Sci-fi Pack - Industarons BETA

[ElimiNator]

Tank looks good, but how will you make it look like the treads are moving?

[Mr War]

Tank looks good, but how will you make it look like the treads are moving?

poorly  
Same way I did on the matilda in imperial Faction. In fact, the tracks are the same

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[Ishmaru]

May I get a screenie of your builder units? Also what's infantry gona b like??

[Mr War]

well, I'll try to keep some surprises for the beta man. The basic harvest/build unit is the SUV, which is a space buggy. I made it stand up to build because i thought that'd solve that issue but it didn't...and that made me think it'd work as a mech too. With suitable upgrade research you can morph the SUV into a mech which also has a basic defense capability.

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Not all activity models/animations are ready.

Of course, I may scrap all of the above or use them in a different faction. To be honest, it's not really gelling with the other models.

Infantry will be relatively slim/uncluttered, very much like 1960s/70s idea of the future. I don't want to give too much away  

[Ishmaru]

Please don't scrap this I think its a great idea!!! What's the issues you are having???

[Mr War]

well I think I'll save this for the next faction which will be more in-keeping, and change Industaron's worker to something more like a robot. Not sure what but inspiration:

[anonymousjim]

tracks like wall-e
head of first picture
body of second picture

[will]

I vote for a ponderous android like the first picture

Tracks just don't feel right.

I'm actually a bit hesitant about the tanks too for that reason.

A hopper - it rests on pad feet but bounces rather than walks - might be neat?

[Mr War]

Lost in a someone's back garden space

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[Ishmaru]

Danger Will Robinson!!!!  Ill miss the transforming buggy but the robot cool too! The antiair+ lasertank look awesome too! Can't wait to play faction!

[will]

I wasn't so keen on the transformers - it doesn't quite gel with the theme - but the Lost In Space influences are gorgeous!

Shame about the tanks having such obvious tracks - is there a way to space-ize them?  Maybe they should seem to be made of rubber - more tractor-tire pattern than metal - or maybe adding big lumps to the tread, or perhaps adding a hover glow under them?

[Mr War]

I've tried a few track textures man and the current one you see worked best. I like exposed tracks like that, it's actually not like real tanks. Also the tanks are key to my original convcept of industarons, which is influenced by dune and tiberian sun. Industarons are slightly bad like Nod, red peril man.

Martians are green peril, industarons are red, next faction is blue....

[anonymousjim]

sounds cool.  I like the sort of gritty feeling of having tracks personally

[Mr War]

Alpha of Industarons uploaded - see first post.

Sound far from ready - very rough. Key units and animations missing.

Feedback welcome

[ultifd]

Aww, I was going to make a sneak peek video...
I'll just make a regular one tomorrow.
I changed it to the upload site with direct links (kiwi6), just because direct links are better. Besides, good practice for the mod download center anyways. Hope ya don't mind.
Oh, and nice models.

[Mr War]

Aww, I was going to make a sneak peek video...
I'll just make a regular one tomorrow.
I changed it to the upload site with direct links (kiwi6), just because direct links are better. Besides, good practice for the mod download center anyways. Hope ya don't mind.
Oh, and nice models.

you should have said man. If you do vids please put a soundtrack over it - the sounds aren't even started. Thanks for re-hosting, I hate the ads but hey I haven't got the hang of Github yet.

[ultifd]

I'll try to find a good soundtrack, if you have one that would (temporarily fit) in mind just tell me though.
As for ads, just get ad block.

[will]

I haven't got the hang of Github yet.

Luckily your web admin has

[Mr War]

hope I'm not giving too much away here

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Why do alien abductions and invasions always occur in the sticks???

[anonymousjim]

I LOVE IT!!! THAT TILESET IS GODLIKE!!!

[ultifd]

Ugh I can't get the 'snapshot' to load...  
Cannot Parse URL: ...sci fi pack's XML.
(Undercase filename problem...)
Awesome tileset.

[Hagekura]

"The War of the worlds" tileset huh? Seriously it looks really good. I want to try it ASAP.

I have played new beta with Industarons faction. I love overall units and building designs and building animations. a careful job.
btw Industarons has barracks module, so will the faction have some infantry units? what kind of infantries are you planning? and will the faction have some upgrades?

[will]

ALPHA zip: https://github.com/williame/glest-sci-fi-pack/zipball/industarons_dev

This includes the scifi ghost town map and the scifi twilight tileset to go with it.

For those using the latest version of MG with the support for animated projectile models, you can wonder at the Industaron's lumbering Buzzard bomber's cluster-bomb.  That's just provisionally there to test the feature.

[Mr War]

Thanks Will. The tileset and map is also just an alpha, already improving them in master copy. Many improvements added but not enough to warrant a release yet. Likely to be on backburner for a couple of weeks.

[Ishmaru]

I dont understand what to do with ur patch will.. but tried to play faction anyway all works still! Tank treads are much better! Kestrel was pretty much useless against an assualt tripod. it chased it from one end of the map and back again shooting at it.