Jahled

Right, well I haven't a clue with half your searching for actually are, but am in a position to supply you with Chiss Fighter images. Email me.

I'll do you the photoshoping and create your card images if you supply me with some source images that are realisticaly usable. If they are crap I will put them in that bin on the desktop. Email me.

Speaking of movies: 'Indiana Jones and the toilet of doom,' perhaps? http://www.sayagain.co.uk/b3tapix/images/indytoilet.jpg It's incredible what 'crap' is out their on the 'net...

Catch it before the site is 'asked' to remove them by those fiends at Lucasarts: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21422

Or done and submitted wav files, which are more or less done apart from a few remaining holes... Dude, i'll say something addressed to all but including you given you are a newbee and haven't been around for so long. The game by very definition is graphics orientated. Most of what you spend an hour or two playing it see is non-animated images. Reduced to the game's various dll entries, we are talking several thoudand replacements to replace everything, and to work as images away from photoshop apart from some hasty TC conversion. At the bottom of this forum is evidence as tio exactly why it is taking so long. I would remind you that none of the team owe any of you anything. It will be done when it is done and when we we are happy with it. Reloaded is, and by definition, a work of personal endeavor for love of an aging game, that continues to be defiant of the years. Evaders quite correctly locked a topic becouse of frequent antagonistic attacks from people who assume EaW is Rebellion II, and will be the death of any further interest or involvement in Rebellion. It gets utterly boring. They are, or will be, utterly different games. Time will tell which endures through many factors, how fun each is to play, how epic, how much can be modded like Rebellion, etc. My bet is on the simpler. It's fun to have flashy graphics and such gameplay, but also a point where epic gameplay can involve the mind; something EaW hasn't exited me to a point of frenzy.

Upon reflection, I think we should keep our voices down; whist cool, the prospect of games being released with 'two monitors,' required is a little spooky, but somewhat not so unbelievable.... heck, i've more or less given up on the latest titles through not having the latest PC gear...

I used to work with two monitors with Windows and it occured to me that Rebellion, being so 'windows orientated,' could be rather Woo played on two monitors, given you could potentially leave a spare monitor full of important system information to thwart those darstedly rebels... So is it possible? Anyone given it a go? and know?

Ultimately, does this plane 'flap it's wings?'

Can't agree. An MC-358 Megacorvette is far more formidable. I had one with some salsa at lunchtime.

This is a good post, and I will deal with it the best I can. If you have ever gone exploring with Resource Hacker into the files of Rebellion you will realize the obvious that it is ultimately a graphic-intensive game. It wasn't designed to be a flashy first person shooter, and grander in scope than something like deep space combat like Homeworld. Sadly, as far as progress goes, it is ultimately graphics that are wanting! The good news is that the chief artworker is Lord_La_Forge, who is, in case you hadn't already gathered, one hell of an artist. So the dlls are in safe hands. He is ultimately working alone on what's left to do. I was involved in helping redesigning the ingame GUI, but came to the limit of what I can personally achieve. Most has been done; what's left would be quicker under his supervision if the thread now at the bottom of this forum had achieved better results... Anyway, so how can you still help? Voice files. Some still need to be done. I am presently not in a position to oversee this however due to a non-broadband connection and my life being a bit crap. Hopefully things will change, but another member of the team needs to step in here and see this one through. Movies: Long shot, but speak to The_Mask if you reckon you can help out on this front.... Other members might expand...

Something I will add, Palpatine and his various followers remained utterly hidden and completely unoticed as their schemes orchestraited the Republic's demise, and may I add the Jedi Knights. The art of subtefuge was strong with Palpatine. Against an entire order of force-sensitive Jedi Knights, it was the Sith who triamphed, there being but two (at the best of times). So who is ultimately 'stronger?' Yoda admits 'all is obscured by ty the dark-side,' but with Mace Window ultimately does nothing about this instinct. Palpatine, in the meantime orchestrates a conflict in an excuse to create a military machine capable of not just taking out the Jedi, but being seeing to do so by ending the conflict he engineered with an Empire of peace and stability. Who is the genius? He ends up ruling the galaxy, and Yoda, as muttered I did earlier, ends up living in a swamp probably watching fireflies in the evening for amuzement, whilst twitching his ears.

