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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Chalenge on September 13, 2013, 06:33:19 PM
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Just let me know what uniform you need. . .
(http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq197/Chalenge08/Soldier_zps9a2bbe79.png)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9mdbVpXozM
After classes are ended I will send you a couple of aircraft (P-51, and A36).
:devil
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I forsee HTC in the middle of a Copyright Infringement law suit in the near future.
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I forsee HTC in the middle of a Copyright Infringement law suit in the near future.
Your vision has always been flawed, but I can understand why you might not want AH to move forward into AHIII.
:noid
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anything 3d you could make in "class" they can buy on the open market for about 30 bucks or less. :)
the problem is not 3d models.
the problem is a graphics engine that is completely obsolete with no replacement in public sight.
want to acomplish somthing?
learn to program efficient realistic 3d engines and you will make a living.
if your telling mom and dad that spending all their money on 3d game modelling because your special and really good...
nah keep thinking that you will be fine.
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anything 3d you could make in "class" they can buy on the open market for about 30 bucks or less. :)
the problem is not 3d models.
the problem is a graphics engine that is completely obsolete with no replacement in public sight.
want to acomplish somthing?
learn to program efficient realistic 3d engines and you will make a living.
if your telling mom and dad that spending all their money on 3d game modelling because your special and really good...
nah keep thinking that you will be fine.
Guess you never saw this?
Also if anyone is interested I have been in search of soldier animations/rigging/and meshes for FPS style play for a long time.
HiTech
At least he is giving it a shot.
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my response is his desire to usher in AHIII through his efforts.
http://www.presagis.com/
multigen/presagis is the backbone framework of AH upon which all systems from graphics engine to flight modelling are pinned.
this may have been a strength 10 years ago but now from an outsiders perspective it is an inneficient burden.
I hope there is some new multigen graphics engine on the horizon that is competitive with other graphics engines of the competition.
thats really the question isn't it?
even if you handed HTC a top line full featured graphics engine that could do everything anyone ever wanted at 60fps on a machine from 1990...
it seems from the integration with multigen it could not even be used without starting from scratch.
http://youtu.be/sVGfKWj-C08
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I've already made a few characters and rigs. Fester doesn't know what he's talking about either (nor is his advice any good), or why would any company hire modelers? Also, I am not trying to make a living from this game. If HTC were to use anything it's theirs to use in perpetuity. As to making money with 3D models, not only is gaming lucrative, but so is the movie industry. No, you won't make millions, but you will make a decent living. You won't do it with Blender though (or AC3D), and the reason is that it is a shareware program. No company with any business sense would adopt something that is not supported directly, and that is not how you define open source programs.
Also, you can look around the net for freeware/payware models and still get yourself sued. The problem is there is no governing body overlooking every site out there, and there are many model sites that store stolen models and even try to sell them. So for $30 you get nothing but trouble.
And finally, if learning to create 3D models is a dead end, then why is it that the cost of learning to do just that can be more than $7,000/semester (tuition alone)?
http://www.fullsail.edu/admissions/online-tuition
@Fester: Multigen still is a major strength. Yes, you can find other graphic engines that can work in reduced areas with more amazing video, but video is only part of what AH does. Once you start to study how these games are put together you will discover that what HTC has done in Aces High is nearly miraculous. Despite your comments I am looking forward to what the next version has to offer, especially if what Hitech said about sounds comes about. This game is nowhere near the end of what it can attain.
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sigh. here's the point.
I want to do this in aces high. period. whats it going to take to get acceptable frame rate friendly atmospherics and graphics out of something designed for defense contractors that have no interest in clouds and weather and wind and turbulence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80qiQN1cuPs
I want to dodge and weave through clouds in hair raising dogfights where the graphics are so extreme i do not need icons.
whats it going to take to make this happen?
I will not comment on your artwork or your ability. I never do on those deluded into thinking they have talent when posessing none.
say what you will of me and my comments but I have a keen eye for seeing things and can see what is to be seen in an instant in exacting detail.
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I will not comment on your artwork or your ability. I never do on those deluded into thinking they have talent when posessing none.
I think you are mistaking your opinion for something meaningful, aside from the blatant attempt to get this thread locked. The 'artwork' above is the CAT system within 3DS Max. So, with all of your cleverness you have only demonstrated your ignorance (squared). The purpose of this thread is to get some sense of direction for what Hitech might be looking for. Creating the models of US soldiers, German British, or what have you, is the simple part.
Nice try though.
