Krytos

"Doing? Pretty good. We were just talking about . . . umm, actually I can't remember." Karn said over the top of his glass with a confussed face. OOC: Hmm, sounds good. I can be a ground pounding grunt following orders into the fray

IC (Karn): The landing pad only had Imperial landing craft, no civilian ship. Oh well, this'll have to do Karn thought as he ran up the loading ramp of an Imperial shuttle firing a bolt of energy from his E-11 into the pilot in the shuttle. Close behind, Afton was also inside the ship and dealing with the shuttle's co-pilot. As Ulic lumbered up the ramp with Sib, Karn was starting the shuttle up. "Ok, this shuttle will only get us so far. The Empire will be able to trace it and probably take us out before we reach my frigate. So, Ulic, we're going to need to find your freighter." With that, the shuttle's ramp and door closed as it took off, in the distance Stormtroopers were firing non-stop at the shuttle as they ran out onto the landing pad. IC (Varn): A smile crept across Varn's face as the stollen Imperial shuttle took off. Fools. No matter where they go now, I'll be able to follow. "Corporal, load up the squad into that Sentinal Landing craft, and prepare for dust off." Soon they will be mine

Amapi 3D? Never heard of it I've heard of and used a bit of Milkshape 3D - simular interface to Lightwave. Though in the 5 minutes I used it, I didn't get it to do anything Sounds like your Firespray is well on its way. Good luck with the texturing Origianally I was planning on a TC - though now I'm tempted to just make a series of cards and submit them. Still, I might change my mind again - the main problem I'm having is Imperial ships. Seeing by the NJO peroid there was little change in their fleets (not that there was any real need), there are few ships for me to change. Oh well, I'll cross that stone when I come to it.

Well, there's GMax. Though that's 19.2 Mb. If that's too large for you to down load, there's Wings 3d which is only around 2 Mb Both are good programs - I use 3d Studio Max, and GMax is just a cut down version of it. My brother uses Wings3d and he prefers it to 3d Studio Max for creating low poly game models (Note: Wings is still Beta). It has really good inbuilt UVW Mapper, that's also easy to use. You can select individual and group faces without detaching them and creating UVW coordinates that are rendered to a blank texture for you to draw on. It is also heavily built on shortcut keys.

Three figures approached Karn and the others at the table. As the figures grew nearer, he noticed they all had the same face! Of Ulic Horn. Maybe just one more glass of Corellian Whiskey, and then I'll give it a rest . . . maybe "Ulic, welcome back - long time no see!" OOC: Welcome back Ulic, long time no see

Silently, Karn prayed to the force for help, as he pulled out one of the two grenades he had on the Storm Trooper armour. He quickly tossed it to Ulic, and squeezed the trigger on his E-11 blaster scarring the wall though not hitting any of the Stormtroopers. "Ahhh!!!" Karn yelled out. "We'll need a miracle to get out of this one!" As soon as he'd finised his bantar, an energy bolt colided half a metre from his face sending Karn diving for cover. IC (Varn): The Stormtroopers under Varn's command skillfully used the small corners of the corridor as cover, while laying down effecient supression fire pinning the rebels. In the distance, behind the rebels and through the door way behind them, a garrison of Stormtroopers were being unloaded. Any minute, one of those troopers could see this little battle and come to intervine. He could not have this, it was bad enough that he let them escape and run him around. Now it would seem as if an entire legion of Stormtroopers would be needed to stop four rebels. I can't let this happen, I need to get rid of them. This is my command! No sooner had Varn thought this, did an massive explosion ring out in the distance. Varn needn't be near the explosion to know that it was military explosives, rather it was some more rebels. Perfect! "All forces on landing platform 11b are to move and assist at the sight of the explosion imediately." A smile broadened across Varn's face. Now they're mine. IC (Karn): As the echo died from the explosion in the distance, the Stormtroopers behind him and his friends dissappeared in the direction of the explosion. "Hey Ulic, looks like our prays have been answered!" Now all they needed to do was retreat onto the landing pad, steal a ship and take off

Cool, those movies look great! ! Blade Trinity is already out here and I'm planning on seeing next week - should be good. Willy Wonker looks weird, Batman looks awesome, Son of Mask . . . intersting, Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy should be good (now I just have to read the book before the movie come out), Sin City looks cool and Constatine also looks awesome

No words can describe the heart ache that has been caused from this disaster. No action can repair it either, the best that we can do is donate money to help the poor souls who have been caught up in this tragedy. Like Dinochick, and many others, I wish I could do more. Though each dollar gives life back to these torn countries. May those who have lost their lives, live on in the perpetual light that shines on forever.

