Starship Troopers: Outpost

So, one of my mappers (G_A_B on ModDb) sends me an e-mail with a basic outpost with no textures but hes go the design down pat. Then to my amazement he sends me a map in an hour with a textured map with a working gun tower and everything. It was a perfect recreation of how the outposts look in the movie minus the textures.

That was yesterday. Also, my modeler/animator/texturer said he'd try and get me WIP photos of the warrior by the weekend. Really got to hand it to those guys beeing able to work without communication with eachother. This will change by the weekend hopefully with a temporary free forum I made.

Anyways, today not much happened on my end. I went through a bunch of e-mails from people wanting to join, a few mappers which we no longer need but most of them were modelers. One of them, had a good model but all his pictures were only of that model. Everyone else kind of looked like there models were done for Quake 1. One guy was a begining texture artist as well as a modeler and started a map of an outpost from Starship Troopers with textures he made. I'm considering him but it's something I need to put some hard thought into.

I really need a good texture artist.

So this is the first entry. Neat.

Umm, Well it's the begining of the New Year so Happy (belated) New Year. So what has been done in the almost month since this Mod was started. Stuff...

Actually I must be doing something right because when I released a map that was just testing bug numbers (we used antlions) someone commented that they're glad we're starting stuff so early. This really boosted my confidence because I was kind of falling apart as I have yet to have a complete team and after a month I thought I should have had more done. So, I was in a good mood.

So yeah, as I said we released a test map which contained a small base with rebels and guns and antlions would spawn. It was a little mini game actually as when you killed one another would spawn, then another, another, and so on untill eventually you had to fight an Antlion Guard and then after him another a long with TONS of Antlions. It was a good fun test. You can actually download it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/9830382/new_one.rar.html

Before that I released the Design Document which is small but I was proud of it as well as some Concept Art. So it's been a good first month looking back on it even though I have yet to gather an entire team.

But that's the past and today we have some new news, I am in talks, by talks I mean I found a modeler that wants in which is great. Not only can he model but he also knows how to rig and animate so it's just got even better. It's times like these that make me so excited about the project and at the same amazed I managed to actually get it started while most mods just talk shit and then just die.

Moding really is a hard thing, especially trying to run one. Just a word of warning.