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lol there is a sucker born every minute isn't there.
talent is talent.
hide behind jargon all you want if you want to make a living as an artist you need to wait until you've been dead a couple hundred years for it to pay off but that requires your work to be good.
are you trying to convince me or yourself?
I'm a fair judge and critic.
credit where credit is due.
if somthing is good it is good. if it is not good but can become good then it has potential.
if somthing is beyond any hope and has no artistic merit I do not comment on it.
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You have no appreciable knowledge of the subject, Fester. What you have instead is an overinflated opinion of your own importance. You have demonstrated no knowledge, no skill, no appreciable criticism other than 'Lol.'
There is no art in this thread, or the other I posted in. You fail.
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I "chalenged" you to post somthing of merit. my origional critique that I did not charge you 7,000 bucks for was there is nothing of merit shown.
I will say no more.
good day.
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Like I said, pure fail there Fester-dude. You clearly have nothing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80qiQN1cuPs
One of the more immersive dogfight videos I've seen in a long time :aok. You should ditch the detracting dxtory-label though.
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my response is his desire to usher in AHIII through his efforts.
http://www.presagis.com/
multigen/presagis is the backbone framework of AH upon which all systems from graphics engine to flight modelling are pinned.
this may have been a strength 10 years ago but now from an outsiders perspective it is an inneficient burden.
I hope there is some new multigen graphics engine on the horizon that is competitive with other graphics engines of the competition.
thats really the question isn't it?
even if you handed HTC a top line full featured graphics engine that could do everything anyone ever wanted at 60fps on a machine from 1990...
it seems from the integration with multigen it could not even be used without starting from scratch.
http://youtu.be/sVGfKWj-C08
Multigen has nothing to do with our graphic engine. Never has. It is what we use for content creation. Just because another application looks better when it has 20 times more content, does not mean it is "graphic engine" related. There is a difference between art and engine.
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In for later.
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This stuff is way over my level of intelligence so this is probably a stupid question but one I've always wondered about. How come a small gaming system like Xbox can create and run such good graphics smoothly but a big hooking computer rig with upgradeable graphic cards, CPUs , memory and everything else....can't without frame rate problems and screen freezes? A game like Call Of Duty is pretty much a simulation game like AcesHigh with different maps and players battling each other in combat, right? The only different I can see is that our "bodies" we do combat in in AH are airplanes or tanks instead of a human body form. :headscratch:
If the only problem to getting to where everyone is happy with the graphics and game play just comes down to the money HTC is willing to fork out for these improvements then I can understand that. I realise a company like Xbox has way deeper pockets and resources than HTC, so I would think that if they did spend tons of cash to upgrade, surely the cost to play this game would double or even triple. No bigger than the AH player base is now, it could possibly cost players 40 or 50 bucks a month to play. I don't think you'd find enough players to pay those rates to justify the upgrades. The company would go broke overnight IMO.
I'm sure the technology and know how to make this game the end all to flight sims is out there, but maybe HTCs question is how much are we willing to pay as customers to have it.
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This stuff is way over my level of intelligence so this is probably a stupid question but one I've always wondered about. How come a small gaming system like Xbox can create and run such good graphics smoothly but a big hooking computer rig with upgradeable graphic cards, CPUs , memory and everything else....can't without frame rate problems and screen freezes? A game like Call Of Duty is pretty much a simulation game like AcesHigh with different maps and players battling each other in combat, right? The only different I can see is that our "bodies" we do combat in in AH are airplanes or tanks instead of a human body form. :headscratch:
If the only problem to getting to where everyone is happy with the graphics and game play just comes down to the money HTC is willing to fork out for these improvements then I can understand that. I realise a company like Xbox has way deeper pockets and resources than HTC, so I would think that if they did spend tons of cash to upgrade, surely the cost to play this game would double or even triple. No bigger than the AH player base is now, it could possibly cost players 40 or 50 bucks a month to play. I don't think you'd find enough players to pay those rates to justify the upgrades. The company would go broke overnight IMO.
I'm sure the technology and know how to make this game the end all to flight sims is out there, but maybe HTCs question is how much are we willing to pay as customers to have it.
The visual range that Aces High is rendering dwarfs the other games you're talking about. It is much easier to render short distances and the detail level can be more granular.
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The only different I can see is that our "bodies" we do combat in in AH are airplanes or tanks instead of a human body form. :headscratch:
Human bodies running on the ground have no flight model to compute. That's an enormous difference.
