24-01-2003 12:11									#31
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Looks very much like a E2C Hawkeye.
Nonetheless its good.
-J.B.-

	24-01-2003 12:23									#32
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This is completely independent idea, started from squashed sphere used as forward bulb. OK, thanks.
Coming soon:
- Infantry, urban camo.
- Survey teams.

	24-01-2003 13:01									#33
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Ok Make the Recon Plane a little more visible. Showing windows and brighter colors. It is hard to see. Also the radome is not very spherical. Try to make it more rounded.

- Just some things to think about and change.

-J.B.-

	24-01-2003 13:07									#34
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OK, I really messed something up with its lighting. Radome may be done a bit more rounded, but it needn't to be any "spherical", as today radio systems employ phased lattice rather than rotating "dish". It must be aerodynamical, slim and not too large... but you're right, it could be less pointy at the front/back.

	24-01-2003 13:09									#35
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BTW, if our coder team will use some 3D features more advanced than as in OpenGL 1.0 this forward blister may actualy reflect surrounding objects via cubic environmental mapping.

	24-01-2003 19:32									#36
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cool! very cool!

	24-01-2003 19:41									#37
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Maybe a blimp would be better as a mobile sensor platform, as it can stay in the air for months at a time, keeping itself powered with solarpanels on top of the baloon, with a radar dome underneath,
baloon 20-30 meters lenth, 10 meters diameter,
a 5meter radar dome underneath and some antenna's and things like that underneath.
PS. I'll start a thread with some alien units and other concepts

	24-01-2003 20:06									#38
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quote: OK, I really messed something up with its lighting. Radome may be done a bit more rounded, but it needn't to be any "spherical", as today radio systems employ phased lattice rather than rotating "dish". It must be aerodynamical, slim and not too large... but you're right, it could be less pointy at the front/back.

Yes Bad wording I'm sorry.
It needs to be more rounded is what I meant but you know what I mean.

Thanks Mark.
-J.B.-

	27-01-2003 12:31									#39
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Here are sample renderings of the geoteam crawler. BTW, these renderings show real outlook of this stuff in the game, as its texture has even shadows "baked" in.

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	27-01-2003 12:33									#40
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I've fixed both color scheme and distribution so now it looks more like real camo:

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	27-01-2003 12:38									#41
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Very, Very, Very, nice! Exemplary work. I love the geoteam crawler.
The Unit Looks a bit Stiff. But hes being designed So I suppose thats why.
-J.B.-

	27-01-2003 16:33									#42
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quote: Originally posted by Kurilka I'm not an expert, but it seems to be a little bit to much. It's quite simple unit but it's 490 tr. And maybe we wil have thousands of units on 1 map...

Thanks for feedback, but modern 3D cards already exceeded 1 Billion triangles per second limit, and it was not particulary recently. nVidia recommends ~100 pixels for triangle: less, and you'll be limited by transformation engine; more and you'll be cutted down by fill rate (and thus may add geometry for free).
But at first, let's you coders make something, test on dozen machines and then think. Anyway, I'll try to simplify these meshes a bit and gawk how bad they be then.

	27-01-2003 20:06									#43
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wow i like the geosurvey team!

	27-01-2003 20:12									#44
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Phew, what a nice geosurvey team!

	28-01-2003 05:58									#45
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Excellent geosurvey crawlers, I'll take 10. Do you ship oversea? ^_^

-Gateway103

	28-01-2003 11:59									#46
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Of course!

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	29-01-2003 04:47									#47
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Oh so your not going to charge us?
-J.B.-

	29-01-2003 12:08									#48
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Here is something that I intend to give out as biological survey team. It isn't as fancy as previous geocrawler, but may be still useful.
BTW, I've found a dozen of excessive polygons in the geoteam, so it need to be updated.

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	29-01-2003 12:12									#49
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OK, folks, I have a question; while it's somewhat offtopic, it in fact may is related to the units in question.
Q.: How tracked units shall be drawn:
a) Low-poly "real" tracks (3D),
b) High-poly realistic tracks (3D),
c) Flat track snapshot (2D),
d) Something else?

	30-01-2003 01:16									#50
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I go for (B).
-J.B.-

	30-01-2003 03:29									#51
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i dunno have little ideas about that....will come up with some new disciptions soo btw....but anyways wow on the biosurvey unit

	30-01-2003 05:19									#52
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Oh Yeah for some reason I forgot to post a comment ...
I like the biological survey team, but they need a little more fine tuning - making it less cubical and more smooth. Overall its good.
-J.B.-

	30-01-2003 11:47									#53
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Here are sample rendering of brand new Tactical Fighter:

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	30-01-2003 11:48									#54
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And also Long-rang Railgun Artillery:

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	30-01-2003 18:33									#55
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me likes the artillery mucho.....but the airplane....me is more of a conventianol airplane design lover....

	30-01-2003 19:58									#56
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The Aircraft are a bit empty in the sense of Content. It needs more detail. As for the Artillery It is good and doesn't need a whole lot of detail because of the Skin. But I cant distinguish the Long-rang Railgun. It is camuflauged in the camuflauge.
-J.B.-

	30-01-2003 23:13									#57
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Details schmetails... how large are these going to appear in the game anyway?

	31-01-2003 13:16									#58
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Oh, damn! I've messed that fighter up!
Its rear wasn't intended to looks so... angular. I simply unwelded its back polygons in ordr to clean up UV map and forgot to merge cylindrical part back! So rendering engine during lighting "baking " supposed that quads aren't connected and hence didn't anything to smooth seams between them! OK, it'll be remastered.

	31-01-2003 20:28									#59
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Sorry to hear that, I bid you good luck.
-J.B.-

	03-02-2003 12:01									#60
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Here are sample rendering of my new unit, Heavy Carrier:

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