hera as case in point )

[Getter Robo G]

Actually I haven't spoke to JC in a while (plus it's a rare event). Me and Kara are "psuedo members" 

I have no firm graps of when he wants to do about turrets (i was talking about my lack of skills).

The main thrust of this was POLY reduction, possible LODing, and hopefully Debris. While I am perfectly satisfied with my efforts of ships that just go bye bye cleanly, I doubt most players would overlook that. 

The deadelus (50k), Apophis's flagship (13k?), Ancient Warship (40k), Ori Satelite, Wraith Dart(9k), Ori Warship(9k), all need either SOME poly reduction or minor tweaking.

So just throwing that out there.  Taking all this one step at a time. The reason I sent all the earlier low-poly models to JC was that "It's better to have something you can replace later, then nothing at all." And considering we've both been solo devs for over a year in our projects I can relate to that.

[Raptor]

... "It's better to have something you can replace later, then nothing at all." ...

Agree totally with that.  That's what I've been trying to do with the Oiginal BSG TC.  Get workable, get-you-by ships in game, sort out all the designs and balancing, build missions, THEN create the final ship models.

[jc4jc]

You know I thought this thread was gone.. anyway Im still in GA and won't be back until the 27... So Getter Robo G if you could send the Hat'ak to me I can work on turrets myself. All I need to do at this point is convert and what not to the other stuff I have and I can start on the Missions.

BTW Getter Robo G do you have an Account on GW and if so what is it.

[Getter Robo G]

Hehe read my siggy... Star Dragon.

Enjoy your holiday... I was just waiting to hear from you when you got back.

Yeah I'll .rar up the ships I just converted and send you the materials ( both the .cobs to work on as well as the .pof for more testing). IT will be up to you on final sizes/scale and what not.

I finally got the O'niell working, the Valhala uses the same textures so I went back and redid that as well texture name wise. I am not a big fan of shared textures (in case you need to modify something and don't remember what it's called), but in this case they are exactly the same. glowmaps for all ships included if you choose to use those.


l8tr!

[jc4jc]

Cool... BTW focus on the Ha'tak I need that for the demo campaign 

[Getter Robo G]

I thought I sent you the Hatak? (with the others a few days ago).

Until I can access my old drive again I'm basically done for SG-1.. 

L8tr!

[jc4jc]

Your Right, I just looked them back over and it's there thanks