Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Kwok has made several new planets for the ST mod, and if you was willing, one could get the meshes from him and make some spinning planet gifs.

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Hey David,

I did a search on Google for "animated planets" and found several sites. Here are some of them:

http://www.3d-animated.com/animation/3d/planets/

http://usa.venus.co.uk/weed/agifs/vagapl1.htm

http://bestanimations.com/Earth&Spac...s/Planets.html

http://www.iconbazaar.com/orbs/animated/planets/

The Last one has very smooth, nicley done planets (better than the other 3).

Hope these are usefull http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

Well, there are lots of nice planets at some of the links, but the animated gifs are quite big,..

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055717231.gif

..this one for example is 72k in size, compared to my normal avatars (3k) that's a lot bigger. even the animated avatars I have previously done are usually 20k or less. So I wonder if it's really worth the time and space? (fyi, I did a test removing every second frame in this jupiter anim and it looked a bit jerky and only saved some 11k on the file size.)

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

I hope the SEV uses animated planets and stars. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

They look way cool, and give the game a boost in the eye candy department.

I hope Aaron focuses SEV on improvemnts of SEIV, but also in the area of eye candy. GalCiv really did a good job in this department, and MOO3 has a great 3d galaxy map.

If Aaron were to combine these elements together for SE V, wooow brother what a game that would be. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

for all we know, he could have a 200-gig hard drive.

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On your mark, get set, Go!...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055759849.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055759887.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055759913.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055759943.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055759987.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055760026.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055760050.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055760077.gif

FYI: I have a 30gig HD and I still have some 13.7gig free. So I guess I'm good for another 25,000 avatars or so. ;-)
Cheers!

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

This looks like Jabba The Hut

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055760050.gif

[ June 16, 2003, 11:50: Message edited by: minipol ]

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hmmmm,.. really? you think they look alike? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/newup...1055766996.gif

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Hehe http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif New jabba the hut looks very fine!

Re: OT: The House of 1001+ Avatars
 

They look slightly alike. But I still think the avatar image looks more like my cousin. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif