Ok, about two weeks ago, pai suggested we make a new TT. I thought it might be fun, but then I had second thoughts. Copyright laws, and many other problems might ensue. Instead, we could make a whole new game. I was thinking an MMORPG. If I manage to get a job this summer, I will probably be able to buy TGE or some other game engine that we can easily use. Like Pai said, there are so many talents here that we should be able to do this. Here is my idea for the game:

Red Strike- A mars game. Classic humans vs aliens format. I think this will be decently easy to accomplish. Now, the server will be the complicated thing- A real time battle server. We can program bots, and have it so that there is a real front in the game. We can have a huge map, and lots "CTB" spawn points. I have started to mold out the alien and human players. I decided that the aliens should be in robot suits, as this will be easier to model than some deformed creature. If anybody wishes to change this, just tell me. I can do it :P

Here are some screenies of what the players might look like.

Alien:

Human(eyes were kinda difficult, so I put a mask on):

Tell me what you think. Hell, we may even be able to make some $$ off this!

Ok! Jobs spots are open. Right now, this is a soley volenteer job, so no one will be making money... Yet XD

Director: PGG

Model Makers:
Warfare
PGG
Monica

Scriptors (SPOTS OPEN!!!):
Warfare
CannedSplam
PGG (still learning...)
Monica?
PLAYER?

Artwork:
Racer445
PGG
Jacob

If you want ot be in or out of any of these, let me know!

Forums: http://s9.invisionfree.com/RedStrikeGame/index.php?

Last edited: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 2:47:33 PM

And what fi you want to switch back? I think we could do it, but it would be an enourmouse trouble. Star wars battlefront never let you switch weapons, and it was excelent!

I think monica may be onto something, though. Not nessicarily with my sniper rifle, but I f we had deployable posts via my humvee, it would probably be easy to program it so you can "enter" that peticular weapon. Get it?

Also, I added some texture to my humvee. Just solid colors (Wings isn't that good at rendering), but it still defines the curves a bit.

And happy 3rd page everybody!

@ monica before - I could probably come up with a power up... But I need a model making program cos 3d wings aint cutting it for me.... Its uncompatible with my crappy version of mac (10.2.8) im currently searching for a new model making program X/

Besides the models - which all look great by the way - what do you ACTUALLY do in this game?

Shoot.

Wwwwwwwwwwwowwwwwwwww

Destroyer, please do not spam this thread. Thank you

As jacob has captured it so exquisitly, you have to keep your faction alive on the Master server, wich will be up 24/7, and will not reset untill all spawn points belong to one race. Then I expect we willl have a TT-like capmain with alien robats that will get more and more advanced as you go on, only it will save each "level up" Then there will be normal privately hosted servers with a couple game typesw and choices to mod. I also has some ideas concerning ways to make the game more realistic.

We need Drop ships need to be spawning points.

Nice sarcasm.

Ask GG if we can do scrum.

These are the gametypes with a few spelling and grammar errors corrected.

We are allowed to have more, mon. I just think we would benifit most from those.

Scrum.

So this would be smaller. Like 10 people a map still right?

For private maps, I don't know. It really depends on how many people by our game :P

I could make a forum for it...

Lol, I think we are good thorv. Thanks for offering, though. You can test in about a year whenever we are done!

Basic machine gun shape? :

Srry fer budding in:
That looks like a good beginning machine gun...think u can make the barrels a bit skinnier?

@PGG
U said somethin about maps....will some1 have to make them in TGE?

Srry fer budding in:
That looks like a good beginning machine gun...think u can make the barrels a bit skinnier?

@PGG
U said somethin about maps....will some1 have to make them in TGE?

Machine guns have one barrel.

Heh, forgot to mention this. This is the story I came up with. Pretty simple, and now we have a nice acronym! YAY acronyms!

It is the year 2058 (not too long, but not long enough for us to have weird hover technology). Many trips to mars can now be comepleted within two weeks thanks to the new antimatter turbines that enable the ships that luanch off from the ISS travel 10 times as fast. Many contries with space travel pitched in and helped to terraform mars. After the terraforming, Mars was been divided into districts, each one designated to its own country. Searches for life beneath the ground began. Crops were then planted in the limited O2 environment, and it looked like everything was going good. Unfortunately, the first life found on mars was a simple little rodent with bug type eyes. It destroyed the crops, burrowed into buildings, and even carried a cold-like dissease. We anihalated them. Our death count of the rodents was at 2300 when the came. The year was 2076. Large blips were detected on radar moving at a very fast speed. They entered our scopes.65 lightyears away. They reached Mars one month later. By then, we had evacuated most of the civilians off the planet, but their was still a small population left. Before the only military contingent knew what happened, thousands of extraterrestrials swarmed the planet, anslaving the small population. One marine kept contact with Earht through one radio. He said that the slaves were planning a revolution. He gave us a date, and he gave us numbers. The last response was simple: Help

Two weeks later, a large military contigent landed on the black side of mars, right next to mount olympus. Our mission: Retake Every District. Welcome to operation RED Strike, soldier. You don’t get to go home.

