Imperial 2 tech tree (***Full Release*****)

[will]

A kite with canards?  That is redefining 

A lot of fun units

Is that 4-pose from g3d_viewer?  If not, do all the struts in the wings show up in the game?

[Mr War]

Um not canards, they'd be in front. By thanks man

The 3 view is from the viewer and the struts show up well - it's using the transparency trick

[Gabbe]

Try do something like this, if you want to imrpove the wing quality. But it already is very good anyways

[will]

Um not canards, they'd be in front. By thanks man

The 3 view is from the viewer and the struts show up well - it's using the transparency trick

Are they called winglets then?  I forget all the jargon man

[Mr War]

Thanks for the suggestion gabbe. I deliberately try to keep low poly so adding leading edges like that would increase the poly count a lot . Unfortunately will was right that the struts do not always show in game (zoom?) but I am not too worried because the essence of the kite shows through and the model looks ok in game

Wyvern, I'm not ignOring your suggestions man. I don't think I can put a flying boat in but interesting idea. Does ai work since air units can fly over sea anyway? The flamethrower will be on a different ship, more like a greek galley

[Mr War]

Overwhelmed with how time consuming this game is to mod. If anyone wants to join the mod pm me. Really experienced and productive modders who can work as a team only pls

[MuwuM]

Overwhelmed with how time consuming this game is to mod.

Every game needs much time to mod (atleast with good quality).

If anyone wants to join the mod pm me. Really experienced and productive modders who can work as a team only pls

Sad, that I'm not experienced in modding Glest  :'( but wich you best luck in finding good team .

[Mr War]

Ah, back in the days of voxel graphics in CnC tiberian sun and red alert two it was so much easier especially if you avoided Gifs. Maybe it's rose tinted glasses. Glest is good, cool to mod but it's a generation later and expectations have shifted, each unit has more variables, animation etc

[MuwuM]

ok, agreed with it was easier to develop for older/lower expactations but in Up-to-date 3d games it usually takes lot of time. Espacially PRG games takes time ...and time (...and time) ;-).

ohh... i'm running out of topic ... I think glest is very easy to develop compared to similary games (besides Warcraft).

[wciow]

Overwhelmed with how time consuming this game is to mod.

Doing eveything yourself can be very time consuming! My first mod (Dwarves) which was of comparable size to the tech faction took me roughly a year of modding time to complete I've since learnt from some mistakes I made and could now churn out a new faction in about 6 months. Of course if modding was my full-time day job I could do it in 6 weeks 

Most people jump straight in to the deep end by trying to make a TC mod or techtree with multiple factions. My advice is to start small with a tileset or small faction mod before going further. The additions from GAE/MG are adding new features for modders to learn almost by the week, whilst not many games can claim such a feat it also means constantly keeping up-to-date.

I hope you can continue on with this mod since you are obviously a talented artist and have enthusiasm for the project 

[Mr War]

Still making slow progress.....

[Ishmaru]

Awesome models! Yea modding is a long commitment, epically to make a quality mod. It gets hard to stay focused on project when development goes on for a few months, but just keep in there! Sorry, I'm a bit swamped with my two projects myself. Hope you find some good help! You have great models so I have hi hopes you will make something of good quality.

[Mr War]

Does anyone know if it's possible to have two particle XML fir the same attack? I have boars with twin cannons and I want a shell to cone from each barrel

I tried but get the error "particle node doesn't have the attribute named path"

[ultifd]

Hmm... why don't you use the transparent option of the G3D Viewer when you take your screenshots? I think that would be much better...

[Ishmaru]

Does anyone know if it's possible to have two particle XML fir the same attack? I have boars with twin cannons and I want a shell to cone from each barrel

I tried but get the error "particle node doesn't have the attribute named path"

As far as i know you can only attach one particle projectile per skill. If you want to have twin cannons then either you can create a g3d with two shells.  Or you can fire two of the same projectiles in one skill cycle one right after another by changing these values...

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<max-ep value="5" regeneration="1"/>
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<skill>
<type value="attack"/>
<name value=attack_skill/>
<ep-cost value="5"/>
<speed value=200/>
<anim-speed value="400"/>
...
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The idea here is to attack animate a certain number of times before the cycle ceases. This will only work if the location you want the shots come from are the same or close.

Note:
you can change max-ep and ep-cost to whatever you want but the two must have the same value. This value would determine the reload pause.

speed and animation speed can be changed around.
1 anim-speed should be always higher than speed by a multiple  (ex: speed x2  ex speed x3) The multiplier determines how many projectiles would be fired in that cycle (ex: x2 = 2 projectiles  x3 = 3 projectiles)

2 if you do want to increase the number of projectiles its a good idea to reduce the "speed" value so for MRLS in Annex i use a speed value 100 and anim-value 600 meaning six projectiles per cycle.

The attack animation should be quick under 10 frames however for larger multipliers (ex 5x or more) I would recommend 1 frame animations.

Have the particles generate in-between the two cannons.
If you make the fireball effect of the shot large enough you wont notice that they are coming from the same spot.

This works in Vanilla and Megaglest. Have not tried in GAE.
Hope this helps!

[Zoythrus]

silnarm tells me that multiple attack particles will come eventually

[Mr War]

thanks Ishmaru, Zoythrus,. Unfortunately what I'm after is two shells side by side both with particle smoke streams. I might be able to do it via the g3d file but it won't look as good.

Imperial faction (green) attack Tech Faction fleet (red):

Units, Tech: 2 x Dreadnoughts, 1 x Man-of-War
Imperial: 2 x Ironclads, 1 x Cruiser

The smoke effect is stolen from the Japanese Faction's cannon, and the projectile from the Tech Airship

ultifd, sorry man I don't know what you mean by transparent option

[Ishmaru]

If you do make a G3D file with two shells, if you have smoke trail big enough it would look fine. Though for best effect maybe have the trail look more like smoke instead of fireworks, works better as cannons than the fireworks look that the tech airship has. The cannons are close enough together for it to work.

[ultifd]

Nice ships!
Well I think everyone uses the MG G3D Viewer usually, because it can take transparent screenshots; which is nicer for...well taking screenshots of the models.

Here's the latest version of it, just put it in your MG folder:

silnarm tells me that multiple attack particles will come eventually

Sounds good, although I can't find it in trac, perhaps the version after the release of "Glest 4".

[Psychedelic_hands]

Still making slow progress.....

Woah, looks sweet man.
I was thinking about updating Magitech with water combat a few weeks ago.

[Mr War]

all your bases are belong to us!!!

With this Steam Trebuchet I'll kick your ass, from here to right over there!!!!

[ElimiNator]

Looks neat, how much range dose it have?

[Mr War]

Well, I haven't written the XML yet but it'll be long ranged with poor mobility and armor. A lot like the trebuchet in age of empires II. It'll balance with the Tech catapult

[ultifd]

Here's the latest version of it, just put it in your MG folder:

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20127310/Latest+MG+G3D+Viewer.7z
Sorry somehow I didn't post the link...enjoy!

[Mr War]

I put some of the G3D files through Will's GlestTools gif maker. It doesn't handle transparencies correctly (team colours show as transparent) but is good fun. Thanks Will  

eg https://github.com/williame/GlestTools  with the command line g3d_thumb.py -w 400 -h 400 -b e0f0f0 -p 0,100,-20 trebuchet_attacking.g3d