AAAAAAAAAGH!!!!

[Starhawk]

So that'll allow me to convert my Nendo files over to anim8tor?

Because I have a rather hand drawn looking picture of my Dreadnought and Frigate class ships because I used photoshop to fill in the general colors for which I was hoping to texture them with the nendo painter but I don't think that is possible. If I gave you a screen pic would you be able to texture it or would you need the 3d image for texturing and resizing work?


And i still can't figure out the anim8tor controls so there is no possible way for me to copy my designs into anim8tor

here is a pic of my dreadnought: http://members.cox.net/cchiare/Dread.bmp

[ March 04, 2004, 16:44: Message edited by: Starhawk ]

[Combat Wombat]

What type of color scheme do you want?
I will work on it some right now and I should be able to get you a rough idea of what I can do for you by this afternoon but a color scheme would be nice so I have some idea of where to start.

[Starhawk]

Well roughly the same color scheme I showed you the yellowish color was meant to be gold and the blueish color was meant to be shiney.

The hull's general color is grey though.

[Atrocities]

David was explaining to me that XP has a problem. Evidently XP will not use RAM over 512 megs. If this is accurate, then I am wasting 256 megs, and my system will never use more than 512 megs. This bites!

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
David was explaining to me that XP has a problem. Evidently XP will not use RAM over 512 megs. If this is accurate, then I am wasting 256 megs, and my system will never use more than 512 megs. This bites!

Never say never, it's a 'known bug' so it should eventually get fixed. And I can only confirm that in XP Home edition this bug is present. When the system sees that more than 512meg is needed, it automatically creats a swap file and uses that. It's like the system says "If Ram_needed > 512 then use_swap_file" it should say "If Ram_needed > available_ram then use_swap_file".

I think the main reason that it has not been fixed yet is that not many apps make good use of extra memory anyway. and the new games are getting around this by stuffing the video card's memory instead of system RAM for alot of their graphics. CHeck out some of the new bleeding edge games, they have system requirements like 512meg AND a 128meg graphics card. There' is a reason for this.

nuf said, cheers!

[Combat Wombat]

Ok you can find my first idea here.

http://www.spaceempires.net/files/cw/

Remember this draft is just to see if you like it. I am going to redo it from the original file again for the final draft. The first image is the size it will appear in the game and the second it the un-shrunk Version. Both had to be converted into .jpg because .bmp is to large for websites. I decided to go with these colors instead of your gold/metal scheme because I though it looked better and it makes the ship look like its covered with armor plateing. I can always use the gold/metal if thats what you decide. As for the blue part of what I assume to be engines I am still deciding how i want those to glow.

So tell me what you think so far. Good?, Bad?, any changes you want made let me know.

Edit: Reuploaded pictures after I resaved them as .jpg with some different settings for better quality results.

[ March 05, 2004, 01:42: Message edited by: Combat Wombat ]

[Atrocities]

Thanks David. I hate Microsoft. I do a lot of video editing and need my system to use the extra ram it has. Time to build an new computer. Say can any of you gents spare some new computer parts?

SEEKING (for free)
p4 3.5 ghz CPU
Excellent MB
2 megs Best RAM memorie or other
2 200 gig HD's
2 DVD/RW/CD/ Burner players.
Oodles of addon toys
1 TOP of the line Graphics Card

Oh the helk with it, just buy me a new Sony Work staion with all the bells and whistles. And while your at it, toss in a couple of there new High end digital Moview cameras.