Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 17:41
Video!Argh wrote: In other news... here's the unit. The treads look kewl.
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Spring RTS Engine
Open Source Realtime Strategy Game Engine
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NanoBlobs 0.3, dev diary
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Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 18:13
Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 18:26
hmm, I dont like that green on the latest unit either......... And the hat makes it look a little more harmless....
Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 18:28
Posted: 05 Mar 2006, 18:34
As opposed to the GIGANTIC flamethrower of DOOM?the hat makes it look a little more harmless....
I was going for the "psychotic robot meets Officer Friendly" look
TBPH, I'm a little less than totally thrilled by the skin, myself, but I've gotta go to work in two hours and I haven't slept all night, so I'm going to take a brief nap instead of fussing with it right now.Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 15:45
Meet the AutoFac. It's totally harmless- just a factory! Trust us
It only looks like some mutant Death Star.
This has to one of the coolest screens I've captured yet. The only Photoshop was the text and border.
It only looks like some mutant Death Star.
This has to one of the coolest screens I've captured yet. The only Photoshop was the text and border.
Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 16:25
Love the texture, but I found the spheres are too low poli.
And ergh, if this is in spring, it ìs raytraced isn't it?
And ergh, if this is in spring, it ìs raytraced isn't it?
Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 16:47
I guess I'm just easily excitable The glowmaps and the teamcolor + reflectivity for that interesting metallic look on the outer spheres is what made me excited.
That's not the final map on this- I have a further set of revisions to make the center sphere much more interesting and make the outer ones look more like functional things, but I haven't gotten there yet.
At any rate, we're almost touching noses with the thing, so it's to be expected it's going to look like what it is- a low-poly object, all dolled up to look more sophisticated than it really is. When you zoom out, it's really hard to tell.
And last but not least... I wouldn't really classify the engine as a raytracer, no. While it does light things from the point source of the sun, the lighting actually has a number of issues that become fairly obvious if you do tests with it. Compared to a raytracer like POV-Ray... no, it's not even close, in terms of accuracy. However, that doesn't stop us from making things of surpassing beauty. I just felt that this was an atmospheric shot, so I decided to share- I'm not going to argue the fine points, because I really don't care anyhow- I just like making kewl art
The glowmaps and the teamcolor + reflectivity for that interesting metallic look on the outer spheres is what made me excited. That's not the final map on this- I have a further set of revisions to make the center sphere much more interesting and make the outer ones look more like functional things, but I haven't gotten there yet.
At any rate, we're almost touching noses with the thing, so it's to be expected it's going to look like what it is- a low-poly object, all dolled up to look more sophisticated than it really is. When you zoom out, it's really hard to tell.
And last but not least... I wouldn't really classify the engine as a raytracer, no. While it does light things from the point source of the sun, the lighting actually has a number of issues that become fairly obvious if you do tests with it. Compared to a raytracer like POV-Ray... no, it's not even close, in terms of accuracy. However, that doesn't stop us from making things of surpassing beauty. I just felt that this was an atmospheric shot, so I decided to share- I'm not going to argue the fine points, because I really don't care anyhow- I just like making kewl art
Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 19:48
hmm is it me or have you already posted a pic similair to that before? It seems very familiar, btu I must agree I dont like the facetted look when it's obviously supposed to be smooth. Otherwise I love ti and I wish the dark sinister technological look it has was put into the textures of the other units
Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 22:52
In 0.3, can you make Knights 'splode a bit less violently? 1 rook can kill 50 og them just due to the massive chain reaction :/
Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 23:00
it's the risk you take Drone_Fragger, the trick is to throw your knights into the fray at just the right moment in a battle
Posted: 06 Mar 2006, 23:03
Fair enough.
Posted: 07 Mar 2006, 02:15
That particular wrinkle's fixed, actually, along with a lot of other little things.
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 12:15
Getting closer... battling NTAI on NanoArena
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 13:59
This looks so Cool!!
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 14:42
I SECOND that ...
The screenies look very nice ....
Looking forward to the day it's released ...
The screenies look very nice ....
Looking forward to the day it's released ...
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 15:36
Amazing. :O
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 15:43
Awesome ! I hope you will release a AA/XTA compatibel version of this map also.
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 17:47
! avatar thief!!!!
Anyways I have an updated version of NTAI with attacking and a fix that should make those factories get placed better. See fileunvierse latest files in the next 40 mintues.
I'd also advise anyone making buidltrees for XTA/AA to get that but it's not for public consumption
Anyways I have an updated version of NTAI with attacking and a fix that should make those factories get placed better. See fileunvierse latest files in the next 40 mintues.
I'd also advise anyone making buidltrees for XTA/AA to get that but it's not for public consumption
Posted: 12 Mar 2006, 17:58
And who was it who said that The archers would look like craop again?