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Multigen has nothing to do with our graphic engine. Never has. It is what we use for content creation. Just because another application looks better when it has 20 times more content, does not mean it is "graphic engine" related. There is a difference between art and engine.
Rofl....just like biting tinfoil with a filling huh?
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Your vision has always been flawed, but I can understand why you might not want AH to move forward into AHIII.
:noid
My vision is perfect when I wear my glasses, which is probably why I noticed your antics over sounds and you ended up with my 1st post here in this thread.
But, please do quantify your accusation about myself not wanting to see AH move forward.
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dolby just get him to give HTC that 100 grand so we can move AH forward with a nice new graphics engine.
if your gonna get conned and throw your parents money away do it for a good cause instead of lining full sail crooks pockets.
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I don't think 100 grand in monopoly money will go very far.
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dolby just get him to give HTC that 100 grand so we can move AH forward with a nice new graphics engine.
if your gonna get conned and throw your parents money away do it for a good cause instead of lining full sail crooks pockets.
Wow! You two really take the cake! Neither one of you have an education, right? :rolleyes:
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Two very good points that never even occurred to me Karnak and Lusche.
Anyway, the way games like this are produced fascinates me...all the mechanics and different software involved in order to make things happen. What an interesting way to make a living
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You have already accused me of one thing, which you have failed to answer, and now accused me of another.
Have you given thought to going into politics?
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edumacated
Fullsail: Real World Education (www.fullsail.com) is a private institution located in Winter Park, Florida, a suburb of Orlando. It offers various Associate's Degree and Bachelor's Degree programs in areas of multimedia and production for the entertainment industry. Their's is a powerful and well-oiled marketing machine designed to draw in a constant flow of suckers, err... students, to its school every month.
I have written a detailed article titled "Fullsail: We Take Your Dreams, Seriously."
This school is a ripoff for several reasons, examined in detail in my article. Among them are deceptive marketing practices, lack of entrance requirements, academic illegitimacy, and the list goes on... simply read the article. Fullsail's marketing methodology is shameless, and their teaching methodology weak. They are ruining people's futures by misdirecting them toward unattainable goals, when for example a simple essay or portfolio review would reveal they were better off elsewhere.
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For crying out loud ladies! Must every thread turn into a purse fight! Finally we have a thread where some of us might learn something of interest and the damned thing is otw to being locked by page 3!! :bhead
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Actually Dolbish you don't interest me at all. What you consider as accusations are pretty much facts. You two, both of you, just want to argue. I could care less.
The whole purpose of this thread was to get some additional information from Hitech. It isn't about you two, that's for sure. Now that Skuzzy has been in and visited the thread I know Hitech will at least hear about it. He can either contact me, or not. I will post more as I move forward.
I understand why Fester posted, at least. You (Dolby) pretty much still have a burr under your saddle because I refused to 'give' you the sounds I created. Like the soldiers I have already made, and the aircraft I will be making they are not your property to demand. Even if HTC were to use them in the game (not the sounds, that's decided), which is not a sure thing, they will not be yours. You cannot demand the works of other people. In your case the problem is jealousy. You want something that you cannot make yourself. Fester is trying to reclaim his position as the top contributor to AH content. Well, that ship has sailed. He has lost his edge and it will never be reclaimed. Now he is just another user. Both of you need to slink back to your caves and sleep off your all-nighter.
Uptown, you can always start another thread. Not sure what you want to learn, but there you go.
As to Fester's hate post: When students fail they will hate. Anyone can be a knight of hate these days. There are many, many graduates of Full Sail that have worked on the latest top money makers. Still, it is not my favorite. If I had the freedom to travel I would attend a school in the U.K., because it is actually the best. Here in the U.S. the top school is in CA and supposed to be #1, and yes Full Sail does not even make the top ten. What they do offer, though, is online education. There are other schools that do the same. Every one of the animation schools out there has a site claiming them to be frauds. Nice whine though.
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Chalenged, I do not wish for demand or require your sounds, I have merely picked on your behaviour from past threads.
You continue to accuse without backing them up. And for goodness sake, the phrase is; Could not care less.
For example. I could not care less about your sounds, your inability to respond without insulting the rest of us however is another matter.
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top content contributor? seriously? are you on drugs?
I don't even play the game any more except for an occasional FSO in spite of it being my favorite game of all time I just can no longer bring my sense of disbelief far enough to pretend I am flying an airplane when playing it any more and its not a flight model problem it is a graphics one. I would like nothing more than this graphics problem so many players who love the game but have been spoiled by modern graphics are experiencing resolved.
