Freeworlds: Tides of War - A Starwars Total Conversion Mod!

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Stunning work, puts the rest of us in the shade

Sushi

Bas wrote:
awesome

nice rank @ MOD DB =P

Ya, we’re getting lucky there.

Really, the only one to take credit for this astounding achievement is W0d. I cannot wait to see what the other mods will be able to do with this once it’s released for everyone to use. I think he singlehandedly gave FL one or two more years

Gisteron

even more i suppose.
therefore all of us will aim to even higher standards once the graphics and detail are becoming more and more usual. i think this is a time of a high rise of development for freelancer. Thank you all, gentlemen!

Sushi

This is the latest development image of all our new graphical toys rolled into one. Colour Correction + Bloom + Wireframe Viewer

What this image is a merging of two ingame screenshots. One with the wireframe viewer on (on the left) and the other with just the model (on the right). There’s a gradient in the middle.

I thought this would be a great opportunity to show you the power of this latest graphical update from w0d. Here’s to Freelancer

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/11/10662/TatooWire.jpg

Gisteron

Dunno for sure but i think the ISD model i found on the web is even more detailed than yours. could we share them with each other for e.g. LOD purposes and stuff? waitin hopefully

Quarks

This wireframe thing is impressing.

FriendlyFire

This ISD is 100k+ polygons. Any more would not only be overkill, it’d be a waste.

Sushi

Ya, what FF said.

Timmy51m

Looks fantastic.

Am I correct in assuming this is still based on intercepting calls to dx8 then feeding them through a proxy dll to dx9? You haven’t actually converted the engine itself to dx9?

I’m not knocking, just curious. Looks great either way.

Sushi

Timmy51m wrote:
Looks fantastic.

Am I correct in assuming this is still based on intercepting calls to dx8 then feeding them through a proxy dll to dx9? You haven’t actually converted the engine itself to dx9?

I’m not knocking, just curious. Looks great either way.

Yep, that’s how I understand w0dk4 did it.

FriendlyFire

It’s more in-depth than ENB, far far more. w0dk4 is best placed to answer, but we’re not limited to post-processing anymore.

This isn’t just a custom ENB for FL.

Timmy51m

Must have found a way to hack the engine then I guess. Out of curiosity, is the reason for not converting the engine itself because you don’t have the source code? I’ve seen many people mention the difference it would make if you could get your hands on it, would this be one of them?

Gisteron

yes, for sure. probably soon our freelancer related programming section could even convert it to dx10, if we had the source. that w0dk4 got it that far without is indicator of miraculous skills.

Vesko

Wow, the one mod that doesn’t solely use Bloom for their graphics. Amazing.

Can’t wait to try it!

Sushi

Over the past week, the FW:ToW Dev team has really picked up steam in all areas of development. In particular, graphic effects and gameplay. In respect to the “pretty things”, our resident graphics genius, FriendlyFire, has decided to redo all the explosion effects and death fuses for the ships. What he has accomplished has been simply amazing and really shows the power of our “out dated” Freelancer Engine. He posted a video up on our new live steaming site, which I’ll discuss more about below, here:

fwtow on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free
We’ve also been finishing the last touches on our shiplist with Overfiend working overtime to create this new A-9 interceptor model!

The last thing I’d like to welcome all our fans to is the Live Q&A session we will be having on Sunday July 25th @ 14h00 EDT. With the power of our new live streaming site, we can actually show you the mod in game, LIVE! So, if you have any questions and want to see the mod ingame please come visit: http://www.livestream.com/fwtow @ 14h00 EDT on July 25th.

For help with the timezones, go here: http://everytimezone.com/. We’re using New York as the standard time.

As always, any questions, suggestions or comments are welcomed!
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StarTrader

Nice work!

Timmy51m

Hard to believe this old game is capable of supporting the kind of quality you guys are showing off. It’s obvious this is going to leave every other mod in it’s wake in terms of visuals, but how long is it going to take before you get to some sort of release. Months, years, any idea or is it just a when it’s done scenario?

Why485

Agreed, the Freeworlds team is always pushing the boundaries of what is possible. I eagerly await its release. I have to say, FriendlyFire lately has been stealing my effects gig and showing me up. I ate my words when he produced that brilliant hyperspace effect. I need to get back into ALE editing and release some more sweet stuff.

Also hats off to Sushi for being the best mod manager I have ever seen by a long shot. Sushi is managing the people and project better than most professional managers you will ever meet in the workplace.

Mirkha

Why485 wrote:

Also hats off to Sushi for being the best mod manager I have ever seen by a long shot. Sushi is better at managing the people and the project than most professional managers you will ever meet in the workplace.

it’s nothing to say … ^^

Timmy51m

Why485 wrote:
I need to get back into ALE editing and release some more sweet stuff.

Hell yeah, that would be great. I love your Itano Circus mod. Wouldn’t want FF to steal your thunder would we! We’ve got ourselves an ALE war!