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Title: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: bustr on January 21, 2009, 04:13:28 PM
Dear HTC,

Is it close enough to release time to post a few screen shots of new work? They always liven up the board.

Thank you,
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: 1pLUs44 on January 21, 2009, 04:42:40 PM
Around the 25th is the pattern I think. IIRC, it was thursdays
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Spikes on January 21, 2009, 05:50:04 PM
Around the 25th is the pattern I think. IIRC, it was thursdays
After the past few updates the pattern disappeared.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Motherland on January 21, 2009, 07:20:27 PM
I think we'll start seeing screenshots within the next month. :aok
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: moot on January 21, 2009, 07:22:19 PM
Animated water, please :)
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Spikes on January 21, 2009, 07:24:30 PM
Animated water, please :)

 :pray
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Puck on January 21, 2009, 07:41:16 PM
Animated water, please :)

Oh, yeah!  With lots of polys!  That'd be cool!
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: moot on January 21, 2009, 07:42:18 PM
Like the old one at least, not necessarily full realistic 3D water ..
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Bronk on January 21, 2009, 08:46:27 PM
Hoping new brewster is modeled after finn's. It may be better than the fm-2. :noid
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Motherland on January 21, 2009, 08:49:31 PM
Hoping new brewster is modeled after finn's. It may be better than the fm-2. :noid
I'm looking for data on the Brewster B-239.  Detailed specs, flight data, pilot manual, photos, weight schedule, etc.  Please post info or links to info here.  Please don't post other stuff in this thread.  :salute
The 239 was the export model the Finns got. :aok
I am excited about this too.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: SmokinLoon on January 21, 2009, 09:28:08 PM
2 weeks seems to be the norm.   ;)
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: bobtom on January 21, 2009, 09:43:02 PM
He-111!  :aok
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: FYB on January 21, 2009, 09:49:19 PM
He-111!  :aok
What he said!  :aok

-FYB
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: ImADot on January 21, 2009, 11:22:28 PM
True volumetric clouds.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Cthulhu on January 22, 2009, 10:39:05 AM
Animated water, please :)
:pray x 10

True volumetric clouds.
That ones probably pushing it.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: thrila on January 22, 2009, 10:51:46 AM
I would like new hit sprites or at least the option for for high detailed sprites.  Historically accurate or not they just don't sexy in user's films.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Enker on January 22, 2009, 05:04:06 PM
The 239 was the export model the Finns got. :aok
I am excited about this too.
Dibs on the 239, AKA the sexy flying coffin killing thingamabob.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Denholm on January 22, 2009, 06:11:15 PM
True volumetric clouds.
That would be amazing as an optional feature such as animated water.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Motherland on January 22, 2009, 06:47:03 PM
Dibs on the 239, AKA the sexy flying coffin killing thingamabob.
You're thinking of the MiG-1/3 or maybe the LaGG-3. The Brewster was a very capable fighter.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: AWwrgwy on January 22, 2009, 07:09:58 PM
You're thinking of the MiG-1/3 or maybe the LaGG-3. The Brewster was a very capable fighter.

Lakirovany Garantirovanny Grob = Varnished Guaranteed Coffin



wrongway
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Motherland on January 22, 2009, 07:17:25 PM
I know that the LaGG was actually named that by it's pilots, but the MiG one and three fit the description of a sexy but incapable aircraft as well.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: rogerdee on January 23, 2009, 06:13:15 AM
From a hint waffel droped they are trying to work on a new terrain system !!
maybe this will have some hidden treasures
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Kazaa on January 23, 2009, 07:44:27 AM
< drewls at the thought of a big patch.