I have a new main arena 99% done that I am so disgusted with when I look at it compared to what the competition is doing that I have lost all motivation to finish it and submit it. and it is the most detailed thought out and contoured map ever seen in AH.
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top content contributor? seriously? are you on drugs?
No Festless, I think it's more likely that you are the substance abuser. You haven't made sense in even half of your posts.
Dolbster, you can change your whine now, but it doesn't change your past. When I told you that you would not be getting the sounds you threw a tirade, which you are still on now. If you didn't want them, you wouldn't keep bringing it up.
The fact is that there are a few thousand people that play this game. Not all of them are fliers. We could get more in playing the game and having fun. Fester is both asking for change, and at the same time crying that something might change.
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I have not brought up your sounds, you did. Your Copyright antics in sound threads is what I eluded to.
How can/could you not see that, can you not see passed your own nose, would you like to borrow my glasses?
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The AH graphics engine cannot become obsolete :old:
The improvements in pc hardware will make any older engine work more effectively :old:
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The AH graphics engine cannot become obsolete :old:
The improvements in pc hardware will make any older engine work more effectively :old:
The improvements in PC software won't.
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Multigen has nothing to do with our graphic engine. Never has. It is what we use for content creation. Just because another application looks better when it has 20 times more content, does not mean it is "graphic engine" related. There is a difference between art and engine.
Why no response to this Citfestria?
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Why no response to this Citfestria?
Because he has been wrong in every comment he has made.
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top content contributor? seriously? are you on drugs?
I don't even play the game any more except for an occasional FSO in spite of it being my favorite game of all time I just can no longer bring my sense of disbelief far enough to pretend I am flying an airplane when playing it any more and its not a flight model problem it is a graphics one. I would like nothing more than this graphics problem so many players who love the game but have been spoiled by modern graphics are experiencing resolved.
I have a new main arena 99% done that I am so disgusted with when I look at it compared to what the competition is doing that I have lost all motivation to finish it and submit it. and it is the most detailed thought out and contoured map ever seen in AH.
you mean the map that you have "deleted" 2 times already? I have never seen a more whiny, needing, craving for attention, gown man than you.
either quit or stop rage quitting.
semp
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full sail :rofl wow
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top content contributor? seriously? are you on drugs?
I don't even play the game any more except for an occasional FSO in spite of it being my favorite game of all time I just can no longer bring my sense of disbelief far enough to pretend I am flying an airplane when playing it any more and its not a flight model problem it is a graphics one. I would like nothing more than this graphics problem so many players who love the game but have been spoiled by modern graphics are experiencing resolved.
I have a new main arena 99% done that I am so disgusted with when I look at it compared to what the competition is doing that I have lost all motivation to finish it and submit it. and it is the most detailed thought out and contoured map ever seen in AH.
:O :banana: :x :banana: :x :banana: :banana: :x
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Actually Dolbish you don't interest me at all. What you consider as accusations are pretty much facts. You two, both of you, just want to argue. I could care less.
The whole purpose of this thread was to get some additional information from Hitech. It isn't about you two, that's for sure. Now that Skuzzy has been in and visited the thread I know Hitech will at least hear about it. He can either contact me, or not. I will post more as I move forward.
I understand why Fester posted, at least. You (Dolby) pretty much still have a burr under your saddle because I refused to 'give' you the sounds I created. Like the soldiers I have already made, and the aircraft I will be making they are not your property to demand. Even if HTC were to use them in the game (not the sounds, that's decided), which is not a sure thing, they will not be yours. You cannot demand the works of other people. In your case the problem is jealousy. You want something that you cannot make yourself. Fester is trying to reclaim his position as the top contributor to AH content. Well, that ship has sailed. He has lost his edge and it will never be reclaimed. Now he is just another user. Both of you need to slink back to your caves and sleep off your all-nighter.
Uptown, you can always start another thread. Not sure what you want to learn, but there you go.
As to Fester's hate post: When students fail they will hate. Anyone can be a knight of hate these days. There are many, many graduates of Full Sail that have worked on the latest top money makers. Still, it is not my favorite. If I had the freedom to travel I would attend a school in the U.K., because it is actually the best. Here in the U.S. the top school is in CA and supposed to be #1, and yes Full Sail does not even make the top ten. What they do offer, though, is online education. There are other schools that do the same. Every one of the animation schools out there has a site claiming them to be frauds. Nice whine though.
This is partly your fault. You posted this directly to HiTech in General Discussion. I dont know your reasoning however it seems like a "look at me" post. You should have just PMed him if you wanted to keep the arguments and hijacking to a minimum.
