Pureon
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Nice list Enrique.
@Lion: I'd still highly recommend using your (or LordGood's) Sketchup model as 3D concept art and rebuilding the model in Blender.
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A percentage system does sound like a good idea, especially since it's easy to visualise a percentage of the unit's body being covered in armour.
You don't mention it in your post, but are you thinking of removing Armour/Hack, Armour/Pierce and Armour/Crush in favour of just one Armour value? I don't think you are.
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Best place to find people to play against is 0 A.D.'s public IRC channel - #0ad on QuakeNet
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I've also been rebuilding the whole model. It's easier to UV map that way.
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So my vote goes toward requiring 100% health to complete a building.
If a building is so heavily under attack that you don't make any progress building it, you should consider attacking the attackers.
They will stop attacking it soon or they die.
I also favour the 100% health needed. If someone cannot build fast enough because the structure is taking damage then it shouldn't get completed.
This is what I agree with. I do not wish to see the health disconnected from percentage complete. To me they should be the same.
Looks like this is the most popular option. Lets go with it.
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Enrique what should we do about the lack of visible player colour on the Mauryan buildings? I mentioned it here after noticing it on the house models.
Could we add player colour to the canvas/cloth texture? (Probably not because we've stretched it on a few models.)
How about adding some additional player colour layers to the stone on the first maur_struct texture?
I'm happy to make the texture edits, but want to hear what you think
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Cool! I, for one, am thankful we didn't have to learn Old or even Middle English in school
Unless a modern translation of Beowulf counts.Doesn't reading Shakespeare count as learning Old English?
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Enrique the temple looks very nice!
Pureon fixed the mill building, he didn't commit it to the SVN yet?
I didn't get any feedback from you guys
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Are there people who agree with me? Or have a different opinion?
I agree the unit shouldn't be around for 8 minutes after it's death. However I'm not sure how much of an impact this has on the slowdown. AI and pathfinding are known to be the main causes of it, neither of which are affected by the dead unit I believe. A dev will probably say I'm wrong though
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It worked quite nicely ,thanks .The shaders are loking great .
This wiki page may also be helpful: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Manual_Settings#AdvancedgraphicsGLSLonly
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Removing repair costs doesn't sound appealing to me. Whether you spend resources on repairs, or you use the resources on advancing/retreating is a strategic decision that shouldn't be removed imo.
However this discussion isn't about the repair costs themselves, but whether buildings should be completed damaged or always at 100% health.
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They just need AO maps.
Which I can't be bothered with right now. But I will do it soon...
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I don't like it when 1 unit can finish building a fortress even though I've started attacking it with melee units at the other end, however I also wouldn't like it if I was unable to complete a build just because someone keeps shooting rocks at it from far away.
So I can't decide between the two options. Both have their merits.
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and how put the ambient occlusion?
It's a different type of UV map in Blender that also produces a texture.
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Texturing is creating the 2d texture so that you can UV map it onto the model.
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what is UV mapping?
Wrapping a 2d texture over a 3d model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping
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now we need to know if team wants put them in the atlas, and obvius put textures and optimized
You make it sound like they are almost ready to use
Rebuilding the models in Max/Blender, adding detail, UV mapping, texturing, ambient occlusion, setting up the actors - unfortunately the most difficult, boring, and time-consuming work still needs to be done.-
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Great.
Any particular reason you don't go open source like 0 A.D. has? Surely, you would be able to get many programmers if you did...
I also agree about the lack of openness possibly putting off programmers. Also it is pretty hard to tell if you will use pyrogenesis (are you planning to?). Also in the summary you mention "C++\C# coder" when pyrogenesis uses a mix of C++ and javascript. I would personally be looking for quite a lot more technical information before contacting you.
Any responses to these questions guys?
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Ok ,i have been trying to get a model ingame myself but the transparency dosent seem to work
https://dl.dropbox.c...3624/ingame.png
the skin has the alpha channel set up right i think .
https://dl.dropbox.c...58013624/sd.png
What might be the problem ?
Are you exporting a DDS or a PNG texture? With PNG you may need to use the SuperPNG plugin so that the alpha is correctly exported, if saving as DDS make sure you're using DXT5 and not DXT1.
In the actor that calls the texture file make sure the material is <material>basic_trans.xml</material> This uses the texture's alpha channel to show transparency, rather than player colour etc.
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I decided to pursue a JSON-based solution anyway:
https://github.com/z...ompare/triggers
When I insert an element like this in a map's script settings, a trigger is created which shows a message if one of player 1's units is attacked.
I must have missed this. Even though it may not be the solution we end up using, it's still good to see your efforts
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The links don't work for me either.
Something got to my mind: We'd be able to use a "turret" in 0 A.D. for horse archers/javalineers. Making them able to shoot as they walk.
That's the plan. Especially useful for carriot and elephant tower archers that are completely independant of the driver, and so can in theory turn 360 degrees.
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Welcome to the forums Mack. Developers are always welcome to contribute
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Hey TheMista, good to see you here! (I think you are who you say you are based on the email address you used to register here)
I've watched quite a few of your multiplayer games on Youtube, so I know you're very good at AoE games
0 A.D. isn't really at a stage where detailed balancing is needed, many features are still missing, but multiplayer is already a lot of fun and balance suggestions are always useful.
Do you use IRC? Staff often join multiplayer matches on weekends and IRC is where we hang out. #0ad and #0ad-dev on QuakeNet
Have you tried 0 A.D. yet?
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And he must learn Blender, then his models can be used in 0 A.D.
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Foundations under attack (discussion)
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Or complete the construction themselves - a bit like capturing the unfinished building. That's probably getting too complicated though.