[Taristin]

Ok. of talk, with little results.

I made the polies less visible, but without new maps, it's doomed to look Horrid.

[Taristin]

Oops. Forgot the files.

Also, 'Kalfireth', the reason Fred crashes for you is because you're missing the subspace game pallette.  I included it in this zip file for everyone. Though I'm sure it's available in atleast three other places.

[mikhael]

that model, Raa: can you post a screen of it untextured? and does it rotate?
It gives me a horrible idea.

[Flipside]

Hmmmm.... Is it me, or does the SCP load PCX's from VP's in preference to .ANI's from the maps folder? I created a Noise01.ani for this but FS2 refuses to see it....wierd!

[J3Vr6]

wow, that picture made me dizzy.

[Taristin]

The game makes it rotate itself. It has no pof data, but one rotates within the other...

This is just a simple 'chube'.  I took it and tapered it, and this is how the chube looks now. (I like typing with an accent, sue me.)

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by mikhael
that model, Raa: can you post a screen of it untextured? and does it rotate?
It gives me a horrible idea.

See, if we made each model that the game makes rotate to have a rotating BG subsystem...

[Taristin]

You wanna have a more than 2 levels? I dunno if that'd work...  Worth a try though.

[Flipside]

Is Subspace supposed to go backward? It's been so long since I played FS1! Also, a Noise01.pcx will replace the texture, but a Noise01.ani won't for some reason

[mikhael]

so how many polys is that, Raa?

This is all leading up to something.

[Taristin]

Heh, I decided to play it safe and up it from 125 to 470-something... and my FPS weren't hit at all. It stayed at 60 the whole time, it's just the screenshot function takes of performance...

[StratComm]

Something really needs to be done with the "ends" of subspace.  That terminus doesn't look at all good, though it's probably no different from :V:'s method.  Maybe leave a hole at the end?

[Taristin]

Just put a sun there, that's what V did...

[TopAce]

I liked the original one, too. My only problem was that the texture looked blurry.

[mikhael]

How about something like this:


Rotate it slightly off the main axis. The twist keeps the terminal points of subspace out of sight. It also allows subspace to occlude itself, which can only help lend a stomach-lurching quality to it. If you give it a partially transparent map, with a couple of surrounding simple cylinders with odd effects on them, you can add the requisite parallax effects.

[Nico]

mmh, that could be spiffy

[TopAce]

Originally posted by mikhael
How about something like this:


Rotate it slightly off the main axis. The twist keeps the terminal points of subspace out of sight. It also allows subspace to occlude itself, which can only help lend a stomach-lurching quality to it. If you give it a partially transparent map, with a couple of surrounding simple cylinders with odd effects on them, you can add the requisite parallax effects.

I support the straight one. Crvy subspace tunnel?

[Lightspeed]

I like Mik's model

Could we have a in-game capable version of that?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
I like Mik's model

...

Yeah, model's good, but the aesthetics ..

[Flipside]

Well, I could get an ANI together, where it not for the fact that FS2 has to load static images before animations

Hmmm.... off to try something

Hmmm... Crossed a bridge.... found a cliff.

I changed the name of the texture using Modelview to an ANI file I'd created. It only displays the first frame So it's static images only I'm afraid.