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Offline untouchable

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Reply #40 on: March 31, 2002, 08:37:54 pm
Can anyone say "Low Resolution!"
d00d, get a graphics card ;) :nod:
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Reply #41 on: March 31, 2002, 08:45:40 pm
Quote
Originally posted by untouchable
Can anyone say "Low Resolution!"
d00d, get a graphics card ;) :nod:


If you cared to check out the file format it is JPG, at 35% compression because i thought of download times, that comment is just being a smart mouth cause you thought you had a better GFX card than me.

The shoots where taken, with 1024*768 32 bit. You can’t get a better resolution than that with Freespace II

Next time, think before you act. :wink:
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Reply #42 on: March 31, 2002, 09:19:44 pm
Sorry :(
Styxx got me thinking about chocolate so............ mmmmm chocolate..... ;)
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Reply #43 on: March 31, 2002, 09:50:13 pm
no problem, i was not offended.

I like chocolate too, 25-35% profit.

Confectionery is my department at work.  :D
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Reply #44 on: April 01, 2002, 10:24:58 am
Just imported the full 4 LODs with shield, and most of the Turrets in working order with the shield mesh at polycount at 725. I’m a bit curious to see what happens when I go past 750.

Rotating turrets seems to be shielded even when they rotate outside the shield. That is a positive surprise. Thought they would be damageable when they did that.

Still Shield strength at 3500, is not enough.

I managed to punch the shield down with a couple of Helios bombs. So the strength should better be increased to something wild like 100000, if the game does not crash on such a high shield strength.

The shield seems however to glow just as you press the trigger and before the released projectile hits the shield where when it does, glows again.

I think this an in game thing, preventing you from being under the shield (meaning under the bounding box) of another fighter / ship, and therefore no shield effect should be. But a function catches this and shields the fighter/ship anyway. So I’m not sure if this can be removed.

Next test will be a full shielding of all turrets with shield mesh exceeding 750 polygons.

Wish me luck, as I’m entering the realm of blue screens and white letters.  Dam I love my, hard tested system, for that it never screws up anything on crashes.

I think I got like the first 50 blue screens when I initially started testing "big shielding"
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Reply #45 on: April 01, 2002, 12:09:04 pm
Hmh.... but Lucy's shield still ignores beams, right?
 

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Reply #46 on: April 01, 2002, 12:26:28 pm
I doubt it :p
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Reply #47 on: April 01, 2002, 02:42:27 pm
Lucy's shield is impenitrable. It's the visuals that count. :D
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Reply #48 on: April 01, 2002, 07:03:51 pm
Looks good, DTP.  I eagerly anticipate the release. :nod: :D
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Reply #49 on: April 02, 2002, 04:58:53 am
The model is very close to release now, screwed up a bit at the wings. Got a rule confirmed that each vertex can only be connected to 3 other vertexes. But will fix that asap.

The Shield mesh current state is that it has 2580 polygons. Model view will block you as the programmers of that prog thought 1600 polygons must be enough. "I really hate when they think for us", but PCS is converting it without trouble.

in the meantime, here is shot of multiple fighters attacking the Really Shielded Lucifer. The white stuff is the shield.

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Reply #50 on: April 02, 2002, 09:52:54 am
Just out of curiosity...what proggies do you people use for this sort of stuff?
 

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Reply #51 on: April 02, 2002, 02:10:38 pm
Well here is a list of what i have done in short.

1 Converted POF to COB. Used Cobtopof.exe
2 Converted COB to 3DS. Used 3d-exploration
3 Imported 3ds into 3D max 3.1
4 Edited everything in max, turrets, objects, shield etc.
5 Exported to 3ds from within max
6 Converted to COB with 3d-exploration
7 Edited hierarchies. Used Truespace 2.
7 Converted to POF with Pof Constructor suite.

So that must be

Cobtopof.exe
3d-exploration
3d max 3.1
Truespace 2
Pof constructor suite.
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Reply #52 on: April 02, 2002, 03:00:27 pm
s00per d00per sw33tness! You're incredible. It works in Freespace 2... I can't wait.

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Reply #53 on: April 02, 2002, 04:52:11 pm
argh.....I can't find the POF constructor suite :mad2:
 

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Reply #54 on: April 03, 2002, 03:34:30 am
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argh.....I can't find the POF constructor suite :mad2:


http://alliance.sourceforge.net/files/Software/AllProFS2Kit.exe
 

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Reply #55 on: April 03, 2002, 05:16:02 am
thanks man :D:yes:
 

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Reply #56 on: April 04, 2002, 01:47:40 am
The shield is finished. :D

Look out for release on the FS1to2 port project site.
located at here

Here is a pic of the Lucifer shields only, from 3dmax. Complex. naaa  :cool:

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Reply #57 on: April 04, 2002, 01:57:15 am
From what I've seen sweet... :D
I'll try it when it's up :nod:
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Reply #58 on: April 04, 2002, 02:03:16 am
;7
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Reply #59 on: April 04, 2002, 04:25:25 am
If it works fine w/o any pb, I'll probably use it :)
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