Lego Spring

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 02 Sep 2006, 18:50

The current minifig has most of its polygons in the head...

Heres a screen:

Maelstrom wrote:cant belive you accepted the names, they were thought up in like 5 seconds

Heck yes. Those names are both ridiculous and awesome.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 02 Sep 2006, 19:03

That dude is cool

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 02 Sep 2006, 19:33

He appears to be of acceptable complexity.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 02 Sep 2006, 19:43

Anyone know how to make a decent walk script?

I cant seem to get one for the MAG commander. I've tried using some from other units but that doesnt look right.

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 02 Sep 2006, 19:46

borrow them from Gundam Annihilation

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 02 Sep 2006, 22:55

Since i have absolutely no ability with photoshop:

Could someone add a Targa file w/ alpha layers to the textures i have? (there only 10-20 of them)

I'll upload them to someone, just PM me or something.

Another thing that would be very helpful would be for people with lego to just build stuff, take pictures, and display them. I'm terrible at coming up with interesting units, so just mess around with lego and a digital camera.

I've got the following modeled and textured, just need to be scripted:

MAG commander, MAG minifigs, MAG minifig construction guy, MAG light radar, MAG mex, MAG energy plant, MAG lvl 1 minifig plant, and 1 light tank.

Weaver · Post by **Weaver** » 03 Sep 2006, 00:19

I had a play this afternoon, are these any good to you?

A general purpose vehicle.

Same thing in wings.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 00:30

oooooooo looks sweet

That will most definitely be a EGADS unit

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 01:02

SinBadEV, i once again am getting errors when i try to run the mod.

It crashes and says "Button9.wav Couldnt open Wav File", "Couldnt Read Sound Buffer", and "file armor.txt not found"

I know you were able to fix these problems last time so i was wondering if you (or anyone else who knows) could show me how to properly compile it? I looked through the WIKI and didnt find any help...

cyclerboy · Post by **cyclerboy** » 03 Sep 2006, 01:39

yeah my computer works now. sheekel i can help you out now

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 02:27

Sweet...what did you do to fix it?

Anywho, i got a lot of scripting done today, and all we need now is the floating/underwater version of some of them, which i think is just changed with an FBI tag.

And finally, some potential DT designs (feedback please )

bwansy · Post by **bwansy** » 03 Sep 2006, 03:25

Well... can the DT's actually be built by real LEGO blocks? I think in LEGO Spring, we don't have to follow the style in the original TA. Let's do it the LEGO way! Rectangular blocks will be just fine (or maybe ones with pointed top for EGADS), and they are not necessarily to be called "Dragon's teeth". Maybe we can call it BLOCKade? Maybe a Duplo brick can be the blockade for MAG.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 03:34

bwansy wrote:Well... can the DT's actually be built by real LEGO blocks? I think in LEGO Spring, we don't have to follow the style in the original TA. Let's do it the LEGO way! Rectangular blocks will be just fine (or maybe ones with pointed top for EGADS), and they are not necessarily to be called "Dragon's teeth". Maybe we can call it BLOCKade? Maybe a Duplo brick can be the blockade for MAG.

This is why i love this mod idea...there's so much room for creativity.

Yes, the MAG blockade.

Here's a potential EGADS turret, i was just messing around with models for a bit:

bwansy · Post by **bwansy** » 03 Sep 2006, 03:42

When I was trying to model a MAG blockade, I suddenly thought of a minor problem: As the MAG units are randomly coloured, then how do we show the team colour?
But of course, I do want to keep the random-coloured style. Afterall, it's LEGO!

It looks something like this:

This is a screenshot from MLCad.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 03:47

Dragons teeth dont have teamcolors on them anyway, so i see no reason why blockades should.

But i see where you're coming from. If they are all random colored, then how will the know what color is theirs? (this shouldnt be a problem for EGADS, though)

Im using the OTA logo texture for teamcolors, which are detailed and have borders, where as normal bricks have just one color. I hope that should be different enough, but we'll see once i get them ingame and test...

(which should be tomorrow, if i can figure out why the mod keeps crashing

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 03 Sep 2006, 04:06

Use a Nanoblobs-style team-dot.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 04:28

describe please? ^^^

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 03 Sep 2006, 04:36

Maelstrom · Post by **Maelstrom** » 03 Sep 2006, 05:02

Or you could have a few distinctive bricks coloured in the team colour style, with the rest of the bricks in plainer, more basic colours, allthough that still leaves room for confusion... Meh, I think Args way would work perfectly here. Team Blobs FTW.

Sheekel · Post by **Sheekel** » 03 Sep 2006, 05:33

I have come to the unfortunate realization that my 24bit textures do not match any of the 256 colors in the TA pallet...although it is close:

screen:

Spring RTS Engine

Lego Spring