Spring RTS Engine

First of all, Cremuss, It's really great. I love to see such a solid, artistic and original gui. This is what I've been basically waiting for.

Second, Don't believe in Hoi unquestionably, he certainly has some good points but certainly some bad. Keep in mind that those are just his personal opinions and feelings.

For me, except the size reduction and removal of double edges, It seems getting backwards. I love the original's style.

More than anything, be loyal to your style and Imo the original is more loyal. I love the contrast. Keep the black or empty areas, it makes its more soft and not feel too cramped.

Buildpics are fine, although they were better in original. They are a bit bland. I'd add teamcolor and maybe frame them more sharply.

Energy and metal bar is awesome though needs icons or text. I prefer Icons, you could steal ones that CA has Imo they are great.

Hoi wrote:[...] However I must say that the teamcolor you use is very flat and scraping a bit off with a brush will make everything look better imo :)

Like this : http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p315 ... 1280190508

It's flat because it is the artistic style. You dont need to change that, I think its really awesome. Scraping it a bit wouldnt make it better but different.

wombat i liek ur buggy-arty :D

is the other thingi a gunship?

its more like a artillery tank than a buggy and flying one is bomber which moves like gunship

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crawling bomb/deployable mine, looks post-apocalyptic enough ?

dark colony infringment, i can see you ip-ekaboom
Srsly, looks like bombermans fallout shelter, and thats a good thing. Do NOT LISTEN TO THE COMPLAINS COMING AFTER ME, WHICH WILL SOUND LIKE THIS:
>" How are so many, little legs supposed to carry something that big. Its unrealistic"


- Its fine as it is. Keep it there, dont change anything.

Wombat are you making Dark Colony remake or something?

im PLANNING to use DC models and creating something similar

Wombat wrote:im PLANNING to use DC models and creating something similar

Cool! I wish you could find a way to make the "city" building same as it was in Dark Colony :)

i already know how to do it, tho, it wont/cannot be exactly same as in DC :<

Well... actully I still need to finish the hammer... but I'm out of time for this week.

aGorm

Should i read that as "Stop hammer time." or "Stop, it's hammer time!"

Either way looks cool

oksnoop2 wrote:Should i read that as "Stop hammer time." or "Stop, it's hammer time!"

Either way looks cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCpCn0l4Wo

i feel like a post got eaten; looking good pressureline! camo application seems good; it looks "right" without hiding the unit. (its a shame we dont have some sort of sample-from-maptexture camo shader or something to that effect, so that camo would be different for barren/desert locations)

agorm i'm feeling a bit of space marine influence on that helmet, and im loving it. great work as always, can't wait to see these dudes bashing in some skulls ingame

Procedural AO baked ground plate script, compare:

AO only



AO and shadows



shadows only



neither


Also, the old ta textures got a tiny touch up.

An s3o to obj command line tool/script would really be appreciated, its 3do only atm.

Chances of this ending up in BA?


Also - I don't know how difficult this would be, but make the AO less of just a big circle and more fitting to each building? It looks good, but something more along the lines of Cremuss's models, where the AO is more subtle and matches the models.



Looks good though.




man I fail at linking

Hobo Joe wrote:Chances of this ending up in BA?


Also - I don't know how difficult this would be, but make the AO less of just a big circle and more fitting to each building? It looks good, but something more along the lines of Cremuss's models, where the AO is more subtle and matches the models.

Looks good though.
man I fail at linking

You misunderstand. the groundplates are mathematically rendered AO. the unit textures didn't get any AO. this doesn't affect the model. Cremuss's models would actually benefit from something like this.

(behe, correct me if I made a mistake, please!)

Cremuss uses the same method. Mine still has a bit of tweaking to be done for optimal looks.

Beherith wrote:Cremuss uses the same method. Mine still has a bit of tweaking to be done for optimal looks.

Hm, interesting. Yours seem more circular/elliptical, and his look like they follow the contour of the model much more closely.

Maybe I'm just seeing things

Hobo Joe wrote:Hm, interesting. Yours seem more circular/elliptical, and his look like they follow the contour of the model much more closely.

Maybe I'm just seeing things

Cremuss' models are more circular/elliptical.

different tools or different settings

90% done, question - normalmap will be enough to make these wires at back look 3d ?