Artwork by Black Project (Using PIE Slicer DX v1.07)

[Black Project]

Walltowers & Walls

Fortresses

More coming soon!

Regards BP

[macuser]

Those look nice got a bit of a different feel to them.

[Jorzi]

Pretty nice.. What modeler do you use?

[Black Project]

Pretty nice.. What modeler do you use?

PIE Slicer DX v1.07 (an old WZ tool for making PIE models)

Regards BP

[Jorzi]

So you can actually do modeling with it and not just model conversion? Interesting...

[Mysteryem]

So you can actually do modeling with it and not just model conversion? Interesting...

Hmm, perhaps you're thinking of a different program, since PIE slicer only does editing.

All manual work, but those wall models look a lot like grim's, so I'm guessing that mainly, the textures have been changed, and I must say, it looks very good.
Though, you may want leave a 1 pixel border for the texture of each polygon since the blur of the textures in-game is creating some thin white/transparent lines at the edges of some of the polygons. The only way to reduce this effect is to make the texpage larger since you can't use the no filtering tag (keeps textures pixelated, ideal for textures with transparency) anymore (removed to make the game run faster)

[Black Project]

These were made long time ago for personnal use, but i decided to post them here

More models in next posts

Cannons

Rail Guns

Rockets (ops, forgot the Mini-Rocket Pod)

[Black Project]

Tracked tanks

Heavy Assault Cannon (for curiosity)

Half-tracked tanks

Wheeled tanks

[Black Project]

Missiles (includes the Mini-Rocket Pod)

Rocket & Missile Fortresses

Regards BP

[Colditz]

Looks pretty solid, nice work! But it changes WZ2100 only to the state-of-the art of 2002.

[Rman Virgil]

So you can actually do modeling with it and not just model conversion? Interesting...

You can create .Pie models from scratch with Stratadrake's PieSlicer. Stratadrake was a WZ luminary who created this app from scratch as well the WZ Customizer Kit proggy. He was also a 1st rank artist (digital and analog), mapper, modder, writer and WZ A.I. scriptor (he created the whole "mines" tech used by NTW, among other things). In the terminology popular these days he would be called a "Noob" because he was not much into WZ Net MP. How absurd is that.

Good work BP. I wouldn't be so concerned about what linear year of progress this is judged to be as that is, for one, a criteria of the commercial game development paradigm (franchise sales from year to year) which really in no way applies to WZ and, second, this work will achieve enhanced visual immersion just fine within the first 60 seconds of game... after which it is all player imagination (coupled with SFX & GFX) intersecting WZ's game play mechanics.

- Regards, Rman
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[Jorzi]

Those models look really good and high-quality. I'm just concerned about what the polycount is on those. I have heard that performance drops very steeply with higher polycounts (propably because the engine was originally written for hardware such as the ps1). At art revolution we are trying to compensate for lower polycounts with hi-quality high-resolution textures instead, since apparently (as I've understood it), increased texture size doesn't have the same impact on performance.
Have you ever experienced something like this with your models? Because I would really like to get the most out of the engine

[Bruno Rodolfo]

Black Project, on my computer every time I used this program and saved it never had a problem appeared:

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path file erro

what do I do?