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Everything posted by Julhelm
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Freedom Ship is about as likely to happen as America World City. Or Jet Thunder.
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I tried the demo but not so impressed. It feels too modern and I hope they stick truer to the original game that was far simpler and had very unforgiving physics.
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The problem with the F-22 is that it was designed entirely around air to air combat and as such has a bay that is entirely inadequate for larger munitions.
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experimenting with more plausible soviet RWR
Julhelm replied to Stary's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
That cockpit looks gooood. Way better than anything I ever did. -
Posted HMS Hood.
Julhelm replied to colmack's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
Not likely. It's not a mod and I have about a dozen other vessels to build as well. -
Posted HMS Hood.
Julhelm replied to colmack's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
Agree on the tripod masts (though they are nothing compared to the drill-tower monstrosities of US standard battleships) but I also think the bridge is more of a mess than it has to be. And the lack of radars. -
ThirdWire Android/iOS ... more of it...
Julhelm replied to Crusader's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
Well true to form, everything else but the planes looks crap. The terrain is literally just a height field. -
Posted HMS Hood.
Julhelm replied to colmack's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
I was modelling the Hood myself this very week. Oh the coincidence. Having done the Scharnhorst just before, the Hood doesn't strike me as a good-looking ship. Its pre-Jutland design roots just show a little too much. -
Memphis Belle as directed by Michael Bay.
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ThirdWire Android/iOS ... more of it...
Julhelm replied to Crusader's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
There's your Exp3. -
Strike Fighters 2 Screenshots
Julhelm replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Screen Shots
Flying over the excellent SoCal terrain -
And so SF2 decided to crash
Julhelm replied to slick cowboy's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
I have Avast as well. I noticed it started blocking a bunch of dll files when I was reinstalling SF2. -
And so SF2 decided to crash
Julhelm replied to slick cowboy's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - General Discussion
My SF2 also crashes at 40% as of today. It was working fine yesterday. -
Southwest United States for SF2
Julhelm replied to JSF_Aggie's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - File Announcements
If you are going to do the cities I have some highrise buildings I could contribute. -
Congratulations on getting married!
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Simple ship modelling tutorial
Julhelm replied to WhiteBoySamurai's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Knowledge Base
Converting the lines to polys is very simple. If you select your line, there's a checkbox under 'rendering' for 'enable in viewport'. Then just input # of sides and interpolation and convert to editable poly. I put together a little breakdown using this Kresta cruiser that I modelled. It's for iOS so it had to be optimized yet detailed (it's 4000 tris). I made this using what I learned from doing all the ships for Pacific Fleet. Generally what's important is indentifying signature details early, and identify sections of less importance that can reuse other parts of the ship. This can even be done with ambient occlusion providing you plan your AO bake beforehand. It then no longer becomes necessary to have everything uniquely mapped since you can focus on mapping the important parts and then reuse parts of the texture for subsequent details. I also mirror all of my superstructures. It only needs to look right, so if you can cut corners do so. The benefit to doing all of this is that it significantly reduces the turnaround for a ship, which was important to me (because I had to make so many of them in addition to islands, particle fx, shaders, GUI etc). So keep things as modular as possible, and reuse as much as possible. About the only thing that really needs to be all properly baked AO is the deck and even then you can reuse stuff for small platforms etc. -
Simple ship modelling tutorial
Julhelm replied to WhiteBoySamurai's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Knowledge Base
I find it easier to start with a box for the hull and simply add vertical segments where I need them. It just gives more control initially when you are still blocking out the rough shape since you don't need to move a lot of verts around. I also generally place my reference planes well offset to below/to the side of the model so I can have it clean. It is possible to autokey the material opacity so you can control it using the time slider, which is more convenient than going into the material editor. Finally for the masts and rigging I find it much simpler and less frustrating to use the line tool to simply draw my masts, then convert them into polys when I'm happy with them. If you allow me to, I can post up some pics showing my workflow for unwrapping and texturing complex ships. -
I guess that leaves the russians as the only ones wearing manly hats.
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Flight model guru needed
Julhelm posted a topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
That General Dynamics ATF I made sorely needs a proper flight model. Is anyone interested? Someone make a proper FM and I'll finish the cockpit I had started for it. -
Flight model guru needed
Julhelm replied to Julhelm's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
Maybe the both of you could work together on it? -
Pacific Fleet 2.0 is a 3D turnbased naval combat game for iPhone and iPad You can battle away in glorious 3D with battleships, divebombers, submarines, bombard islands with battleships and perform daring torpedo strikes on the enemy as both USN and IJN in single player campaigns , custom battle generator and hotseat multiplayer if you have a friend. It's part strategy, part artillery game! Screenshots below:
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If it's equivalent to iPad 2 / Mini it'd probably work once we port it.
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What is a nook?
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What If Screenshot Thread.......
Julhelm replied to Dave's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Screen Shots
It needs someone to make a proper flightmodel for it and the cockpit needs to be finished. -
Yep. Should be done within a couple of months.