TNE release event in association with Shuttle Send this article to: Print Email 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!
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Print Email 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.
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Print Email The server crash has given us some serious headache during the past weeks, but it also had some positive side-effects. It caused an internal debate of how we could improve our workflow and lead to some valuable results. Wildebeest - one of our programmers - for instance restructured our version control to allow us to quickly create hotfixes and smaller updates after major releases without us needing to slow down production for the next episode of TNE. This will be a very valuable feature for our development crew after our first release. But considering the very first release, we have some more interesting news for you:
We have discovered that our new favourite color is Orange Orange Box
Improved multiplayer netcode Motion blur Dynamic shadows New particle system for visual FX Multicore CPU support New improved chat system Native third person camera Thanks to VALVes distribution system, you will be able to access these features even without requiring the Orange Box - all you need is still just Half-Life 2.
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Print Email Dear TNE community,
as you have probably noticed, our server was offline for a couple of days. Unfortunately, the entire RAID system of our webserver fried, so we had to exchange the entire server and re-install it starting from the operating system.
The good news: We're back online!
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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http://www.vimeo.com/1226696
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Print Email Jean has just finished cutting some footage that we shot at FedCon. Since there have been many questions concerning ingame footage, listen up: This little video contains only footage from our booth at FedCon. Impressions of the visitors as well as gameplay scenes from the tournament. Speaking of which: If you look closely, you'll also find our tournament winner in that video, who carries a yellow shirt. Enjoy!
You can also watch this video in High Definition on Vimeo.com
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Print Email I'd like to make a short but very, very, sweet announcement.. One of our very own developers has won the "HPX Day of the Dragon Contest "
Thats right Toshi (Alejandro Argandona) has won himself a brand spanking new top of the line laptop!
HP Pavilion HDX "Dragon" Entertainment Notebook
With his winning entry the Ars Hoplite:
This just adds further credence to the fact that we have an amazingly talented set of developers as a team working on this mod..
Congrats TOSHI!! w00t!
The full announcement of the winner and the original article can be read here
ps. Toshi,... I hate you XD
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First of all: I am sorry about the delay. I'm sure you waited curiously for some news from FedCon. First thing I can say is: It's been a blast! Second thing, which also explains the delay: Have you ever heard of a phenomenon called "con-blues"? When I first went to that convention, people warned me about that effect which would cause a certain depression and demotivation to do anything straight after the con. What seemed like a joke to me at first is actually a fact and has to do with the tremendous mood and excitement that FedCon brings along. However, we're finally back again and here's our report. Click "read more" to read our convention diary and for some information about the release delay.
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Print Email We made it! Fedcon 17 is officially underway..
Our tables are fully set up and people are fragging away on the TNE Beta. So far the responce seems quite good but it's still a bit too early to tell.. Heres a few sneak-peek photos we just got back from the con: (Click on the thumbs to see the full-size image. )
There should be more follow up on fedcon soon... Stay tuned.. And feel free to stop by and check us out at the convention ;)
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