[Petrarch of the VBB]

I just had a cool idea1 If we got enough people with high powered WorldCraft skills together, we could make the interiors of GTVA ships in WorldCraft! Just think, you could run around the flight deck on the Aquitaine, or the bridge of a Deimos!

sorry to blow my own trumpet, but I can't believe no one has thought of this before!

[RandomTiger]

Sheiven boardings anyone?

[Fineus]

Actually it was vaguelly thought of before but the project never got off the ground really. I'm glad someone else wants to try though!

[RandomTiger]

Would be good if you could look out the windows and see a fleet or even a battle in progress!

[heretic]

Originally posted by Thunder
Actually it was vaguelly thought of before but the project never got off the ground really. I'm glad someone else wants to try though!

no, it did get off thr ground. However, on XP I can't play Red Faction, and RF2 is not slated for PC release, so it fell through.

[Fury]

Originally posted by heretic
However, on XP I can't play Red Faction

Why not? Runs fine over here.

By the way, that's a good idea.

[JC Denton]

Yet another reason to get Red Faction.  Well, it should be more reasonably priced by now, so maybe the end of the week I'll go spring for it...

[Unknown Target]

I though W3 was pretty dumb...
Then again, I never liked Blizz games...

[Nico]

worldcraft, not warcraft, you silly

[Stryke 9]

[imagines having to do full interiors of FS ships in high-detail]

[goes into spasms]

Go ahead, if you wanna. You'll regret it halfway through your second capship.

[Unknown Target]

Wasn't the Warcraft Editor called WorldCraft?

What is World Craft then?

[phreak]

WorldCraft=Q2 and HL Level Creator

[Su-tehp]

This sounds like a great idea in theory, and would look awesome is done correctly, but would a first-person shooter game inside a Shivan warship be practicable storywise? We all remember what happened the last time Terran marines tried to storm a Shivan transport back in the Hall Fight cutscene from FS1...

Still, if you had "smart grenades" (a la "Space: Above and Beyond) that have anti-grav motors and chase their targets, that would be really useful against Shivans, I would think!

And forget about slug-throwing machine guns! If I'm storming any Shivan ship, I want a beam rifle with me! Put that and other cool high-powered weapons in the game and it'll be feasibly playable.

Just be careful about trying to infiltrate a Sathanas. Invading a 6 kilometer long juggernaut filled with 30,000 Shivans isn't exactly doable without lots of marines or a small tactical nuke....

[Zeronet]

I have strong recollections of the project hosted at Volitionwatch, aptly named Freespace:FPS.

I bring, gold, frankincense and links

[Nico]

yes, I kept claiming choosing red faction was a bad idea. never listened to me. made no progress.
what the big idea of modding a game you can hardly mod when you have countless FPS you can mod at 100%???

[Fury]

Perhaps because both games developed by
And perhaps because of GeoMod.

[Nico]

developped by V: great deal
geomod: I don't see geomod as a main feature for a FS2 FPS mod.You drill a hole in the hull of a spaceship, you die, anyway, so what?

[Fineus]

I'm inclined to agree, walls in Half Life can be set to blow up - even though it's not true geo-mod you could script it fine to simulate alien incursion.

The UT2003 engine, now that would be my engine of choice:
Incredible animations on models (perfect for Vasudans and Shivans),

Scriptable deformable terrain - just watch the dude breaking through the nVidia logo on the intro of the demo.

Diverse weapon animations - Shivan beam weapon anyone?

Detailed terrain models, capable of doing some of the high-res renders of the Bastion main hall etc.. justice. Including reflective surfaces, animations and so on. The possibilities are massive.

Catchy soundtrack... some good atmosphere for a FS2 mod.

Packaged map editor with the full version, 'nuff said.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Thunder
I'm inclined to agree, walls in Half Life can be set to blow up - even though it's not true geo-mod you could script it fine to simulate alien incursion.

The UT2003 engine, now that would be my engine of choice:
Incredible animations on models (perfect for Vasudans and Shivans),

Scriptable deformable terrain - just watch the dude breaking through the nVidia logo on the intro of the demo.

Diverse weapon animations - Shivan beam weapon anyone?

Detailed terrain models, capable of doing some of the high-res renders of the Bastion main hall etc.. justice. Including reflective surfaces, animations and so on. The possibilities are massive.

Catchy soundtrack... some good atmosphere for a FS2 mod.

Packaged map editor with the full version, 'nuff said.

*Drools*

[Nico]

Originally posted by Thunder
I'm inclined to agree, walls in Half Life can be set to blow up - even though it's not true geo-mod you could script it fine to simulate alien incursion.

The UT2003 engine, now that would be my engine of choice:
Incredible animations on models (perfect for Vasudans and Shivans),

Scriptable deformable terrain - just watch the dude breaking through the nVidia logo on the intro of the demo.

Diverse weapon animations - Shivan beam weapon anyone?

Detailed terrain models, capable of doing some of the high-res renders of the Bastion main hall etc.. justice. Including reflective surfaces, animations and so on. The possibilities are massive.

Catchy soundtrack... some good atmosphere for a FS2 mod.

Packaged map editor with the full version, 'nuff said.

I'd go for renegade. not coz I love the game, but coz all the tools are available for everybody, for free. I could make a shivan quite easily for renegade (animation included), for exemple. and the events scripting is very powerful, allows for about anything ( for exemple, in mission2, you see a group of tank in a canyon, then you hear your command asking for an airstrike, and 10 seconds later, a couple A10 do a strafing run on them, looks great ).