Squid Empire

Well I'm Virgo, hence my sign is a virgin maiden...

No worries mate Here's a battledroid:

Thank you AZ, I just like to do this sort of thing in one go, so I sort of have to be fast!

Here it is, I have two versions.

Okay I'll give it a shot

Okay, could I get a little more specifics; a mentat, soldier, freman? A person even or a building/vehicle/place?

It's true that there's a certain charm to olde-tyme graphics, but this isn't all about graphics. I still think this should be about the developers, and providing the best environment and tools for them to work in - which you will only get in a newer, supported, and fully-functional engine.

It's "Kerkythea", a stand alone program that integrates with sketchup but apparently also works with many other modelling softwares. It's free and easy enough too

It could be exported in a variety of formats (like .obj) but I don't think it would be worth it; sketchup is a very fast and inaccurate modelling program and the things I design would be terribly polygon inefficient (I gather) and probably full of terrible, inexcusable, blue-screening errors.

Thanks everyone Jerard I tend to agree, those poles were a bit dubious from the start; I wasn't really sure where I was going with them...

Here's a little 3D model (concept) that I've made over about 2 days, It's a small nuclear power station. I found a free rendering program for Sketchup, but I don't really have the hang of it yet, so the renders are a bit basic. Renders Additional Images

Well if Generalcamo wants one himself I'll be happy to give it a go! I spent a week up at the beach with some mates but unfortunately a cyclone struck and we spent a few days stuck indoors. Luckily someone brought an Xbone and the Halo collection so we played a few tournaments, and that's why this guy I drew is pretty much a Halo Spartan...

But what sort of avatar?

Squids have been my favorite animals since grade 3 when I did a report on the Giant Squid. When I made my first online account I decided on Squid_Empire because I thought 'Empire' was a good word and went well with Squid. It's been the same since then.

Here a quick little sketch I did while steam installed Star Wars Battlefront II It's some sort of computer. I did it in isometric which I normally avoid because I find it's too rigid.

That sounds awesome! I wonder why no one has tried it yet?

Yeah I'm not sure how w3d works so I have no clue if it's even possible... any famous n̶e̶r̶d̶s̶ experts around to have a look at it? Good idea... again I wonder if w3d can manage that, it's a native function I'm sure and would require a lot of work probably, but I agree it would be great to have it. I went ahead and made a concept sample 'conversation' using a bunch of phrases I recorded. I added some heavy distortion to get a vocoder feeling, because I guess that could be used to explain how all the players have the same voice >.>

Not only do I provide object and unit concepts, I also like conjuring up gameplay mechanics! A concept I've been working on for a while involves intelligence and tracking. I confess that I have been working this idea in regards to Shnappz's Pax Europa but I think it could work in any of the w3d games, or really any team-based FPS. If you're reading this Shnappz, I think this suggestion would go well with your game, and to everyone else, if you think it would go well with yours then go ahead! I believe it would be suited to a slower paced game then TSR or AR however. There are three components to this system, the first would be an annotated gameplay map that each team has access to. A regular map showing all your teams units would be present in your radar-type building while each player receives a version only showing terrain, it would show the map and break it into sections; sector 1, 2, 3, building 1, bridge 5 etc. This map would replace the 'radar' mini map so that individual units cannot see each other on the map. The second element would be a dynamic voice report system. This would be the most difficult part I believe. Instead of the generic "enemy sighted" voice commands, a player would have the option to choose from tasks like "report current location", "confirm", "request report of current location", "report enemy sighted", "request backup", "report unit down" etc. They could do this in a similar method to as is now used, holding alt and then pressing a number key. Once chosen a message will be played to the team mates over their radios. Here's an example; the player chooses to report an enemy sighted at their location. The following message is played to the team; "This is Unit 005, report hostile sighted in sector A-2". The message is created by the game from a series of samples; Radio intro sample "This is Unit" "0" "0" "5" "report hostile sighted in" "sector" "A" "2" Radio outro sound To mask the 'rough edges' that would result, static and radio effects can be employed. Finally the third and most interesting part; I suggest setting it up so that teams have the ability to intercept each others messages. Each team could have a 'spy' type unit or vehicle, that can receive enemy transmissions from their radios. This would create interesting scenarios with ambushes and traps as well as the possibility to provide misinformation etc. Problems: There are quite a few problems, I'll admit it. Maybe they can be worked around or out, or maybe not. Here are the ones I see: Players use skype or teamspeak, meaning there would be no point in using a slower, in-game method of team communication. (unless perhaps there's some reward to using the in game methods?) People spamming voice messages No method to 'reply' to a message (at least not without some sort of UI which would slow things down), causing confusion Makes for a slow game (not really a problem if that's what you're going for) Without getting very complex the information you would be sending can't really go beyond simple unit movements I agree it seems like a lot of work for questionable gain, but with some discussion maybe we can come up with something better

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Please do

If you need any concepts for this I would be happy to help

The old CS stuff is all open license if I recall, I've been using the ancient CS2 version of Premier Pro for my video editing, and it's mostly alright. It hates high definition and anything other then .avi's though and there's very limited help online for it.

Thank you everyone! It's paint.net - a free program that's sort of a midpoint between photoshop and ms paint. Thanks for being interested in my blurb! I have a book called 'future transport' from the early 60's that's full of bizarre claims for how a person in the distant 2000's might travel around; things like personal flying saucers, nuclear car, tiny planes, moving sidewalks etc. It would have been an interesting world to live in!

Here's an alpine border guard

Turbo Pascal!