[I_E_Maverick]

i think you could animate the geo of the spheres as they are seperate objects.
if you mean texture animation i think the answer is no, cause i painted the texture by hand. i wouldnt want to paint another 10 or 20 textures

[madaboutgames]

Maverick... the Thirdspace cruiser's glowy ball... does that thing animate? Also, let's see some screen caps of Shaun's models . I'm definitely going to get back into modelling again myself. Soon as poss.

Ill upload them on monday

[I_E_Maverick]

i finished the light and shinemaps for the poseidon and also did a size comparison for the rotating sections of omega and poseidon. according to this comparison the size of the poseidon should be around 2.4 km.

here some pics:

[madaboutgames]

Hi Mav, have some models to send you - (2 x shadow base - different concept designs) Vorlon Base & Large Shadow Transport.

Where do you want me to send em?

[Slasher]

Looks great as always Mav. 

[starfox]

Speaking of Shadow Base, is it Space Station like Vorlon Base/Observation Post, or Ground Installation...
Or are there plans for Ground & Space Installations for both races ?

[0rph3u5]

as I understood it they are bases on asteroids...
I've heard no plans about ground offense missions so far and therefor no new Ground bases will be needed and won't be modelled in the near future (All Mission Designers, you have the right to veto)...

but if you want some badly you may give modelling a try yourself (dunno myself how difficult it is - I'm just with FRED and the creation of comm anis )

[I_E_Maverick]

@madaboutgames: send them either to [email protected] or load them up to the ftp in my user folder

@0rph3u5: ground modeling is pretty easy as 3ds max has some nice tools for that. also there is the possibility of texture baking so that there can be very cool light settings on the textures for the ground missions. so if there is any need for environments like that just tell me. i will try to get something for you.

[0rph3u5]

well I could use some for another campaign/mission-series project I'm concepting now (I can't stop myself! HELP ME! )... but I won't start the real making until I'm done with AotB (late April release date is looking good) and "Tales of Nobility" (what that? - another TBP campaign, you will find out more when I started it)

[I_E_Maverick]

shadow defense platform:

[0rph3u5]

Nice!
can the turrets be animated to move before firing like in ACTA? (if not this could be a new cool feature to pass on to the SCP guys)

[IPAndrews]

Up/down pointing turrets can move, others can't. The design seems a bit too simplistic for my liking. I'm not saying I know what I'd do to improve on it. I don't really. Thinking about it, I suppose I might do something based on the "ball of fighters" the battlecrab spits in Long Twilight Struggle. That's as specific as I can be though without doing some doodling. Also the main body/blob is definitely too low poly. It just needs a few more to get rid of those sharp corners. The turrets are undeniably very nice. Please can I have that geometry .

[I_E_Maverick]

another model, though thee is not much to see. it is supposed to be the technomage ship:

[madaboutgames]

Him mav, emailed you the models i mentioned

Vorlon asteroid base
Shadow base concept 1
Shadow base concept 2
Shadow transport large

[0rph3u5]

can we get different angels on the technomage ship?

[Cavane]

I'm not certain, but I think the central fin is a tad bit tall, and I don't believe the wings slope back like that at the stern.  Again, not sure on any of that, as it's been a while since I saw the ship, and we don't get to see it for very long, even in Crusades.

[I_E_Maverick]

i used high poly ortho view as referrence, so i think the proportions should be correct.

i will have a look at the models madaboutgames!

[I_E_Maverick]

@madaboutgames: i just checked the email, but all files except the vorlon base are corrupt. the file has 0 kb size and cant be read.

[madaboutgames]

Ill upload them to the heat em up website, ill send you the links through pm

[I_E_Maverick]

new ones are working fine!

i textured the vorlon base and added a few things
your model was great, i just did some polyediting to cut polycount down and added more structures to give a better feeling for the size. the only thing i completly redid was the asteroid. yours was too round and symmetric, i have some nice tools in max to have more random asteroid and at the same time less polycount, so i hope you are not angry

anyway, the whole mesh now has 4664 polys, i hopt that is ok for a base of that size...
btw, no new textures were used, just existing vorlon and asteroid textures