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Random bits and tidbits relating to that Space game I've talked about in chat.

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Baby Steps First. You might even say "Light" steps.

I was planning on waiting on posting anything related to this until I had something a little more solid to show you. But Google Docs isn't hyperlinking the Peeron links for some reason, and I'm debating which would make the ideal Light starship for modeling with. So...the contenders. There were others, but these are the ones that were the size I was envisioning, had a full cockpit, had the least immediately foreseeable problems with them, and I liked the general look of and felt like I could sta
Lind Whisperer

Lind Whisperer

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We Have a Spinny

Well, it's not exactly the most visually exciting of videos. But, thanks to the awesome work Stopsecret did in his Rocket Script, Crash's helpful answering of questions, and a little search-fu, I successfully imported the Galactic Peacekeeper into Unity - apparently it doesn't have too many polygons - and can spin it around using keyboard controls!   (Apologies for video quality, I'm still mastering FRAPS...)   If you imagine there's a dark starry sky racing past in
Lind Whisperer

Lind Whisperer

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Step One Complete

Well, that's one Light spaceship built and a lot of polygons deleted. Currently, it's at about 14k, down from 22 or so. Which...is still probably way too high for a multiplayer game. But it's low enough I can say "Close enough for the moment," and move on to the next step - modeling the first playing map. You can't see it in either of these photos, but the cockpit computer is lit.   A "night" version, showing engines/running lights(and a tiny bit of glow from the cockpit
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Lind Whisperer

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I can't believe it's not Blender's Animation Engine!

In the "So that's how that works" vein, I discovered Blender Paths. And thus I made a trial project. Only problem was that Blender's animation engine...well, it's not the simplest thing to get to put out a .avi. So...I ended up rendering all the images, then porting them into Monkey Jam, then fiddling with the sounds, since Monkey Jam was only allowing me a single track, then waiting for the thing to upload...   But, yeah...      
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