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Sure, for 2 cases of beer, a bottle of Captain Morgan, and some Everclear should do it.
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Sure, for 2 cases of beer, a bottle of Captain Morgan, and some Everclear should do it.
DJ Bonebraker
a.k.a Laura
Nice work on the electrical elemental! I'm guessing you took a humanoid figure and gave it some kind of volumetric lightning texture?
You know, my brother, who has a degree in computer animation, once commented that "3D games don't age well."
It's true too! I mean, while certain high-res sprite games (Age of Empires II, Street Fighter Alpha, etc) still look and play as good today as they did 10+ years ago, most 3D games from that era (Final Fantasy VII, Soul Edge, etc) look positively LAME by comparison! In another 10 years, probably even the absolute BEST 3D games (such as Crysis, Unreal 3, Soul Calibur IV and such) will look lame (although we seem to be approaching a point where 3D technology looks perfectly smooth even at high resolution)....
....Apparently some don't look good right out the starting gate! Firaxis should have seen about licensing the Age of Mythology/Age of Empires III engine from Microsoft (since they shut down Ensemble studios, the evil SOB's), since, unlike Civ IV and Civ V, AoE III's 3D graphics actually look GOOD, even on lower detail and texture settings.... The saddest part is that the game barely even slows down on my almost 9-year old Pentium IV computer, even with 6 players at their max unit counts (200 units each), on top of which, every building, tree, random animal (even eyecandy ones like birds and ducks), map detail (such as treasures and odball rock formations) is 3-D as well! I've bought Civ IV Colonization (mainly because I liked the original Colonization, and wanted to try this updated version out), and even though I haven't installed it yet, I'm willing to bet that it won't run near as smoothly as AoE III. :shakehead:
You know, my brother, who has a degree in computer animation, once commented that "3D games don't age well."
It's true too! I mean, while certain high-res sprite games (Age of Empires II, Street Fighter Alpha, etc) still look and play as good today as they did 10+ years ago, most 3D games from that era (Final Fantasy VII, Soul Edge, etc) look positively LAME by comparison! In another 10 years, probably even the absolute BEST 3D games (such as Crysis, Unreal 3, Soul Calibur IV and such) will look lame (although we seem to be approaching a point where 3D technology looks perfectly smooth even at high resolution)....
....Apparently some don't look good right out the starting gate! Firaxis should have seen about licensing the Age of Mythology/Age of Empires III engine from Microsoft (since they shut down Ensemble studios, the evil SOB's), since, unlike Civ IV and Civ V, AoE III's 3D graphics actually look GOOD, even on lower detail and texture settings.... The saddest part is that the game barely even slows down on my almost 9-year old Pentium IV computer, even with 6 players at their max unit counts (200 units each), on top of which, every building, tree, random animal (even eyecandy ones like birds and ducks), map detail (such as treasures and odball rock formations) is 3-D as well! I've bought Civ IV Colonization (mainly because I liked the original Colonization, and wanted to try this updated version out), and even though I haven't installed it yet, I'm willing to bet that it won't run near as smoothly as AoE III. :shakehead:
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I'm not a raging alcoholic, I swear.
Go ahead and send it (whatever 'it' may be) over and I'll see what I can do.Actually I only rigged a skeleton with a few needed bones, and used a nifty little lightning plugin I picked up some time ago that automatically creates the lightning meshes.
DJ Bonebraker
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Wait.... Those are MESHES?!!! How long did that thing take to render?
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You'd be surprised (10-15 min max for all directions/all FLC's I'd say on my 5-year old comp). I'm using, most of time, very simple lights/shadows. I think that is why, e.g. Poser takes longer, because of complex lights its uses for better shadowing, and not necessarily the polygon count (this was 4,160). Time goes way up if I try to use better lights to reflect off everything to cast better shadows. Shadows here cast only on ground using simple ray-traced.
I have no clue how that lightning plug-in does it either. It just 'does it all' itself (creating the animated meshes) with the input you give it.
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I have no clue how that lightning plug-in does it either. It just 'does it all' itself (creating the animated meshes) with the input you give it.
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Steampunk MagLev Train
Has Civ Color. Excellent Model (SteamLev Express) by Xayzer from Google Warehouse.
It can also be AntiGrav Train, so it doesn't need to run on tracks in game.
Download here... SPMaglevTrain.rar
Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included.
Has Civ Color. Excellent Model (SteamLev Express) by Xayzer from Google Warehouse.
It can also be AntiGrav Train, so it doesn't need to run on tracks in game.
Download here... SPMaglevTrain.rar
Unit32, Large/Small pcx, and Sound Files included.
And here I almost considered doing some conversions from Civ 5, then I saw this:
Perhaps Civ 4 graphics aren't so bad after all.
Only just saw this.
Deth McBones
The Inconsistent Modder
What a great looking train! Now to find a use for it.
Tortosa
The Big E
Nice, it reminds me of the train from Back to the future 3, but with machine guns. Now we need a Delorean unit.
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Due to the overwhelming number of PM's I have received, the countless requests for this unit, and thousands of petitions for the unit to be included in large, anticipated and upcoming mods... I have come up with the most anticipated, highly-needed and desired, and the most complex unit of all-time, a Widescreen TV playing Commercials:
Soon to be released.
Soon to be released.
Wolfshade
Little Winger
Yes, it's VERY complex (I tried unitmaking process, my creatures were monsters comparing to beautiful units from other creators, but I do know how units can be created). It'll be of top quality. But I amazed it was requested multiple times.
(I don't want to exhumate an old post, but I want to say "THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" for Dark Dancer, Tom - she's very cool!)
(I don't want to exhumate an old post, but I want to say "THANK YOU VERY MUCH!" for Dark Dancer, Tom - she's very cool!
)
Goldflash
Civ III Modder, Civ VII Player
Due to the overwhelming number of PM's I have received, the countless requests for this unit, and thousands of petitions for the unit to be included in large, anticipated and upcoming mods... I have come up with the most anticipated, highly-needed and desired, and the most complex unit of all-time, a Widescreen TV playing Commercials:
Fifteen Minutes could save you Fifteen Percent by switching to TOM.
Gojira54
The folly of Man
You need to make a Geico Gecko unit to go along with that.
Moff Jerjerrod
Deity
Wow that's an amazing unit! I don't think anyone has ever made a unit with an animation within an animation.
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