If you read our previous article on FedCon and delay trouble, you already know how tedious things can become if you are a mod team without fulltime coders. But while we were waiting for bugfixes and features to be implemented, our team has been quite busy creating new content. The result: The first release will contain by far more maps than we planned and we're happy to provide some diversity to TDM and CTF alike.
In this media update, we want to show you some of the new content we're working on (some of it is WIP, so don't be wondering if you see orange textures). To begin, level design is not just about brushwork and texturing. The best layout looks empty and dead without all those detailed props that the 3D artists provide. Here are two of the larger props: The Republic Cruiser and AAT (Federation tank).

Proceed to the next page for our long-awaited map update!

Time flies by - a phenomenon that becomes more and more present when you are connected to annual events such as FedCon - the largest science fiction convention in Europe. It has been one year since Invision Games hosted a LAN with a preview version of Star Wars: The New Era at this convention. Time to reflect what happened throughout the last year and to see what interesting news FedCon brought to us. As you can imagine, the largest European scifi convention did kinda touch all of our games...

Fettness - March 28, 2009 So you are starting on a new project before the 1st one is done? ok... I just hope it doesn't make the wait too much longer.

Aigik - March 28, 2009 The development of TNE is not being affected. The other project is simply something a couple idle team members started while they wait for the rest of us to do our parts.

Darth.Hunter - March 28, 2009 No worries, there is another project group involved in TA - the development does not interfere with TNE. On the contrary - we are able to use synergies

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Just as a note for everyone who's suddenly confused with our forum structure: There have been some developments going on in the background for the past few weeks. As it seems, we got quite too many movie fans in our team, which lead to two new projects and various new team members joining in.

One of the new projects is Terminator Apocalypse and yes you guess it: Hasta la vista, baby - it also comes as a Source Mod.

Since we're now running multiple projects, we thought it'd be nice to have a central place for all of them. And all of you - the community! So we've overhauled the structure of our boards a bit. Don't worry if you get lost, we always have some emergency pods ready for you

It's been quiet on the news side from us lately, and I again apologize for the long periods between updates but I'm posting this today with great confidence in having more routine updates on our progress. In the past we've held off on news releases until we've had more "final stage" quality like media releases, however given the fact that most of us have work or school to deal with in addition to working on the mod, we sometimes go for long periods without being able to touch the various projects we're working on and thus finalize them for a photo session. You may have noticed for a while now an empty section of our forums called Showcase (found here: http://www.invision-games.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=29). I am pleased to announce we have finally begun using it.

Team members will be able to post up and update the various projects they are working on for you to comment/give feed back on. It is my hope that a weekly or monthly news update similar to this will be posted with the latest updates and pictures. Please note that while regular members can't create topics in this particular forum section, they can reply to ones made by the team. Also note that these projects are considered to be a work in progress, and as such not complete yet. Level shots may contain badly lit or unfinished assets, models might be unfinished/missing textures, etc.

So, for our first update, we have the Naboo Theed Palace, being mapped by Aigik with assistance in texture design from Quakis:

The forum thread related to this can be found here: http://www.invision-games.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=661#p6870

Next up are two player models being worked on by our main player modeler and animator; DT. These models will be included in the second release with the objective based Team Assault mode.

First is the Super Battle Droid:

Link to thread: http://www.invision-games.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=663

Second is a 21-B medical droid:

Link to thread: http://www.invision-games.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=662

So that wraps up our first WIP media release. I hope to be able to show off some pictures of what I've been working on the past few months soon, which includes Hoth and Endor for release 2 :p

Thanks for your continued support and patience!

Hello all! I apologize for our lack of updates the last few months, school and life has been extremely busy for all of us working on TNE lately, however I have good news: while we still can't say for certain when we will release, we are getting very close to being done with the first version of the mod.

Coders have been making great progress on the last few coding tasks and because other areas of development are mostly done, its coming down to the level designers (myself included) to finish up the levels to be included in the first release.

This brings me to my next reason for this post: we are in need of some texture artists to help mappers with making textures for their map props and architecture. Most of us are very skilled at the actual level design and model prop construction but a bit less so when it comes to actually texturing them :p So if anyone is interested, please post an application up in our forums. We are looking for people who can work with unwrapped models who can “color within the lines”. Work would initially be on models for Cloud City and Naboo levels.

So that concludes my little news post, we hope in the future to have some more dev diaries, possibly from team members who have completed all their tasks for the first release and maybe a video trailer since many issues we had in the EP1 engine that prevented us from making one have pretty much been corrected with the move to the orange box engine.

Fettness - October 20, 2008 Sweet I can't say if I can help but I'll look into it.

Rhuidan - October 20, 2008 thanks for giving us an update id help with the texturing stuff but i know barely anything about shooping lol.

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