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Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 4:59 am
by Rodo
WOW! that's sweet.
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:52 am
by gary
But it could be an extremely long time before we see act II. Let's hope not because I like this campaign.
That screenshot looks like high quality cutscene detail, even though it is ingame.
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 1:56 pm
by FSF
No, the wallpaper is actually rendered. If you look closely, you can see shadows; the game won't do that right now. I also didn't get normal maps to work.
Act 2, that's right, will probably take a while more - we're about halfway through the missions now. But the act 1 re-release for 3.6.12 should take just a couple more weeks, and contains numerous improvements over the old one (this Akrotiri, for example).
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:37 pm
by gary
Oh, I didn't see that it said 'wallpaper' above the screenshot. Anyways, I thought you could induce the shadow effect by using custom flags. You can see different recommended flags for lighting in the wiki. But I suppose the shadow effect in this looks better than using flags. I wonder when FSO will have the ability to use shadows at this quality.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:06 pm
by FSF
Just a little something from today's release...
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:20 pm
by ngtm1r
That looks remarkably awful, like somebody baked a pie and stuck it to the front. It's too regular to really be interesting, but not regular enough (at this angle?) to look like it was well-designed.
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:48 pm
by FSF
Well, I based it loosely on the old gun, with the six spokes. And yeah, I did the texture myself...
Anyhow, you're kindly invited to draw up a better one
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:06 am
by Goober5000
mmm, pie...
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:09 pm
by Snail
Gotta agree with NGTM1R, the beam looks a bit funky.
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:32 pm
by FSF
Just to let you know we're still alive... a screenshot from mission testing, showing off the Mochlos corvette from act 2.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:00 am
by gary
How many missions will act II have?
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:04 am
by FSF
10 playable missions and several in-game cutscenes.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 6:28 pm
by General Battuta
Did the beam pie ever get fixed? It's the first thing I saw when I opened the thread, and, well, ouch.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:00 pm
by Droid803
The beam pie on the Akrotiri?
It does fire beemz. Its a Space Shuriken Emitter.
But no, AFAIK the Akrotiri model hasn't been redone.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 10:52 pm
by FSF
Well, it could definitely use a good texturer, that's right. Even just some good ideas would help. How would you like to see it, 'ttuta?
