[madaboutgames]

The bumb mapping looks fine when its animated, the motion blur takes away the roughness of the landscape

[madaboutgames]

I played around with the lighting and volume fog last night, I opted to use a slightly darker environment as it was in the references to mars in the episodes..  I have started rendering the 5 second anim clip of this short, with just over a total of 20,000,000 polys it shoul be finished rendering on sunday



 

[IPAndrews]

Someone needs a render farm.

[aldo_14]

Someone needs a render farm.

Don't we all......

[RavenTS]

More Info :

This campaig is based upon ITB, it has a different storyline than the EMW demo.  Instead of being attached to an EA cruiser for the duration of the campaign, In EMW you start off with the fleet which is heading for Minbari space to learn more about them.  After your attack on the Minbari Fleet your fleet manage to jump out to saftey, you then retreat to the Jericho system where you are to iniate repairs.  The Minbari then jump in and wipe out the fleet and the Jericho base.  You then flee the battlefield and spend the rest of the campiagn attached to other fleets until they are taken out.  This approach is more realistic as many EA ships where lost during the war.  In a war like this you would expect to be displaced frequently with many EA ships being destroyed daily.  You then continue through the campaign on a variety of missions as your pilot tries to survive the war.  Halfway through the war you are attached to an EA fleet (as in ITB) which comes face to face with the blackstar, after defeating the blackstar you are then attached to an elite EA fleet which has been outfitted with some Centauri weapons bought from the Narns.  You then progress through the campiagn onto the last mission which is the battle of the line.  All in all the campiagn plays very well and is very atmospheric.  I have put much variety, action, surprise and pilot storyline into this campiagn making it an excellent campaign to play which is not too hard in the begining and will boast 16 action packed ITB missions.

Whoa, sounds really nice! By the way: Do you know "Halfway through the tour" by A-ha? 

[Col. Fishguts]

Vast improvement there in the 2nd render The sky and the terrain look much more real.

[madaboutgames]

[hamaxp]

hey madaboutgames i am kind of noob  but  is heat em up season one ready jet  and if it is ready were i can dowload it?

[IPAndrews]

I've heard some of his mission ideas and everyone should be suitably excited. In all honesty.

[madaboutgames]

hamaxp - Season 1 & 2 are done, season 3 in getting there.  There is currently no demo available for download, I was hoping to get all 5 seasons done by this summer but with real life issues and the forthcoming releases of EMW and BHX i will be resuming work on the heatem up seasons and hope for a release next year.  Currently I have updated Infestation and survivor campiagns to work with 3.3a and a single mission of the long twilight struggle is also available for use with 3.3a go to www.heatemup.stargame.co.uk for info and downloads

Cheers Ian

[hamaxp]

how ready is EMW i so want to play agenst the minbari

[madaboutgames]

EMW - WIP report

Missions 1 - 18 completed
Mission 19-20 wip
Intro - complete
Cut scenes 1 - 16 wip
End stats - wip
Voice acting - wip
Beta Testing - tba

As you can see most of the missions are all done, just waiting on the voice acting and cut scenes now.  After its all put together it will be beta tested and are looking at a July release.  No exact date has been set yet but to be safe looking towards the end of July

[hamaxp]

ok do you need voice actors??

[madaboutgames]

the more the merrier, if your interested pm me

[madaboutgames]

Work is now resuming on heat em up, looking to release it end of august.

All Heat em up voice actors, please visit our private forum at stargame for more info

[PSI-KILLER]

I can't wait too get my butt kicked again and again inbetween explosions.

[Knarfe1000]

Is EMW ready now?? Where can I download it?

[Sponge Bob]

There:

http://babylon.hard-light.net/mission_downloads.php

[IPAndrews]

That's just the old TBP Earth Minbari War demo (aka mini-campaign). It only has what 5 or 6 missions tops. MAG's campaign is a different animal altogether.

[Sponge Bob]

Oh, you're right. I didn't read the whole thread