Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

General => Small Talk => Topic started by: draconis_sharp on September 08, 2005, 03:55:48 AM

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: draconis_sharp on September 08, 2005, 03:55:48 AM

I beautiful mod was brought to my attention. It's in a thread over at AFC. I wouldn't say it's competing with fleet ops in any way, but it looks to be a very nicely put together mod.

There are about 19 or more screeshots, so I won't post them here. If you wish, you can just visit the thread they are already in.

Screenshots (http://www.armadafleetcommand.com/afc/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=53747#53747)

It originates from Armadamods.de, but I found it first at AFC.

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: PREATOR DEFIANT on September 08, 2005, 04:15:00 AM

Has some uncanon ships but has my precious Miranda, Excelsior, Centaur, Cheyenne...mmm...

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: NCC1701Z on September 08, 2005, 04:41:43 AM

WOW!!! That is an extremely revolutionary mod indeed!

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: [TD]Roach on September 08, 2005, 05:54:13 AM

man that would be a killer for your comp with all the effects

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Optec on September 08, 2005, 10:29:50 AM

Moved to Smalltalk

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Cpt Ryan on September 08, 2005, 01:33:29 PM

i think my comp had a heart attack just loading those pics :omg:
very impressive, but how many people have the hardware to run that at faster than slide show speeds? :o but still very impressive particually for armada standards.

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: -=B!G=-The Black Baron on September 08, 2005, 02:49:59 PM

Quite good :)

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Casper on September 09, 2005, 09:46:20 AM

wow... um... i think i'm in love.

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: KL0K on September 09, 2005, 02:11:40 PM

i dont like the mod idea, plus the ship designs. but i like this badlands-map :)

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Casper on September 10, 2005, 11:38:04 AM

hey guys, think we could make a map like that for fo v3 or later?

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Cpt Ryan on September 10, 2005, 12:56:21 PM

do you have any idea how much lag that is gonna produce? :sweatdrop:
why don't we all just buy some of those flick-books and play with them instead :blink:

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: draconis_sharp on September 11, 2005, 04:33:44 AM

No no, that mod really wouldn't be any more taxing on your system than Fleet Ops. I really don't understand where people are getting that idea from.

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: ewm90 on September 11, 2005, 12:17:45 PM

it looks realy cool. what is the name of this mod? is it out yet and if not when is it coming out?

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Cpt Ryan on September 11, 2005, 01:18:04 PM

@draconis, how on earth did someone manage that? just thought with all those graphical effects... :sweatdrop:

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: AdmarilRyan on September 11, 2005, 04:36:58 PM

If you think about it there are games with far more graphics than this but have reasonable system requirements. Ok when modding the system requirements go up quickly but they don't get anywhere as near as high as people imagine.

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Jolt on September 11, 2005, 06:11:36 PM

Additionally, they also claimed quite a few effects are sprites so it is doable. Additionally, how were they able to show it off it wasn't possible?

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Cpt Ryan on September 11, 2005, 07:27:51 PM

:huh: who said it wasn't possible???

@admiral ryan, take into account this is built on the armada engine, & how many units will be on screen at any one time.

min system requirements for stock armada 2 are:

64mb ram
P II 300mhz

fill in the gaps for the min specs for that mod: (my prediction in brackets)

Ram = ???? (256mb min)
processor = ???? (P4 1Ghz min)

based on my predictions, i'd say thats more than a big jump

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: Jolt on September 11, 2005, 09:34:09 PM

3 - 4 times the jump. Still, there has been some time since the release of Armada 2 and this mod, so, I guess their presumption was that people will have upgraded...

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: AdmarilRyan on September 12, 2005, 05:25:05 PM

your min prodictions are about right I would say. There are ways to reduce the lag cauised by an object like making it low poly yet high quality. Then all you have to worry about is the resolution of the textures which is what can put up the system requirements. Though if they are clever with there modding they can m,ake the effect of that less.

Title: A Mod I Look Forward To
Post by: draconis_sharp on September 15, 2005, 01:58:14 AM

There are all sorts of ways to make a good looking ship, but maybe that's for another thread, another day.

Anyway, I don't think it will kill anyone's system. Chances are the first release will be in German, so I hope you all are brushing up on that :)