UFO:Alien Invasion

General => Discussion => Topic started by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 03:09:53 pm

Title: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;) [Obsolete, WIP]
Post by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 03:09:53 pm: Hello !
I have decided to start a new thread with complete descriptions of tasks where folks could easily become involved in contributing.

This is meant for those who thought before that they lack the skills to help this project out.

So people, if your skills for these tasks here are lacking, I really cannot help you anymore ;)...
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 03:19:53 pm: Once im ok using the mapper can i make maps or something? Id be good at skirmish maps. I think...
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN, IF YOU WANT)
Post by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 03:23:18 pm: Task 1:
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We need new textures for the shop. For that we first need some good selfmade photos. So if you can use a digicam you can help here.
The pictures needed do not have to have a very high resolution, because they will be rescaled to 128x128 or maybe a little bit bigger anyway.
It would be nice if you could cut & rescale the pictures to 256x256. Please take care that the scale of the fruits is okay, so apples & bananas should not be bigger than they are in real-life.

If you want to see where the shop-textures are used simply start UFO:AI->Skirmish Mode->village commercial & look around.

More variations (fruits of all kinds) are welcome. Take your cam & storm the next supermarket ! Here you CAN help !

Yes You Can ! ;)

The pictures needed should look like this:
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 03:24:49 pm: If I get those pictures, I will volunteer in making nice normalmaps for them & you will have your stuff in-game for 2.3 ;)!

& while doing stuff never forget this stolen refrain from a bad song with a great text:

You Can Get It If You Really Want
You Can Get It If You Really Want
You Can Get It If You Really Want
But You Must Try, Try & Try

YOU SUCCEED @ LAST !
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 04:09:04 pm: STOP !
Stop searching pictures in the Internet. You have to make them yourself, this cannot be used because of licensing questions !!!
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 04:11:29 pm: If you really want to help you have to do stuff yourself. But I am sure you know how to use a cam. & I am also sure now, that you can resize the pictures needed... ;)
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: H-Hour on April 10, 2010, 04:31:22 pm: Quote from: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 03:19:53 pm
Once im ok using the mapper can i make maps or something? Id be good at skirmish maps. I think...

Yes, there's lots of different scales at which you can contribute with maps -- everything from an object, to one tile in an RMA, to full maps. When you start to get a grasp of the editor, be sure to start reading the wiki articles on mapping, to learn about things like the RMA (random map assembly), levels, surface flags, etc.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 04:32:59 pm: Yah well im reading the wiki now to get use to it its simplier than i thought
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: Kildor on April 10, 2010, 04:37:08 pm: so stop chatting, and try to do something „real″. it's easy enough..
And, you have one major advantage, as you are teenager, more free time than others, use it with deal.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: BTAxis on April 10, 2010, 04:40:35 pm: Quote from: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 04:13:18 pm
Isnt it ok since i found them on those free gallery places?

Not necessarily, no.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here:
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 04:54:05 pm: I didnt post any fruit :P
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Destructavator on April 10, 2010, 05:16:06 pm: Even simple terrain, for RMA map tiles, would be nice - new ones that fit the location better. I'm saying this because I recently had a mission in Antarctica where I had troops advance on a crashed UFO, but not before first going through a convenience store and a barn with a cow inside, all in the middle of nowhere.

For those new to mapping, I'd suggest starting something simple such as a square with a small hill and perhaps a few small items, so that a desert or arctic landscape can use them and have variation without having to have strange structures that don't fit. Not every single RMA map tile has to be an either perfectly clear flat square or some elaborate structure with occupants. I think some more tiles with simple, rolling hills or other terrain would be nice, to be placed around occupied structures.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: MCR on April 10, 2010, 05:35:46 pm: Quote from: Destructavator on April 10, 2010, 05:16:06 pm
Even simple terrain, for RMA map tiles, would be nice - new ones that fit the location better.
You are very right, but such textures have to be seamless ;) & I wanted to start a thread here which gives folks WITHOUT skills the opportunity & CONCRETE tasks where they can help, but I am sure, Destructavator, you could find such a task for them also... ;)
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 06:51:16 pm: If I make textures what format does it have to be in and can i use photoshop?
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Mattn on April 10, 2010, 06:55:01 pm: you can use whatever you like - just make sure to submit the source files and try to use png
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 07:50:04 pm: cool
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: H-Hour on April 10, 2010, 08:00:44 pm: And make sure the texture sizes are a multiple of 2: 64, 128, 256, 512, etc.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 08:22:02 pm: K heres my pic for a apple and if you would ever need it a carpet picture
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 08:26:31 pm: And here are the originals
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 08:28:49 pm: ...
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: BTAxis on April 10, 2010, 08:57:56 pm: The carpet one has some lighting on it that makes it unsuitable as a texture.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Mattn on April 10, 2010, 09:08:57 pm: upload your photos e.g. here: http://www.burningwell.org/

that way you can help others, too.

i've updated the links section with another picasa webalbum i've created
http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Contribute#Links
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: Legendman3 on April 10, 2010, 10:33:11 pm: Quote from: BTAxis on April 10, 2010, 08:57:56 pm
The carpet one has some lighting on it that makes it unsuitable as a texture.

Oh well. I still got you guys a apple texture. If i can ill get a banana one. The bananas might be green though.
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: MCR on July 15, 2010, 12:08:19 pm: STOPPED WAITING FOR THIS, DID IT MYSELF.

WIP
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;)
Post by: MCR on July 15, 2010, 12:10:57 pm: Still WIP, as those will get _nms for the game also, but realtime lighting is broken here (ATI), so I have to test the normalmaps on another computer :'(
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;) [Obsolete, WIP]
Post by: Mattn on July 31, 2010, 06:21:30 pm: they should be tileable
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;) [Obsolete, WIP]
Post by: MCR on July 31, 2010, 09:06:21 pm: I already replaced the old fruit textures with new ones & uploaded higher resolution versions of all of those plus their normalmaps to trunk for future replacement...

Also I added more different 'fruits' so there will be no need for repetition on a map anymore...

The completely new additional versions have been uploaded with quadrupled resolution compared to the originals to ensure better visual quality...

I know that most textures need to be tileable, but the fruit-textures are used inside boxes only, so those textures always appear just once...

I will attach some actual screens here to show the currently very low resolution versions in-game (without applied normalmaps).
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;) [Obsolete, WIP]
Post by: MCR on July 31, 2010, 09:08:09 pm: Here a crazy test version with normalmaps (still low-res):
Title: Re: Volunteers Needed Here: (YES YOU CAN !!!) ;) [Obsolete, WIP]
Post by: albertosandras on August 12, 2010, 07:31:23 am: Hmm!

Well I can volunteer provided my works find ample space !

Anyways it was good to see some requirement like this!

Please pm me with other details!

Regards!