Anyone who has made atleast 3 skins may have there work displayed on these map. These maps will be up on a server on sundays for the community to come look at everyones skin works. The 3 skin min. Is because of space limitations. I don't want to give a whole section for just 1 skin. Space is limited and it will be first come first serve base's on who gets in right now

 

 

1. Have no less then 3 skins.
2. Be able to send the tank skins by email or post them here. ( All skins will be protected from distribution if emailed to me, untill the map is released)
3. Be able to make a 256 x 128 sign telling who skins they are. ( or I will make one for you) NOTE If I make the sign for you it will be as I make it, I won't take any custom orders for the signs.)
For right now Light tank skins only will be added Dazzle will be making the other types ie; mediums, heavies,and UFO'S in the near future. ( You may go ahead and send these skins now for addition later )
Now that we have modders making some differant shape tanks like the gokart and planes,and we have the jeep and admintank already so I will make a map to add all modified tanks.
Also there is no deadline for adding these tank skins to the maps, just when ever you want them added is ok by me.
send all tanks to be added to:displaytanks@yahoo.com

Placement of skins on the maps are my choice, I won't get into who wants what part of the map. All decisions are finale as far as placement goes.
I will leave plenty of room to make additions to your area so you will never run out of space.
I want just your good skins, do not expect to have skins added that are 2 minute skins. Be selective please. Remember everyone will be able to see these up close and personal.
The tanks are 3 times the size as they are in game.

There will be a PRELOAD done for these maps after I get enough skins in it to make it worth going in to see them, There will also be regulor UPDATES that will have to be downloaded also due to additions that will take place on a regulor basis.

Please give special thanks to Dazzle for taking the time to learn and then teach all these wonderfull changes he is making to the think tank games.
We all also need to thank some other people like Canned Splam, Warfare,and Art Crazy for upgradeing the scripts to alot of the things we use to make our mods.
Also lets say thank you to Napalm for the xpack. I do not know what I would do modding wise if he had not put that pack together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@cpt Rik
Tanks have been added,

@
3 Tanks added,

@sawbones
Tanks have been added.

@ Racer'
Tanks have been added.

@fishtank,
Tanks have been added..

@Sersh
Tanks have been added.

@KBC
Tanks have been added.
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@-z-
Tanks have been added.

@monica,
Tanks have been added.

@AO
Still waiting on that email with the rest of your skins.

@woohoo
Tanks have been added.

@Master TMO
Tanks have been added

@All Skin Challenge #1 contestants.
All skins added except for Rabbans. That will be added as soon as the dts file is done for it.

Last edited: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 5:16:06 PM

Very cool to actually see it live. Just a shame I had so much lag.. I had camera control for maybe 5seconds every 30 seconds.. :( partly due to the sheer number of objects in the map, partly due to me being in china. I'll hopefully try again in 10hrs time from work instead of from this laptop - might be better - if the server is still up.

-Z-

Thanks -z-, I am going to split the map up into 2 maps, and just use the mission loader. But before I do that I'm going to remove the walls and the challenge skins and see if that solves it. If so then the map will stay as 1 map. Thanks for stopping by.

If you dont already know, without the preload expect to wait 4 hours 40 minutes to get in no matter what connection you have X/

Was great to see all the tank skins displayed like that. Kind of like driving around a car dealership. (Hence the tagline on my sign).

The lag was pretty intense, but this is still a great idea! Hats off to you and Dazzle for doing this!

Cutting the walls and reducing the amount of tanks should help. You might also want to consider reducing visibility. You'll still see the tanks in all their glory up close, but you don't have to see ALL of them at once.

Nuts & JJ have a thread that might help smooth it out a bit.
Slickest, smoothest game server debate/discussion

 

 

Great quote from PokeMalo

 

 

Again, great idea! Very fun to see all the unique skins out there! :)

@GQ

I will be sending you my tank skins very shortly, so please look in your email soon.

-AO

@GQ

I seem to have trouble converting my skin files into a.sit at the moment. My DropStuff Software is not working....

-AO

^ instead of having all the tanks on one section, you should divide the terrain into "rooms" so the video lag is lessened. Each room should be separated by a wall from the terrain

Shiz--sent my skins to the wrong email address. Sorry GQ.

Woah-ho-ho-hooooooooo
monica you gettin quite a mouth on you there... Surpirsing coming from you ! :o

Np monica GIRL POWER is allowed to send to my normal email. Recieve the email and will add them soon.
@Big Show,
I will try that and see if it helps, lord knows I tried everything else.

Last edited: Monday, July 24, 2006 at 6:57:24 PM

Dropping the "visibleDistance" right down in the.mis file should help too. As has been pointed out, there's no need for the computer to strain to draw 100 tanks in the distant background when people are only really interested in looking closely at the one next to them. Don't drop it too low though or you wont be able to see enough of the distance to get your bearings and know which way to go next..

-z-

@-z-,
I dropped it down untill you could only see a few tanks and still had the lag, But I split the map to around 80 tanks each and it seems to be ok with the vis distance around 500, atleast you can see the whole map. In the morning a few players are going to test it that live in the UK and if it goes as good as it did tonight I'll just use the mission loader and rotate them every 15 min or so. Thanks for the help...

@GQ
I have sent you my skins, including my private skins. I sent you a.sit file containing the "goods". Enjoy.