Last edited: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 6:44:07 PM

^awesome

NOTE: Torque Shader Engine Early Adopter Release requires ownership of the Torque Game Engine

Neat^^^

^^ crap... I just realized that. This might be a problem, eh?

>>>UNFINISHED<<< machine gun:

Pretty nice, mon. Try not to use the smoth option too much. Most weaponry is made out of sheets of metal. Now for an alien wepon, that has a lot of potential.

Here is my attempt:
Reconize it? Huh?

(if you can't, look for some pen and paper sketches on Page 2)

Try adding more stuff to yor models, mon. Look at my humvee (still wish I could get a real skin on this thing)
Lots different faces

And then rendered it looks naturally smooth

Just try to start out wiht basic geometric shapes, and only smooth select parts

@ Monica....hey keep gun like that...It looks like it can turn out to be a Rocket Launcher :) Try to see if you can make it look like one.

(_The one u posted a while back_)
Actually....it looks more like a grenade launcher. Make the barrels shorter and just make 2 of em. ;)

Last edited: Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 9:31:49 PM

;) %) :P I have a few questions of my own...
1. HOw the h311 are yall making these? With blender? Or milkshape I think it is called.
2. Show me where yaall got the program
3. You guys may wanna assign ppl to diff assignments. LIke wut u posted in first post but more detail. Like Mon designs weapon prototypes and PGG takes care of vehicles.

Also:
What about a spacecraft? I figurd u could add some more action. Like here r some ideas: Choppers, trucks, ^^^ that car, and a spacecraft....just someideas... XD

We are making the models on wings3d, mostly. Monica is useing milshape some of the time, and war is useing blender. The program link is on the second page.

We have kinda been doing that, but right now monica is still learning. I am going to try and find some more good tutorials for her.

Actually, by now MilkShape has expired and I am just too lazy to ask my mom for the allowance she owes me from the last couple months. XD

I just started another machine gun with the "Octotoad" as a base.

^ lol. Ok, I have finished my machine gun. I am still in need of the realism effect, though.

Tell me what you think!

Nice! Now this is more of a question about gameplay... Would you be able to attach/remove the stand?

No... Here is how I plan it:

There will be a "specialty drop becon" near the battle site, and these AI dropships will go back and forth between the spawn points and the beacons, ferrying troops untill they can capture the next closest spawn point. Now, , these ships will each have one of these platforms with a random gun attached. These will be able to drop, but once droped will be stationary. They will have some HP, and can server as a command centre for those who are on the frontline.

^ your getting better! W00t!

Ok, mon. I am trying to put together a packet-like... Thing. It will help you with knowlege of weaponry, vehicles, and airplanes. Then, there will be a short "how to" weapon tutorial for wings. Keep practicing!

Ooh. A "Thing." Thanks! XD

I know how weapons are supposed to be.

^ ok jacob... I will keep that in mind. Now, do you know the looks, or the actual mechanics of a gun? Both are required.

I thought we should have an aircraft made, so here it is. My not quite finished yet jet.

The human epolpe can get this at science lvl 2.

Hi its me KING ET+DG I like the 3D can do some to e-mail:bgregory@cableone.net
And its ok if it is a DEMO Cyal

So do u like it Have fun

Last edited: Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 1:07:23 PM

Well kinda. Fro most I know how.

King, your image is not showing up and I am not sure if I under stand you. Please us Imageshack.us to host your image or somehting else.

EDIT: Ok, finishd my Jet. I tried to make the cockpit seethru, but then you could see everything inside, which was nothing, so I tried to make somewhat of a seat and stick to take up the room.

Tell me what you think!

Last edited: Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 2:33:17 PM

Cool but for it to really fly the bottom part would be flat.

Hey but who cares about real life huh?
and when it fires it would have to be going forward and from both sides. :)

No PGG, I'm not "with you".

I like the spaceship, for one thing, but it looks a little too much like a Longsword . I suggest that you elongate the body so you don't get sued by Bungie. Secondly, your assault rifle looks a little bit too much like a retarded M-16 (no offense), so I would go for a design more like the lesser known SA-80 carbine , which is the British equivalent of the M-4. It also comes with a little brother that has a Grenade Launcher attachment.

