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Neeeeeeenaaaaaaawwwwwww........
Ok, I finished four different skin items which all relate to powerups. Links are up under "Powerup Stuff" on my main post, with screenshots and a little info. I know that I just did the signs, basically, and left the original skin as background.. I'm not trying to slack off, but I couldn't think of anything better. I will do an all-original skin when I do the heavy, but now that's there's so much expectation to live up to I'm kinda afraid to start it. So my excuse is that I should finish the lush terrain first, and I should. I will really try to do the heavy after that. I'm not really in a W(ord)2K-post mood, so I will post thumbnail screenshots (Imageshack requests it if you're posting a lot of images on one thread or page, it apparently cuts down on bandwidth for them) and leave it at that.
I like the yellow hi-visibility factor & the signs are funny. Not slacking- I have seen relatively few power up skins. Good job. [great link btw, had no idea about the asterisk being #42...i knew I had it in my name for a reason]
After thinking of several ideas, I made a bounce projectile:
heres the alpha:
:).
And an idea for rocks, how about you make the rocks look like a pile of trash?
*bump*
Sorry Mr. Creamer.. I've been really busy. School started this past week and I've been kind of swamped with homework and whatnot. I'm still planning to do the skins, but I'm not going to be going at the same rate. It'll probably be closer to one project every week now, at best. I really only have weekends to work, and I don't like being on the computer all weekend. I'm going to try to do some more terrain next.
About your ideas, I hadn't even thought of doing projectiles, but now that I think about it I like the idea. I'll have to test them and see how they work, but I like the bouncing-tire idea. I'm just a little concerned about how it'll fit onto the projectile- If you can't tell it's a tire it wouldn't work as well. But thanks, I will look into that. I was already thinking about possibly making the rocks piles of trash (56k Lag Man actually suggested it- he posted about that on the first page of posts. But yes, I think that might be a good idea.
I'm still here, just school-burdened. I haven't been on the computer the whole darned week :S
I know how you feel. Just started 7th grade and teachers are giving more Homework than I've expected, but sometimes I get to do it during school which gives me some time to squeez in an hour of scrum. At least you got some time on Labor day. Not to mention I have to finish an anvil of social studies classwork, make British-style-chocolate-covered fried Ice Cream,(j/k, I gotta bake somethin, but I like That stuff. :) ) and do part of a Math Project on Circle graphs.
Thats a good idea Creamer I have aa similar thing in my mod For the bounce back
I was messing around in the torque demo and I relized that the wheels off of the dune buggy would make great weapons so I tinted them to more of a blue and kept it thaat way.
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-stares at revels' tank in disbelief-
is dat ur lught tank? Cus dat is 1 sweet tank!
Cpt
Yeah its 187's tank and I just swicth the orange with blue cause I liked the way it looked
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Hi guys. I debated over whether to wait and announce this when I'm finished as a big surprise, or to start this thread now and let it out bit by bit. I ended up liking the Cadillac too much, and since you guys are always complaining about lack of fair quality medium skins I thought I might as well get it out early.
After I finished my first car-themed skin, Red Wagon (see the thread and skin ), I got an idea to do some more car skins. I was pleased with the way the first one turned out and people seemed to like it. So I thought about doing a medium.. And a heavy, and a ufo. With -z-'s skin set system, I could create a whole new world, complete with sky, terrain, trees, rocks, even volcanos if I feel like it. I had a few ideas I liked, and so I decided to make the car skins and then try to work out a map to go with them. Theoretically it will be fantastic.
Below is a list of the various projects. The complete items will have links for names, and the links will take you to the skin. You can also access all complete skins from the Metropolis skin set in the library, where I'll have the skin and if possible screenshots.
Light
Status: Complete
Name: Red Wagon
Color: Duh. Red.
Based on: A sports car
Power Source: Nuclear Batteries
Medium
Status: Complete
Name: Black Cadillac
Color: Duh. Black.
Based on: A black Cadillac.. Most of the parts I stole I stole from the Escalade
Power Source: Steam Engine
Heavy
Status: I'll start it soon.. :[
Name: Green Machine? (tentative)
Color: Probably green.
Based on: Dump truck, garbage truck, van, SUV, bulldozer.. I'll decide sometime
Power Source: Pendulum Clock Mechanism? (tentative)
UFO
Status: Complete
Name: Blue Siren
Color: Duh. Blue. Oh and maybe some white. And black. And stuff.
Based on: A police car
Power Source: Maybe it's just magic.
Tank Treads
Status: Complete
Name: Goodyear Tire Treads
Color: Dark Grey, yellow Goodyear logos occasionally show up
Based on: Goodyear Tires
Power Source: Umm.. N/A
Powerup Stuff
Health Powerup
Based on: Red Stop Sign-covered ball
Weapon Powerup
Based on: Yellow "TANK XING" sign-covered ball
Weapon Powerup Light Animation
Based on: Yellow light, to match yellow signs on powerup
What this actually is: A set of animation frames to make the light on top of the powerup flash
Weapon Powerup Flash
Based on: Yellow haze, to match yellow light (which matches yellow signs) on powerup.
What this actually is: I was wondering this, and I think that when the powerup light flashes on, this file, "Powerup Flash" is not actually part of the light, but makes up a sort of haze around the light in the second it's on. If you look at the screenshots for the powerup (on the powerup skin item page) you can see a haze around the powerup when it's on, but no haze when it's off. I *think* that's what this is.
Brain Stuff
Brain Glass
Light Brain Jar
Medium Brain Jar
UFO Brain Jar
Lush Terrain
Status: File 1, beta version, Files 2-4, yet to do (I put in the original files for 2, 3, and 4 because I had to put in files for them)
File 1 (beta):
Name: City Streets
Based on: ^
Random Notes
Other Tank Bits (Brains, Brain jars, Brain glass, etc.):
Brain jars will be color matching.. I might actually do those next instead of the heavy, because they'll be quick and easy. The brain glass will probably be the same. The brains I will probably have some sort of metropolis-related theme for.. Maybe parking meters or something. I might come up with anything.
Trees:
I'm going to try and make them into lamposts. Yes, I know how crazy that sounds. But I figure if I make the trunk black and have the leaf-spreads be small yellow circles.. We'll see. I think I can pull it off.
Rocks:
Hmm... Tough. Maybe buildings, maybe iron girders, you have a better idea, tell me.
Ground/Terrain:
Mix of asphalt, concrete, cement, and gravel.. We'll have to see how it looks.
Sky:
Boy, sky is tough. I'm still amazed at some of the excellent skies out there. I'm thinking some smog, and a bunch of airplanes and blimps and whatnot, but this will be very challenging.
Skeletons:
Playground equipment! Seriously.. That is just crazy enough to have a chance of working.
Volcanoes:
Nuclear Reactors. White with radioactive signs, green smoke, bright green gobs of now nuclear volcano rocks.
Reload Gate, Scrum, Scrum Goal, etc:
Will probably stay the same unless I have an idea.
I do ask that nobody use my ideas, or at least not my exact ideas or right now, while I'm doing them. I know that if, for example, Rabban decided to make a city skin set, his would blow mine out of the water, kind of undermining the fact that they were my original idea. Not that you can't do car stuff.. Just please don't copy my general city idea, or any of the more specific ideas I'm planning.
Well. I hope you guys like what you see so far, and like what I turn out next. If you have ideas for me, just post here, but keep in mind I won't use your idea if I like mine better. As I mentioned above.. Please don't "help" me by doing some of the skins for me.. I really want them all to be my own work.
Thanks!
All ideas ©2004 Asterisk copy me at your own risk
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