STAR TREK: The Space Empires IV Modification...

geoschmo · #1 March 16th, 2001, 04:07 AM

I am about 80% done on my start trek mod. I think you all will be very pleased. It is shaping up quite well If I do say so myself.

For those of you interested in contributing, I have already selected all of the initial races and have everything I need for the first phase. Just need to do some work on the speech files. Later Versions I would love to get as much help as possible. I'll let you know.

The first Version will be geared towards making the races look and talk like Star Trek races. Later on I will be refining the Ai-scripts to hopefully get them to act like Star Trek races.

I should have the Version 1.0 to post by next weekend (3/25) at the latest, so not long to wait now.

I have attached a screen shot to wet your appetites. Hope you like what you see!

Geo

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 16th, 2001, 04:11 AM

A whole lot has been discussed about the tech, & components that trek should have.

Check it out at http://pub44.ezboard.com/fstartrekmodforumfrm3

raynor · #3 March 16th, 2001, 04:17 AM

Now! Must have now!

You have definitely whet my appetite!

Atrocities · #4 March 16th, 2001, 04:58 AM

I have some specialized ships for the romulans, Federation, Cardassian, Ferengi, Dominion, and Klingons. Some of them are not posted at my site, while many of them are. Some need some touch ups done on the 2d top down views as they have a black edge or debas around them when they go through nebulas. I will post a list of what I have later, right now, I am going to get some sleep.

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geoschmo · #5 March 16th, 2001, 05:30 AM

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A whole lot has been discussed about the tech, & components that trek should have.

s_j, I have seen the forum. A lot of good ideas. Initially I won't be making any chnages to components. My first priority is getting the races to have the look and feel of Trek. Later on though I would like to look into some of those things.

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Now! Must have now!

He he. Patience, grashopper.

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I have some specialized ships for the romulans, Federation, Cardassian, Ferengi, Dominion, and Klingons.

That would be very helpful Atocities. I have based a lot of the mod off of the wonderful shipsets Warp_nine put together, but they were designed for the demo so there will be some holes to fill later on.

Geo

Admiral Grover · #6 March 16th, 2001, 09:09 AM

I do have a Federation Ship Set in the Mods Section if you are interested.

Admiral Grover

Sabre21 · #7 March 16th, 2001, 01:55 PM

Hi Geoschmo

If you like I can take those portraits and put them on a blue background like the one for the Dominion, or I can get you the old hag on a plain black back. I prefer the blue ones myself. I also have a complete Startrek UFP shipset that has the various stellar backgrounds on the portraits. I am working on the Klingon set based on some of the ships from Atrocities site, BOTF, and other Online sources. Are you just doing the AI or are you including ships?

Sabre 21

geoschmo · #8 March 16th, 2001, 04:04 PM

Sabre,

When I started my mod I was using Warp_nine's races as a base and adding others to fill out the game. You can't tell from the screen shot, but I have used your pics for most of the races.

I do like the blue background, but I kind of like having some blue and some black instead of all the same.

At some point I want to talk to you more about this. I noticed a couple of the races, Adndorians and Benzenites escpecially, seem to be affected by the blue background. There skin coloration seems to be off.

But right now I am fighting to urge to go back and make changes to images. I am afraid if I keep twaeking I will never get this posted.

We'll look at that for ver. 1.1.

Geo

Sabre21 · #9 March 16th, 2001, 09:52 PM

Geo

Its kinda funny about the 2 you mentioned, many of those images came from BOTF with the blue background including those 2. I sized them and changed them to a BMP file. I then replicated..hehe..the background with a paint program and cut and pasted new races onto it, such as the Dominion, Gorns, Breen, and others. It would be possible to create other backround colors like a green or red tint instead of blue. I was even thinking of putting the race symbol in the corner or in the background, haven't got that far yet though.

Sabre

Atrocities · #10 March 17th, 2001, 08:22 AM

BOTF is where I got most of my newer ships from. It was a great game, and it lives on through our efforts. Just give credit where credit is due, and let poeple know that the images came from BOTF, and I think microprose will be proud.