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Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:53 pm

Sounds like we're going all out for this project. Good work, guys! As for me, my job in this will be the backseat critic.

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:16 pm

Should we also send front, back, and side shots of in-game items, like game systems?

Also, All my 3-D experience is with GameStudios Level Editor, and it doesn't even work in the same way. I don't know if I can help you, unless I get links to the tools or something. ^^* I have no real experience in 3-D game design, I'm afraid...

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:44 am

Since you're getting in to the designing of the city I will make my first contribution to the project. a skyscraper. it is in .X format, http://www.freewebs.com/xpcportables/skyscrape1.x
by the way if you need any other inanimate props for the game just tell me what to make, as long as someone else can texture it, I can make it. the IK joint system in my truespace editor is not working correctly which is why I can only make motionless props.
:EDIT: also I wanted to add that the poly count is kinda high on this one because for some reason when I save in .X format it automatically smoothe everything out.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:04 am

There should be all sorts of strange things happening in alleys. Like you walk into one and at the back you see some shady figures huddled over something on the ground, and all you hear is:

CINNA
O Caesar,--

CAESAR
Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?

DECIUS BRUTUS
Great Caesar,--

CAESAR
Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?

CASCA
Speak, hands for me!

CASCA first, then the other Conspirators and BRUTUS stab CAESAR

CAESAR
Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.

Dies

CINNA
Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:53 am

I know it's not a whole heck of a lot compared to a model or a tile, but I finished the first version of the logo.

<a href="http://img273.imageshack.us/img273/7065 ... ion7ch.gif" target=_blank><img src="http://img273.imageshack.us/img273/518/ ... k.gif"></a>
(click for a larger version)

Don't worry about the blue outline around the image; they were put there by the HTML tags.

I originally made this in an 800x600 canvas, but I can import it into Flash or Adobe Streamline and vectorize it.

Any day I get to use Photoshop is a good day in my book.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:13 pm

That's awesome. Plan on making a background like the GTA ones have too? Looks kinda plain right now (although totally awesome)

Like this, but with portables or something:

Anybody good at drawing?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:20 pm

Kurt_ wrote:That's awesome. Plan on making a background like the GTA ones have too? Looks kinda plain right now (although totally awesome)

Like this, but with portables or something:

Anybody good at drawing?

I'm right on it! It'll be better then Halo 2 - Duck Hunt Edition, I promise!

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:26 pm

This is awesome! I can't wait to play it... fingers itching...

I have a ton of questions, if you don't feel up to answering them thats fine.

Is this gonna be made from scratch, or a GTA 3 mod?
Would you like pics of a chevy 12 pasenger van? (AKA: THE TANK!) Or how about a Chevy Avalanche? (smaller tank, lol)
Will you be putting individual faces on the "cops", or will it be more like GTA where they all look the same?
Can we stab people with our soldering irons? Please say yes!

Should we submit pics of our portables to be in the game?

I'd be glad to help with this project anyways I can. I have a few joke ideas that might be fun. Like a knockoff viagra ad for "pNES enhancement"

Post by **benheck** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:44 pm

I don't think it needs to be "Madison" Base it off it, but don't call it that.

This area is kind of... hm. Kind of in the direction of the kind of people who call for games to be less violent. That's all I'll say.

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:46 pm

HaHa we have to do the viagra knockoff good Idea. He is using a tile based game for the engine I beleive, not gta3 so a lot of this is from scratch. I can't wait for it to come out either that would be so I am going to submit pics of my dads truck(hopefully mine one day and my moms car when it stops snowing. Also another cool Idea would be to have secret messages somewhere in the pictures or billboards in the game like ben does on his site. Do you think we could put the General Lee in there That would be really cool if you want I can get the pics of it for you.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:47 pm

xxxeagle wrote:HaHa we have to do the viagra knockoff good Idea. He is using a tile based game for the engine I beleive, not gta3 so a lot of this is from scratch. I can't wait for it to come out either that would be so I am going to submit pics of my dads truck(hopefully mine one day and my moms car when it stops snowing. Also another cool Idea would be to have secret messages somewhere in the pictures or billboards in the game like ben does on his site. Do you think we could put the General Lee in there That would be really cool if you want I can get the pics of it for you.

You know what....

Lets make this a vice city mod

it would be really cool.

Btw, I'll use ben's p's in the cover art, k?

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:00 pm

Here:

Is this any good?

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:07 pm

looks pretty good, IMHO

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Post by **bicostp** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:34 pm

Kurt_ wrote:Plan on making a background like the GTA ones have too?

Ask and ye shall recieve...

<img src="http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/2373/boxart2xh.gif">

I kind of made the shadowing behind the units rather basic, but I think the emphasis should be on the units themselves.

All the background colors are authentic, with the exception of the Game Grrl box.

What I did was I puled the unit out of the background, blew the image up if it needed it, ran the "posterize" and "trace edges" filters, shrank it back down, and added it to the image. This lowers the amount of colors and emphasizes the edges slightly, while not making them look too flat.

Post by **Gamelver** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:11 pm

heh, nice

...man, if this game really gets going (and it certainly looks like it will), then it's going to be awesome

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