new default textures and model for the release

[philippeqc]

Hi all,

Seeing as we are exposing ourself more and more to the public eye, I was thinking, what if we "branded" a bit the release of AA for 0.2.8? Not in the commercial sence, but rather, set the defaults to a version specific set of textures and models. At a minimum, change the spash screen to something that have a bit "Armagetron Advance" and "0.2.8/Arthemis" (*)

I was thinking we could make a little contest out of it.

Do you think it sound like a good idea?

-ph

* Yes a list of criteria would be required, such as tastefull, representative of the ideals of AA, not a ressource hog, etc...

[Lucifer]

Yeah, that rocks! Let's do it.

/me signs his name to say he wants to do it

[Tank Program]

It's not like we shoved ourself in the public eye...

[Z-Man]

No objections here, as long as there is no coding work for me . That probably means a new model won't happen (I'll have to dig out the ase to mod converter or something similar). The title screen and textures (wall, rim, sky, cycle) are fair game. How about putting a small picture of Arthemis on the title screen? There should be photos of old statues around.

[philippeqc]

No coding involved. More something in the line of a new default *pack. Without really studying the possible complications, I was thinking of changing the default between regular pack and moviepack to which ever format is used in the winner of this little contest.

The winner of the contest would have her *pack files included in the distribution files, and the game set to use them by default.

Well those are the rough lines of the contest I was thinking. I'm open to comments and suggestion before I draft some contest rules.

-ph

Nota: I just realised I was planning to establish some kind of guidelines, and a scroring system to pick the winner by a small group of judges (something like only me, or a few interested). Then I realised I was ignoring the comunity voice. But there is the alternative of a community vote. What do you think? One can be quite fast, and the other involve the community.

[k]

What if someone only wants to contribute certain textures (e.g. cycle body, wheel, and wall for the default model)?

[Lucifer]

Why not just ask for it? Just something like "Hey, we want to pack a special Artemis-themed moviepack with 0.2.8. Contribute textures/sounds/models here! In particular we need a splash screen. We haven't yet figured out how we'll decide, we might just need to see what comes in and then figure out how to decide."

?

[Your_mom]

/me \you

[philippeqc]

I'm expecting to be drowning in work and RL until monday, with a possible guest appearance on saturday. So consider this contest without rules open until then (thanks lucifer).

In the mean time, I'll let it into your trusting care.

-ph

Should we make it an "free" contest, where the participants are free to reuse material already submitted for the contest?

[Phytotron]

Mom, replace the deer with a lightcycle, heh. And give Artemis' toga some Tron-style backlighting lines.

[Walking Tree]

my variation of the same idea:

[Fonkay]

Took out the box around the statue.

[Fonkay]

Oops, I must have painted the backgournd in dark red or brown instead of black. I'll change it if you need me to.
Sorry, but the sun is shining on my computer screen, so I can barely see a thing on it.

EDIT: Fixed.

[Fonkay]

Trying to create this:

I came out with this piece of crap.
I'm gonna keep working on it, but figured I'd share in the mean time.

[locutus]

test 1