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Perdue, I don't see any harm here. Especially from rejects like coombz, and Festurd.
What I get out of all of this is how much resistance there is to change, good change, by the very people that want change. Onageristic stupefaction is incurable in the ignorant souls of this board.
Just ask yourself how much good the changes in game play that some of the people here have suggested really made? Game play has gone down hill. Fester himself has abandoned ship. He claims it's because of graphics. It's not because of graphics.
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ahahahha an FSU grad called me a reject :aok
too rich! :cheers:
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ahahahha an FSU grad called me a reject :aok
too rich! :cheers:
Just like you to get the details exactly right! :rofl
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I'm curious as to why HTC still haven't implemented any post effects like HDR, bloom or ambient occlusion, all of which can be toggled on and off by the user. Both HDR and bloom are less resource intensive than cube map reflections and would offer a substantial gain in "eye candy". Other than that, the biggest eye sores are most definitely the terrain texture details, the terrain mesh (pyramid shaped hills) and clouds.
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The improvements in PC software won't.
Graphics issues are only hardware based :old:
My $3000 PC both plays AH and ROF at 60 fsp based on hardware not software :old:
At full graphics settings, to honest I am to old and decrepit to notice what some of the effects do.
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Graphics issues are only hardware based :old:
My $3000 PC both plays AH and ROF at 60 fsp based on hardware not software :old:
At full graphics settings, to honest I am to old and decrepit to notice what some of the effects do.
Yea? Try running some of older Windows XP or 95 games. Most of them are ok, but some won't even run or with extremely bad performance. As new OS are put out, all the older games are going to become obsolete. Though I hope HTC can put out a graphics update before the next OS is released (hmm ~3 more years?).
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What exactly is a graphics engine, and what does it do?
Is the AcesHigh Terrain Editor a graphics engine?
Is flight modeling done with these graphics engines or is there different software that works in concert with a graphic engine to make a plane feel light or heavy for example?
Chalenge's little army man has the ability to walk. Is the walking motion controlled by a separate software?
I want to know what it takes to make a game like this........ (besides a ton of education).
Lets say I was designing PONG. The graphics engine would just make the court, ball and paddle....right? But what makes the ball and paddle move, and what decides the speed these items move?
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What exactly is a graphics engine, and what does it do?
In a nutshell, it puts the pretty pictures on your screen. I creates your view by determining which objects you can see and which not, then putting them on your screen accordingly.
Is the AcesHigh Terrain Editor a graphics engine?
No, but it's of course using one ;)
Is flight modeling done with these graphics engines
Generally, no. There are some overlaps or hybrids, some games have "game engine" that is responsible both for graphics and for world interaction (for example movement), but that is a complex matter and someone wiht more experience will surely explain it in more detail
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Perdue, I don't see any harm here. Especially from rejects like coombz, and Festurd.
What I get out of all of this is how much resistance there is to change, good change, by the very people that want change. Onageristic stupefaction is incurable in the ignorant souls of this board.
Just ask yourself how much good the changes in game play that some of the people here have suggested really made? Game play has gone down hill. Fester himself has abandoned ship. He claims it's because of graphics. It's not because of graphics.
...and that is your biggest problem. You read only what you WANT to read in a post, it doesn't matter what was written there at all to you. Fester, while coming across as an arrogant a s s is an artist, and a perfectionist on top of that. His contributions to the game are as near "perfect" as he can get them. His complaint is that while your "walking soldier" is cute, it's not what is needed in the game. How cool is is seeing walking soldiers from 15k ? :huh
The changes most are talking about are over all eye candy. Clouds that look and react like clouds, mountains that are not pointy, lighting effects as in flying in the shadow of a mountain looks very different than flying in the sun shine. The same can be said for the "up-close" stuff like trees with a pool of shadows under them that stay the same circle no matter what time of day it is, and the same goes for the hills and gullies.
Change for the sake of change isn't going to help anything. Bringing in a new "walking soldier" isn't going to bring in new players, but cloud and lighting effects could because its something that is "in your face" all the time in the game. If players want to help and HTC is willing to accept the help.... with out copy write issues coming up :noid I'm all for it. But if HTC is set on keeping all work in house then I hope they say something and save some people a lot of work.
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Yea? Try running some of older Windows XP or 95 games. Most of them are ok, but some won't even run or with extremely bad performance. As new OS are put out, all the older games are going to become obsolete. Though I hope HTC can put out a graphics update before the next OS is released (hmm ~3 more years?).
