[Black Ace]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
 *looks around for smiley*

I was thinking the same thing...  


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[Setekh]

*bump*  

[Fineus]

 

[Sandwich]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
I am undoubtably bizzare...

 



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[Stryke 9]

Out of Order...

So... do models just vanish as soon as they're rendered? All I ever see are ones rendered and then never heard of again, ones used to p1mp campaigns that only rarely come out at all and terrible 2-year-old ones at most of the sites! Gimme gimme!  

Hate the Traitor:
Better with Hercs- Myrmidons look too wierd in groups to get really nice renders

Most of the rest:
Bwarg? I don't get it...


And yes, a comment system would be nice, although odds are it would be immediately clogged when some idiot flooder found it...

[Stryke 9]

And how DO you make those explosions? Either that is a... VERY nice particle generator or a long time on Photoshop, I can't tell which.

[Fineus]

Glares at Setekh...

He uses his very own Spire to make explosions now - I swear that one day that kind of thing will be commercially available, but untill then the rest of us will have to sweat blood to do it to the same level of quality.

[Stryke 9]

Ach. I assume he isn't interested in spreading the wealth. Oh well, RDS can do pretty much the same with a little trouble...

[Fineus]

RDS?

[Stryke 9]

My heavily outdated modeling program. It's still much nicer than TrueSpace, but it's nearly friggin' impossible to get FS models into it properly, and even harder to go the opposite way, since it imports DXFs well and exports them horribly (or TS imports them badly, one or the other). My only current sample of its flame effect is this:
   
And I am still tinkering with it- it's not very easy to generate, and veeeeeerrrrryyyy slllooowww to render. It can, however, do something like Setekh's blasts when you view the flames from the top.
[EDIT: Dammit, where is that render...]
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[This message has been edited by Stryke 9 (edited 10-31-2001).]

[Nico]

only pb spire is for linux. When do you make a windows version?
alternative question: is there an efficient linux emulator for windows?

[Stryke 9]

Ah. Linux. Never could tell whether it was any better or worse than Windows (not counting 2000, which... well, ask Zylon my opinion on Win2k .) Anyway, yes, there is an emulator, but it costs mioney, and I don't have money, so I always ignored it... poke around online for demos, maybe?

[Nico]

an emulator that costs money, that emulates a free OS... I wonder if I should   or  
better make a dual boot I suppose...
Anyway, I never heard about Setkh giving Spire away, so it's talking for nothing :þ

[Stryke 9]

Like I said- there are many things online besides hardcore porn, pictures of people's ugly babies, and game sites, if one looks deeply enough...

But yes, it appears to be a moot point.

[Stryke 9]

Just a quick demo, I didn't toy with sizes or blast widths much, just to put up for comparison...

 

[Nico]

nice  

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by sandwich:
 

 

Oh, ok, one last (probably not) call for requests. Comments on the Array or not   I'm going to be expecting all of you on there if it goes ahead...  

As for Spire - as a public program, it's got a long way to go before we even consider it worthy for others to use. Like I explained to The Avenger a while back, I just realised that there is no learning curve - for everyone except my brother and I, it's going to be a wall straight up   But in terms of features, I guess that's where it's strength is.

And if you've wanted to know, I've tried many times to port it to Windows - but I just gave up. It's bloody hard. And trust me, Thunder bugs me about it enough to make me try very frequently...

I'm going to re-work the code this weekend. Well, major chunks of it, anyway.  

[Fineus]

 

[Styxx]

You know, Thunder, one of these days we'll get tired of seeing your face on every single post you make.    

[Nico]

anyway, for now, it's dalmn funny  
oh, steak, don't underestimate my... learning curve   it can go at straight angles sometimes