Looks good so far. Good detail and not many polys.

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Yea it is so hard to keep the poly count down man. Thanks

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Not gonna bother with normal maps?

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Not for the first demos, Hard to code.

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looks nice so far

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hey nice!!! need help?

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That project kinda didn't really go anywhere, but we may ry again in the future.

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Matt

Well don't forget to post on here if you do. I'm usually looking for side projects.

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I may have an easy job for you for my 2d game. Need some ships modelled, enemies and stuff.

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Matt

oohhh, ships. What sort of ships?

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Just little 64x64 enemies, I'm thinkin of making it a community challenge, and the best ones I will use in the game, with full credit.

I will probably also need a fairly massive mothership to be modelled at somepoint. As the setting of the game is flying over the top of a big mothership whilst shooting down and dogfighting with squadrons of enemy fighters.

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ahh ok, a 2d shooter sort of thing? So the little ships are going to be 2d and the mothership will be 3d but used as a 2d background?

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Its all going to be pre-rendered 3d. I have the player ship and one enemy done, but theyre pretty crap.

Dimensions of the mothership will probably be like 5000x3000, and I will slice it up into sections that are only processed when that slice is actually going to be displayed.

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Cool, might be an idea to start a thread in the challenge suggestions section see if anyone's interested.

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I just got alpha mapping working now I can use TGA's with full transparency straight from max!

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Would it be possible to have animated ships? I've got a ship I made during the Mad Academy course that's got a spinny bit that looks pretty cool. Animated gifs support transparency don't they? Just a thought.

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I wrote the engine to use 32-bit tga series for animation. TGA's also have 8-bit transparency instead of 1-bit transparency like GIFs do. So you can have partial transparency and blend it.

I'll make a proper thread for this discussion, continue there.

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