"Homeworld" will not run on windows 7 because its software was poo, even though it was awesome at the time, AH is consonantly being developed to meet the needs of a varied clientele who have different capacity PC's.
It might be a idea to inform HTC about this problem they might not know about it. :)
But then again being a business man I guess he is aware of it, or maybe he will move in to the haberdashery business which is directly influenced by OS changes :)
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I'm curious as to why HTC still haven't implemented any post effects like HDR, bloom or ambient occlusion, all of which can be toggled on and off by the user. Both HDR and bloom are less resource intensive than cube map reflections and would offer a substantial gain in "eye candy". Other than that, the biggest eye sores are most definitely the terrain texture details, the terrain mesh (pyramid shaped hills) and clouds.
bad engine is bad
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ahahahha an FSU grad called me a reject :aok
too rich! :cheers:
He probably failed to notice you're in Wellington, too. Then again, when you're Chalenged, you fail to notice most things.
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In a nutshell, it puts the pretty pictures on your screen. I creates your view by determining which objects you can see and which not, then putting them on your screen accordingly.
Not to mention how the objects are rendered, what kind of shaders are used, and so forth. To be frank, AH could have a better engine developed, but due to the huge player limit, one wouldn't be able to improve it very much without the need for higher system requirements.
Unless some sound scaling methods are used, of course. Something like "Very Low" having super-low polygon counts on objects, and "Ultra", which for the purpose of this discussion could look more like FSX. Closer to it, anyway.
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What exactly is a graphics engine, and what does it do?
Is the AcesHigh Terrain Editor a graphics engine?
Is flight modeling done with these graphics engines or is there different software that works in concert with a graphic engine to make a plane feel light or heavy for example?
Chalenge's little army man has the ability to walk. Is the walking motion controlled by a separate software?
I want to know what it takes to make a game like this........ (besides a ton of education).
Lets say I was designing PONG. The graphics engine would just make the court, ball and paddle....right? But what makes the ball and paddle move, and what decides the speed these items move?
well speaking from a very little bit of experience working with a few different "game engines"
I've worked with "Cryengine" "UDK" "unity" and of course "Blender" ive also worked with the Skyrim Creation Kit(which is more like the AH Terran Editor than any of them)
while the first 3 are true game engines and in one of them you can actually do minor 3d modeling...Blender is a 3d Modeling program that has a Game engine....
there are many different game engines and I only worked with the ones I could get for free....
even though someone who thinks he knows what he is talking about says Blender wont get you anywhere.... :rolleyes: Blender is by far better then all those Game engines I mentioned...it does it all....image texturing....3D modeling...and a game engine....that takes almost NO scripting....
anyways..... I have been working on putting a game together....it is an insane amount of work and brain power, I have zero education when it comes to Scripting.....it is all about "if" statements.....its much more then that though.....
since I started this I have gained a new appreciation for HTC and crew....
it truly is a very difficult task to make a full complete game, and with as lo as a number of employes HTC has.....I am more so then ever impressed at what they have done with Aces High.....trust me when I say, there is nothing I haven't been able to do that I put my mind to(except playing an instrument :bhead)....but this making a game stuff is a LOT of work and time.....
I will finish mine someday :rofl :rofl I may be a hundred and ten.....when it happens..... :old:
I do wish I knew someone who scripted because it would make it a hell of a lot easier. :pray
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Sure ink. It will work. If you want to start making your own games go for it. Work for another company with Blender? Good luck! In fact, why not put your resume out there right now? Since you have so much experience and everything? It has to be better than working as a tattoo 'artist.' Without a degree? Good luck.
Then when you finish you will still have gotten no where, because you have to actually spend time learning how to design games. Game design is a whole new ball of wax on top of everything else.
@Fugi: I'm hoping it's a lot more than walking soldiers. Really, that's what you think?
What I see here is a lot of peripheral knowledge, which is to say misinformation. You can spend a lot of time spinning your wheels trying to get somewhere, but until you take the steps to gain actual industry standard training from those experienced in the industry you are wasting your time. I got into this to learn video editing and a few graphic design techniques. The classes we take push you to become an Adobe Certified Professional, and then to learn the film industry standards for modeling and animation. Games are not my focus, but if I can offer HTC some free work then I will.
Compared to the time constraints of school work a few 'walking soldiers' are childsplay.
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:rofl
I try to be nice...and you go and do the typical challenge insult.....