B-29, A-26, Yak3, new textures!!!
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Hap on January 23, 2009, 07:49:00 AM
From a hint waffel droped they are trying to work on a new terrain system !!  Maybe, this will have some hidden treasures

Roger, hope all is well with you and yours.  I'm going to keep my eye on the boards.  Any excuse to be lured back into the air.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: avionix on January 23, 2009, 08:40:24 AM
From a hint waffel droped they are trying to work on a new terrain system !!
maybe this will have some hidden treasures

Maybe we will have something other than sheep to mess around with?   :D
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Denholm on January 23, 2009, 09:17:45 AM
From a hint waffel droped they are trying to work on a new terrain system !!
maybe this will have some hidden treasures
I'm looking forward to it, if Blender would stop acting STUPID!

-Sigh-
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Krusty on January 23, 2009, 01:10:03 PM
They need to make just one major terrain update, THEN STOP MAKING TERRAIN UPDATES!!!!

Not only does it royally screw over every map you have already, it really screws up map makers and sets them back (sometimes years!) on their current projects!

The end result? We're stuck on the same damn 1-map rotation for about a year until new maps are done.

We still haven't recovered from the loss of terrains from the LAST major update. Karelia and a number of other special maps are still unusable.

I'm all for making the terrain better, I know it really needs improvements in a few areas, but the setbacks that come WITH said updates really hurt the gameplay.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: texastc316 on January 23, 2009, 02:14:22 PM
wow krusty, is anything good in your world?
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: bongaroo on January 23, 2009, 02:29:09 PM
Look at the home page peoples.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Denholm on January 23, 2009, 03:02:14 PM
(http://www2.hitechcreations.com/screenshots/terrain/tertest.jpg)

 :O
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Krusty on January 23, 2009, 03:07:18 PM
wow krusty, is anything good in your world?

You may or may not be new here. Don't know if you're the TexasTC in-game or a different one. Regardless, months on end of the same map, the same situation, the same team being gangbanged into a corner, the same lopsided annoying gameplay. Hell we've only had the map in LWO now for less than a week and I'm already sick of it. Can you imagine almost a year of the same old maps? Folks are crying out for new maps and we've ONLY just now got some new ones in rotation from the last terrain update.

Looking at the screenshot Denholm posted, it looks like this will be a major revision. I love the way it looks, but you know this is going to limit us to ndisles or whichever default map HTC updates, and no other maps will work with the new terrain system.

I just want them to put a lot of effort into ONE update, then leave the terrain for a while. Until the day comes when updating or creating new maps is less painful than pulling teeth, we just can't re-do the maps we have to keep up with the graphics updates.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Denholm on January 23, 2009, 03:11:57 PM
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This screenshot is just a rough-in of our working test version so take it for what it is. The current terrains will not be made obsolete by this update although they will need some additional work to look their best.

Krusty, Krusty. Looks like that will not be happening. ;)
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: StokesAk on January 23, 2009, 03:23:53 PM
P38H Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: texastc316 on January 23, 2009, 03:26:27 PM
same one krusty. I hear you. don't go to MA more than twice a week now. mostly the DA and now FSO.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: caldera on January 23, 2009, 03:28:38 PM
HTC is just updating terrains so they can implement really long runways for a certain really big plane.  :D
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: StokesAk on January 23, 2009, 03:35:09 PM
Wow you are really smart.  :salute I hope so.
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: EskimoJoe on January 23, 2009, 08:13:17 PM
My jaw dropped when I saw the new terrain!  I then pissed myself when I saw it was only a rough version! :eek:
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: Iron_Cross on January 24, 2009, 01:45:49 PM
Krusty, isn't happy, unless he has something to bi+ch about. :furious   You know how oldtimers get when you change things on them.   We'll hear stories for hours, about how things were different "back in the day", :furious and how "you  newbies just don't understand", :furious eventually he'll talk himself out and forget what he was originally complaining about.  :frown:








 :D
Title: Re: HiTech, Any teasers to show us yet?
Post by: rabbidrabbit on January 24, 2009, 05:39:39 PM
My jaw dropped when I saw the new terrain!  I then pissed myself when I saw it was only a rough version! :eek:

You might want to see a doctor about that.