[[New Faction Proposal] ] PLAN Marines

[Rhino]

its pretty piss easy to make a separate sign static, but for a mapper to place them all around a village or w/e is a pain in the ***

[Z-trooper]

boat has gotten the uv's done and some minor corrections done by heavy, so the boat should be going through texturing i believe (haven't followed up on this yet) and i'm supposed to get the lods done soon when i find the time (but it's so boring !!! :wink

also i don't know why it isn't added in the spreadsheet yet, but the hand grenade should be uv'ed and textured.

Okay, didn't know Heavy_Z had it, will just bug him instead

LODs are best to create after the main (lod0) model has been textured. Saves a whole bunch of work when you can just edit the main model and keep the texturing to some degree.

[Rhino]

and ye, I find lods quite fun since its one of the final stages

Thou its only fun when you know how to do them well etc.

[motherdear]

and ye, I find lods quite fun since its one of the final stages

Thou its only fun when you know how to do them well etc.

then i'm F####d hehe, well only one way to learn, was just thinking about doing them now. but gonna wait now that z-trooper hinted that lol.

[M4sherman]

How is this coming along? and do you need any (minor) texture work done?

[motherdear]

well we got a friend of mine working on the textures for the boat (should be done within a month) and tbh i don't know about everything else.

[J.F.Leusch69]

still livin´?

[Z-trooper]

Unclear tbh.

The main driving force behind this (PRC_Heavy_Z) has retired, and with other stuff going on for the main build as well as only 1 community map being made for the faction the project is pretty much on hold for now. At least my part of it is...

[HughJass]

Unclear tbh.

The main driving force behind this (PRC_Heavy_Z) has retired, and with other stuff going on for the main build as well as only 1 community map being made for the faction the project is pretty much on hold for now. At least my part of it is...

What happened to prc_heavy_z? just taking time off or gone for good?

[Z-trooper]

What happened to prc_heavy_z? just taking time off or gone for good?

Unknown

[Panzerfire]

For real!!!
And me who was hoping for this faction. It would have made a perfect ennemy for one of our JSDF faction map... TT_TT

Guess the JSDF team will have to stick against Insurgents, Russians and Chinese (Ground based forces - PLA). This reminds me that the DPRK faction never lifted from proposal either, did it?

[charliegrs]

Guess the JSDF team will have to stick against Insurgents, Russians and Chinese (Ground based forces - PLA). This reminds me that the DPRK faction never lifted from proposal either, did it?

yeah as far as i know it never really got off the ground which is a real shame it would be a great opfor faction.

[Rhino]

Well the main thing is the vehicles HZ was making, anyone know what happened to them? If we can get a modeler/skinner/coder to continue with them then this faction stands a good chance of working. Some input from rhino would help a lot here, I assume he would be the one that would know about them.

I'm guessing one of the reasons HZ left (thou I dunno for sure he has yet to give us an answer on why he left) is that he knew he would have to do some heavy fixing up of basically every single model he has already made since after I reviewed one of his more recent models he made, I found a lot of errors with it. Pretty much his workflow for making models was fine for some games, but when it came to BF2 his model just turned into a zfight festival to put it in the simplest terms possible.

As such, some one would need to spend a very long time going over and fixing every zfight problem one by one, all in all it might be easier just to remake the models rather than fixing them but would have to see how it went before you could be sure about that.

So ye, none or very few models as they stand I doubt would be able to go onto the next stage without being fixed first.


The faction would be really, really nice to have. ZTrooper has put in loads of work into the LPD and right now it just needs a little more modelling work, making new pallets then UVing but ye, vehicle wise you could try asking HZ if you can have a go at fixing them up but what I would do is aim for a Infantry (+ choppers and other vehicles ingame that the PLANM use) version, then once that is completed go from there with making new vehicles etc (or better yet, start the vehicle creation early on but aim for them to be completed for the 2nd version).

[Rhino]

ye thou your forgetting the map creation side and the LPD Jonny, get that, the infantry, the choppers and using other vehicles ingame done, and your sorted. You can use the WZ551A for a place holder as the PLANM use to use it

[J.F.Leusch69]

i could help with vehicale coding (no import) and making a testbuild and general coding

so if you are interesseted, even i think that jonny already holds this position, PM me

[Z-trooper]

All fine and dandy by my by all means continue, but my progress on the LPD is still on hold at this moment.

And to the undoubtably upcomming question if someone else can have it and "finish it": no.