[Nico]

OK, I've began my "descent" campaign (check the general forum)by a little mod, one of the funniest robots of this game IMO:
   http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/Descent01.html?989317138050

It works, it's quite buggy (some clipping), but it's not a big deal and can be fixed easily. And yes, I know, the maps aren't put in a very nice way, this one is just a test.
I'll post the story later.


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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page


[This message has been edited by venom2506 (edited 05-08-2001).]

[Shrike]

Doh...copy and paste time.

heh, it's the poster bot, isn't it?

[Nico]

sorry, this link works better. This bot is the one on the Descent2 Box I think, it's in the 2 firsts, maybe in the third one, I don't know.
For once, you won't fight it, anyway, you'll protect it. The plot features the descent mining company, and others, competiting (fighting?) to rule over the remnants of the Earth economy, after the Sol node colapsed.
To be honest, Descent ships will act as guest stars, you will fly the Pyro ships only latter in the campaign. You'll begin with old retrofited FS1 ships saled to privates. Smugglers, pirates and mercs are the main characters outhere, along with rich trust leaders. I'll make some civil ships, too. That will be easy, they need no turret, not thrusters, just a model and a map, so I can do about one per day. I've already draw the sketches for a personal shuttle, a civil freighter and a Starliner. But I'll begin with reskining the FS1 ships so they look more "savage"  

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Nico]

OK, I'm planning to add the apollo, the valkyrie, the athena and the angel (a model I did for Ace), all in 3 different color schemes, because I have all the place I want in the tbl file   (no shivans in my campaign). Here are the 2 first apollos, a rusty one and a... a... well a different one (brown):
 http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/altskns.html?989348485840  

Any comments are welcome! In fact I want comments! Nothing's better than feedback to make you keep working  

Edit: I added the first skin, the "devil" one, on the same link .

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[This message has been edited by venom2506 (edited 05-08-2001).]

[Nico]

Prepare for descent  
 http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/PyroPreview.html?989434539150

This is the final model (512 poly, 340 vertices), with an almost finished map.

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Nico]

Imported! Now I have an ingame pic for you all to see:
 http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/ingame01.html?989521050380

I've also downloaded all the mods that have a "civil" feeling, too (ranged from the chronos freighter from fs1 to the planets made by Dark, and even a super kitch apollo skin with flames, made by Plasma (excellent   ). I try to put all the names in the credit.txt file, I hope I won't forget anyone :þ



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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Styxx]

Great! I just bought Descent3, and it's cool.

I just think that the cockpit on that thing is a little too large...  

[Nico]

Cool! I'm mentioned in the news  

otherwise, some history for the people:
"The GTI Arcadia is the first space installation not designated as a space station. The construction began in 2298, and was finished 2 years later,  in 2300, a symbolic date for the Alliance. Since then, it orbites around Jupiter, serving as a turning point for trade between Saturn and Mars. The Arcadia design has become the more comon installation everywhere in GTA space, supplanting the Mars and Orbiter designs."

and a link (it doesn't show only an Arcadia model, of course   )
 http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/Arcadia.html?989601243740


Edit: the ship in the background needs a little more work on maps


[This message has been edited by venom2506 (edited 05-11-2001).]

[Unidan]

Awesome! Now we have GTN ships. The Galactic Terran Navy.
 



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[Nico]

I have a cool mine like in decent working. It shakes, there's expolsions everywhere, and without shields, it's not that easy to go out in time before the super nova goes boum   (btw I would need to change the text for the supernova count down... possible?)
little diary of my lmast try   :
01) Time to go out... http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine01.html
02) Those lightning bolts are bad omens http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine02.html
03) Better not lost yourself   http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine03.html
04) brighter light? The mine begins to blow up... http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine04.html
05)Hurry up! http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine05.html
06) blow up? indeed...   http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine06.html
07) other boum (from this point, it doesn't stop exploding from everywhere, so beware the walls when you can't see where you go) http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine07.html
08)On this pic, you can see the exit behind the last explosion. Unfortunately, the last shaking of the mine sent me bump agaisnt the wall, and it was too late when I finally went out (the countdwon is not clear, it shows 12 seconds remaining) http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine09.html

Now I'm happy because people said to me it was not possible to make a hollow structure without clipping pb, and my mine has none  


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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Fineus]

...Woah.