There are shortcut keys?!? Woo!!! Man, that'll make it easier to play witout a mouse (I'm using a laptop, and its touch pad)

To different to be Friends - Stewie and Brian (The Family Guy)

Thanks I use 3d Studio Max, the shine is just from the lights used. With exception of the War Cruiser and Bothan Frigate, they're all around 2000 polys - some are just 10 to 20 polys over. The other two are around 2500 polys. A lot of the smoothness is from a modifier in 3ds that smooths the lighting - I'm not sure if it's supported with Rebellion (though the 3ds format carries the smoothness), though I guess I'll find out soon enough Woo, that was hard. I started a few years back when I found stats for New Republic ships from the Black Fleet Crisis (Which is about years 16 after A New Hope). Since then I've been struggling to find pictures for them. I eventually found one of the Defender Star Destroyer/Endurance Fleet Carrier which was on the Wizards of the Coast website. A few days ago I found all the pics I need from Cracken's Threat Dossier - and most are ugly and don't follow their desriptions (especially the original Endurance!) Looks awesome Floros, what program do you use to make your models? What's your poly count for the Firespray? EDIT: Here's the Agave Picketship again without the light smoothing http://img83.exs.cx/img83/803/agavepicketship02nosmooth3ec.th.jpg It has a face count of 1271

Ok, rather long post. Well first off . . . If you use imageshack to host your images, they have a link to a thumbnail view -> Generic tag, though with a generated image for the thumbnail [.URL.=http://img134.exs.cx/my.php?something.q.jpg]http://img134.exs.cx/img134/2000/something.th.jpg%5B/img.%5D%5B/url.%5D,%20so%20just%20copy%20and%20paste%20what%20they%20gice%20you%20 Ok, first off my Endurance class Fleet Carrier. I've added to the bridge and put in two towers - ie. control towers for a Republic Wing each (3 fighter squadrons) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/2000/endurace014qr.th.jpg' alt='endurace014qr.th.jpg'> http://img134.exs.cx/img134/438/endurace029li.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5991/endurace035dt.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/4088/endurace046bz.jpg Next is a New Republic Assault Transport that I got from the back of Star by Star . . . so it could be anything, though I made it into an AT http://img134.exs.cx/img134/3481/assaulttransport9cp.th.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5002/assaulttransport026ze.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/9784/assaulttransport040ur.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/4469/assaulttransport066nw.jpg http://www.starwars.com/eu/news/2001/04/news20010417_sbs2.html (The ships down the bottom, near the X-Wing) Next is the Sacheen Escort Cruiser - which will have the hangars removed and become the Hajeen Fleet Tender http://img134.exs.cx/img134/2802/sacheen025si.th.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/9898/sacheen7bo.jpg (Source Pic) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/9159/sacheen019hp.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/8352/sacheen043bu.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/6375/sacheen067ns.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5463/sacheen078pc.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/1821/sacheen084fh.jpg Next is the Warrior Gunship, I slightly modified this design by making it symetrical http://img134.exs.cx/img134/6038/warriorgunship011va.th.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/7560/warrior027ei.jpg (Source Pic) http://img134.exs.cx/img134/3788/warriorgunship022oi.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/8388/warriorgunship034re.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/6933/warriorgunship043wn.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5331/warriorgunship052bf.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/998/warriorgunship064gs.jpg This is followed by the Agave Picketship, which uses the same body as the Warrior, though without the second arm and a 3rd radar dish. http://img134.exs.cx/img134/5439/agavepicketship022gp.th.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/1763/agavepicketship016hc.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/2865/agavepicketship030zf.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/2636/agavepicketship049ti.jpg http://img134.exs.cx/img134/4739/agavepicketship061ug.jpg Now for my own designs, with the NJO era there are only a few new designs around - Bothan Assault Crusier, Mediator Battlecruiser, Viscount and Strident Star Defender and Ranger Gunship. So I decided to make my own as well First is a ship that I'm yet to think up full stats for except that it's a War Cruiser based on the Alderaan War Frigate, which means it's fast and moderately armed. http://img152.exs.cx/img152/9265/warcruiser019rb.th.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/7449/warcruiser021ad.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/8715/warcruiser031aa.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/2973/warcruiser042nd.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/2965/warcruiser054ax.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/9067/warcruiser060bz.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/1947/warcruiser077xu.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/8687/warcruiser081gd.jpg And finally, here's a ship I made from extruding and bevelling a single cube and eventually made it into a Bothan Frigate of some kind http://img152.exs.cx/img152/8229/bf014dh.th.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/7628/bf025ue.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/4991/bf033as.jpg http://img152.exs.cx/img152/8498/bf045cq.jpg Woo, that's all for today Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting

