Greetings, from a fellow modder that's new to Freelancer

Well, I already know him well enough (and I had enough), despite the fact that he added me less than 72 or so hours ago.

Conversation log
The issue arose when he informed me that he requested the Moddb staff, at my back (when he knew that I was managing the page) the definitive cancellation of several resources contained in the mod’s page.

He specifies various times, without admitting that he’s wrong, that he holds the ‘rights’ over all the Continuum material, just because he hosted them at this lancersreactor.org. There is quite a difference from creating something to uploading it somewhere.

Just to make an example, this is part of the material that I’m referring to. Concept images, precious concepts that can help me a lot since I do not know the style of the various factions in the game.

The author who made that concept is a certain Pintoro, that I found over at DeviantArt thanks to an URL that the previous leader of Continuum sent me. I sent him a message to specify, in a signed internet document that the work that he made was for Continuum, and not for something else. I’m currently awaiting his reply. The uploader was of course, David.Synk, which is part of SWAT’s team, working on a new project. DS, in particular, uploaded several images on the page that he’s author of, author of some unfinished models made in Google Sketch Up, and not how SWAT said, that he’s author of those concepts as well.

I’ve lost how much time? I’ve lost almost 40 minutes over this matter just to receive another wiseass reply with the fact that he’s contacting the staff over at Moddb nevertheless.

I said that he can have the models that DS made, since I do not care about some models that I can easily remake with the concepts provided by freestalker.fr and

He wants that page stripped of everything actually useful to this project, to be brief.

I’m not the old team, I could be quite an ass as well if I wanted, but luckly, patience got the best out from me yesterday. When someone comes at me and demands me to something that I do not want to do, I doubt that I’ll act friendly on the second occasion.

Regarding the conflict between the two websites, I’ll just say that I dislike when people try to throw a monkey wrench in the works.

By the way, I thank you Vodka. And thanks Timmy for sending me over here. Also, excuse me if I forgot some typos here and there.

Excuse me Huor, I didn’t know that you were related to SWAT.
SWAT is the team, and OPR8R is the nickname of OP.
Got it.

And no, I’m not accusing a whole team because of the misfits of only one person.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I agree, and I regret that I even lost time.

Also, I need to quote this, since it made my day yesterday.

[07/05/2012 17:09:04] SWAT_OP-R8R: posting logs at TSP?… well now i know that my decision was the right one

Regarding modding now, I wanted to ask some questions:

How is animation handled in Continuum? After that I roamed around Fort Bush in New York during the campaign for a while, I need to say that I’m impressed with the design, especially with that ‘cleaner’ revolving underneath the docking section. From what I noticed there are two prevalent animations in Freelancer, one revolving at 90° degrees (the cleaner thing) and one revolving at 0° degrees (the antenna on the peak of the tower). Is there any horizontal animation that goes from left to right? (And yeah, it is probably handled by code)

Next thing,
My plan is to mash-up the concept of Continuum (regarding architecture) and that of Freelancer. And that’s why I have to make the following questions:

Can I cover two objects with a .sur? Like two different parts of a station that are detached? (Splitting the hit-detection bubble in two pieces, to be brief)

People told me that the most difficult part is re-animating the docking bays (the hatches), is that true? I don’t mind if it is hard or not, I just want to know if it’s worthwhile doing it. (For the sake of aesthetics, I want to do it)

Particles, or what seem like it, like the smoke coming out from Pueblo Station in the system of Colorado, could that be added as well? If yes, please direct me towards a tutorial on the site.

Last and final, my first attempts in 3DS Max to reproduce the style of FL with Con’s concepts failed miserably, as I got up to 16.000 polys for a simple fighter. I made three attempts and scrapped everything to the trash can from rage. (Reading in here, I should stay on lower values) So, what’s your suggestion?

I talked with FRM, and I’ve decided that I’ll change the name of the project, since I don’t want issues with ‘who owns what and when’.

Regarding the posting of the conversation log, it is a long story. I tried to reason with OP for over 40 minutes, he didn’t try to reason at all though. So I put the whole thing here, so that he could see that his opinion was not shared at all, being wrong.

Posting private logs in a public area is a ‘special bomb thing’ of my behaviour when I’m particularly annoyed by someone. Why would you rage for something like this? If your mind is clean, then you don’t need to worry about nothing. If you acted like an arrogant self-proclaimed demigod, then I would be ashamed as well if my conversation was made public among other people.

Since he replied to me on Skype, I guess that he was butthurt. My objective was thus reached. Objective of proving him that he was wrong. More opinions on the matter from more people, since I didn’t know where to look or what to do.

The thing that annoyed me the most is that he contacted the staff over at Moddb while he hadn’t even informed me. And no, OP, Folgore_RM (and by the way Malacath is me) aren’t the only ones that I met from the Freelancer MC.

I’ve met a lot of friendly people, that gave me a lot of help.
Like Timmy, Bob, even you Huor (since I learned the difference between OP and SWAT), Sushi (for explaining me the absence of normal mapping support in FL - DX8?), FriendlyFire (for the moral boost in trying to do something), Freestalker.fr (which I will consult regarding the name change) and SA_Dodger (for helping me out with the lore).

For TL;DRs
He should have vented out with the right people.

And thanks, Huor.
I owe my excuses to you, since I feel a bit ashamed by the fact that I accused you as well when I called out SWAT instead of OP.

Yeah, you’re right. I’m going too fast into things that I do not even comprehend well enough.

I’ll take a look at that archive over there, might even replace the .epub’s that I always read in the bathroom. :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQIwupha8Rc&feature=related

HOLY SHIT. What’s the radius on those .sph? (4/50000+?)
I can’t describe how I fell now that I saw that. I fell astonished.
Kudos for that stuff, it usually takes a lot to impress me.

But…
Using this kind of very large solar objects won’t require a large system? Won’t this cause that annoying ‘shaking’ that everybody talks about?

Also, from my digging in the files, I found out that planets use 3 texture maps, isn’t there any way to change this to a more friendly cube map? (right, center, left, bottom, top, rear)

I feel nerdy when I look at Star Wars stuff. Awesome stuff even I find those normals too strong.