[Bishop Gantry]

Originally posted by Destrol
I have some advice about the mod.

Do not recreate the Homeworld backgrounds. Its a waist of time and im guessing not too many people care if the backgrounds do not match homeworlds. I know that when I played both HW and CAT, i disabled the backgrounds so i could see the ships more clearly against the black background and the stars.

BTW if you are going to recreate the backgrounds, DO NOT recreate the junkyard lvl background in the first Homeworld. I do not see how that fits into the environment of space, cause it looks like a huge plate of ****.

its your poinion that the backgrounds are not important... my opinions is they made the game so much better...

so basiclly you didnt want to play the game its meant to be played you wanted to give yourself every edge you could just so you could win:doubt: seriosly dosent that get boring

that huge plate of "****" is a massive construction that very well could challange the deathstar in size comparison...
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ohh I really want to see the Elite Taiidan Squadrons again:thepimp:

[StyffyDawgIX]

I'll defend the HW bg's too.

Do you know that it takes at least 3 or so weeks to create one background?  Do you know how much f'n trouble went into making those backgrounds so SO pretty?

I will say this, the backgrounds were an INTEGRAL part in my first SP experience.  If you look you can see the nebula getting closer and closer, until you're right in it.  Afterwards the same goes for every other level, things get closer and closer until you're there.  That's a nice touch on the dev's part, I was really pleased to see that much thought put into the creation of the backgrounds.

They give the game a 'feel' if I may say so.  They add so much to the feeling of being in a large universe that's very colorful and alive.  Anyway space isn't dead black you know.  Just check out some of the Hubble telescopse shots and that new Shandra infrared one, nebulae and stars and whatnot are very colorful, down right beautiful if you ask me.

[Rampage]

Hmm... TAP will NEVER be a MOD without it being a campaign.  I'll FRED, after I give my students their doomsday American History mid-term exams (and grade them, curve them, etc.)

[Star Dragon]

This might get me interested if the mod team picks up.  I really disliked HW and CAT even with mods (I thought I could make mymown missions, all mods do is REPLACE ships used.) so I quickly got bored and moved on to ARMADA1&2. Now I find I want to extract ships out of the HW mods and maybe weapon effects but don't know if there are any tools available for DL that can open them. I can do texture transfers, I open a .lif in 3dexploration and save it as a bmp then use ifranview to save as 8bit .PCX. only problem is when I save the model to .cob and try to .pof it with pcs it say  I forgot to group the objects... I don't model so is ther a way around this? If so this would help many different mods.  

     If you get a script together of mission outlines I can do basic fredding. Also Textures for models ready to recieve textures (it that called mapped?)... I've posted around samples..

[Nuclear1]

Old topic, but I was considering maybe Fredding for TAP. In between SA and my own campaign, I think I can spare some time to help out. PM me if anyone is interested.

[elorran]

We'll keep options open, but for the moment primary concern is with the mods themselves.

[SKYNET-011]

What spots are still open?

[Nuclear1]

I'd guess primarily modelling and the like.

Or heck... just check the "Want Help" thread a bit down.

[SKYNET-011]

Err... Heh. Right.

[elorran]

Primarily people with model knowledge and skills are preferable since we can use people to help convert the models faster and make alterations where they are needed.  Textures might also need to be altered in the near future.

But pretty much anything is open, question is do you have the skills to get the jobs done.  This is where the problem for most mods starts, people sign up to do a job and then don't know how to do things.

If you only want to join the project for the sake of it then the answer it no.  We need people who can get the job done.  Everyone is entitled to a fair hearing and a chance, but if you are just in it for the credit and nothing else then you'll get more than just dumped (and we have had a person(s) like that).

Now, with the 'evil' out of the way, if you are interested in trying to help with something just ask and we'll see whats available.

[Grug]

Originally posted by elorran
...Now, with the 'evil' out of the way...

Hey! I resent that!
Hehe... mwuh ha haa

...yes ill go now...

[elorran]

Ooh, look like we have some spare evil left now that he's gone.  Evil anyone?

j/k

[Grug]

You can never get rid of me... :devil: haha ha!

j/k anti evil spray usually gets the job done ;P

[jc4jc]

I have All kinds of Ideas for weapons and what not. I have been working on how to do the special stuff for HW and CAT, and I'm almost done. if you'd like I'll e-mail the what I have as soon as I can. I also have Ideas for the ACV, MCV docking; Beast converstions. And I have ideas for making all the missions work. Again if I see an ok I'll get as much together as possible. At preasent I am also working on another Mod and I need something to give me more to do when I need a break from It.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I believe I speak for the whole project when I say that any help you acn give us would be greatly appreciated.

[jc4jc]

great As soon as you need me to do something PM me And I will get to id as soon as possible.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

I'll have a word with our leader, the good captain elorran, and see if he has a task for you.

[elorran]

Well, a number of the dorment staff has started to return from the dark side, so I don't won't to jump the gun and start over loading the project with staffers.  But for the moment I see no problem with you jumping on to the train

[jc4jc]

Thank you Sir, I will do what I can to help. As soon as you have something I will be waiting.

[TonViper]

I may be able to help you with the homeworld backgrounds. It depends on how FS2s backgrounds are done.

What do you need to put the backgrounds ingame? (i.e. a 256*256 texture to be wrapped on the inside of a sphere or whatever) If so, I can definately help you. If it is something else, then I might still be able to, but I'll need to know what you need as output

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