Also, for your storyline it would probably be better to use a different, most likely fictional, planet than Mars. Off the top of my head I can think of about 30 games that have taken place on Mars in the FPS genre, Doom (incidentally I just put Doom on my iPod, and yes you can do that, just google "iDoom") and Red Faction among the most popular. You could go on the NASA website and look up a newly discovered planet in another Solar System, use one from this one, or simply make one up. Plus, Mars has kind of a Demonic/Satanic theme to it in the public mind, mostly because of one of the games I mentioned before (hmm.... I wonder which... Probably the one with the Icon of Sin for the final boss).

Theres my two cents... XD
-Jimmay

Ohh yeah, you need to use this guy in the game somehow. XD

Last edited: Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 4:54:08 PM

^ more like 1/2 cents you old atari. And what do you think I was useing as an attempt for the biological aliens, roswell picture? Pfft! German people are the aliens of the FUTURE!

Ok, just made a huge discovery! Wings 3D CAN ACTUALLY EXPORT A SKIN!!!! W0000000000000000T!!!!!!!
here is my first test run with the pistol I have been working on.

Here da pistol

Here da pistol skinned in appleworks

Hehehehehehehe... Now the fun stuff begins!

Last edited: Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 7:00:48 PM

I doubt you will get sued by bungie.

Gimmie something to skin PGG!

EDIT: I spellchecked the plot.

It is the year 2058 (not too long, but not long enough for us to have weird hover technology). Many trips to mars can now be completed within two weeks thanks to the new antimatter turbines that enable the ships that launch off from the ISS travel 10 times as fast. Many countries with space travel pitched in and helped to terraform mars. After the terraforming, Mars was been divided into districts, each one designated to its own country. Searches for life beneath the ground began. Crops were then planted in the limited O2 environment, and it looked like everything was going good. Unfortunately, the first life found on mars was a simple little rodent with bug type eyes. It destroyed the crops, burrowed into buildings, and even carried a cold-like disease. We annihilated them. Our death count of the rodents was at 2300 when the came. The year was 2076. Large blips were detected on radar moving at a very fast speed. They entered our scopes. 65 light-years away. They reached Mars one month later. By then, we had evacuated most of the civilians off the planet, but their was still a small population left. Before the only military contingent knew what happened, thousands of extraterrestrials swarmed the planet, enslaving the small population. One marine kept contact with Earth through one radio. He said that the slaves were planning a revolution. He gave us a date, and he gave us numbers. The last response was simple: Help

Two weeks later, a large military contingent landed on the black side of mars, right next to mount Olympus. Our mission: Retake Every District. Welcome to operation RED Strike, soldier. You don’t get to go home.

Last edited: Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 10:38:47 AM

I was exaggerating about getting sued by Bungie, but game fans always notice the littlest similarities. We're fanatics. You want to establish your own style in the gaming world, not base it off other people's.

I am working on it racer. I have found that skinning of complicated objects is... Complicated. I am lucky I only needed one skin to do thr pistol. I have split the sniper into FIVE different parts, and it still isn't exporting correctly. Humph...

@jimmy- I know, but If you think about it, this game (if we can do it) will be unlike anything else ever created. And plus if we have everything in Mars camo, then it will look quite a bit different. And you only ever saw the swordfish once or twice in Halo up close. Oh yeah... Call me!

Ok Racer... I have the sniper ready. Now, I am warning you, this is more complicated than anything you have ever done before. It will need to look realistic, and you are only allowd to use images off the internet if you modify them in some way. I don't want to get in any copyright laws, here. Ok? I am sending the file to you now.

Hey PGG, send me all of your Wings files, I want to check them out. Ohh, yeah, if you can go and read Kim Stanley Robinsons Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars. These are some excellent books that will definately give you an insight into the future of Mars and the process of terraforming an entire planet. Plus, you have to have trees, man. I goes with what you were saying, it'll be unlike anything anyone has ever created. Who ever heard of Doom with trees? A terraformed Mars has never been done in a video game. Plus, just because trees are complicated doesn't mean we're going to stop there. For chrissakes, we're geeks ! XD

EDIT: Ohh yeah, don't know if I've told you yet, but I'm taking a Cisco Networking class for the next 3 years, and I'm going to get my networking licenses. It might take 3 years, but I'll definately be able to set you up a server to run the Online portion of the game at T1 speeds. ;)

Last edited: Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 3:14:58 PM