Food for thought, but the first George Bush sort of quietened down on his 'off to Mars,' vision when it was pointed out to him (at the time) it would cost $450 Trillion and most probably result in the deaths of the crew; their DNA being torn apart by radiation... As for the moon, Trej; I don't harbour doubts, and don't really see any need to do so. To many people involved, and thus to many hands on hands that have mouths to keep quiet all these years. All the science i've read makes it having being perfectly plausable, rather expencive, and ultimately rather pointless other than a symbolic victory or sorts over an empire of dictatorship and evil, at the time seriously threatening the freedom of the world. Also; what's the moon rock not least in British museums scientists, completely unrelated to the program, have analyzed, and sort of confirmed as coming from the moon? This isn't related to you my friend, but in the broader term I can't stand any of this conspiricy crap; from Area 51 to the moon landings, to Jews being exterminated by the Third Reich... I'll end there, not on a percieved dramatic point, but because I am a bit borked:* http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TwDrAiEZIBxUxvaRP15cjvJaDCllsfR9K4SGW4sEGKhsiIMyV9uydVJaljN8M9h2U476A2ut8iuUTVmlGhUroMybojgn18qIAa15K6sUyQaswwFhCJAjhg/stoatexperiment8fb.gif *Plus cat is tredding on keyboard because I haven't fed him for err, an extended, otherwise, overlooked period of time.

Well, there is a small problem with that. it is now generally accepted that the moon was created when another astral body of substantial size collided with the earth realy on. Any fossils found on the moon could be transfer from earth. At the present time we do not have, and cannont fathom, the technology needed to break the boundry of our own solar system. This does not mean that it's not possible. Remember, two hundred years ago humanity couldn't have even imagined a combustion engine or a computer, and yet today almost every one in the developed world has one or the other. There will most likely be forms of technology we can create with the most creative flights of imagination right now. Also consider that the most prominent pieces of information used in modern physics are still called theories. The M Theory, the Theory of relativity (though modified form it's original state), the String Theory. Our current knowledge works well on its own (that is, each theory works when used on it's own), but when you try and combine each theory together everything breaks down. It should also be recognised that we may not have advnaced enough technology to communicate with, or to recieve communications from, alien life. Sure, as far as we know radio waves are the best form of communication, but what if some other race knows better? If you were in a forest and heard a thumping sound in the distance, would you know that it's a native drummer inviting you to dinner? We humans really do think highly of ourselves. We tend to think that "Well, if we can't do it it's not possible". This might be our biggest limiting feature. What you overlook, dude, is that what we can fathom is what the laws of the universe dictate as are possible and what are utlimately completely unachievable with the laws of the Universe. Whilst it's obvious to put forward the argument that we, as humanity, may be at that stage where incredibly advanced technology is beyond present conception; this is a stance that overlooks some fundermental realities that have been discovered in modern times that have had proven results in research and consequenctial results. Those clever scientists have figured out the age of stars; our own sun, our planet, the evolution of the human race; etc, and the mysterious mathematical zero at the core of black holes when their matter simply drops out of the universe altogether, and becomes unknowable. Their clever mathematics have also indicated that due to the age of even our own galaxy, the proportion of planets, etc, should yield a sky filled with detectable signs of media acivity. Three hundred million years is an extremely conservitive threshold. But silence. Drums in the jungle is not appropriate here, nothing has been detected without any alien reason to remain so obscure or esoteric. At the least, if you are advanced enough to smash the laws of physics you are advanced enough enough to communicate...

