New Mod/Conversion: GEAR COMMANDER

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 09 Mar 2006, 12:28

Hey all!
Here are the first "real" ingame shots:

Northern Hunters are closing in on their target fast. Hunters are general purpose gears, armed with a hard hitting 25mm Autocannon for accurate, armor piercing firepower and a light rocket pack to complement it.

Also, TA 3d thanks for the kind comments. The Jager, and most other southern gears are actually supposed to have rounded armour to deflect incoming round, while northern designs generally rely on boxy sloped armour .

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 09 Mar 2006, 18:09

Archangel of Death wrote:You might also want to check Script/Settings and make sure your 2 constants aren't 0 (proper values are Linear: 163840 and Angular: 182). Outside that, I'm sure smoth can handle it. And you'll probably get an awsome tailored animation out of it too. :-)

If thats what has been screwing up my scripts... I'm going to whoop for joy! Its not because I'm an idiot (for once)!

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 09 Mar 2006, 19:49

It is cool man, everyone makes mistakes in the begining. I am glad I could help

one suggestion... on your textures you may want to increase the contrast 5-10% it would bring out the detail more.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 09 Mar 2006, 20:18

Guessmyname wrote:
Archangel of Death wrote:You might also want to check Script/Settings and make sure your 2 constants aren't 0 (proper values are Linear: 163840 and Angular: 182). Outside that, I'm sure smoth can handle it. And you'll probably get an awsome tailored animation out of it too. :-)
If thats what has been screwing up my scripts... I'm going to whoop for joy! Its not because I'm an idiot (for once)!

It was! Wheeeeee! Epic: Legion Chimera work now!

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 09 Mar 2006, 22:38

wait i thought that u had fixed the probs with the tanks, cause there is that working Russ in the super-heavy pack i dled

TA 3D · Post by **TA 3D** » 09 Mar 2006, 23:12

Would it be possible to make button that turns on/off wheel mode?

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 09 Mar 2006, 23:50

Under XP home edition, at least, opening more than 1 instance of scriptor will erase all of your scriptor settings from the system registry. Its fairly easy to avoid this, but if you have some experience with regedit, you might try hunting down the values in your registry and exporting them somewhere so you can easily re-import if you lose them.

Dead.Rabit · Post by **Dead.Rabit** » 14 Mar 2006, 00:08

dear sweet mother of god... i loved that franchise..

im happy to make maps etc...

i do have some ideas though..

i believe that you can make as many sides in the game as you please (like arm and core) why not make each of the main characters have their own side..

their main unbuildable character would be the commander for example.. like the main character of your side.. he would be able to build a factory

if memory servs there where those dinasour things werent there that came in different sizes and assortments..

but those main characters are going to be a bitch to code...

i figure the main character would have krog style high HP and maybe like an upgrade factory or something.. dunno if thats feasable...

but anyway your mod your decisions.. im posting to say that basically im willing to make any maps you may need.. arenas and such. =]

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 14 Mar 2006, 12:08

Thanks dead.rabit, I could use some help with mapping. I am more going for the military aspect of heavy gear as opposed to the arena tournaments. The two sides represented in the first versions will be the Confederated Northern City States (CNCS) and Allied Souther Territories (AST). Further down the road, when the Spring Lobby supports it I plan on adding earthern forces, ie. CEF, as well as a badlands/Paxton faction.

I am already planning a build tree, where you start out with a commander gear (Grizzly commander for CNCS, Cobra commander for AST) and from there you build barracks, forward gear outpost... etc. Gears, infantry and armoured vehicles will be the most important units, while air units like VTOLs and air transports will be secondary and only buildable when the players reach tech level 2, or atleast the equivalent of it. Thus the startgame will be marked by low tech warfare (GP gears, infantry, light vehicles) and only later on will you have access to the whole array of destruction (MBTs, Assault gears, striders, AA units, heavy artillery etc).

On the mapping thing, i plan on making some buildings to make the maps more alive and also add the possiblity of making urban maps and cities. I'm a bit swamped with school ATM tough and RL too, so it'll be a couple of weeks of rather small progress now, I'm afraid.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 14 Mar 2006, 14:02

he he...

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 14 Mar 2006, 16:06

Tee hee Smoth, very funny

Southern general purpose Jager gears on patrol across the badlans

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 21 Mar 2006, 22:11

Here is a preview of the new infantry model I'm working on in collaboration with GZ. It will eventually feature in both GC and WD, hopefully, and will use GZs excellent infatry animation scripts. This is just the base model that can be modified to suit whatever needs, for example to make it into a modern day GI you'd just retexture it in camo, add some pockets for the assault vest, a PASGT helmet and a backpack and your done. The current polycount is 732, which might be a bit high-ish but on the other hand thats what the soldiers are in rome total war for example. IT uses one 256x256 texture and there is roughly 35% space left now for extras like weapons, helmets etc.
Hope you like!

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 22 Mar 2006, 02:54

the ears need to move forward and the eyes are too close.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 22 Mar 2006, 04:13

And, if I may be a pain... he's not wearing a helmet or body armor. Which is very un-fitting to the Heavy Gear universe, not to mention "realism", if such a thing applies

That said, it's a cute model, and I can't wait to see it wandering around in Spring

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 22 Mar 2006, 06:10

Argh wrote:And, if I may be a pain... he's not wearing a helmet or body armor. Which is very un-fitting to the Heavy Gear universe, not to mention "realism", if such a thing applies

I think he said he'd add them later. I certainly hope so, the NG and MILICIA infantry uniforms are very distinctive.

centurion-1 · Post by **centurion-1** » 22 Mar 2006, 17:39

Yes, as you said I will add those later, this is just the base model. I'm currently doing the northern guard infantry but I'm kinda lacking good source pics so i have to freelance a bit on the equipment and armour part. As soon as i get more progress done you'll get pics.

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 22 Mar 2006, 18:57

centurion-1 wrote:Yes, as you said I will add those later, this is just the base model. I'm currently doing the northern guard infantry but I'm kinda lacking good source pics so i have to freelance a bit on the equipment and armour part. As soon as i get more progress done you'll get pics.

It might be worth checking out the Art of Heavy Gear e-books the Pod released a while ago. I'll take a look at my copies when I get home and see if there's any good shots in there.

Though I thought there were fairly good reference images in HG2e?

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 23 Mar 2006, 02:42

Well, some minor criticism on the model, the limbs look a little exaggerated, I guess mainly the boots, and I do agree the ears are a bit set back, bit I can change this my self.

Good job though!

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 23 Mar 2006, 04:42

Reminds me of front mission wanzers. GC is probably where square stole the idea from. Looks great so far.

Egarwaen · Post by **Egarwaen** » 23 Mar 2006, 05:27

SwiftSpear wrote:Reminds me of front mission wanzers. GC is probably where square stole the idea from. Looks great so far.

Actually, both "stole" it from an earlier anime: Armored Trooper Votoms.

Heavy Gear took quite a lot from Votoms, actually. (If you don't believe me, take a look at some of the mecha designs and track down a plot summary.)

The Art of Heavy Gear books do seem to have some art that might be handy for you, if you're willing to shell out the cash. You can buy them online, through Drive-Through RPG. (Disclaimer: I do have a loose professional affiliation with Dream Pod 9, but this statement is made as a private individual. So I'm not hawking books for them, and I'm not implying anything even remotely legal-ish.)

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New Mod/Conversion: GEAR COMMANDER