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[Bishop Steiner]

Shar Wolf, on 22 October 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:

Dunno bout the rest of the world, but I'm gettin hit with a large dose of apathy that comes every year round this time, as the days get darker sooner....

That hittin the rest of you?
(I am told the effect is worse up here in the "Far North" )

eh, I only have light from 730 am to 730 pm here, pretty much year round. I live south of the Tropic of Cancer though. That said, IDK, winter just meant indoors, watching football, so plenty of time for art for me. Down here..IDK what I will do.

[Mark Hayden]

Bishop Steiner, on 22 October 2013 - 09:38 PM, said:

better cause would be some new art. Man, is even the Art section slipping to apathy?

Dennis doesn't let me release most anything to the public anymore. There's soooooo much I wanna show you guys!

[Mighty Spike]

Then you must tell him: Look, the guys need me........they are goin to start a riot if not

DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!

Edited by Mighty Spike, 23 October 2013 - 01:51 AM.

[Carrioncrows]

Mark Hayden, on 23 October 2013 - 01:19 AM, said:

Dennis doesn't let me release most anything to the public anymore. There's soooooo much I wanna show you guys!

You guys should host a community contest where people create either new patterns or redesign mechs and then put the best into the game (after getting spruced up by PGi's staff of course)

Then he would let you of your box more often.

[Sparks Murphey]

Well, I set out to do a set of the four main Project Phoenix 'Mechs, but it's getting late, so you'll have to wait for the BattleMaster. Thanks to Ironhawk, Jack Gallows and IqfishLP for the templates, and to Hayden for the insignia.

First up, a 2nd Regulan Hussars Locust.


Next, a 1st Davion Guards Shadow Hawk.


Then onto a 1st Prosperina Hussars Thunderbolt.


And finally, a You'll-Have-To-Wait-Til-Tomorrow BattleMaster.

[3Xtr3m3]

Methinks the problem is, PGI release the mechs before they released the concept art.
Just saying.

[Sparks Murphey]

Okay, he got here a little late to the party, but it's not his fault, he's an assault. A 6th Donegal Guards BattleMaster.

[Bishop Steiner]

Sparks Murphey, on 23 October 2013 - 02:14 PM, said:

Okay, he got here a little late to the party, but it's not his fault, he's an assault. A 6th Donegal Guards BattleMaster.

my Blue Blood approves!

[Nathan Foxbane]

Mark Hayden, on 23 October 2013 - 01:19 AM, said:

Dennis doesn't let me release most anything to the public anymore. There's soooooo much I wanna show you guys!

But the concept arts. We needs it. Maybe rejected concept art?

[Mark Hayden]

Nathan Foxbane, on 24 October 2013 - 09:32 AM, said:

But the concept arts. We needs it. Maybe rejected concept art?

Still falls under the NDA.

[Damocles]

Sparks Murphey, on 23 October 2013 - 02:14 PM, said:

Okay, he got here a little late to the party, but it's not his fault, he's an assault. A 6th Donegal Guards BattleMaster.

Well done with the Donegal BLR, good choices on the knots. I tried it out with an Atlas before and its pretty tricky.

[CyclonerM]

Mark Hayden, on 24 October 2013 - 09:37 AM, said:

Still falls under the NDA.

So are you even letting this nosense burocratic stuff preventing you from sharing some awesome 'Mech art with your passionated fans?

[Adridos]

Mark Hayden, on 24 October 2013 - 09:37 AM, said:

Still falls under the NDA.

What about the standard concept art for the rest of the reseen 6? We only got Locust and while those plain green ones from Google Plus are easier to make a template for, their general quality is worse than in the normal releases, if you don't have an account there, getting to them is impossible and we don't even have that stuff for Griffin and Wolverine, yet.

Could we at least get those, please?

[Iqfish]

Well done Sparks! I hope my bad Template did not limit your awesome skills! By the way, how did you do that Police Catapult? Was that lighting made in-engine?

[Mark Hayden]

CyclonerM, on 24 October 2013 - 10:11 AM, said:

So are you even letting this nosense burocratic stuff preventing you from sharing some awesome 'Mech art with your passionated fans?

In this case, yes. The same way it's prevented me from sharing anything for the past year. Decisions to release internal documents (which even art is) rests above my station.

Adridos, on 24 October 2013 - 10:17 AM, said:

What about the standard concept art for the rest of the reseen 6? We only got Locust and while those plain green ones from Google Plus are easier to make a template for, their general quality is worse than in the normal releases, if you don't have an account there, getting to them is impossible and we don't even have that stuff for Griffin and Wolverine, yet.

Could we at least get those, please?

I'm looking into it now.

EDIT: Update! I asked around, and it seems that the people I would need to talk to are not in right now. So I'll have to try again later.

[Adridos]

Mark Hayden, on 24 October 2013 - 11:21 AM, said:

I'm looking into it now.

EDIT: Update! I asked around, and it seems that the people I would need to talk to are not in right now. So I'll have to try again later.

Thanks, Hayden.

[Sparks Murphey]

IqfishLP, on 24 October 2013 - 10:19 AM, said:

Well done Sparks! I hope my bad Template did not limit your awesome skills! By the way, how did you do that Police Catapult? Was that lighting made in-engine?

The model is in 3DS Max 2013, and two photometric lights have been placed in the light bar, then animated to fade up and down. I then rendered out a 15 image sequence with mental ray and assembled it as a gif in Photoshop.

[MCXL]

Hayden, I know this isn't really the right thread, but is there any way we can get some higher mech texture resolutions in game? Either as an additional download or just as part of the quality toggle? I love the texture work, but looking at like the back of the atlas in 3pv you can see the stretching and image compression really bad.

Currently the most egregious examples of the problems are the mechs where you can see part of the mech geometry from the cockpit. (Hunchback, Thunderbolt with the large LT missle pod x2 etc)

[Iqfish]

Thanks Sparks! Since I only worked in PS so far I strongly consider working with a 3D Program.

I guess I'll have to chain myself to my desk and work into that.

Thank you again!

[Ironhawk]

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