Statistically, we cannot be alone, unless you are a blinkered fool who assumes the human-race is somehow the most sacred and ultimate piece of art produced by the atom and the centre of what is utterly fathomless. The universe is beyond vast. The human race is never going to reach the end of our solar system without the injection of the fantastic and ultimately impossible physics. Sorry guys, but we've figured out enough of the fundermental laws and basics of the universe to know more or less where we stand and what is realistically achievable. Faster than light travel; or any convinient 'short cuts' aren't. One of the modern era's glorys is the understanding of what seperates pure-fantasy, and hard coded science. If the human race can ever be bothered to make the extremely boring and slow journey to Pluto I doubt it will open any Champaign. Nothing but rock and ice, no gravity to get out the snowboards, and the realization we've got another 70,000/1th to go before we get to the end of our own solor system. Hopefully, long before we're that bored to even contemplate such a venture, we will have stopped taking the ability to think that seriously. A few pathetic points: Where are the aliens? They have had plenty of time to get here. Space should be awash with the same cosmic media we've been blasting into it in the last century, even from a distance. Aliens have had about a couple of hundred million years head start on our evolution, so where is it? Faster than light travel. Where are the time travellers? Again, a couple of hundred million years to get here, and do more than sneak around rural Dakota scaring people on their own in a car. Given faster than light travel would essentially be time travel, where are our peers from the future? They have, as I have pointed out in the past, have had plenty of 'time' to get here.

I bow to your masterful use of the English language.

I like that lots Krytos dude!

Forgot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/radio4/int/-/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/buddhas_in_bamiyan or ther main page where you'll see it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.shtml?logo You can listen to the whole program which I think was about 30 minutes long, then tell me what happens in the last ten minutes which I missed because I had to leave the house and do stuff like work with images of Tapirs and big-eared cats of North Africa... Well worth a listen in the background...

Just a slight swerve off topic in a small way, but I was listening to BBC Radio Four this morning before I set off to London Zoo a day late, to a program about a French team who reckon they've almost found the legendary thrid Buddha statue in Afgainistan (the previous two having been blown up by those religious fascists the Taliban). According to legend this 'reclining Buddha' is as long as that French tower thingy in Paris is as tall.... that is, umm, very big. As for any mention of the crusades being a Christian construction, crime, or reason for guilt, Muslims have had plenty of Crusades over the years. They had 'crusades' against North Africa, Spain, Europe, India, China, Afgainistan; in fact all over the place. They took particular delight in destroying Buddhist monestries and sacred texts in India; but strangely more or less incorporated a lot of Hindu mysticism into the brand that evolved in India. So any hint of Muslim's feeling wronged by history is laughable, as it is unconstructive to a long term view of history. This, however, is only so if you define 'religion' as the ultimate moving force behind historical crusades. Personally I think has been used as a conviniant exuse for conquest and invasion; including the Christian crusades.

DVD Genie makes things regionless for me, not sussed enough about the burning thingy though. Sounds like a good movie GAT...

J you have the trick to pick out these little details. Even though i don't know if we have any satanists on the site... Do we? Simple mathematics my dear boy!

Speaking of religion....SATANISTS! This weekend is your last chance to concieve if you want He Who Walks Backwards' child born on 6/6/6. Any later and to be out then he'd be premature and perhaps a bit weedy. Go go Beelzebaby action!!

A rusty asteroid experiancing problems with it's existance is good enough for me to put on an alter and worship thoughtlessly, and define all my morality, etc...

Worry not dude! Some extremely good models. Somewhere on the internet I hosted some screen shots of some, i'm just struggling to remember where.... i'll try to figure this out later tonight. I'll be honest with you, we've yet to get round to some serious testing as far as ship stats go. When have cleared up the last bits and pieces we shall turn our attention to this, and of course ask for some old-hands to help out. As anyone with a good few years of experiance knows, the Rebellion program is an extremely fickle beast, prone to freak out and throw a tantrum if you adjust something ever so slightly it can't get it's AI around it.

Veers was the German officer who drinks from a goblet thinking it's the Cup of Christ, only to discover it's the wrong one, and subsequently die and horrible, dreadful, painful, and extremely agonizing death.... I can't watch the Last Crusade anymore without expecting his character to suddenly say, 'You may begin your landing, the shield generator will be down in moments.'

Mask and his team have been quite faithful to actual ship sizes in accordance to each other. So you wont be seeing a Star Galleon the same size as a Star Destroyer.