AAAAAAAAAGH!!!!

[David E. Gervais]

Depending on the complexity of the model, if you can export to .obj or .3ds then I suggest you try Anim8or. It's a freeware 3D modeling and rendering program. Just go to www.anim8or.com and grab a copy.

ooh la la, c'est la party! whoooopieeeee! Yahooooooo! yeah, Baby!

Cheers!

BREAKING NEWS:
David's computer came through the opperation in excellent shape yesterday. Doctor Avatarius removed it's old 256meg of PC133 SDRam and replaced it with 512meg DDR 2700 Ram. David's computer was also treated for case of minor vocal aging. Doctor Avatarius reached down it's throat and yanked out the old SBLive Value and installed a brand spanking new SB Audigy Gamer.
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[Starhawk]

ACK!! I can't export images in the demo Version of nendo the danged thing wants me to buy it! Gaw all my work would be for nothing

I tried opening one of the nendo files as an anim8tor but it didn't work the image wouldn't display

[Rollo]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
...David's computer came through the opperation in excellent shape yesterday. Doctor Avatarius removed it's old 256meg of PC133 SDRam and replaced it with 512meg DDR 2700 Ram. David's computer was also treated for case of minor vocal aging. Doctor Avatarius reached down it's throat and yanked out the old SBLive Value and installed a brand spanking new SB Audigy Gamer.

I hope you gave your datamachine a good polish with some Svinto also .

[Combat Wombat]

I was looking for ways for you to convert your files to .3ds format so we can help you and I found this program. http://www.myriadviewer.com/
Theres a 15 day trial, I havent used it but it looks like what you need for us to help you.

[Starhawk]

So that'll allow me to convert my Nendo files over to anim8tor?

Because I have a rather hand drawn looking picture of my Dreadnought and Frigate class ships because I used photoshop to fill in the general colors for which I was hoping to texture them with the nendo painter but I don't think that is possible. If I gave you a screen pic would you be able to texture it or would you need the 3d image for texturing and resizing work?


And i still can't figure out the anim8tor controls so there is no possible way for me to copy my designs into anim8tor

here is a pic of my dreadnought: http://members.cox.net/cchiare/Dread.bmp

[ March 04, 2004, 16:44: Message edited by: Starhawk ]

[Combat Wombat]

What type of color scheme do you want?
I will work on it some right now and I should be able to get you a rough idea of what I can do for you by this afternoon but a color scheme would be nice so I have some idea of where to start.

[Starhawk]

Well roughly the same color scheme I showed you the yellowish color was meant to be gold and the blueish color was meant to be shiney.

The hull's general color is grey though.

[Atrocities]

David was explaining to me that XP has a problem. Evidently XP will not use RAM over 512 megs. If this is accurate, then I am wasting 256 megs, and my system will never use more than 512 megs. This bites!

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
David was explaining to me that XP has a problem. Evidently XP will not use RAM over 512 megs. If this is accurate, then I am wasting 256 megs, and my system will never use more than 512 megs. This bites!

Never say never, it's a 'known bug' so it should eventually get fixed. And I can only confirm that in XP Home edition this bug is present. When the system sees that more than 512meg is needed, it automatically creats a swap file and uses that. It's like the system says "If Ram_needed > 512 then use_swap_file" it should say "If Ram_needed > available_ram then use_swap_file".

I think the main reason that it has not been fixed yet is that not many apps make good use of extra memory anyway. and the new games are getting around this by stuffing the video card's memory instead of system RAM for alot of their graphics. CHeck out some of the new bleeding edge games, they have system requirements like 512meg AND a 128meg graphics card. There' is a reason for this.

nuf said, cheers!

[Combat Wombat]

Ok you can find my first idea here.

http://www.spaceempires.net/files/cw/

Remember this draft is just to see if you like it. I am going to redo it from the original file again for the final draft. The first image is the size it will appear in the game and the second it the un-shrunk Version. Both had to be converted into .jpg because .bmp is to large for websites. I decided to go with these colors instead of your gold/metal scheme because I though it looked better and it makes the ship look like its covered with armor plateing. I can always use the gold/metal if thats what you decide. As for the blue part of what I assume to be engines I am still deciding how i want those to glow.

So tell me what you think so far. Good?, Bad?, any changes you want made let me know.

Edit: Reuploaded pictures after I resaved them as .jpg with some different settings for better quality results.

[ March 05, 2004, 01:42: Message edited by: Combat Wombat ]