I know what it is...its the same with people in the art world and tattoo world.....
they don't understand how someone like me who comes from the streets and has ZERO education in the arts can do what I do....jealousy is bad dude, you wont ever be happy with yourself, if you cant look at others without being envious.
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The classes we take push you to become an Adobe Certified Professional
Rather than actually prepare you for it. Which is what Full Sail, DeVry, and their ilk are all about. Big talk, but little in the way of concrete education. Though you know, that fits you perfectly.
Ink has more talent in his fingertips than you have in your entire being, kid.
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Chalenge got his wife from an internet site for a fee, so it really shouldn't be a surprise that he then looked at FSU to get some quals ;d
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Chalenge got his wife from an internet site for a fee, so it really shouldn't be a surprise that he then looked at FSU to get some quals ;d
he probably got her from some island in the south pacific. any relative of yours?
semp
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he probably got her from some island in the south pacific. any relative of yours?
semp
semp had another drunk blackout w/ resulting memory loss :(
dood insults my non-existent kiwi ancestors every time
gfg
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Sure ink. It will work. If you want to start making your own games go for it. Work for another company with Blender? Good luck! In fact, why not put your resume out there right now? Since you have so much experience and everything? It has to be better than working as a tattoo 'artist.' Without a degree? Good luck.
Then when you finish you will still have gotten no where, because you have to actually spend time learning how to design games. Game design is a whole new ball of wax on top of everything else.
Yeah Ink. You ain't as good cause Challenge done got him some fancy book learning.
semp had another drunk blackout w/ resulting memory loss :(
dood insults my non-existent kiwi ancestors every time
gfg
Oh let the guy think he's cool one in a while. Poor little guy doesn't have much else.
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Thank you Lord for making me "normal". Please help the one's on these forums that are not..........amen. :pray
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semp had another drunk blackout w/ resulting memory loss :(
dood insults my non-existent kiwi ancestors every time
gfg
kindda cold to sell your relatives when they arent up to par pedaling the generator so you can be online.
semp
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coombzy plz report to burn unit
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Thank you Lord for making me "normal". Please help the one's on these forums that are not..........amen. :pray
The Lord doesn't exist. Not when something as imperfect as Chalenge exists in this world.
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All I can say about this thread is.........HOLY CRAP :eek:
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coombzy plz report to burn unit
:rofl
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You guys are all related aren't you? It's the only explanation for the widespread stupefaction and ignorance you spew in every post.
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you mean the map that you have "deleted" 2 times already? I have never seen a more whiny, needing, craving for attention, gown man than you.
either quit or stop rage quitting.
semp
Let it go semp. Your Fester infatuation is getting creepy.
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You guys are all related aren't you? It's the only explanation for the widespread stupefaction and ignorance you spew in every post.
This coming from someone calling others names like a 10 year old?
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All I can say about this thread is.........HOLY CRAP :eek:
You actually pay $14.95 a month for the BBS, they throw the game in for free. ;)
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recap...
guy spending his parents money posts a 2 sec stick figure clip of a neckless person looking thing doing the terminator robot walk and is proud of what all that money paid for and the clip posted.
refunds suggested. insults thrown. thread derails and hijacks into actual current game problems.
further pursefights. moral and intelectual superiority highground fought over.
op challenges all detractors to nerd to nerd combat to prove superiority but demands benny hill music be played while purses are thrown at one another.
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Actually, I'm laughing at all your attempts to be condescending, while none of you has the slightest clue about what might be good for AH. The best part is you trying to say education is not worth the money spent. And attacking the default CAT tool for 3DS Max? Just proves you never used it.
Festurd, your ignorance is right out there for everyone to see. Well done!
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I'd be impressed if you posted some pursefight animation but now your telling me you didn't even do the horrible walk animation you posted as your own work from a youtube clip with your name on it using a 3d model rig you didn't even make?
(http://www.tinygif.com/data/media/20/old_lady_purse_fight.gif)
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You are absolutely brilliant Festurd. You cannot even comprehend the English language. Clearly, you never finished high school.
What I see in this thread, after my request for more direction from Hitech, is a bunch of negative comments by people that think AHII sucks. I mean, you even came out and said so. Then you attacked someone (me) for offering to help. You attacked a very simple submission that has nothing to do with my work, because you do not understand that is the default tool for character rigging and manipulation. That makes you look brilliant!
It's obvious that none of you really want to see HTC improve AHII. Well, sucks to be you!
Even if HTC does not uses characters and rigs, I will demonstrate them in future films. Enjoy!
