simcosmos -->> First Post, Hellooooo!

simcosmos · Post by **simcosmos** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:04 pm

Hi everybody

My name is António Maia and some of you may perhaps know me as SimCosmos (PT) from the Armagetron Arenas

I will use this post to present myself… here I go!

During my virtual life I really loved to play some games…Warcraft, GP2, Euro-Fighter, Dune, Half-Life, Aliens VS Predator, HALO, TRON 2.0… are just a few mixed examples…

However only a hand full of these games made me wish to participate in an online community (website, forums, chat, online meetings, development of addons, etc)…

a) Microsoft Flight Simulator: I do not fly on it as I used to but I do keep very good memories from some adventures. Aerovip (http://www.aerovip.net) , a small virtual club were pilots enjoyed to do formation flights, low and slow, see the landscapes… all using small airplanes… ASA/AvSP (http://www.aerovip.net/asa) SimNASA (http://www.simnasa.org) , BOTA2003 (http://www.airpacifica.org/battleofthea ... frames.htm)…

(please note that some links may not be active)

b) Orbiter Space Flight Simulator (http://www.orbitersim.com) : this is what you can call of my “main game”… It has a very good community and great addon developers… I also have my own projects for that sim… If you ever wanted to be an astronaut then do try this great piece of software (visit Orbiter section at my site for all Community links

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c) And … ARMAGETRON! Of course!

I do not really know since when started playing it… perhaps one year ago? More? Less? Hard to tell! But I do know that this is a very addictive, challenging and fun game!

I *confess* that only very recently started visiting the Armagetron community sites and forums… Until now I only wanted to play the game but recently I started whishing to integrate myself a little more into Arma community and… here I am with this loooooong post.

Resuming: basically I just want to say HI!

In a later occasion, after reading some of the past posts I will surely bug you with a few small questions related with small mods doubts…

To end this post I leave you with something I have been playing with…

It is my own movie pack implementation for the game: perhaps I will open a post about it in the dev forum.

Hope you like the picture:

See you in the arena,
Vrummmmmmmmmmmm

António

(aka SimCosmos (PT) )

http://simcosmos.planetaclix.pt

Zapple · Post by **Zapple** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:22 pm

Welcome man! Nice pic!! I wish I could use it to play. Later!

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:28 am

Welcome, glad you could come & join the mayhem, er, fun

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klax · Post by **klax** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:14 pm

Welcome SimCosmos! Nice to see you here too

Hehe. These forums are great, and you'll find here a great community, I'm sure

Someday I'll download orbiter and ask you things hehe

btw, nice moviepack!. Are the walls inspired in any movie?

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:39 pm

hi sim good to see your here, very nice moviepack you should upload it to a message as an attachment so we all can share

or would you like it included on my moviepack page ?

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:38 pm

klax wrote:Are the walls inspired in any movie?

I think that might be from Tron actually... at the very end when the system is freed...

simcosmos · Post by **simcosmos** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 5:24 am

Hi all

Thanks for the kind words!

The movie pack is completely based in TRON: textures and sounds (yes it will have sounds) were captured from the movie and then submitted to some editing operations… they are not 100% perfect yet but I guess they are already good for a nice GRID session

Tomorrow, if all goes well, I will release v0.1… you can call it an alpha…

There are a few things I would like to fix / add later but…

I already researched about these issues in the forum and later I would like to ask some questions to those of you who have a little o(or big, hehehe) know-how about Armagetron/moviepacks (textures, cfg settings, 3D...)

The zip will have a filezise of +/- 4.5MB… this size is mainly caused by the two files I made for the grid entrance / exit sounds… Perhaps in a later occasion I will make them with less quality… humm… but they are so nice like they are now…

Iceman: I was thinking about hosting this alpha (v0.1) here, as an attachement, or else in one of my web spaces because it will be easy to update the file this way. But if you do not mind about uploading a 4.5MB file I would be glad to send it in your way (although please remind that sooner or later I will update the current zip)

(ho: what is the size limit for our uploads here? Does Armagetron Community have any equivalent to public addons repositories like www.avsim.com, www.flightsim.com , www.orbithangar.com , etc?)

About Klax question: yes, Tank Program is correct. I had to adapt a few details due to the limitations present when making the textures for the moviepack but you are indeed looking at the end of the movie

Ok, more than time to go to bed.

If tomorrow I manage to write the readme then… tomorrow I will make available the… LIGHT CITY v0.1

Post by **Tank Program** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:32 am

I think the limit is either 5mb or 3mb... When you're posting a message, just click the "add an attachment" button.