Sci-fi Pack - Industarons BETA

[Mr War]

Latest BETA of Industarons. Includes Martian Faction
[big]Download Tech Tree (7zip) - 7th July 2011
Download Sci-Fi Twightlight tileset (7zip)
Download Sci-Fi Ghost Town map[/big]
Note that Map and Tile set are intended for use together.

Requires MegaGlest 3.5,2 or higher
Please note that this is only an Beta release. Playable but missing some key units, animations, upgrades etc.
Feedback Welcome

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GREEN DAWN
MARTIAN INVASION of EARTH!
Faction for upcoming Sci-Fi pack for MegaGlest
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Martians is a retro-futuristic Sci-fi faction inspired by, and in homage to HG Wells' genre-defining classic "War of The Worlds" and mass of 1950s B-Movies that followed. The battle set plays on some of the common themes such as flying saucers and little green men, but hopefully displays some creativity in the delivery. Several innovative particle effects contributed by Will.

Martian Units

Worker Basic Martian unit for building things, mining and deforestation. Martian Trooper Core infantry unit armed with death ray. Unarmored, can engage both ground and air targets Chemical trooper Advanced infantry armed with a lethal acidic flame thrower. Short ranged and can only engage ground targets Tripod Standard medium mechanized unit, fast with decent firepower in a twin pulse laser Assault Tripod Heavy mechanized unit for storming enemy bases. Is not produced in the normal way, instead a worker has to build an Invasion beacon to communicate with the mass of Invasion capsules which are hovering in low orbit awaiting the call. The beacon can then be switched to communicate with the capsules, one of which lands on the beacon. The Assault Tripod emerges. Disc Droid Light air unit suitible for scouting possible enemy positions and attacking lightly defended targets. Can engage both air and ground units. Flying Saucer Heavy air unit, the flying saucer is probably the most powerful offensive unit in the Martian's arsenal. Capable of engaging both air and ground units. Martian Buildings Mothership The central building of any successful invasion, these are the first units to land. Can produce workers Command Saucer The hub of military activity, this is required to hatch Martian troopers and conduct research Space Port Industrial replication plant capable of producing Tripods and air units Energy Source power plant required for running of invasion forces Invasion Beacon Advanced communication device capable of summoning invasion capsules containing Assault Tripods Laser Turret Defensive building mounting a very powerful and longer ranged death ray. Employs advanced Plasma Shield armor. Built on Turret Base which is built by workers.

[Ishmaru]

Wow those are some great tanks! Love the Outpost design as well! The treads are cool but i really cant imagine any alien/ scifi tank of that variety with a gas engine. Maybe something like solar panels, energy reactor, or tesla generator would look better. Whats the concept of this mod??

[Hagekura]

Wow kinda retro but lovely designs! good work!

[ElimiNator]

I made a martian faction quite a wile back, but it didn't have any thing like this, cool!

[will]

also, I think the workers ought to hover, perhaps be properly round, their smoke ought to be pale yellow fumes, and they ought to have big chainsaws when collecting wood and large drill bits when mining...

Can the main buildings move?

Imagine that you can't build more of the mothership, but you can morph it into a movable mothership and move it and deploy it elsewhere... would that work?

[Mr War]

The workers will be little hover units. I'll have more buildings but fewer than Imperial. Other units will include a tripod like walker and flying saucers. I have some retro-futuristic b-movie influences but also want to be a but creative whilst keeping true to the classic scifi genre

[John.d.h]

The workers will be little hover units. I'll have more buildings but fewer than Imperial. Other units will include a tripod like walker and flying saucers. I have some retro-futuristic b-movie influences but also want to be a but creative whilst keeping true to the classic scifi genre

I have a few alien vehicle models lying around from an old abandonware project with Fluffy203, including a tripod walker and multiple saucers.  You are free to use them with attribution.  Just let me know and I'll upload them somewhere.

