Planet Descent
From the Front Page => News Board => Topic started by: karx-elf-erx on January 20, 2011, 01:39:32 AM
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Since Tech Pro has been complaining about the lack of posts here, I thought I'd write a bit Descent related stuff - from the D2X-XL project, naturally.
DLE-XP which had a big code overhaul a couple of weeks (or is it months already?) is steadily maturing into a really stable program. A few smaller bugs have been fixed there in the process recently, so if you are a level author, go grab the new version. As I am on it: There have been rumors that DLE-XP built D1/D2 levels wouldn't work with D1X-Rebirth. I doubt this is true since Wolfie's Descent Vignettes mission, as well as "The Enemy Within", which afaik were built with DLE-XP, work fine there.
Joffa is showing off his "beastular pyro" over in the D2X-XL forum like now. The design is great ... the ship is so detailled (though a bit too colorful for my taste yet) that it would fit well into an Unreal 3 environment. Definitely worth a look or three.
Frustikus is also slowly progressing with his new player ship design "Hammerhead". Definitely worth a look, too.
Sirius is apparently doing secret new things while building a D2X-XL level, and promptly seems to have found a bug in D2X-XL's collision detection. Investigation will start soon (sigh ...)
A friendly D2X-XL user has provided an OS X version of D2X-XL 1.15.124. It is half the size of the previous OS X dmg, so I am wondering what he omitted ... can't tell though, since I don't have a Mac (and probably never will).
So much for that. :)
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Thanks for keeping us informed... Moved to the front page News section.
Would love to see some screen shots of the new ships you mention!
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Joffa's ship:
(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/630/ahaywehgate0029.jpg)
Frusti's Hammerhead:
(http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4287/squadleader.jpg)
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I like that hammerhead ship. :D
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The first ship honestly does look pretty cool, but it could use a little more detail on the textures.
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Thanks for the update, Diedel!
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The first ship looks almost like it was salvaged from scrap metal. I like that, the backstory potential is enourmous.
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it almost looks like two different ships. Personally, I think there's too much yellow. but, I think the front part looks awfully nice though.
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Hi,
I am new to this community, but I saw that my concept "Hammerhead" was mentioned here.
I think, the picture above isn´t the best one, so I want to show you this:
(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/9445/hammerhead40.th.jpg) (http://img510.imageshack.us/i/hammerhead40.jpg/)
I am a beginner in modelling ships and yes, Hammerhead hasn´t the quality like JoFFas Avenger. But hey, I like it ;-).
I am working on the textures at the moment. But this will need a lot of time, because I never did something like that before. For the impatient fans of this ship: JoFFa is working on textures for HH too and I am sure, he will show results much faster than me ;-).
Thanks for reading !
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I like it! And, a lot of us play with older machines and high poly ships are not so good for us.
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Hey, welcome to PD, Frustikus.
Personally I think the Hammerhead looks very good and I'm eagerly awaiting it's finish.
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It clearly has no resemblence to the SA43 Hammerhead... as in... Space Above and Beyond. ;D
I think these improve on a strong original.