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ok, haven't seen that. thanks

Hey guys. I want to make a small request and ask if anyone here can help me. Im looking for a saved game (recorded game) that I can have, something with some really nice large battles, not a modded version of sins. just standard. Expansions are ok. Reason being is I need to cut a new demo reel together and I don't have time to actually play the game to get the footage. Preferably, It would be great if you were playing as Vasari as that is the race I cre

[quote who="zRazor" reply="3" id="2340635"]Yeah, I'm stuck on the texturing part but for a different reason. I'm using Mod Tool 7.5 and when I try to import a clip (black background picture from photoshop) before UV Stamping the mesh nothing comes up. Or shall I say, all I get is the default no Icon pic I started out with (also the reason I can't use Rotoscope). This is really frustrating at the moment as it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to edit the picture with the checkered col

First PC game was Kings Quest back in the day

Make sure your z axis is pointing forward. You'll see it at the bottom right of your viewport. That indicates the direction of front. your top null needs to be at 0, 0, 0. then make sure your geo is frozen. Go to transforms, remove neutral pose, then go back to transforms, freeze all transforms. Then procede to press the freeze button at the bottom right of your screen. This will remove any history. This should work

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="12" id="2358319"]Ok, so does anyone have any idea why it won't let me export as an obj? Or how to get the hardpoints to convert correctly? Please?[/quote] Unfortunatly, because it's the mod tool all you are able to export is a .xsi format. Make sure your hierarchy is correct before exporting, then make sure to middle click the top null (point) in your hierarchy then do the export. .xsi will export whatever is selected. Midd

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="11" id="2087444"]For someone who has just started you are doing a great job. I work at a college for 16-18 year olds so I can appreciate the standard you are at and would encourage you to continue. I hope we'll see more from you just don't get too cocky, people really don't like that. There is no need to make comments like that. Please don't do it again.[/quote] It was just friendly advice, I wasn

there is a quick way; however, whenever I triangulate a model I do it manually as to get the proper direction for my polygon normals. The tool though to triangulate a model is found under the modify area of the modeling panel, then go to Polymesh, Then near the bottom you'll find triangulate.

Crysis is an FPS Sins is an RTS The issue with an RTS is that due to the fact there are lots of units on screen, each with their own phyisics and AI running vs an FPS where you are able to limit the active enemies on screen by clever level design and so on. If you compare sins to other strategy games though, you'll see that it's really not lacking at all. Look at starcraft 2 for example. If you actaully look closely at the models and textures from the screenshots that

[quote who="Excalpius" reply="8" id="2202853"] I was just comenting on the fact that you said all packages are on the downturn, which was totally untrue. From the perspective of the high end film industry, I am 100% correct. That's all I ever said. And all I did was state my credits so that any readers could understand from where my recommendations were coming from. It's the only way they'd know if my advice was useful or not. But I'm not breaking m

[quote who="Excalpius" reply="3" id="2195336"] Once you're used to working in 3d space, any package is easy to learn within a week. Now THAT is utter nonsense. While I agree with you that learning the BASICS of 3D space can be accomplished using any 3d package, in about a week, there are an infinite number of approaches to the given problems of A+ animation and visual effects, and the high end ones require YEARS of on hands professional knowledge in each given

[quote who="Excalpius" reply="24" id="2194800"]The issue with Blender is that it just isn't at the level of the professional tools we use in the industry. Have fun playing with it, sure. But if you are a student on his way to approaching the professional market, there is only Maya (film, games) and LightWave (film, tv, games) left still standing in a meaningful way. A few of the major companies (Pixar, ILM) use a lot of internal software, but generally that is wri

[quote who="dtrford12" reply="8" id="2069524"]well i am only 16 started making them for my higher graphics course and just started to make more models. I use PTC PO DESKTOP 8.0 And i may try ot use a different program. The Enterprise was my first model. [/quote] haha, well good job just don't get too cocky, people really don't like that.

[quote who="dolynick" reply="3" id="2078493"]All you need is SketchUp Pro. It can save as both .obj and .xsi format, both of which can be imported into XSI. Oddly enough, .obj format seems to be give me better results when imported into XSI but can sometimes give you files that won't import at all. In those cases, I use .xsi format instead. The problem? SketchUp Pro is about $600 US or something like that. -dolynick[/quote] &nbsp

hey, not bad man, How old are you? I started this stuff when I was 12, just curious. I would suggest grabbing a more complex modeling package and start to use that. There are free versions of Maya (personal Learning Edition), the XSI mod tool, and Gmax. www.tristangoodes.com Don't let people tell you Software A is better than software B. It's stupid and ignorant. They're all the same. Some are just easier to learn. I see you'r

[quote who="Kreeargh" reply="15" id="2058325"]I wish they would have bought a gmax licence and sold the game with gmax and model import plugins. Xsi mod tool is a pain .[/quote] XSI is a lot faster to model with than Max. Also, all the artists on Sins knew XSI before hand. That's why it was used. There are plenty of ways to get the model from max into the game.

Haha, that ending was awesome.

Hey, ya, those models are still with ironclad. They are very very early prototypes which didn't cut it and were redone / scrapped. Ironclad has spent a lot of time making the models and textures, you can really see the level of quality they persue by looking at those old models. Sorry I can't be of much help to you. Those models are property of Ironclad, and I don't have them either.

Where did you drop the texture files? Make sure you have them in the correct spot in the sins directory. Also, make sure the mesh file is pointing at them...

[quote who="xeno0ne" reply="7" id="2034125"]you must be the spy on this forum who follows everyones thread and have no life. i go to work and play this game only if i don't get a girls number on my hand. other than that just suck it up and stop nibbeling off my questions that are meant for the devs not YOU! and wich everythread are you reffering too when you said Quoting tristangoodes, reply 6 stop complaining in every thread, we get it! You're starting

[quote who="dwood15" reply="4" id="2033687"] Quoting xeno0ne, reply 1can we now fix the problems the games are having? congrats on the awards Honestly what's up with the server problems lately?[/quote] stop complaining in every thread, we get it! You're starting to troll

To me, it just seemed it was the same person complaining in each thread, hardly good evidence... I'm sure they're working on it

Congrats Ironclad, was great to be a part of

The expansion packs for sins were never planned during development. The way Sins was released was the way Ironclad wanted it. Also. Since the release of Sins. There have been a lot of patches that have come out, tweaking the game, improving the graphics... I dont' believe I ever heard Ironclad state they were releasing the game unfinished. You guys should remember, the guys at Ironclad are gamers just like the rest of us. They want to produce a game tha

Bump. Also, don't vote more than once, they know and will reset the count