Topic: a poll about what i do for SFC (Read 1916 times)

Darkdrone · « **on:** September 15, 2005, 01:25:36 am »

hi guys well its getting to point i dont even play sfc anymore all nexus now
so i need too know what you guys think and use of what i do

all feedback is welcome

i`m only exporting and converting what i use for nexus and my new ships
i dont even add them too sfc anymore just checking them in the viewer

is it still worth me doing sfc versions and releasing them or are only 2-3 people using
them in which case i just send them by e-mail too them

if you view and download without replying to the topic please vote too
as i dont know how many people download and use what i do

Darkdrone

ELITE-Kaos · « **Reply #1 on:** September 15, 2005, 02:46:29 am »

I went the other way, got rid of Nexus and now play more SFC3. Just didn't like movment system... Have fun and good luck with the Age of War mod

Best thing that ever happened to Nexus!!!

Mr_Tricorder · « **Reply #2 on:** September 15, 2005, 07:58:45 am »

I don't really play SFC3 anymore either. I just use it to test new ships. I'll play OP accasionally, but that's about it. I really like making models, though, so I'll continue to make ships for SFC.

OlBuzzard · « **Reply #3 on:** September 15, 2005, 09:30:04 am »

I don't play SFC any more either .. but that had to do with issues more concerning how those who were building the mods .. and setting up the servers intreprited how the game should be played.

I have no intention of starting any arguments there ...

BUT .. I DID find a VERY interesting place for me to make a contribution to the community. (I wish I'd been doing this early on ... but .. hey that's another story).

I love Trek ... and the opportunity to build ships for the games. I'll leave the politics of how they want to play to someone else (especially since 98% of those left could care less about my input anyways!)

meantime ... lets build as many models as we can. Any MAYBE even look to the future of Trek !

Well ! Anything is possible !

keep the faith !

(hehehe! sorry ... I'll get off my soap box ! )

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #4 on:** September 15, 2005, 11:36:42 am »

I don't play Nexus, but I do play SFC, and of the SFC games I'd play, the only ones I'd normally play with are SFC1 and SFC: OP. Of the mods I have that are left on my disks and HD that came from you, I still play 'em. And if you churn out any more for either SFC game (or repost old ones), I'd still grab 'em and see if I can use 'em.

GotAFarmYet? · « **Reply #5 on:** September 15, 2005, 12:11:57 pm »

I still use your ships in game when they fit a nitch I need filled, sometimes I even retexture them.

I only play OP on occation, I have been playing Wolf ET again getting ready for ET Quake Wars. Keep making them DD we will use them.

Reverend · « **Reply #6 on:** September 15, 2005, 02:53:34 pm »

New designs are always favorable, whether it be a drawing, model, or so on. The good thing about '.mod' format is that there are a lot of importer/exporters for it... it can be converted to many formats easily.

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #7 on:** September 15, 2005, 07:09:26 pm »

Now what kind of question is this DD? Naturally, I want everything that can possibly be converted from other Trek games to SFC series... It makes my games more fun adding your conversions.

IF Nexus were as easy to add ships as SFC: OP I'd play NEXUS more. As a TMP era player, I really don't want a mix of TOS/TNG in my personal single player game...

At any rate, thank you for your continued support of the entire Trek gaming community.

Qapla!

KF

Sandman3D · « **Reply #8 on:** September 15, 2005, 11:37:46 pm »

Yeah DD, keep 'em comin'...always love to see your new pre-TOS designs...remeber, I'm a pre-TOS/ Lost Era man meself.

I wish I could find Nexus...d/l'd the demo and it's cool, but my local EB Games doesn't have it yet. Guess I'll have to special order it.

And btw, if you ever want to port my stuff to Nexus, be my guest...just send me screeny in game so I can see how purty it is in that game engine.

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #9 on:** September 16, 2005, 09:12:45 am »

Please keep 'em coming DD, I love your stuff and use much on them in my game(s) And I echo what Sandman said. If there is anything of mine you wish to convert to Nexus by all means please do.

-MP

Darkdrone · « **Reply #10 on:** September 20, 2005, 01:32:26 am »

bump.....

DD

Mackie · « **Reply #11 on:** September 20, 2005, 02:02:16 am »

sorry to say but i usually dont download or use your stuff but BUT thats only because I dont play SFC

Don Karnage · « **Reply #12 on:** September 23, 2005, 12:13:20 pm »

i play sfc eaw and op only, now m fixing my shiplist in op and beside the mod from wz, atra, i don't know who's mod i get since most of the mod i download are from battleclinic, so i don't realy look at who made them but at how it look.

E_Look · « **Reply #13 on:** September 24, 2005, 12:10:21 am »

Playing "Battle at the Grave of Thoughts" (EAW, OP) using your bases was a visual treat.

Some time ago, you made some rather cool starbases using a metallic texture; one even had ships inside. Most excellent stuff; you really felt like you were in an advanced Federation's Starfleet in a futuristic space.

Too bad, though, I can't grace SFC1 with those great models.

ModelsPlease · « **Reply #14 on:** September 24, 2005, 07:23:36 pm »

I believe E-look, if you delete the lightmaps the ships/bases will work in SFC1

E_Look · « **Reply #15 on:** September 24, 2005, 07:43:32 pm »

That's not always true.

Some meshes are built to "accomodate" or "look for" illuminatable sections, or at least that's my primitive understanding of what some modelers told me soon after SFC2 came out.

And I do know that when I've tried that, I've had less than 50% success.

Can any of the guys who make both type of .MODs comment?

Mr_Tricorder · « **Reply #16 on:** September 24, 2005, 11:45:21 pm »

When you add textures to a ship in 3ds max, you use what is called the Material Editor. For SFC1, each material would only consist of a regular texture bitmap file, but for SFC2 and 3, each material would consist of a regular texture bitmap file and (usually) a self-illumination map, which is a bitmap that adds specularity to areas of the regular texture bitmap. In order to properly convert a ship from SFC2 or 3 to SFC1, you need to remove the self-illumination maps from the materials in the Material Editor.

Darkdrone · « **Reply #17 on:** September 25, 2005, 01:45:17 am »

thankyou to the 32 people who took part and the people who took the time to post messages
from the poll 32 people are download and using a mix of what i do
i`m more then happy with that

so things will stay the same as before as lot of people are using what i release

thanks again for taking part

Darkdrone

E_Look · « **Reply #18 on:** September 25, 2005, 02:53:47 pm »

You must be kidding, Darkdrone; there are LURKERS, too and I'm sure many more people love and use your stuff than you've seen on this thread.

Grim Reaper · « **Reply #19 on:** September 27, 2005, 07:31:44 am »

I use DD stuff, but only what i want. I only use those ships that fit my strict wishes. (almost exclusively TNG/DS9)

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