More units goodness.

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:07 am

http://www.spiritplumber.com/priv_remak ... atch17.zip

This does very little, but:

* load times reduced a bit more (not my doing, it's the new mesher)
* removed some crash inducing badness
* a couple of quick fixes in units (drayman the correct size, massproduced steltek gun works correctly, leech mines use leech explosion, etc.)
* every unit now has a generic damage map -- if anyone wants to contribute damage maps, please do! Just take a texture for a ship, modify it so that it looks beaten up, and send it over

if you want to test it, just replace genericdamage.png in /textures with it temporarily. For an example see chuck's gorgeous caernaven's damage map (caernavenDMG.png) -- it's kinda nice to see badguys full of holes.

I think we're mostly done with units... what are we missing? (other than the tarawa and hakagas... i know... i'm taking time with those, want them to look good)

it's ___really___ time to start working on plots, base backgrounds (esp for kat bases) or possibly both...

amano · Post by **amano** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:12 am

An update to 0.2

I thought we were at 0.2.1 level already?

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:05 am

thanks ^^; i messed up the version num... this said, the update should be good for everything.

Post by **chuck_starchaser** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:07 am

Wow! This is sooo much better! Man! Love the new HUD images, great mix of ships in space, sizes and distances make a lot more sense, no crashes, 10 times faster through the jumps... Is the music new and improved? I don't remember it being stereo, but then again, my speaker was mono

But it also sounds sharper and clearer. And no bugs to report yet...

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:20 pm

thanks!

if you liked that grab this

http://www.spiritplumber.com/priv_remak ... atch18.zip

as it fixes a few problems with formations -- namely, now other ships should try to keep formation if there are no enemies (so fighters will stay near their capship) and your wingmen will line up properly whether you bought them or hired them. also, now you can only use torpedos against capital ships

so sorry...

i hope i took care of the "firing like crazy" thing, i may not have hto.

Post by **chuck_starchaser** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:18 pm

You're awsome, spirit; I often get stuck for days trying to figure out one problem, and you seem to solve them by the dozens per minute...
Luckily, I'm almost as good as you in electronics; otherwise I'd be out of a job by now, given that I procrastinate with my work to the 11th hour...