Dropships

InZaneFleaArmyInZaneFleaArmy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 18Members
in Mapping Forum
<div class="IPBDescription">Need them....or...not?</div>The hype for months has been people amking dropships for others...amazingly well done...are they really needed?  Not one of the maps being playtested has a dropship, and they all work very well.  Is this an amazing graphical pleaser, or a waste of planes and r_speeds?
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  • tommydtommyd Creator of ns_tanith, co_pulse and co_faceoff Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 40Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, NS2 Developer
    dropships are not necessary... (old topic)
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    But they're really really cool! <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->

    So it's all up to the mapper if they want them in for atmospheric effect or not. Really, atmosphere -does- matter in this game, though you can achieve it through any number of means, only one of which is a dropship.
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  • infiinfi Join Date: 2002-07-07 Member: 891Members
    a playtester says that? but ns_bast has a dropship doesn't it?
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  • Raptor091288Raptor091288 Join Date: 2002-07-15 Member: 955Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    i'd put a dropship in a map i made, if i could make maps detailed enough for this mod that is, its bad enough for me making decently-detailed HLDM/HLSP/sven co-op maps, but a decently detailed NS map? ha, i doubt i could even make one close to the normal quality for NS (wait, i could just it would take a looong time) and about the real topic here:
    id put em in gladly, like having the marines start in there, with the commander console and everything right there, a resource thing just outside, not many resources in it, since its  easy to find and stuff, then of course, put more throughout the rest of the map, if any1 wants an idea for a map, ive got 1... (i like this one alot... if only some1 could make it)
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  • GreedoGreedo Bounty Hunter Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 37Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--infi+July 23 2002,21:52--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (infi @ July 23 2002,21:52)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->but ns_bast has a dropship doesn't it?<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    No.  No it does not.
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  • infiinfi Join Date: 2002-07-07 Member: 891Members
    <b>it does!</b>

    <a href="http://www.readyroom.org/ns_maps/relic25/index.html" target='_blank'>http://www.readyroom.org/ns_maps/relic25/index.html</a>

    third screen on the right side and seventh screen on the left side
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  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Bast does have a dropship, but you only ever see the loading platform.  Unless you were told what it was I doubt you would recognise it.  Those pictures are fairly outdated now.
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Right.  Waaaaay back in time, I had planned on mapping the interior of the dropship too, but I didn't want to do that until everything else was in, and now I can't spare the planes.  So a loading platform is all you get. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->  This time...
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  • infiinfi Join Date: 2002-07-07 Member: 891Members
    mhh no I noticed that before I read it <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> it looks pretty much like a dropship with that platform and the airinlets
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  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--Relic25+July 24 2002,08:19--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Relic25 @ July 24 2002,08:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Right.  Waaaaay back in time, I had planned on mapping the interior of the dropship too, but I didn't want to do that until everything else was in, and now I can't spare the planes.  So a loading platform is all you get. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->  This time...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    /me thwaps Relic with a pointed stick

    Bah! Tease! <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

    'tis a fine loading platform, though. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • InZaneFleaArmyInZaneFleaArmy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 18Members
    That seventh shot...It's...uh...the engine room...
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  • infiinfi Join Date: 2002-07-07 Member: 891Members
    <b>The marine drop ship prepares to unleash it's grunts.</b>

    that's the text to the seventh image I think you got the wrong one <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • InZaneFleaArmyInZaneFleaArmy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 18Members
    Thats the text...but that room was changed to the engine room...It has the same architecture...but it was changed.
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  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Wait... This shot???
    <img src="http://www.readyroom.org/ns_maps/relic25/ns_bast_8x6.jpg" border="0">

    I'm not Relic, but since when has this been anything -other- than a landing/cargo bay with a loading elevator/dropship/whatever?

    <a href="http://www.readyroom.org/ns_maps/relic25/NS_BAST0001_Engine_8x6.jpg" target="_blank">This</a> image depicts a (very very old) version of what the Bast engine room has and will always be. I much prefer its current state, though. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Aye carumba, is that an old shot!  About the only thing that's still the same in that room is the pad and its armatures and that support foot in the far corner.
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  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I'd have gotten a more flattering one, but I was posting from work. :-\ Sorry. D:
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Oh, it's no big deal. :)  I had just forgotten what it used to look like a year ago.  hehe
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    *jaw drops*

    Hey, Relic? Could you make the map look like that? <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> I like how it actually looks like that's an elevator of some sort that dropped down from a ship. S'cool, 'n schtuff.
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    /me is seriously confused now.

    This is how the map is right now.  The texturing of the room around it changed a little and other details were added, but it's still the same landing platform at the marine start.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    WTH? I think Molec has been letting someone playtest in his stead. It's looked basically like that for as long I've been around this mod...
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Now...
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  • KidzeldaKidzelda Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 819Members
    Old an' busted...
    <img src="http://www.readyroom.org/ns_maps/relic25/ns_bast_8x6.jpg" border="0">
    New hotness.
    <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/uploads/post-4-53510-ns_bast0000.jpg" border="0">
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  • humbabahumbaba That Exciting Tales From the Frontline Guy Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 86Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    hah hah hah. yes.
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  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    i vote for new hotness <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Eeeerrrhh.. Yeah. So they look a lot alike. I dunno, the new hotness ceiling didn't scream "Spaceship" to me, whereas old 'n busted's did.

    *shrug*

    <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> Yeah, so I just sounded really stupid then. <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->



    <!--EDIT|Moleculor|July 24 2002,22:36-->
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  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    i dunno if it does coz theres somthin blockin the roof so we cant see it completely.... but i like a lot more the ambience of the room of the new one.... but its true that b4, the dropship was more "clear" now it has so many detail that u only see an elevator......
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  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    HAAAAAAAAAAAA! HL TEXTURES!

    MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!
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  • BattousaixBattousaix Join Date: 2002-06-25 Member: 822Members
    LMAO thats from the warcraft3 outtakes
    <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> but im pretty sure that it came from other place as well...... <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->
    it looks cool now... but its really bright and too shiny for me <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> both pics look awesome...... i cant pick.... bleh anyways its not goin to change......
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  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    If it's too bright, shoot out the lights -- but don't blame me when you mysteriously fall over dead in a dark corner. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
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