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[Hunter_13]

I'm a fan of your inclusion of the survival vest. A lot of folks miss that detail.

 

[Hunter_13]

Awesome work Howie! Hoping Hunter puts that cigar out in case he acidentally bumps his mixture to 100% Oxygen!

The B-52 still has ash trays... oddly, it's right near the oxygen regulator. We still have the checklist step... "No smoking, crew".

In the picture (yes, that's me, once upon a time) the circle is the ash tray, the square is the Oxygen Regulator control.

 

[Howard Day]

Thanks! And I *want* to include Hunter's stoagie in his cockpit helmet...but with the visior down there's just no room. Aww, fuck - I can have the visor up! Hehehehe, okay, that's not a bad idea.

 

[ChrisReid]

The B-52 still has ash trays... oddly, it's right near the oxygen regulator. We still have the checklist step... "No smoking, crew".

We still make brand new design aircraft with ash trays... because if someone does happen to light one up while in flight, you need a place to put it out.

 

[Howard Day]

And it looks awesome, so, here you go.

Enjoy!

 

[Hunter_13]

And it looks awesome, so, here you go.

Enjoy!

Approved.

We were always told a story about Curtis E. LeMay (blessed father of Strategic Air Command) and he would walk around the jets while they were being refueled on the ground. Poor airman/sergeant comes up to him "Sorry General, but you can't smoke this close to the refueling operations. It could ignite the fuel and blow us all up."

General LeMay looks the poor kid in the eye and says "It wouldn't dare."

 

[Howard Day]

Bulked up the seats, fixed the padding stitching and wrinkles to blend/look better, added more helmet art, rank insignia on the respirators, and seatbelts!

Enjoy!

 

[Howard Day]

Here's the latest on the TCS Orszaga's briefing room - Supposed to be of a similar build/era to the TCS Tigers Claw, just smaller and a bit more battle-worn.

Enjoy!

 

[Howard Day]

Oh, and the latest on Chef and Maniac!

 

[Shere Khan]

Outstanding work. As far as I'm concerned, from now on your old "I'm not a character artist" excuse is forfeit

 

[Darkmage]

Chalk up another for The Maniac!

 

[Howard Day]

Bunkroom update - Thinking of ditching the separate Rec room all together, but I suppose I do still need the flightsim and bartender. Maybe follow in Travis's footsteps and add a pool table.

 

[AD]

Bunkroom update - Thinking of ditching the separate Rec room all together, but I suppose I do still need the flightsim and bartender. Maybe follow in Travis's footsteps and add a pool table.

In some ways the layout here reminds me a bit more of WC2 over WC1, but even WC2 had a lounge in the cutscenes, though I don't think you actually see the bartender in WC2

 

[Howard Day]

Barracks update - a bunch of lighting and tweaks to the layout and scale. I tried to mash up the interface from WC2 and the computers from the science lab from WC1 to add a communication / shipviewer / lore computer. Thanks to LOAF for the idea!

 

[Sheppard]

I'm just jumping in to show support.

I like that you're trying to model that interregnum between WC1 and WC2, where Blair was beached in the middle of nowhere doing nothing, while his teammates like Angel and Maniac from WC1 were fighting and dying on the frontlines.

Also, I like the feel you're going for the TCS Orszaga -- something that "fits" into the WC universe, something that's in between the Concordia and Tiger's Claw (or maybe a bit smaller than the Claw herself) a sort of WC1.5 era light carrier; because not everything in the Terran Confederation was a full size fleet carrier.

 

[thecoredump]

I could kill for a such remake of Privateer backgrounds, to be used in WC Gemini Gold!

 

[FekLeyrTarg]

I could kill for a such remake of Privateer backgrounds, to be used in WC Gemini Gold!

Most of the original 3d assets still exist, so I shouldn't be much difficult to render them in higher resolution.

 

[Howard Day]

Sheppard: Thanks! the time period I'm targeting is 2656 - Before the 'Claws destruction, And I'm sort of wondering if I can use this particular mission (to test and evaluate a new Firekkan Space-fighter) as an excuse to get Hunter off the Claw before she gets toasted.
The player character in my version here will likely *not* be Blair, but some other green pilot. As a joke I was planning on making the new guy look like Luke Skywalker.

thecoredump, FekLeyrTarg: Yeah, that stuff all exists. It'd still be a lot of work to get them set up again to render properly, as more than a few of the textures are in .CEL format which 3dsmax no longer natively supports.

So minor changes - added some atmosphere to the lights (sorta a dry run for the hangar scenes up next) and some Color Ramp brightness desaturation - basically on thing like walls and floors and especially fabric, as they get brighter they lose saturation. Helps add some depth to the scene. I plan on doing some of the same to the dark end of the spectrum - only they desaturate to a more blue tone, rather than a neutral gray like I have for the brightness.

 

[capi3101]

You know, if you ever need any pilot characters for this particular boat, I've got a whole bunch of half-fleshed out generic pilots from WCRPG you could use. Feel free.

 

[Howard Day]

Thanks! So far I've just got Conan, Chef, Don, and, Wildcard as the Orszaga-specific pilots you'll be flying with. Dunno if adding more would be entirely neccessary. :/

Ok. Done with the Barracks for now, added the atmospheric lighting to the briefing ready room as well.
Either the Officers Lounge or Debriefing area next!

Enjoy!