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[Fireball_IV]

Hi Everyone,

I'm just posting some pictures of my content that was created for Dawn of War.
I never had anything to the point of 100% playable (The Klingons were all but done but did not have an AI).

I will be posting some pictures of some of the content I've made; I'm thinking some of it can be used by others for upcoming mods; however if anyone is looking for any specific models, ships, etc. please feel free to reach out to me. I'll do my best to accommodate.

I don't mind people editing, releasing, etc. so long as the appropriate credit is provided.

I'll start with some Klingon stuff

 

[Fireball_IV]

Some more Klingon Content.
One of my favorite ships is the Stinger; it's one of the last ships I added to the faction and I think one of the best looking.

Also posting some of my later Fed content (Ajax & Daedalus which were all previously released) as well as the Achillies class which is a Conny based light cruiser; slightly more compact than the Conny

 

[Fireball_IV]

Some Romulan Content I made

 

[CptBenSisko]

Woot!!! way to see our community coming back to life with some new content!!

 

[Atlantis]

Welcome to MSFC, Mr P, good to see you!

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
Those are great pics! Specially since they are also ingame ones. I am wnjoying watchign the stations the most, since designs are hard to get .

 

[Fireball_IV]

Thanks; nice to see so many familiar faces around!!
I've have been going through stuff bit by bit and found some more pictures/material. I'm working on getting Armada II Classic going such that I can start playing around more to really get back into the swing.

Here are some older in-game pics

 

[Fireball_IV]

Does anyone know if I ever released my D7?

 

[Fireball_IV]

Hey guys; I did a simple drag and drop of my Klingon TOS race into FO - Classic Mod (Anyone know where to find the Super Classic?); and for some reason my GUI and everything is simply white and the game is slightly choppy. This used to work on a Fresh A2 Install; does anyone have any feedback?

Much appreciated,

Mike

 

[Fireball_IV]

Well, I got it working!! Wow is it ever nice to see everything this close up and ingame again. I wish I knew how to do an AI I would love for it to be completely workable. However I thinjk I'm still going to upload this to resources as you can drag it into classic as a standalone race and just play

I have an absolute blast and can't wait to play some more, and do a couple of ships (and requests ).

I'm loving seeing the detail in the D7; I thrilled that some of this stuff still looks great today. The Gull that Skeeter & I collaborated on looks devastating and brilliant all of these years later!

The missiles still manage to look pretty cool on the older ships!

 

[Hath]

Hi Fireball. Your stuff looks great and I'm glad you got your mod up and running! As for your being unsure about AI's I would say just go for it. If you can make models, textures, and mod it all into game you can do a simple AI. The Big Book of Modding is worth a download. It has a chapter on AI's that is well done. It goes over how to make just a simple AI like in FO or you can go full on nuts like I did.

If you just want something that well make the computer play just copy and paste a AI in from A2. Then all you need to do is substitute your ship and station odf names into it. Hopes this helps and good luck!

 

[CptBenSisko]

Well, I got it working!! Wow is it ever nice to see everything this close up and ingame again. I wish I knew how to do an AI I would love for it to be completely workable. However I thinjk I'm still going to upload this to resources as you can drag it into classic as a standalone race and just play

I have an absolute blast and can't wait to play some more, and do a couple of ships (and requests ).

I'm loving seeing the detail in the D7; I thrilled that some of this stuff still looks great today. The Gull that Skeeter & I collaborated on looks devastating and brilliant all of these years later!

The missiles still manage to look pretty cool on the older ships!

is that firing missles that use a sprite texture? or do they use an .sod mesh? Id love some decent missle texture/sprites for the TMP mod..

 

[Rifraf]

As Hath stated are you looking for build lists so the computer can build through and give you enemies to shoot or are you looking for AI personality files? The way the AI evaluates threats and such?

 

[Fireball_IV]

More than anything I'd like the race as a whole to be functional whether played by a player or NPC.
The missiles use SOD's and a sprite for the rocket trail Captain.

I'll be sure to download the modders toolbox.

Some More Pics

 

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
I like how you made the build buttons, to match the Klingon feel from the movies .

 

[Terra_Inc]

This is some very fine work! The GUI looks great as well, really fits the era!

Does anyone know if I ever released my D7?

I have a D7 you released way back in 2011, yep. It's still available through the A2Files archive (armadafiles.com), I think.

As Hath stated are you looking for build lists so the computer can build through and give you enemies to shoot or are you looking for AI personality files? The way the AI evaluates threats and such?

More than anything I'd like the race as a whole to be functional whether played by a player or NPC.

Writing a build list isn't hard. It mostly takes a bit of thinking to decide what your AI should prioritize building, and making sure there's no accidental dead end in the build list (such as telling the AI to build something from a yard that it hasn't built yet). The build list format is pretty simple - Westworld's venerable Big Book of Modding explains it pretty well. Testing one is relatively easy as well, there's an AI debug mode in the game that will allow you to see at what stage in the build list the AI is.
Personality files, on the other hand, are a bit tricky and it's not really required to make your own in order to have a working AI to play against. They can be fun to play around with, though, if you're trying to tweak the behavior of your AI.

EDIT: I'd also recommend the FO Modding Guide as a very good reference for writing an AI. http://guide.fleetops.net/guide/modding/units/artificial-intelligence

 

[Fireball_IV]

Thanks for all of the resources!
Okay - Glad I did release the D7 lol; I think it's one of my highest quality textures (Ironically looking at the original PSD files moat of the detail is blurred or relatively light to match the era lol)

I'd like to shove that one into sins of a solar empire one day with normal maps, speculars, etc.

 

[Jetfreak]

Superb stuff all around Fireball, when you get to upload the Max versions of the Connie and D7, I'd love to fire up some renders.

 

[Fireball_IV]

I'm still looking for the bloody max version of the D7! I hope I can find it.
The beauty is I will upload the PSD textures so you can change the base colour, bolden the detail (like I said there's a lot more detail in the texture than shows necessarily).

Case and point attached. This is with the details darkened and the texture bevels/extrusions removed (As it would obviously look better with bump/normal maps as opposed to bake in the texture like my released version).

 

[Jetfreak]

True that, no rush to find em' but I can already imagine the leap in the model appearance with the proper texturing! Sorta like a TOS-enhanced visual.

 

[Fireball_IV]

Oh Yeah, Because the detail is there as you can see in the picture I attached.
It would be very easy to make it all pop when you get the individual layers of the textures!