new default textures and model for the release

[Fonkay]

I still like my original idea. But I have no clue how to make it work. Or the skill needed to create it.

[philippeqc]

Fonkay, just speak out loud and share your idea. Then maybe someone will be able to help.

-ph

Sorry, other than the splash screen, I could not find a reference to your idea.

[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.

[Fonkay]

Oh yes- As an arena reference, not a splash screen. Maybe I'll poke silly until he helps me make a moveipack out of it instead. Who knows.

[philippeqc]

Fonkay and Silly
Sitting in a tree
Tee, iii, aix, tee, you, ar, iii, ein, gee
First come the floor tile, then come the model
A moviepack for you and ME!

-ph

I will learn not to comment on peoples image from within a text browser... soon.

[Your_mom]

/me

[Fonkay]

I was thinking about making some sort of 3D looking wall scheme with pillars. Making it look like a giant hall. But then realized it would probably make everyone mad, not being able to see the rim.

But I like the lightening tails.

[gnorty]

A football stadium moviepack I am playing with on and off :-

[Lucifer]

I like the trail a lot, can you throw that up by itself?

Right now I'm really liking mom's lightning trail for the release. If not that, then one of these days I'm going to gather up all of mom's trails and stuff and try to release moviepacks with them in it.

[Fonkay]

gnorty: needs grass.

[Phytotron]

I really like the cycle tail that comes with the "grid" moviepack. Simple, elegant, futuristic. The only problem is that it only shows up with alpha blending turned on.

This actually leads me to my general comment on this. I think that the default textures and moviepack should just have a generically slick, futuristic look (or retro-futuristic), and/or Tron-ish theme (I refer back to the possible rim_wall I posted). It should have as wide an aesthetic appeal as possible, rather than a narrower appeal (like the fútbol stadium or lightning tail, not to pick on youse). They're supposed to be default, not custom, right (key point). To be quite honest, I think the old defaults were fine, with exception to that—sorry, ugly—borg rim. "Keep it simple, stupid."

Then users can do their own personalized customization by either downloading moviepacks and/or creating their own. Everything I'm using right now is self-made. In fact, me thinks a little more encouragement of moviepack and texture creation would be good, along with a better wiki section on it.

But, uh, yeah. That's just my view on it.

[philippeqc]

Thanks silly for sharing your opinion.

I'll just take this chance to specify something, if you just say "I like ...", "I thing X is cool" or "It should be like ...", I wont count it as submission. I dont what to take the role of the person who need to interprete your intentions, deciding if you are just expressing how you think it should go, or making an actual submission.

So, if you want a specific item to be considered, then please post a link to it and possibly a screenshot of it.

Thanks

-ph

[2020]

i found some moviepacks or whatever you call them
but couldn't pull up the wiki to find out how to implement them

osc is right:
keep it as close to the original film as possible
and make customisation easy

keep it simple:
the game-mechanics are supremely elegant
the original designs of the lightcycles too

[Phytotron]

make customisation easy

Nothing is being changed in that regard, and it's already very easy. This is just about mulling over the specific images that should be used as defaults in the next release.

Phil, I follow you. Like I typed previously, I'm not going to make any specific submissions. I was just describing the sorts of submissions I personally would like to see others make. But, it's no biggie. I'll likely be swapping them out for my own anyway, heh.

[Tank Program]

with a grass texture on the floor, little modeled tufts of grass sticking up out of the grid would be cool too.