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maybe it is not for EE? Gundam runs like shit on metal maps and I still support metal maps ala TA...jackalope wrote:EE is not designed for metal maps, you are ruining the mod.
Oh really, how many TA remakes do you see here?zwzsg wrote:I think it's time we stop the endless string of "Metal Heck", "Metal Heck redux", "Metal Heck remake", "Metal Heck v2". Instead of re-re-re-remaking same old TA maps, I wish you made a map with a different name and different ... shape for lack of better wording. If there's some old TA maps you really like, keep their spirit, but don't stick to the name or the layout. I admit I was also culprit of making TA maps remake in my first maps, but at least with the last one I corrected that, by trying to make a map that remind the very essence of TA metal maps without actually being the remake of any TA map. (Beside AC24 and CC01 but that doesn't count).
If you really want to know what Core Prime is supposed to look like, look at the /bitmaps/glamour/ inside totala4.hpi, from TA campaign CD, with something like HPI View. You'll see that yes, indeed, Core Prime is smooth, shiny, large flat surfaces ending in sharp edges.
Go back, read this post, then read the posts after it. THat's why I'm irritatedForboding Angel wrote:Well the whole idea here is to suggest stuff and get people talking so I can glean good advice, and hopefully generate ideas.
I'll have a new render tonight hopefully. My life is going nuts right now so we'll see.
Just post ideas suggestions and what you really do think core prime would be like and why you think so.
The above render was not meant to be particularly great (there are a few things I like about it, but not too many).
As I said, I'm using all of you for a suggestion/idea generator, so keep it coming!
HEHEHE, I used all of you! Do you feel dirty?
You said "Core Prime", not "Metal Planet". Core Prime should look like the Cavedog artists intented it to look.Just post ideas suggestions and what you really do think core prime would be like and why you think so.
This is another, different question.I don't give a flying fuck what Core Prime looked like in TA. IN REALITY what do you think an all metal world would look like,
I was trying to help, it's not fault, but yours, that you suddently changed topic. Or expressed yourself wrongly initially, but I don't think it's the case, because despite what you said later, your initial post in your thread show that you do care about what it looked in TA. Why would you have kept the exact two-linked-cones shape in your first picture otherwise?How do you ppl continually miss the point? [...] And stop derailing my thread, it's fricking annoying.
Yes, when you'll name a map "metal heck", people will expect to see metal heck. And they'll be angry if they get something else. Hence my comment about how you shouldn't name maps after TA maps. Oh and more generally, either you strive to make it as close as possible as the original, either you do something original, but I just hate when people copy whithout respecting the original. That's a general statment, for books, movies, etc... But when applied to metal map, that means either stick to the TA style, either go a for a style related in no way to the TA style, but no inbetween.BTW some of the reasons to use metal heck as an example:
1. people can easily relate to it
Such realism is irrelevant. It's a videogame, not a thesis on exoplanets. Beside with a little imagination, you can find hundred of sci-fi explanation of why they'd be liquid on an atmosphereless planet.AND, BTW it would have an atmosphere by default, otherwise the water for example would NEVER be liquid.
FA - why do you use l3dt to render a map which should look artificial? isn't photoshop better for that sort of thing? isn't a climate a bit of overkill for a metalmap? I hope I get this question answered before the inevitable flame war breaks out...Forboding Angel wrote:BTW MRD, I don't do maps in Photoshop mmmmk? That is an actual test climate that I'm trying to perfect.
Ya a climate truly is overkill, however, there are a few things that the climates do that I wanted to experiment with (like texture overlays, normal mapping etc).Goolash_ wrote:FA - why do you use l3dt to render a map which should look artificial? isn't photoshop better for that sort of thing? isn't a climate a bit of overkill for a metalmap? I hope I get this question answered before the inevitable flame war breaks out...Forboding Angel wrote:BTW MRD, I don't do maps in Photoshop mmmmk? That is an actual test climate that I'm trying to perfect.