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thats the real problem isn't it.
you havent even shown anyone anything but insults.
AH is the best combat sim ever made but its graphics are suffering badly. that was the point of my posts.
You are taking attacks on yourself as attacks on the game and its improvement when the truth is you have not posted anything that suggests you have anything available that will improve the game and have been lampooned for this yet are unable to see this.
AH is in good hands as it has been since 1999. the way you speak of yourself comes off as if you believe you are the best thing to ever happen to this game and you and your efforts are the savior of aces high.
you are a great source of entertainment at the moment for a lot of people and that is thus far your greatest contribution to the game.
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So much love in this thread :lol:
I don't think such a crappy mesh will do anything to improve AH graphics
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Having a discussion with some players on vox, just talking about the game, the graphics issue eventually came up. Spikes made a very good point, that with the size of the arena, and the fact that such large areas need to be rendered, you would need some serious super computer to run the game with such a large arena if you increased the visual graphics load by much.
I'm no expert in graphics, rendering, not even a casual interested observer. So, I can't comment on the accuracy of the statement, but I believe it to be true and valid, and from what I've read from HT's responses on the subject, not far if at all off the mark. So, that being the case, there is really two options - have a large world to fly around in, and an advanced flight model, or have a game with pretty terrain/sky/effects, yet have a much smaller patch to play in. Like as in WAY smaller than the current maps. I for one can forgo the pretty lights and amazing visuals new graphics could give the game, if the trade off would have to be a tiny map with everyone squashed in together in small space. Will technology eventually allow us to have cake, and eat it as well? I hope so, but if I understand the issue correctly, that just isn't possible right now with current gaming PC's. If that's incorrect, I'd love to see a new graphics engine in AH, but I wouldn't want it to be at the expense of the rest of the game as it stands.
I've got pretty much one of the top 2 CPU's in terms of speed in both my systems now, and 780's and SLI setups, and at max settings on 144hz monitors, if I crank the reflections to max, I can chug down into the 40's FPS wise when it gets busy near me. That being the case, what would better graphics to do average systems I wonder. Likely nothing to make those players very happy.
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you havent even shown anyone anything but insults.
Hey, you started it out in this thread. You get what you give. Pretty much you have only demonstrated that you cannot keep a train-of-thought, and you are not intellectually honest. End of story.
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Having a discussion with some players on vox, just talking about the game, the graphics issue eventually came up. Spikes made a very good point, that with the size of the arena, and the fact that such large areas need to be rendered, you would need some serious super computer to run the game with such a large arena if you increased the visual graphics load by much.
The problems in AHII don't have anything to do with graphics. You can change the art and get the same performance (well, HTC can). The clouds that the other sims use are a method of hiding the limited view range. In AH clouds obscure icons, which leads to killshooter in slower systems, and maybe fast ones too. I generally know the dot I'm chasing is enemy or not.
The problem I see is game design, and a ground war that needs to be examined for inconsistencies. Right now you either fight half of either opposing teams entire country, or you fight them all. That has to be fixed. The other issue involves reports the tank guys are making concerning armor bugs. We have one guy in our squad that usually kills 600-1000 people each month. Yet, he isn't having fun because of what he sees as the inconsistent armor. If there is a real problem there then I would like to see that fixed.
As to Infantry: I would to make a choice when I select my aircraft (I think everyone should, too). I would like to chose between rifleman, Panzerfaust, Thompson, and maybe a few other roles. When an M3 has a few troops shot then a pilot would have the option of bailing and helping with the capture. Personally, I doubt I would ever use it, but I think the war would get a lot more interesting.
Outside of that I would like to hear what Hitech has in mind.
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Wow. Chalenge i knew you were off your rocker but jeez
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anything 3d you could make in "class" they can buy on the open market for about 30 bucks or less. :)
the problem is not 3d models.
the problem is a graphics engine that is completely obsolete with no replacement in public sight.
want to acomplish somthing?
learn to program efficient realistic 3d engines and you will make a living.
if your telling mom and dad that spending all their money on 3d game modelling because your special and really good...
nah keep thinking that you will be fine.
Fester, A guy posts some update on a model he's working on in response to an HTC request, and you go off on him, insulting his educational choices, and personal abilities just so you can turn this into a "AH graphics need to be updated thread."
Geez, man dial it down. :salute
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Vink you forgot the part where fester has a map that he is creating and already deleted twice. Ateention craving.
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This is really gotten off the rails. Too many violations of forum posting rule #4 to salvage it.