Dude- I don't know if I mentioned this before- but this is exactly the project I was seeing if people would be interested in me trying to make.

If you want hosting at HLP, just ask me and I'll see if I can dog the rest of the staff into saying yes. If you need any help with anything else or whatever just say the word. I love Descent and this is one project I'm pasionatly interested in  

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[QXMX]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
I have a cool mine like in decent working. It shakes, there's expolsions everywhere, and without shields, it's not that easy to go out in time before the super nova goes boum   (btw I would need to change the text for the supernova count down... possible?)
little diary of my lmast try   :
01) Time to go out... http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine01.html
02) Those lightning bolts are bad omens http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine02.html
03) Better not lost yourself   http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine03.html
04) brighter light? The mine begins to blow up... http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine04.html
05)Hurry up! http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine05.html
06) blow up? indeed...   http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine06.html
07) other boum (from this point, it doesn't stop exploding from everywhere, so beware the walls when you can't see where you go) http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine07.html
08)On this pic, you can see the exit behind the last explosion. Unfortunately, the last shaking of the mine sent me bump agaisnt the wall, and it was too late when I finally went out (the countdwon is not clear, it shows 12 seconds remaining) http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/mine09.html

Now I'm happy because people said to me it was not possible to make a hollow structure without clipping pb, and my mine has none  

Are you going to create planetary backgrounds for the exits?



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[Nico]

Thunder, hey, didn't you notice lol, I answered last week to the topic you posted some times ago. Well, about hosting it at HLP, that would be cool, but I don't have a site for it and I really suck at doing that   (look the one in my sig...)

QWMX: hem... I don't plan to make a 100% descnet mod, better buy the game, otherwise.   In my campaign, it will feature "some" things like this (one or two mines), otherwise it will be a more common campaign. About this particular mission, I think I'll release it soon, with a modified apollon. I just need to fix some events.
That's a very simple corridor, in fact, not very interesting, but I think it's worth having a look at it ( you'll play it only once, I bet, anyway :þ )

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Fineus]

Hehe, I think if you wanted I could make a webpage for you. It'd take a while though - as I'm just about to begin exams and I can't afford to spend time on much at all at the moment....

Um...ok - If your interested, email me and we'll discuss the details there, anything important can just be pasted up here as well i guess   I'll ask the HLP staff about the idea, I don't see why they'll say no.

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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
I'll see if I can dog the rest of the staff into saying yes.

Since when was this 'dogging' required?

[Griffon UK]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/Arcadia.html?989601243740

are they meant to be cruise liners or cargo ships?

i damn hope they are cruise liners, cos if they are, TM has just added another mission to its midst  

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[Nico]

That's a cruise liner. Well I suppose it's called this way (I called that a starliner lol). A kind of "Star Titanic", if you want. I just made them for the "mood", they have no subsystems, no debris, no LOD, that's just a model, I took the faustus tbl and deleted all the turret entries, if my memory serves me well.
Thunder, you have ICQ, right? I asked your authorisation so I can add you in my contact list, but don't have it yet...

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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Nico]

Funny what happens, sometimes... In Descent, it's told that the pyro the player is using is a "modified Pyro GX". So I though I would do the regular one, too. And I began to modify my model to make the Pyro LX (the Hellix). Finally, I got something that don' look so much like the Pyro... And I just thiught that if it was "a modified pyro GX", the original was also called GX (I'm not very clear lol). All that to say that finally, I'll have that new ship called the Hellix (Pyro GX), the "normal" Pyro GX, and the modified one from descent, the Pyro GX "Vertigo". Hop, and a pic for the people who checked that thread because there's a new post but finally don't want to read all my rubbishes   : so, here is the Hellix
 http://www.geocities.com/venom250681/LX.html?989947543490



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venom2506
Member of the Robotech mod for FS2

and of Hidden Terror, the Shivan campaign

and My own page

[Sushi]

This mod has a lot of potential- but I have one big question. How are you going to get the AI to handle the new environment?



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[Fineus]

I'm thinking a "hope for the best" aproach, as we don't have the source code and therefore editing the AI is impossible.

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