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Yeah, I'll make up more islands on Thursday when I get back to class (I can't bring the .max file from school to home because I have 2010 or 2011 or something at school and I have 2009 at home). I can make some water right now though. What dimensions does it have to be? And does it have to be animated? I can make an animation, but I wouldn't know what to send it as to make it a 2D gif or something...
The ship might be more complicated. How detailed do you want it exactly? And how big do you want it in relation to the island? Give me a scale there.
Oh, another thing with the water, I'll try to add in waves and ripples around the islands, but that'll cause some semi-transparency, so hopefully that won't be an issue. Someone had said the "ghost effect" took care of that

Last edited by SD7 (2012-03-27 22:13:46)

SD7 wrote:

Yeah, I'll make up more islands on Thursday when I get back to class (I can't bring the .max file from school to home because I have 2010 or 2011 or something at school and I have 2009 at home). I can make some water right now though. What dimensions does it have to be? And does it have to be animated? I can make an animation, but I wouldn't know what to send it as to make it a 2D gif or something...
The ship might be more complicated. How detailed do you want it exactly? And how big do you want it in relation to the island? Give me a scale there.
Oh, another thing with the water, I'll try to add in waves and ripples around the islands, but that'll cause some semi-transparency, so hopefully that won't be an issue. Someone had said the "ghost effect" took care of that

In comparison to the island, the ship will have to be about 1/8 of the island. There are  3 different ships though.
1. Schooner-1/8
2. Friigate 3/7

Last edited by coolhogs (2012-03-27 23:25:19)

coolhogs wrote:

In comparison to the island, the ship will have to be about 1/8 of the island. There are  3 different ships though.
1. Schooner-1/8
2. Frigate 3/7

That's only 2 ships....

What about the other points I brought up?

Last edited by SD7 (2012-03-27 23:28:33)

I think it would be best to have the water scroll with the islands. It would look a little fake if the islands were moving and the water wasn't- like you were moving the islands across the top of the water or something.

Also, I just did a quick scale reference. 1/8 was way to dang big, so I reproportioned them. Tell me what you think:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/4995/scalesu.png

I should be able to make one with sails up and down. It's all from the top-down right? I don't know how detailed you want these, so I'm just going to keep them fairly low-poly, like my ships in Space Game.

SD7 wrote:

I think it would be best to have the water scroll with the islands. It would look a little fake if the islands were moving and the water wasn't- like you were moving the islands across the top of the water or something.

Also, I just did a quick scale reference. 1/8 was way to dang big, so I reproportioned them. Tell me what you think:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/4995/scalesu.png

I should be able to make one with sails up and down. It's all from the top-down right? I don't know how detailed you want these, so I'm just going to keep them fairly low-poly, like my ships in Space Game.

Darn awesome! You got it! But can you make the schooner smaller than the others, it goes in this order:

Smallest- Schooner
Medium- Galleon
Biggest- Frigate

Note:

On my side, I have completed the scrolling portion of the game. Along with a map that can be toggled on the bottom left corner.    Now I am working on adding wind to the game.

Last edited by itsmomito (2012-03-28 03:29:23)

Do you guys want to add a menu screen?

gamerkeeg wrote:

You  are really good at graphics sd7   

It takes me forever to do a decent job when im designing objects and things.

Thanks. I'm ok at code, but it's not my strong suite. I'm aiming for a job as an environment artist for a game studio like Bethesda or somewhere. I'd like to start my own, since I have a pretty good idea for a big game with a bunch of weapons and vehicles and a detailed plot that I thought up, and I want to be able to submit my idea and have a studio work on it, and go in the direction that I want my idea to go, but I don't just want to be an overseer, you know? I still want to be the artist doing all the environments and acting creating stuff.

Also, how exactly are you going to make it an MMO? I've seen mention of a server, but how does that do anything for a scratch program? Will it still be played directly on this site, or what?

Last edited by SD7 (2012-03-28 13:57:33)

SD7 wrote:

gamerkeeg wrote:

You  are really good at graphics sd7   

It takes me forever to do a decent job when im designing objects and things.

Thanks. I'm ok at code, but it's not my strong suite. I'm aiming for a job as an environment artist for a game studio like Bethesda or somewhere. I'd like to start my own, since I have a pretty good idea for a big game with a bunch of weapons and vehicles and a detailed plot that I thought up, and I want to be able to submit my idea and have a studio work on it, and go in the direction that I want my idea to go, but I don't just want to be an overseer, you know? I still want to be the artist doing all the environments and acting creating stuff.

Also, how exactly are you going to make it an MMO? I've seen mention of a server, but how does that do anything for a scratch program? Will it still be played directly on this site, or what?

Wow, good luck. You definitely have very good skills in art. About the MMO, Bobbybee is an advanced programmer with knowledge of Python and C, he made a server called Fire MMO that can interact with scratch to create a functional MMO. He already made a chat client with scratch 

So this game you're making will run off a separate site? Or can you still play it on the scratch website?

SD7 wrote:

So this game you're making will run off a separate site? Or can you still play it on the scratch website?

Well, I think the single player version will be able to. But for the MMOG, I'm pretty sure you will have to download it and use it in scratch.    I made a nice little map today    Now you can toggle it with m. Press I for inventory too.

fireMMO is C
and im not sure about the variables
but the speed will be cool ( i hope )

bobbybee wrote:

itsmomito wrote:

Bklecka wrote:

bobbybee knows no python
and fire mmo will become obsolete because scratch 2.0 uses cloud variables
therefor you can use that insted

Hmm, but isn't the firemmo written in python? Wait, you can use cloud variables to make an mmo? That's awesome! I hope it is fast enough.

FireMMO is written in C, the mirror is written in Python, doesn't really matter for you, I guess. And I'm seriously doubting that cloud variables will be powerful enough to support an MMO.

Hmm I see. I doubt that too, everything in scratch is slow compared to other programming languages. Oh, Bobby, are we going to put in chat? Can I make an interface for it? I mean button, chat screen, etc.

SD7 wrote:

itsmomito wrote:

Darn awesome! You got it! But can you make the schooner smaller than the others, it goes in this order:

Smallest- Schooner
Medium- Galleon
Biggest- Frigate

Note:

On my side, I have completed the scrolling portion of the game. Along with a map that can be toggled on the bottom left corner.    Now I am working on adding wind to the game.

That's fine. I was just getting scale in for three different sizes of ships, doesn't matter what each size is called, at least not for the image of them (well, except for looking at what each one looks like).


What exactly do you mean by "80% detailed"? Like, a little less detailed than the ships that were proposed a page or so back? Or what?

Hmm...maybe fully detailed... Make it fully realistic. Like the islands and the water.