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cusoi
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2003 20:22
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I'm making a FPRTS(First Person Real Time Strategy). I think you don't know what i'm talking about so i will tell what the game will be about. You are one man in the game, as in a First Person Shooter and you look from his eyes. You can shoot at enemies and get help from friends. So far no difference from a FPS. But in this game you have a base and in that base are builders, repairers, tank drivers, pilots and more. You are the boss and give orders to that people. To build a barrack for example. Than you can go to the barrack and build a soldier. Than you can command the soldier to go to the enemy. This makes the RTS-Genre more realistic. You have to be everywhere. Also when you want to see the radar, you have to go to the radar building. The game is in the modern age, arround 2010. I have made my own object editor to create the buildings and tanks, but I need a program to create the soldiers and other humans. What program should I use, and what do you think of making this kind of game.
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John H
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Posted: 3rd Jan 2003 22:44
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I think it sounds like a lot of current games out there right now (barracks and stuff) but anyways. This would be hard to code. Good luck. For 3D, I suggest the 20 dollar 3D power tool Milkshape (www.milkshape3d.com). Dont let people convince you other wise, except for BUYING 3D Studio Max, Lightwave, Maya or Rhino. All high class (expensive) modellers. For 2d I suggest Paint Shop Pro (dunno where) or Photoshop (prefered) www.adobe.com

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cusoi
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Posted: 4th Jan 2003 02:37
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Thank you very much. I don't want to spend too much money so I will buy Milkshape.

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John H
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K lol Most of them are $1500+ Rhino and Maya arent bad (like 300) but the others PHEW!!

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cusoi
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Why is milkshape so inexpensive(i hope this is the right word). Isn't it as good as other programs?
And I know it will be hard to code, I don't know if I can, but I've Darkbasic for a year now and I have many experience with QBasic(8 years) and Delphi(2 years) and I've also programmed in C++ and Visual basic. So I can code, but I don't know if I'm good enough for this, because I'm very bad at graphics and in a First Person game you need good graphics.

Current project: Earth Chaos, a FPRTS
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Dunno why milkshape is so cheap! Its a really powerful tool!

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cusoi
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I've downloaded the demo and it works great! Thank you again.

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TheNVS
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hey RPGamer,
isn't Maya like over $2000? in 1999, it was over $30000 for windows.

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Oh I didnt realise. I thought it was on the same plain as Rhino. My bad lol.

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QuothTheRaven
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hahahaha ha... you thought rhino was cheap...it's the price of a small car.
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QuothTheRaven
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i mean maya! MAYA is the price of the car! I'm laughing at you cause you mispriced maya!! damn subtle language barrier...
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TheNVS
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yeah, i found out Maya umlimited is $6999.

for those who dont know Maya,
its a great modeler for games. its #1 use for modeling and animation.
look at http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/products/maya/index.shtml for more information.

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ToyImp
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3D Studio Max is somewhere around the 10k range. If not more. Maya is 7k, and rhino is almost 20k. Unless the prices have changed. Hash Inc's Animation:Master, as good of quality as Maya, is only 300. [http://www.hash.com]. And of course if you get any of these you need a good Paint Editor for the textures, which I would recommend Adobe Photoshop and that is $609.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2003 23:21
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Ive never really followed maya so I didnt know the price Sorry

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heh nothing to apologize aboot.. There are some program out there for free that you can use for 3D Modeling. Can't think of any off the top of my head right now. But when I find my links I'll post them.

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