dodge this!

Post by **joevano** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:34 pm

Well... honestly... I would say it looks like some 2d circles on a ridulously large blue background. Generally, a 3D look is achieved by shading, shadows on other objects, and size (reducing the farther it is away) to trick the eye into seeing depth where there is none.

Macrosoft · Post by **Macrosoft** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:38 pm

yeah, i plan on adding more of those, with different distances from the camera, and mix up the colors...for now im just trying to make sure it doesnt look "foggy"

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:45 pm

Macrosoft wrote:link to my public shared folder

http://75.65.79.249:8001/

'Public shared folder'? Is that SMB? I would highly recommend using HTTP instead, if that is what you are doing. Many web browsers don't support SMB, and it isn't the most secure thing in the world, either.
If your firewall blocks it, then it isn't public.

Macrosoft · Post by **Macrosoft** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:57 am

that link isnt valid anymore, sorry.
that folder contains some of the pics ive made so far
the new link is: link

edit: oh, i forgot, the tanks0.jpg pic isn't mine, it was made and posted by someone on this forum (and its a lot better than anything ive made)

Macrosoft · Post by **Macrosoft** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:41 am

ok, have some new pics, one has normal bullets, and the other has super bullets:

Grace F · Post by **Grace F** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:00 am

Those Superbullets look really good

Are you trying to make them like the ones in game or your own style added to it?

Macrosoft · Post by **Macrosoft** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 1:18 pm

it would be cool to have a better looking version of them:

old:

new:

Catoblepas · Post by **Catoblepas** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:36 pm

The old version looks better in my opinion.

dango · Post by **dango** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:11 pm

edit: oh, i forgot, the tanks0.jpg pic isn't mine, it was made and posted by someone on this forum (and its a lot better than anything ive made)

That is my image, just so you know.

Grace F · Post by **Grace F** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:39 am

Very Nice me1

I have it as my desktop pic

Catoblepas wrote:The old version looks better in my opinion.

Yea I agree. Macrosoft, yours looks good with the add of the black background. I can imagine it would be hard to see ingame.

Saturos · Post by **Saturos** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:49 pm

These are just basic blender particles. No own style. They look that way and thats all.

Macrosoft: Good start. Try to add tanks.

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:43 pm

Macrosoft wrote:it would be cool to have a better looking version of them:

old:

new:

Macrosoft, you can put those in BZFlag if you want. First make a scene with the bullet taking up the whole camera view. Then, set the render resolutions to be square. Then, set the render mode to RGBA, and the output format to PNG. Then you can use the resulting image to replace the one that comes with BZFlag.

chicken fingers · Post by **chicken fingers** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:36 pm

nice pictures in all but i have no idea how you are doing it at all it seems confusing i realy like the super bulets too

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:56 pm

Chicken fingers, this is way off topic (apologies), but your avatar is making me hungry.

chicken fingers · Post by **chicken fingers** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 8:00 pm

Enigma wrote:Chicken fingers, this is way off topic (apologies), but your avatar is making me hungry.

the salty fries make me bloodthirsty lol

sry that was off topic

Macrosoft · Post by **Macrosoft** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:11 pm

here's a video of a few players on PETER's map
length: 4:00 min size: 57.2 MB format: quicktime(.mov)
(windows users will need quicktime to watch, find it at apple.com)

bzflag video

EDIT: bandwith limit is set to 4096 KB/sec... may take 1 - 2 minutes to download/cache

Grace F · Post by **Grace F** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:12 pm

That link isn't working for me.

Don't mean to be rude or nothing but why would we want to watch a video of people on a map? Did you put it up just because it's PETER's map? Or is there something in the movie that's worth watching?

Macrosoft · Post by **Macrosoft** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:35 pm

there's nothing special in it, just got bored and recorded it

you might want to try saving instead of opening the link in your browser

CannonBallGuy · Post by **CannonBallGuy** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:50 am

Well, it's off-topic, pointless and broken. Nice.