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[turboferret]

id like to contribute with 3d art, is there a free program i could use? i used to mod for warcraft 3, and used some programs specifically designed for it to create my models, so, even if i can salvage some artistic experience from that time, technically, i have to start to learn everything else from scratch.

also, i vote realistic and grimdark

id like to contribute with 3d art, is there a free program i could use? i used to mod for warcraft 3, and used some programs specifically designed for it to create my models, so, even if i can salvage some artistic experience from that time, technically, i have to start to learn everything else from scratch.

also, i vote realistic and grimdark

Blender is a good one, hard to learn though. I've heard that milkshape 3D is a good beginner's one, though it isn't free, there's a free trial, I think it's 30 days.

Blender is the way to go. I also found it a little intimidating at first, with the inconventional interface. While I'm no expert now, I feel really comfortable working with it.

i'm thinking about blender, but i'd like to hear from the dev wich formats does he intend to support

More than likely OBJ. It's common and easy to handle. And Blender's very capable of using it.

Yes, OBJ is what I have found works best in Irrlicht (the graphics engine I'm using). It's really not that hard to switch formats if we need to later.

I'm reading up on how to use blender... I'll try to get a revolving door out soon.  (As for a giant piston, I think that might be similar to what I'm thinking for a floodgate.)

Honestly, I could go either way on cartoonish or realistic, but I don't like grimdark, and think it's overdone and things with it generally take itself too seriously. 

Frankly, even if we made things as cutesy as a game of Lemmings, then, just like Lemmings, it would be black humor anyway when all the cute little heads came flying off in sprays of blood, or they tried to swim in magma...

Speaking of which, I should probably make kittens my first creatures, just so we can model them exploding when they hit the bottom of pits.

We need splodin cats

I'm already pretty proficient with Blender (or maybe Accomplished. heh.) I'm not so great at organics, but I'd be more than happy to help out with furniture and workshops and the like.

Great!

[Thief^]

If it fails to launch with "This application has failed to start because msvcp100.dll was not found" or similar you might not have the latest 32-bit C++ redistributable. You can get it from Microsoft here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displaylang=en.

If you change the project properties to static link to the vc++ runtime then you'll get a slightly larger executable but people won't need to install the 2010 runtime to run it.

[turboferret]

If it fails to launch with "This application has failed to start because msvcp100.dll was not found" or similar you might not have the latest 32-bit C++ redistributable. You can get it from Microsoft here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displaylang=en.

If you change the project properties to static link to the vc++ runtime then you'll get a slightly larger executable but people won't need to install the 2010 runtime to run it.

The only problem I see with that is that it will never work with any OS prior to Windows XP SP2, but I'm not sure there are VC++ 2010 dynamic libraries for those either so it might not be such a big loss
Anyway, who's still on Windows 98?

[Aklyon]

I'm not.

[Oglokoog]

I'm not.

Good to know.

[breadbocks]

I'm still on XP, thank god. I can't play creatures 1 or 2 on anything newer.

[ECrownofFire]

I'm still on XP, thank god. I can't play creatures 1 or 2 on anything newer.

Why bother sticking with XP if Windows 7 has that fancy XP-mode thing? Personally, I haven't looked at it much (I haven't even used 7 yet, I'm a Linux geek/nerd), but it should work for most things anyway.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

xp also has the fancy xp mode thingie

[Untelligent]

Screenshots look awesome! Too bad my fort's on 31.12, can't wait for an updated version of this.

[breadbocks]

I'm still on XP, thank god. I can't play creatures 1 or 2 on anything newer.

Why bother sticking with XP if Windows 7 has that fancy XP-mode thing? Personally, I haven't looked at it much (I haven't even used 7 yet, I'm a Linux geek/nerd), but it should work for most things anyway.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to play Creatures on it.

[turboferret]

A new version is out

Download
Current version: 0.1.4
The latest build can be found here.

This version includes some heavy rework and optimizations of terrain rendering. DFize should now be able to render larger areas of terrain. Try out the different draw distance options. You might get "hickups" when moving or rotating. This is because the meshbuffer for a certain part of the terrain is  created when first rendered. Thus the hickup will only occur the first time you see that part of the terrain.
Currently buildings aren't visible when meshbuffers are enabled.
I also added "settings.txt" in the main DFize folder where you can currently set window resolution and whether to use fullscreen or not.

Some screenies

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[Aklyon]

is the yellow in the bottom pic sand?

[turboferret]

is the yellow in the bottom pic sand?

Yes it is. Materials are still a bit off

[Untelligent]

Huh. Looks like grass to me.

[ECrownofFire]

So what's that red area then? Red sand?