[Mr War]

The workers will be little hover units. I'll have more buildings but fewer than Imperial. Other units will include a tripod like walker and flying saucers. I have some retro-futuristic b-movie influences but also want to be a but creative whilst keeping true to the classic scifi genre

I have a few alien vehicle models lying around from an old abandonware project with Fluffy203, including a tripod walker and multiple saucers.  You are reasonably priced to use them with attribution.  Just let me know and I'll upload them somewhere.

That'd be cool man, thanks for the offer. I can't promise to use them just because modeling is my creative outlet so I have plenty of ideas myself and of course i'll use my own first. Maybe they could be part if another complementary alien faction  

[John.d.h]

Here are mine:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ew6d5wus86v3m46/aliens%20by%20johndh.7z

And here are Fluffy203's:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mlblng3w52z/glade---give%20credit.rar

You can use them all you like, under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 3.0 or any later version.  Enjoy!

[ultifd]

Another one, huh. Looks cool.

[Mr War]

Here are mine:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ew6d5wus86v3m46/aliens%20by%20johndh.7z

And here are Fluffy203's:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mlblng3w52z/glade---give%20credit.rar

You can use them all you like, under Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 3.0 or any later version.  Enjoy!  

Those models are fantastic, they deserve their own mod. Was it ever finished? They are quite different stylistically to mine - looooove the walker. If not maybe we could add them as a new faction in the SciFi Pack I'm working on?

My own attempts at a walker ended up looking quite different so there's definitely room for both styles on different factions without duplication

[wyvern]

I would personally like to see the opposing human resistance faction resurrected and added. But this looks like a great mod, I like it

[John.d.h]

Those models are fantastic, they deserve their own mod. Was it ever finished?

He and I had some creative differences and he decided to drop the project to work on something else, and I really lost my momentum and motivation after that, so it never got finished.  There were also a few models made for the opposing human faction (a Sherman Tank, Mustang fighter plane, maybe a jeep?) but the download link I have is dead.  You could try contacting Fluffy to ask if he still has them, or Jamin, who made the models.

They are quite different stylistically to mine - looooove the walker. If not maybe we could add them as a new faction in the SciFi Pack I'm working on?

Sure, you can do (virtually) whatever you like with them as per CC-By-SA.  I look forward to seeing what you can come up with.

[wyvern]

If resurrected I have the priest model and some alien thing that I started working on but stopped after the mod crashed

[Mr War]

All this input is very cool, thanks guys.

Yeah, earth defender factions would be cool. Maybe a mix of classic 1950s styling but futuristic elements so that it is backstory agnostic?

I have two factions planned: martians, industarons

If we resurrect the scifi pack pact idea from a few weeks ago then anyone can build a scifi faction that more or less plugs and plays with the others. I'd love to see fluffy and johns models used.

[Mr War]

some progress. I'm working on a quick build approach.

[ultifd]

Hmm...I guess you forgot to change the name. I guess it should be

Green Dawn (Martian Mod) (WIP)

Anyways, looks cool.

[Mr War]

Hmm...I guess you forgot to change the name. I guess it should be

Green Dawn (Martian Mod) (WIP)

Anyways, looks cool.

Green alert/dawn is just homage to red alert game and wider war culture. Martians is just the first faction of what will hopefully be a bigger scifi pack.

[ElimiNator]

Do you have my Moon-Tile-Set? It would probably look cool with this mod.

[Mr War]

yeah that\s pretty cool man

[Omega]

Be better to make a separate martian or post-apocalyptic tileset, or else you'll be looking for a new name 

[will]

in War of the Worlds they invaded Earth and fought Victorian red-coats.

VBros has a British faction.  It would make a fun video.

[Ishmaru]

Martian vs Imperial Faction would be cool 2, Sci Fi vs Steam Punk.

[will]

So what we are basically saying is that all factions working in a single techtree is fun.

Sure some combinations of teams seems strange to some.

But its better to give the users the choice, rather than these strict separate techtrees.

[Omega]

Martian vs Imperial Faction would be cool 2, Sci Fi vs Steam Punk.

But they're entirely different art styles and time periods...