research lab in development

[Terminator]

About new models of buildings...
there are many original concept drawings and designs used during the development of old Warzone 2100, Do you think of make one of those models, elio ?

http://warzone2100.strategyplanet.games ... andy.shtml

[Mysteryem]

All of the labs plus one other one can be found in "warzone.wz" in the "structs" folder.

Advanced materials lab = bladvlab.pie
Aerodynamics lab = blaerolb.pie
Heavy weapons lab = blhevlab.pie
Indirect weapons lab = blindlab.pie
Laser optics lab = bllaslab.pie
Nano tech lab = blnanlab.pie
Power research lab = blpowlab.pie
Rotary weapons lab = blrotlab.pie
??? = blgyrlab

[elio]

windows user/programmer (winapi, dll-hell) would call it research-hell
but perhaps 4 research centres instead of one would simplyfie research (as seen in the game thandor)

i'll those pics as inspiration

[lav_coyote25]

would you like to see the concept drawings that pumpkin started with... for the research labs.

[Terminator]

windows user/programmer (winapi, dll-hell) would call it research-hell
but perhaps 4 research centres instead of one would simplyfie research (as seen in the game thandor)

i'll those pics as inspiration

Well additional labs can be uesd as a moduls... They can just get accese to its res. for main reasearch lab.

[elio]

here's an update
i hope you like the sphere

vertices count: ~500

[Per]

Looks really nice.

[Thraka]

One thing I really like about Company of Heroes are the building animations when someone is constructing the building. They are very smooth and animated. That should be a cool feature to add eventually. When you have a great building model like this, having the construction of the building, and the upgrade constructions animated transitions to new models would be really really cool.

[gerard_]

What we perhaps could do for the building animations is split up the building in it's individual shapes. We then grow each of the shapes individually. So in this case we would grow the center building first, then the dome, and finally the 4 small structures around them.

[elio]

update: arranged the uv texture

[elio]

a first preview ingame

[Per]

Very nice. Now we start to have a whole series of buildings in "elio style"

Will you add team colours to the research building?

[elio]

yes of course like the other buildings

but i'd like that texture-mixing feature to avoid the current teamcolours hell
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2156

[Per]

Yes, I know. I'm way behind schedule with my warzone stuff.

[elio]

no problem.. as long as i haven't finished all base structures it doesn't hurry