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WYVERN (Updated)

Stardreamer wrote:
About time too: It was eerily, depressingly quiet for a long while but there definitely seems to be some momentum now. Hopefully we'll see a new update to D3DFFE itself before long. I'm quite looking forward to these new pixel shaders for water surfaces...(a sentence I' can't believe I've just written )
Iam hoping there will be a new update at christmass,I get the impression from the EG forum that it willconcentrate on making the planets look better.but you can never tell with that translator. Steve how did you remove the registration number from the Wyvern?. Love the look of Wyvern it looks like a B.S.G Viper on steroids.

PINBACK wrote:
Steve how did you remove the registration number from the Wyvern?.
There does seem to be an issue with the current version of FFED3D where registration numbers appear where they're not wanted. I get the impression - again from the dodgy translator - that this will be fixed in The Next Release.In the meantime, I loaded B.U.F.F.E.T. into GLFFE, set the ship type to Wyvern, cleared the text from the Ship Registration box and saved the game. Then I loaded that savegame into FFED3D to take the screenshot

Steve wrote:
In the meantime, I loaded B.U.F.F.E.T. into GLFFE, set the ship type to Wyvern, cleared the text from the Ship Registration box and saved the game. Then I loaded that savegame into FFED3D to take the screenshot
Great idea Steve I never would have thought of doing that. :DTheres a new version of the Wyvern out.I gather from the very garbled translation that the texture may change.does look a bit strange.

The nice thing is that you can make some basic changes to the ship's appearance just by altering the skin in the relevant folder.For example, I changed the Wyvern from red to blue very easily

Jahell has a new hangar model out.You can customize/personalize all the texture in a paint prog.only thing is that all the ships of that class will have the same marking.

PINBACK wrote:
Jahell has a new hangar model out.
Yeah, I haven't been overly impressed with the hangar animations, although the last one isn't bad
PINBACK wrote:
You can customize/personalize all the texture in a paint prog.only thing is that all the ships of that class will have the same marking.
Which isn't necessarily bad, 'cos some folk would customise so much the ship would be unrecoginsable, and potentially dangerous :|EDIT:Here's an example of a customised Imp Courier. Of course, every ship of this type in the game is going to have blue markings and the name "Steve 001" on the side. But it looks good and it's the ship I'm flying right now. Posing at the spaceport is important

Steve wrote:
EDIT:Here's an example of a customised Imp Courier. Of course, every ship of this type in the game is going to have blue markings and the name "Steve 001" on the side. But it looks good and it's the ship I'm flying right now. Posing at the spaceport is important
All you need now is to make a custom brush of the new Elite logo and stamp it down on the texture IIRC in the original game were there not different textures or colours for some of the shipmodels?.And if this feature is still in FFE3D then might be still usable to give some of the ship a different look?.I think the little stick man need to be removed from the docking sequance.

Arn put some pics of his new Imperial Explorer up on the EG forum absolutely super

PINBACK wrote:
Arn put some pics of his new Imperial Explorer up on the EG forum absolutely super
Yeah, that looks like one very nice ship. Can't wait

Arn Imperial Explorer available now on the Eg forum along with a new cockpit from Steve Tyler on the Fronter forum.busy day for FFE3D

PINBACK wrote:
Arn Imperial Explorer available now on the Eg forum along with a new cockpit from Steve Tyler on the Fronter forum.busy day for FFE3D
Indeed IMPERIAL EXPLORERwith Steve's excellent new cockpit, which can be found at:-[url]http://www.filefront.com/14692435/FFED3D_cockpit_coolhand_v1.zip[/url] a new version of the Explorer will be available soon, with a properly animated chassis

The new version of the Imperial Explorer has now been released, featuring a better animation for the landing gear. I've added it to the downloads section

Nice I see Jahell is doing a new dock and I just noticed on the old one that the little stick man waves at you. and SteveT is working on a new viper. Arn also working on a new starbase

Here is SteveT's new Viperand the download is hereI have to say this is the best re-working of an FFE ship so far. The textures are excellent and the landing gear animations spot on. A must-download!

Totally agree hit all the right spots.Arn space port looking good.

Steve wrote:
Here is SteveT's new Viperand the download is hereI have to say this is the best re-working of an FFE ship so far. The textures are excellent and the landing gear animations spot on. A must-download!
That model looks really good. Like the used look with the scratches and rust/dirt, really adds to the whole experience.

Arn new space port is out unfortunately it apperas not to work on computers with integratedgraphic. EG forums are down for maintenance at the moment,should be back up at the weekend.SteveT also made some pirate skins for his viper http://www.filefront.com/14760913/Viper_30_skinpack_coolhand_pirate_01.rar/

PINBACK wrote:
Arn new space port is out unfortunately it apperas not to work on computers with integratedgraphic.
It works ok with my third-party card, except that some of the lettering of "Old Blackelk" is shown and there doesn't seem to be any way of preventing it
PINBACK wrote:
EG forums are down for maintenance at the moment,should be back up at the weekend.
Hopefully by then some of the Russian guys will have worked out fixes

Steve wrote:
It works ok with my third-party card, except that some of the lettering of "Old Blackelk" is shown and there doesn't seem to be any way of preventing it
Seems a bit strange as I have not had a problem with any of the other models in the game.and I wonder if Arn did something different with that model.Have you tried removing the lettering from the texture dir?.although it may have othereffects on the game.