Need modeler for Evolution RTS

[Forboding Angel]

MOAR!!!

Explorer Mex, kaiser

[aGorm]

MORA!!!

aGorm

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[Forboding Angel]

Holy shit. Those look fucking awesome!

Too much win... ./heartattack

[smoth]

/pees on the dead body then takes forbs stuff to sell it.

LOOT LOOT LOOT

[MidKnight]

Now you need groundplates. goooouuuundplaaaates...

[SPRKH]

*groooouuuundplaaaates

[Forboding Angel]

It's being discussed

Umm ok I have a bit of an announcement to make. As of about 15 minutes ago Evolution RTS is under a new license.

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Now before we have any uproar about the ND portion I want to very publicly state that the only thing we are concerned about protecting is models, textures for said models, and artwork.

Specifically this applies to the following directories within the game structure:

bitmaps/loadpictures
objects3d
unittextures

I can waive the above conditions as I see fit (we don't intend on restricting official forks, it's just that we want to know about them and approve of them which isn't unreasonable). Therefore to avoid any fallout or misunderstanding...

In writing, I am officially and publicly stating that:

You are welcome (and even encouraged) to use, modify, distribute any of the files NOT found within these directories within the game file (including svn):

bitmaps\loadpictures
objects3d
unittextures

Any files not found in the above directories is fair game and you may do what you wish with those files

Sorry about the loud text, I just wanted to make sure that our intentions are very clearly understood. As always, you may contact me directly via pm for other written documentation. I was requested for a license change by several members of the team in order to protect their work and have complied accordingly.

Even though this sounds restrictive, that doesn't mean that we intend to be ultra restrictive with it, it's just for our protection. Don't be afraid to ask if permission for certain items can be granted.

[SPRKH]

omg i h8 u

[Pxtl]

Awesome. Can we then reuse the models for our own projects if we use them as-is?

If so, are the Evolution models pretty much standard Spring models? That is, they're not dependent on any weird Lua code to work?

[Forboding Angel]

@sprkh, why? Besides, don't hate me lol, hate the guys doing all the "REAL" work ;p

@pxtl technically no, because said project would constitute a derivative work, however, that can always be waived, however I would prefer to keep this stuff in-house until we make our release, at which point a lot of derivative stuff is actually going to be encouraged, we even have plans for official forks as well.

I hate putting myself in this position because it feels to me like I'm all of a sudden pushed into being overlord over content that I myself didn't even make, but on the other hand, their concerns were valid, and Whatever they want goes (regarding permissions) as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure that models/textures used as is would be fine with them as long as you waited until we do our initial release (at which point Officially we would send you a message saying yes, blah, blah).

Edit: Oh and no there isn't any additional crap needed to use them, pretty standard stuff.

[Forboding Angel]

Wheee! More pretty pictures!

Explorer Heavytank, kaiser

[Forboding Angel]

Explorer Missiletank, kaiser

And a family photo of all the explorer units so far:

[smoth]

have a few more square things like the one 2nd from the right as there are too few in that style.

[KaiserJ]

have a few more square things like the one 2nd from the right as there are too few in that style.

your wish is my command, my liege!

[bobthedinosaur]

so where is evolution going, game dynamic wise?

[Forboding Angel]

Well, as you're prolly pretty aware, a lot will change simply because of the fact that the models are being changed, that said...

I'm kind of changing explorers a bit to be more about crowd control, and aoe sorts of damage, which will work well vs terra, I'll be interested to see how this changes the dynamic of explorer vs explorer as their armor amounts are massive comparitively.

That said there is plenty of defensive structures that have different effects. For example, the heavyturret which shoots a fairly fast projectile with massive aoe, damage, and kickback. Or perhaps the executioner cannon.

As far as global gameplay changes, one thing we have been kicking around is research, but not typical researching.

Basically in this type you would start with the very basics, the minibase of course, but your unit choices would be extremely limited. For example in your factory you would have, a lighttank, a mediumtank, and an airscout.

Your engineer would have similarly few options of things to build. You would have, solar, mex, factory, lightturret and light aa.

Now in researching, here is where things get interesting.

In your research tree you would have 4 or 5 categories (we've been arguing about how many internally ).

researching eco would get you all the economy related stuffage
researching tanks (whatever you wanna call this one) would get you the entire vehicle buildtree
researching air would get you the entire air buildtree
and researching defenses would get you the entire defense buildtree
but things to add to that list, could be perks
like 20% more los/radar for all units, etc

Essentially you would have a research panel with buttons to click which would research that particular field. The beauty is that no intense gui micro would be needed, nor would you have to build 15 different structures in order to research different paths.

Now, cost for researching wouldn't be too great, simply enough to keep you from researching everything by 10 minutes into the game and still being perfectly viable as an opponent.

This opens up some really interesting strategic elements. For example, in a 3v3 you could have one player eco whoring the entire game, setting is shares to nearly maximum, while another player goes defenses and another goes for planes and tanks, or you could mix it up in any number of different ways. Especially in small games and even large ones, but particularly in small games, the research path that you and/or your allies choose (and when you chose it) would largely impact the endgame.

In longer games I don't see why players would have not have everything researched.

On the subject of perks, those would be significant;y more expensive, cause it is essentially a global buff to all of your units in one shot.

As you can see there are a million ways we can go with this, but what I've given you above is a very brief overview of what we've been tossing around.


And with that, how bout some eyecandeh?!

Explorer Light Turret, kaiserj

[Warlord Zsinj]

These units remind me a lot of the Cybran race in SupCom

[bobthedinosaur]

please no ridiculously giant robots... or we will send ewoks to trip them with logs, for 0 M and 2 E a pop

[Argh]

Giant robots are awesome.

Anyhow, looks great guys, very happy to see this moving at such a good pace!

[Forboding Angel]

MOAR! Terra lighttank, modeled by bumblebee and textured by kaiserj