Integrating some Spring models

[zuzuf]

I've been working on integrating several Spring models into the free data set (big thank to MrD and Cremuss for their impressive work !). I had to rewrite a couple of scripts (Spring Lua API is different from TA3D's API and some scripts were missing).

So what do you have now ? Well, images are more expressive than words :
we have several Core units working (mostly vehicles):


we have a textured Core commander :


Same scene without perspective:


We also have a couple of Arm buildings (solar panel, energy storage, fusion plant, annihilator) but sadly no Arm mobile unit .

That's a good start but now we need more textured Arm models (I have models from Cremuss but many are not textured ).

[Balthazar]

Yay!!! Looks amasing. Really amasing. We can ask Wotan team of Excess team to assist with texturing... Can you provide list of models thar have to be textured?

[zuzuf]

This is the list of untextured models I have:

• ARMRL (Defender)
• ARMMAKR (Metal maker)
• ARMGUARD (guardian)
• ARMHLT (Sentinel)
• ARMLAB (kbot lab)
• ARMGATE (galactic gate)
• ARMMEX (metal extractor)
• ARMMSTOR (metal storage)
• ARMSILO (retaliator)
• (ARM)GEO (geothermal powerplant)
• an air repair pad (it's a quad repair pad but it can be cut to make a single repair pad)
• 3 hovercrafts

They are all models from Cremuss

[Balthazar]

Link to 3D models in archive won`t be bad thing ither

[zuzuf]

I think all models are there:
http://fodb.darkstars.co.uk/files/spring/

[xpoy]

own !
Maybe we should used some models from diffrent ppl, I mean just pick the modles in OTA style....

[zuzuf]

Well that's more or less what I am doing bug there are not much IP-free remakes of OTA models unfortunately (at least they're not easy to find)

[xpoy]

I will try to found some, or ask ppl who playing spring. well will ask some SY members come here, maybe they know some things about spring.
But sadly SY_SJ and SY_yxan both no idea in what spring mod is like OTA /:^|

They just said we should goto spring forum to ask tho /:^|

[Balthazar]

We can ask on Spring forums then

[zuzuf]

Some more :

[Balthazar]

Fucki*g cool, yeah

[zuzuf]

One more:


Models left to be textured:

• ARMRL (Defender)
• ARMLAB (kbot lab)
• ARMGATE (galactic gate)
• ARMMEX (metal extractor)
• ARMSILO (retaliator)
• an air repair pad (it's a quad repair pad but it can be cut to make a single repair pad)
• 3 hovercrafts

[Balthazar]

Well, you are became quite skilled with that Maybe you`ll create your own full TA3D mod someday P

Textures are very nice

[zuzuf]

Thanks

One more :

[Balthazar]

Did you used some of the ready textures, or created them all by yourself?

[zuzuf]

I created all textures using GIMP and 3DMEditor2 (for UV coordinates and ambient occlusion and to preview the result/locate parts of the model on the texture). There are several interesting plugins for GIMP to make textures like a texture (re)synthesizer which produce a texture using some statistical properties from another image. There are also some patterns in GIMP I used to create some parts of those textures.

[Balthazar]

Some of our russian TA3D fans want to create better explosion/bullet sprites Maybe we`ll get them soon

[zuzuf]

Forget sprites, we can use 3D models . Also I am thinking of adding a new kind of objects to TA3D : Lua effects. It would be Lua scripts called to create special effects for explosions/smoke/water and lava splashes/... It would be an interesting replacement to all those flat sprites.

[Balthazar]

Definately yes But creating of 3D models for explosions is quite a hard work

[zuzuf]

That's why I am thinking of adding Lua effects, to add the possibility to create particle based effects, and eventually some GLSL effects controlled by those Lua effects (heat, air distortion ?).