-AO

If you really think about it AO, if it's going o be on the map, it's going to be released. Because to get into the server you have to dowload the actual skin.

-Sersh

^I know that.

-AO

My skins have all been submitted. I'll try to catch this server when it's up some time, and browse through all the monuments. From the screens above it looks neat!

Edit: BTW, am I just blind? I am missing the PreDownload link...

Last edited: Monday, August 07, 2006 at 7:09:29 AM

Hmm, just re-read the "good skins only" clause. Feel free to ignore my Beelze |Bot| and Hi-Visibility skins if you want. The Hi-Visibility's are not works of art, and Beelze |Bot| is meant for a larger package, and isn't meant to look good alone.

The Tank Display map has been modified to control the lag and to make it look more like a museum. New screen shots added above, This one map will hold all the Lights, mediums, heaveys, UFO's and modified Tanks. I will have the preload up as soon as possible. I have a few new skinners that I have to add there skins to the map, I also am ready for all your Mediums, Heavies, UFO'S and modified tank skins.( Modified meaning, jeep, gokart, etc etc.)

Really awesome. I am loving the new look.

You forgot to add this one and this one I think. Sorry for not sending them over email.

Can't wait to see it!

I've made 3 skins. How much is limet for me to put my skins on here? :)

This is a massive project so much clapping and cheering for GQ who has collected and organised all the skins XD

And I hope you all like the new look and layout of the display tanks map. I tried to create a museum indoor type look with 24 display rooms for the tanks (plenty of room for future expansion), this has helped the lag issue quite a lot. I have also slightly changed the lighting in the mission file which really brings out the colour and detail of the skins. Its fantastic to just drive around and look at all the quality artwork that you guys make.

I have also made the display objects for the medium, heavy, ufo, jeep, cruiser and gokart and I believe GQ will be adding them in the not to distant future so as the woman said GET YOUR SKINS IN NOW to have them included within this piece of TT history.

I hope you enjoy viewing the Display Tanks museum

Dazzle (UF)

Wow, very impressive I'm sure you guys put a lot of effort into this. Great job! :)

Thanks Behemoth,
Yes it has been a challenge to get this done, we have had to remake this thing 3 times to make everything look the way we wanted, dazzle has done an awesome job with this last version.

GQ perhaps its worth posting in other forums (general and skins) about this project as a lot of people dont ever read the modding forums - whay do you think?. I emailed Rabban about his skins but have not heard back yet, they should go in cos they are awesome but we could get them from his site.

Anyone else who we need to get?

I haven't ever seen the server up, when is it up? And is there a preload?

Player we are going to put it up soon and we will also add a preload for it at that time, The hold up is we had to change the whole map layout because of a lag problem, which was caused by having to many objects visable as you drove around. We now have split the map into rooms and it has really helped. The test will be to see what it is like with more then 3 people viewing it at the same time, so far with 3 people in it there is no lad issue. The other hold up is we are trying to get everyone in that wants to have there skins displayed, You will be happy to see all the heavy tanks that are in there now.

Dang man........ Thats a great idea! Where did you come up with that! That mod looks awesome XD

Catn wait to try it out

Sent in my contrib yesterday. This is really a cool idea and I can't wait to get in there and check it out. Thanks for all the work you guys are putting into this project.

Added Aug 20: Just realized I didn't send my sign along. I'll do that as well.

Last edited: Sunday, August 20, 2006 at 1:21:56 PM

Since the above screenies were taken I have had to adjust the maps somewhat in order to cut down on lag, this was being caused by the large amount of detailed objects in close proximity. So to solve this problem each main room is now diveded into 4 individual rooms instead of 8, and the 3 main rooms are now well spaced across the map with teleporters between each of the main rooms. By doing this the visable distance has been vastly reduced and thus the amount of objects that need to be dealt with at any one time is about one third of the original map.

I will be putting up the predowload which will include everything that is needed for the map but its gonna be a large download about 70meg so get ready for that but I tell ya its worth the wait.

More details comming soon, watch this space

Can you add my new ones?

I can't wait to see this in action.

Sure Racer, email them to me

@ All
Skin Challenge 1,2 & 3 have or will be added !

@ Dazzle
All skins sent ! B)

Ok we are going to try to get this up and going again, Dazzle has worked on this and has made it almost completly lag free. When this is up we will be limiting access to 4 people at a time in the server to help reduce any lag that may be caused from to many tanks at one time being there.
I am adding the finale skins sent to us by the skinners and will try to get those done by the weekend.
Dazzle will have a server up in the UK and I'll have one up here in the US. So everyone will get a chance to spend some time looking at all the nice work our skinners have done up and close.
For right now we are closing the doors on any additional skinners that have not sent there skins to us.
This is so we can get this completed so those who have sent us there skins can start to see there work.
Once this is all complete and we have it up and running with no problems we will then open the doors for additional skins to be sent in.
Thanks to all of those skinners who have taken the time to send us there works.
GQShooter and Dazzle

Nice one GQ I cant wait - its been one hell of a project!!

When you are done pando the files to me and I will test then run it.

We also need to get a preload sorted, talk to me on that I have a few ideas ;)

Coolio. I can't wait.

OK I have word from GQ that this is very nearly done so keep a look out its comming soon XD

Hey hey don't forget my last skin! It is important!

http://supra.planetthinktanks2.com/archives/comm-thread.asp?thread=15526&forum=11