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Hey, hey! How y'all doing? Incidently, here's the latest renders. Took some liberties with the Confed symbols. Still, I think it looks rather good. Howie

That was, apparently, a personal choice. when I originally did the coloring, I thought I had seen that done in an obscure screenshot on the back of the WC1 box. Not so. That'll be changed. Howie

Heh. This model only has 40K polys right now. Howie

Yes, for the time being. I intend to place some lights in those locations - and I don't want to actually do it until later. :d Lazy, I guess. 'Side's which, it's nothing a good chamfer won't fix. :D

Prelim textures - nothing but material_sub-object maps at the moment, but hey. Any comments? Suggestions? Flaming death? Howie

And, next. Hoozah. Howie

Saturday Market. And that ain't oil. That's a hemp/reefer mix that seems to pour from every pore. Gack. The fun ones are the ones that try and sell you mystical crystals 5 inches from your face. Cheers. Howie

Really? Well, it's a nice town, if you can get over the distinct smell of hippie.

Wedge - I don't know. All I can say is that I have seen the same effect when I used a primitive (when I used it 5 years ago, it's come quite a ways...) raytracer, Pov-Ray. Thanks, Cam. That was an un-finished version of the animation. There was actually supposed to have around a minute and a...

Look at the very first hornet sprite. The bottom gun just dissapears halfway along it's length. You can see the same thing in many of the other sprites. Also, many of the edges of the ships are jagged - not just ailiasing, mind you, but random pixels. They would be smooth if created by hand.

The same was done for WC1 - just with much earlier programs. There's also an element of perspective in the WC1 sprites - and anyone skillful enough to draw that in by hand, perfectly, every time, wouldn't have missed all those pixels. :D

heh. I plan on it, Cam :D by "other" space animation, I believe he means this: http://www.hedfiles.com/the%20latest.avi 14MB Divx 5* I think you'll recognize the music. :D Howie

The WC1 ships were not hand-drawn. They used a very early version of graphical rendering system - much like the early pixar films - but were not hand drawn. This is plainly obvious - there are pixels missing ( for example, in the long shaft of the hornet's guns) that would not be it it had been...

Hah-Ha. Go, LOAF. I don't know. The Kilrathi terrain at the end of WC3 was probably higher poly. :D That said, Loaf's right. My computer would be almost godlike back then. Amazing, when you think about it. :D howie

Howdy. You can find the scans of the original blueprints at: www.hedfiles.com/WC/ along with some helpful screenshots. The files haven't been compled in any way, but they're still mondo useful. Howie

Heh. Nomad, you're right - but still, there's got to be a bay in the hull that houses the forward landing gear. and as I mentioned, the pilot is literally sitting right in top of it. As for the Matrix animations, Cam - I never really finished it. The setting was quite frankly too...

You never really see the underside of the Hornet in the intro - and it's too low-rez to make out much. Not quite. I first refine the mesh using a boolean operation, then extrude the faces. Gives me a lot more control over how the faces appear, as well as being much more poly-efficient.

Thanks, guys. Cam: Then I wouldn't have anyone to campare myself to. :D I just hope that my sudden appearance will have jolted you into overtime on that animation. I just want to see it, is all. Ok - I've moved from basic shapes to simple panels and surfaces. I'm gonna have to...

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3DSMax5. Howie