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there should be an extrude modifier available for poly editing. just grab a face and pull it out. refining by boolean means taking 2 objects and 'bool-ing' them. you can volume merge, add, subtract, exclude, etc. you can also ignore volumes and just use 'refine'. this basically means take...

mmmmmmm .. wc4 nightmare :D that was fun. i had to 'get in the zone' to play that skill. it was sereously hard. -scheherazade

Strike Commander is my facorite flight sim, and favorite game after privateer (almost tied). it's the only flight sim i know of with with a STORY too... something modern ones DESPERATELY need. campaigns aren't much fun. some characters and plot make a big difference for me. -scheherazade

Usefulness wise, Vagabond. hands down. he killed fast like nothing else, and stayed alive. for missions where a wingman really made a difference (needed one to make it less than difficult to finish) vagabond almost always made it to the end, and managed to actaully HELP OUT by killing something...

all right. sounds good to me. i'm sold -scheherazade

OK let me straighten this out scoops out - fuel regenerates at some pace? slower flight? in faster flight? the X speed indicated, max speed, etc, for any given ship, is it the scoops IN or OUT speed? my approach is : thunderbolt - 380 km/s max speed (non-afterburn)...

hmm, if scoops can account for a dual-speed mode of operation, than modelling them would be the best solution. high speed fo rtransit, and decent gameplay speeds for combat. i'll give it a try. -scheherazade

suppose you wanna have real-scales (or something close to it) for planets and systems in a WC mod. of course if you REALLY travelled 1000+ kilometres per second its not that bad, since you'll get wherever in a decent amount of time. but at those speeds you can't fight because other ships...

wcuniverse will let you friendly up to the kilrathi. maybe even start out as one, if the vegastrike engine allows specific character creation at the start (as opposed to being human privateer that works his way into whatever) -scheherazade

i passed on the mod to newcommanderondablock. he's been doing stuff with it slowly. but i haven't heard much about it in a while. -scheherazade

you should treat your geometry and texture pipelines separately. it is true that high rez textures and background will slow things down. but lowering your polycount _won't_ speed it up. you have to go to the source of the problem. for example, you can take what you have now, and replace...

just thought i'd mention, if you get 'Deep UV' you can let it auto-map 3d models for you. it isn't as 'nice' as a human-being mapping the model, but the results are decent. if you don't care to learn how to really do it, then Deep UV is a good short cut. -scheherazade...

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wicked :) anyone know if the old FS2 copy that was publicly available (before the something edition came out recently) is still around somewhere? i went to where i downloaded it last time (under dogs) and its no longer there (due to the game being re-released and what not). ...

"secret projects discussion" is OK if : it is about 'secret projects', and not 'secret discussion' about public projects. i just know from experience working on various projects, once you get a team-thread that's locked out, you just end up posting there cause it won't ever get spammed and...

make a couple versions, go like 25K 10K 5K 1K 250 5 LOD's, and then it'll be game-suitable. so long as the game has LOD's that is. which vegastrike does btw. and it handles 50K models EZ without framerate drops. a proper high detail hull plated tarsus would rock out...

funny thing is that you can actually have your own credit card version for not that much money down. (well, a couple k). so it's possible. although i don't think there are enough people here to make it pay... -scheherazade

i'd say go with unreal(X) engine its always being updated, and you can port mods to newer versions. HL is way old and rather limited. popularity is all it really has going for it (but its a lot of popularity though) quake3 has a ton of source code documentation and is more feature packed...

cache holds data and text text=code section of the program. usually only part of the actual program code is in use and for the most part fits inside the half meg or whatever of cache you have. the data that is in use is also usually only part of all the data inside hte software...

if they run too fast, you can use something like moslo.exe to run the apps slower. no need to not use it i guess. unless you don't have proper memory management and you can't fit moslo+your app in lower memory. not all dos apps were cpu lagged, some (like, oh, strike commander) were clocked...