Announing: Tech Map

Gynt_Ryles · Post by **Gynt_Ryles** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:38 pm

YOU ROCK TEANCUM! And I haven't even played it yet. Will this be the last version? Or will you release new versions as your secret vehicles are revealed? I'm glad the loaction was changed to Bothawui; I didn't like Geonosis. I have some vehicle ODFs for you to test, if I have the ability to send them (stupid dial-up).

Post by **Teancum** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:40 am

This is by no means the last version. There's still more vehicles to get done. Those that were removed are either released or are ready to be. So if you all miss those vehicles, don't worry, they'll eventually be release or are already.

Please note that the two newest vehicles, the Cydon Prax Tank and the Republic Ground Transport I literally just put in-game and rar'd. So they are very 'unpolished'. I'm going to try and get on Fred about a few vehicles that need just a bit of mesh work to complete so we can really roll these things out.

Again, if you don't see anything in awhile, don't worry. I've just a lot to do in my Game Development class at the university. The Tech Map lives on until we've got all the unused vehicles finished.

^Destroyer^ · Post by **^Destroyer^** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:51 am

Teancum can you plzz also release it as a zip file cause i can't open rar

Post by **Teancum** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:52 am

Don't have room on my server for a zip file. There's rar utilities for both Windows and Mac. If you have Windows, download WinRAR.

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:37 pm

If you use MacOS, you can download an utility called RAR, built in order to extract *.RAR files on this platform...

OGEB1103 · Post by **OGEB1103** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:40 pm

Ahh man, i think im gonna re-install BF1 now, so many sweet maps and mods. And it don't look like we'll be having tools any time soon.

^Destroyer^ · Post by **^Destroyer^** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:15 am

No i can't download winrar cause we already had the evelution version and we are not gonna buy it.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:00 am

What's wrong with the evaluation version?

^Destroyer^ · Post by **^Destroyer^** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:15 am

The evelution version is expired lol.

Ace_Azzameen_5 · Post by **Ace_Azzameen_5** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:13 pm

http://www.7-zip.org/ This program opens rars plus it also has better compresion then rar.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:23 pm

^Destroyer^ wrote:The evelution version is expired lol.

Mine won't expire.

I jus never clicked the buy now option and it still works. oh, well, the 7zip thing is also good.

^Destroyer^ · Post by **^Destroyer^** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:20 pm

Ahhh thx i got the 7zip thing now. I hope this works.

Post by **Teancum** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:39 pm

Just FYI gang, there aren't that many more vehicles to finish, so there probably won't be that many more versions of Tech Map. Originally I just did it to have a place to test assets. I didn't know it was going to get big!

So far, here's what Fred and I are working on that you haven't seen:

-TIE Advanced X1 (may have shown this once) XWA Upgrade conversion
-CIS MUT -- basically just a transport. As I recall there are no weapons mounted on it
-BARC Speeder
-ARC-170
-CIS "Snail Tank"
-CIS Mortar Tank --- oh wait, that's in this version. Kinda buggy, though.

I have some others on my hard drive from XWA, but who knows if they'll ever see the light of day with the amount of work this takes. But, if for nothing else then to get you guys to coax me, here's what's sitting on my drive, but not in-game yet.

-Anakin's Modified Delta-7 Jedi Starfighter (complete with cockpit)
-B-Wing (until we crack animations, it has to keep sitting there. It looks gay without the animation)
-Z-95 Headhunter
-Assault Gunboat (anyone else sick of TIEs?)

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:54 am

The gtrans I think its called (transport on the republic side) is buggy. When your in the passenger slot you can shoot. I think it would be cool if the mortar tank sort of had the main weapon be like the ordance from the mortar launcer. So it is like artillery

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:46 pm

Off-topic : Destroyer', PowerArchiver is equally able to open RAR archives...

Post by **Teancum** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:38 pm

sawyerdk9 wrote:The gtrans I think its called (transport on the republic side) is buggy. When your in the passenger slot you can shoot. I think it would be cool if the mortar tank sort of had the main weapon be like the ordance from the mortar launcer. So it is like artillery

Teancum wrote:Please note that the two newest vehicles, the Cydon Prax Tank and the Republic Ground Transport I literally just put in-game and rar'd. So they are very 'unpolished'. I'm going to try and get on Fred about a few vehicles that need just a bit of mesh work to complete so we can really roll these things out.

Same goes for the Mortar Tank. I put them in, then munged and zipped because I don't have time to fix em right now. I wanted everyone to see, though.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:45 pm

Awesome map! Keep up the good work.

sawyerdk9 · Post by **sawyerdk9** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:54 am

Yeah sorry didn't really read it all. I was too excited

Leviathan · Post by **Leviathan** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:08 pm

Tean', do you know whether psych0fred will release the "C.I.S. Mortar Tank", the "Cydon Prax Tank" and the "Republic Ground Transport" source files soon ? Or must we wait for the "stable releases" of these vehicles, first ?

Post by **Teancum** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:54 pm

Fred and I need to finish a lot up on those three. The Mortar Tank has buggy collision, so we have to do a new collision mesh. The Prax Tank has no hardpoints for weapons -- yet anyways, and the the Ground Transport is missing parts of the model. For instance, if you look on the front of the model, you'll see one offset cannon. I think there's supposed to be one on each side.

To answer your question, I dunno. I guess I need to 'knuckle down' on Fred, lol. Once we have final models, I have no quams with finishing the ODF's rathter quickly (though they won't feel rushed, they'll feel right).

I figure once I get a final model for any vehicle from Fred, I can release the completed vehicle in less than a week.

Fred's been working a lot on a website, so it's hard to draw his attention back to XSI. I'll try to talk to him this weekend for you, though.