Guild of Writers

Hey,

I read your story/ idea's on those pictures.
I liked this part:
How about monumental cliffs on all sides (ones which reach up as high as mountains - either there's something special about the light source of the planet of the area, or they have very long nights), save for a couple ravines ...

The only thing about X-forms is when you look from them from about, you won't see them.
So it would be kind of empty if you ever look down. It's one of those tricks in gaming that has it's downside
The same with rotating planes on tree's that rotate to where the player is standing. The downside is ...

1.000.000 faces for realistic looking object these day's is nothing but normal. ( for example the characters of the Game Gears of War )
And the discussion has gone beyond the point if you want to use a lot of polygons for just grass.

Using a lot of polygons increases the amount of detail you can ...

Just a friendly reminder that System Requirements for URU where:

Yes where .... Uru released in 2003... and thats 8 years ago.
I think we can say that computer development did not stay still and that the average computer is better then in 2003.
I have had this discussion before, and I'll say the ...

I'm just throwing up the ball to get few enthusiastic people together, for now I don't have any idea on what we are going to make
I just made a age a few day's ago to get the feeling back with the plasma engine.

In normal game development, the writer thinks up a story where the concept artist ...

Indeed X-forms are more used, but I wanted to see if Plasma could handle it. And it seems it does !

@Wamduskasapa
Listened to a couple of those files, and must stay they sound pretty good !

@ N. Sigismund
Always nice to have another modeler, and I looks pretty good what you made on the pictures a saw on the forum.
I don't have any skill on plasma encoding so we should ask one of the programmers

What program are you working with ? 3dsmax or blender ?

With 3dsmax I would ask
- did you use the plasma textures, if not the objects get the color that they get when they are created in 3dsmax.
- To light up your age you need Omni light's, not the lights from plasma

Hey, your most welcome to share any of your thoughts!
And when there is concept art, we could start working on it !

http://www.turbosquid.com/gmax

Gmax is indeed the "student" version of 3dsmax, but I have no idea if the plugin works with it.
And you will miss out on certain features 3dsmax has, that Gmax won't have.

And since Autodesk is not selling any licenses of max 7, it's pretty hard to get these day's