[Droid803]

No, but there'll be a clear spot where the sun should go.

[Shivan Hunter]

WITH GREAT NORMAL MAPS AND SKYBOXYNESS AND FIRING OF LAZORS I HUMBLY PRESENT TO THEE

ASTEROIDS





Now, obviously a skybox would be preferable to a bunch of background bitmaps- in fact, with the background and the rocks I probably have >100 bitmaps in that mission. However, I dunno how to generate a skybox based on the background bitmaps in a mission. There's still some tweaking still to do to get them to blend in with the ingame 'roids (lighting for one thing ), but these will be passable for the time being.

At least I now feel like I'm in a large asteroid belt instead of some little patch where moving rocks are inexplicably gathered together by some as yet unknown phenomenon known as "gameplay".

[EDIT] one of the asteroid bmps (the half-lit one) has been updated to look less stupid.

[Kolgena]

Nice!

I bet it would be frustrating for designers to get lighting to be consistent for the bitmaps... not to mention that users here have a myriad of different light flag values.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Blue Planet: War in Heaven Part 1 Developer's Commentary is now up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI1Wmq1RFG0&p=319DA3374E2CBE03&index=1

Features:
* the voices of some of the BP team;
* video footage from QuantumDelta's computer;
* the older, less dramatic cutscenes;
* five asterisks in this post; and
* some white text.

[Agrajag]

Is this where I say hi?  Hi!  Just wanted to say thanks to the people who did this project, it is awesome, and it must have taken a lot of work.  Just finished fs 1, and began silent threat reborn.  I never actually played any of these games before, they are awesome.  Except for the wingmen who insist upon shooting, then crashing into cap ships that are in the way of asteroids that they want to kill   

and is it just me, or is silent threat a really hard campaign?  I gave up, and now I just cheat and use flak cannons or super lasers or whatever to kill stuff

[Turambar]

Thanks, now for the 100,000 dollar question. How do you get the view point right in the Apollo? I apologize for asking for tech help in this thread but the only threads I've found on the subject are from 2007 and they weren't quite clear.

Just grab the file I put in the Freespace Port Conversion Discussion thread.

Thank you so much, I've been trying to put this together for three days. Thing is Rapidshare is telling me the file has already been downloaded 10 times and can't be downloaded any more.

Try this one.

this one's down too, got anything else?

[Solatar]

WITH GREAT NORMAL MAPS AND SKYBOXYNESS AND FIRING OF LAZORS I HUMBLY PRESENT TO THEE

ASTEROIDS

*snip*

Excellent work with that.  It looks like the effect that the FSPort tried to achieve in its latest release, but a lot more natural.  Absolutely gorgeous in fact; the first one is my new wallpaper.  The lighting and everything is awesome.  Any chance you could release the bitmaps and background info? 

[Shivan Hunter]

Sure. In fact I'll release a test mission as well, sometime today or tomorrow. Glad you like them.

They look "natural" probably because I used the actual FS asteroids as source. I literally just took a screenshot of FS rocks against a light background, with all the light coming from behind them. Anything that was totally black was asteroid. After that I added lighting using my limited knowledge of Gimp.

[Solatar]

Sorry I left the FPS on the first image.  Here are a few shots I took recently in the first few missions of Freespace 2.  I wanted to show off the explosions, the lighting, and the new beam effects.

It's a bit too blurry for my tastes; but here's a few Myrmidons flying through an explosion


Two NTF Hercules fighters launch missiles as soon as they exit subspace.


The Belisarius gets nailed.

[Commander Zane]

It's a bit too blurry for my tastes; but here's a few Myrmidons flying through an explosion a blazing inferno of ****ing awesome.
*Snip*

Just an explosion? The universe is on fire!

[Rodo]

Me likes the new fireball as well

[General Battuta]

Me likes the new fireball as well

Yeah I'm glad Nighteyes managed to preserve their awesomeness without devouring BMPMAN.

[Nyctaeus]

Time for some "WTF?! Screenshots" from Shadow Genesis :]. WIP Screenshots from the new system in SG - Phi Minoi, and the refreshed Spica.

[General Battuta]

Loving the backgrounds and the Mass Effect 2 style sun.

I think we have a Narayana/Tethis with fixed smoothing somewhere that we can get you.

[wolfen]

Theres only one word that can possibly describe describe these pictures.....................awsome

[Nyctaeus]

Loving the backgrounds and the Mass Effect 2 style sun.

I think we have a Narayana/Tethis with fixed smoothing somewhere that we can get you.

That would be great , current Narayana/Tethis has a few lightning errors. That would be helpfull.

[BlackDove]

Nice Mass Effect 2 ripoff.

I approve.

If I move towards the sun, will I see the Illusive Man?

[T-LoW]

Is that sun animated in ME2-style?

[Nyctaeus]

Nice Mass Effect 2 ripoff.

I approve.

If I move towards the sun, will I see the Illusive Man?

Heh, no .

Is that sun animated in ME2-style?

Unfortunately... Not. I'm not 2D animator, so it's only simple bitmap.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Heh ... even the Pyrgos looks nice in those screenshots.