[Unknown Target]

Boy, i'm on a new-topic spree lately.


I'm just curious, what inspires you guys to write/render/model? I usually put an intersting, sci-fi background on my desktop, and play some music for regular tempo parts, and some fast techno for the action scenes.

[Knight Templar]

Writing (in the form of Campaigns usually) : Anything and everything, from Movies, to the last video game I finished, to my favourite music song. Whether it's something deep like a movie theme or a story or feeling I pick out of a song, or something as shallow as liking the idea/character/theme of the move. Unfortuneatly, it usually plays like hell on whatever *serious* Idea I have going on at the time. In the end though, it usually exposes some fatal flaw in the plot or idea and is for the better

Mission Writing: Always action. Anytime I think of a mission, my mind leeps straight to the action part. So the inspiration usually comes in the form of Playing another mission, listening to some heavy metal or just thinkg of the last Star Wars-esque battle scene floating around in my head.

[mikhael]

Movies, books, music, games... it can be anything.

One of the best things for inspiration is old crap. I keep most of the garbage that I don't finish and look at it occasionally. You'd be surprised what kind of cool stuff you think of later when looking at some random spline, or some chunk of polys you thought would make a cool engine.

[Nuclear1]

Movie soundtrack, mainly the one from Aliens. I've written thirteen chapters out of listening to it.

For missions, generally other missions, action movies, or, once again, soundtrack.

[Stryke 9]

Jethro.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Stryke 9
Jethro.

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[Styxx]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
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Who is he?

* end mandatory Armageddon reference *

[HotSnoJ]

I guess I'd have to say music is numero uno in my book. As well as other games/shows/misc. stuff.

[Darkage]

Farting.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Darkage
Farting.

as for me, I tend not to inspire when that happens

[Darkage]

I wasn't being serious:rolleyes:



Anything can inspire me. Music, a prety picture, or a radom thought i get.

[Gortef]

music, movies, anime, games... quite a lot of things

or just plain foolish imagination

[Dark_4ce]

I think movies and books inspire me . But I do have a REALLY hefty imagination and write of short stuff around the rim of my note books and stuff, so afterwards when I forget what I wrote, I read them and get inspired again. So you could say I inspire myself! And the Discovery Channel inspires me too. Gives me great ideas for stories about how future technology goes dreadfully wrong or how humans in the future live in general...

[Stunaep]

Riding in a bus having nothing to do beats everything.

[Black Wolf]

To be honest, I get ideas from what are essentially completely random thoughts. I'll be thinking about something cool and then it will gradually lead into a FS2 campaign idea. Or I'll be thinking about the TI story and a dozen possible branches come off, each worthy of their own campaign. In fact, left to my own devices and with an inexhaustible supply of FREDders and modders I coul have plotted the vbast majority of post Cappella FS2 history (well, my version of it) by now, and a fair bit of the gap between FS1 and FS2 also.

[Thorn]

Music usually inspires me... sometimes its something I read or see, and recently its been other people's work... Those renders in TBP are what got me to do that last one I posted....

[diamondgeezer]

'I Walk The Line', by Johnny Cash.

[aldo_14]

Music.  At this very minute, Stereophonics (Gotta go there to come back) and the (bizarre) Lemon Jelly album (Lost Horizons).

[diamondgeezer]

Nuff respect on two counts: Lemon Jelly and the lack of Coldplay

[CP5670]

As far as mission building goes, mostly real history, other missions and of course, math. (I don't write much aside from mission text and cannot model a thing)