W.I.P. Serenity Valley

CamandoMichael · Post by **CamandoMichael** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:53 pm

Sorry, I meant,"are you going to make any RED-COAT tanks?". This map looks worth keeping just because of the SKINS! I can't imagine how good everything else will be!!

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 2:40 pm

Browncoat. The Redcoats are British.

I don't know yet. I need to do an Alliance low-altitude vehicle, and if I do that I'll need an IF tank. So, it could happen.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:23 pm

Update: Need help on this one. I need ideas on how to make this vehicle look less Star Wars -esque and more like Firefly.

The tail gunner will have a machine gun instead of the harpoon which would have been useless on this map anyway.

CamandoMichael · Post by **CamandoMichael** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:29 pm

I would make the wings a little longer...I don't know why...and perhaps the gun barrels shouls be shorter and closer to each other.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:12 pm

I can't modify the actual model, I despise XSI with a passion and don't have the time to learn it. I was thinking skin wise, is there anythign I can do. Does anyone know if a glow effect can be achieved by skinning or odf editing? I think that's a long shot, but who knows.

CamandoMichael · Post by **CamandoMichael** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:43 pm

Maybe the green should be removed. It would be uglier, but it would look more like a war machine and not...a pretty war machine with makeup.

t551 · Post by **t551** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:36 pm

If you want, I could see how far I can get with Firefly vehicles, if you give me some reference pictures.

Also, for the sandbags, I have made one sandbag wall, but it's over 1000 polygons, which is just absurd. I'm going to re-make it using a different technique.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:43 pm

Post by **Epena** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:29 pm

Fix the reed forest to look like it belongs there.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:33 pm

I know; I haven't gotten to that yet.

Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. It's actually bamboo, not reeds. But I will add water to the ones on the ground, but I don't know what to do about the ones on the hill. I can't add water up there.

Post by **Epena** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:09 pm

Reeds, bamboo whatever.

Bamboo I don't think would grow well on a hill they would populate themselves more on the marshier low grounds. Trees would do fine though. Course, I don't know what Serenity Valley is like. Don't forget to make the terrain muddy in the bamboo forest too!

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:03 pm

Just for you Epena.

Moving_Target · Post by **Moving_Target** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:41 pm

ha ha! I haven't been following this map (or any for that matter) but it's great to see that you are stilling using my models, Alpha!

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:01 pm

I am! Expect to see yourself in the readme or you have permission to send angry messages to my Private Message Inbox.

Bac-Talan · Post by **Bac-Talan** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:39 pm

Whoa, is that what I think it is? I haven't been here often, but if that's a Krylov FA-37 assault rifle I see, I love ya man! (in a friendly way

) I love that gun (in 2142) my pick over any other AR for all around use any day. Nice work man.

t551 · Post by **t551** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:44 pm

Also, looking at other Firefly pics, the primary (Alliance?) gun that I see is the M8 carbine, which I can get some good reference pics for from Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter.

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:27 pm

That would be awesome.

And once again, credit to Moving_Target for the Krylov!

Post by **Epena** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 1:19 am

Lol, nice. Although it isn't quite what I envisioned, it all very nice. Interesting strategy to consider when entering there. In that one shot, if you're hit, it's your head. I didn't think it would be quite so deep, and with like an 'island' or two (terrain going up just enough to breach the water) with less bamboo on it, or just on the perimeter, but it's a great improvement. Sorry I'm such a blasted perfectionist. If you left it the way it is now, it'd be great and the only one who'd even notice that it isn't, I don't know, pasted out of a real marsh is me.

Looks great and I'm actually really looking forward to playing this map, don't ever let any of my comments convince you otherwise!

Alpha · Post by **Alpha** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:23 am

There are paths through the marsh where the reeds aren't in the way, just not one in the screens.

I still need to work with the ones on the hill. I need to fix the max flight height (so easy, just haven't opened that LUA in a while) and run through the map to look for bugs and then I'll start skinning the Alliance side. Stay tuned!

Moving_Target · Post by **Moving_Target** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:30 am

Also give Murdocr credit. He exported the models for me. Also I give you permission to edit the odf and skin to hte models if need be. And yes that is the Krylov FA-37. I'm going to take a look at that convertor phyc0fred posted about and see if i can export more models.