!!!MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

1 Day until Christmas!!! You know what that means Christmas Eve

I wouldn't be surprised if the 64-bit architecture is responsible for that. Looking at the game, I could imagine all the calculations that are required and the 64-bit arch would handle it a lot better compared to a 32-bit. I've got an Athlon 64bit 3000+, 1 Gig Kingmax RAM (PC3200) and a Radeon 9800 pro Extreme (faster RAM for a crap brand) and I get the slide show effect if I leave the build restriction to normal and reach the max for everything (as does my AI opponent) and we battle. Prior to the battle it's around 10-20 fps. I've started to play TaskForce mode now, which is pretty cool - and it was only when I'd maxed out everything and my two AI opponents were fighting that my frame rate dropped noticably.

Hate to double post, though . . . 2 Days Until Christmas!!!

Wow, great drawing Fishy! And with a Mouse?!? Not much of an of drawer unless it's scretchy designs, though I do a bit of modelling - umm, the only prob is other than 3d models I'm making for Rebellion, I only have this picture on this computer. Which is pretty much just playing around with textures/materials. I'll have to look on my PC some time for others, unless you wanna see Rebellion models?

The TOP2 touched down in the middle of a children’s playground, yet was informing Krytos that this was one of Scath's secret bases just before he exited the craft. A red message flashed in front of his eyes “Take the slideâ€

3 days 'till Christmas! ! And the weather is really weird here, 4 days ago the temprature reached 32 °C, and yesterday it only got to 22 And now it's only 23, and tomorrow it will be 36!!! Crazy Melbourne weather

Meshuggah - Suffer in Truth

Leave the area? I'm in space!!! Who do these guys think they are? Krytos was bewildered by the comment of an Imperial Officer, was he still in another dimension? "Ok, how about this Sanders, I tell you where to go and go home. At the same time you take what ever you brought here and leave." Unfortunately, Sanders didn't see eye to eye with Krytos. The TOP 2's sensors came on line and painted 12 small contacts coming towards him. "Oops," Krytos said allowed. "Time to see if this thing has any weapons." Swinging the ship around, Krytos searched for weapon controls. Though he didn't need to, automatically the ships HUD lit up and targetted four of the enemies and fired and equal number of missiles at them. Seconds later the fighters were destroyed, and the others began to retreat after seeing they were outmatched. "Nice, I didn't now I had it in me! Now, time to find Scath . . . and finish my smoothie."

KMFDM - Anarchy (God and the State Mix)

I just finished watching the xtended version, and I thought it was a lot better than the non-extended. I don't want to say much more, as not to spoil any of the added scenes, except that I recomend getting it if you're a fan of LotR

The TOP 2 slowed as it approached the blue sphere, elegantly painted on top the dark canvas of space. . . Wow, what was in the smoothie? ? The ship slowed to a geosynchronous orbit around earth and automatically opened a secure, line of sight, communications channel to Scathane. "Scath, I'm back home. Where do you want me?" Krytos stood and waited for Scath's reply, and awaited his orders to fight the dreaded Zoot.

Yeah, I was lucky. And damn lucky I didn't have a CC-7700 in my fleet or the Imps wouldn't have retreated and I'm 90% sure I would have been wiped out or forced to take out their Interdictor first.