Swords of Diplomacy [Published]

markhawkman

Hmm... I guess it's just the lighting then. I double check and it looks right except the shading.

EDIT: BTW, if you want I could give you sliders for Liojor's crew. I actually made a total of 7 Boslic for the mission I used them in.

zionus0

I may have run out of character slots.

markhawkman

ah, ok.

zionus0

Realized I hadn't used a couple people at all 4 slots remain

markhawkman

well, not sure which four you'd want so... here's all six.

I didn't actually name all of them. Most were bit parts.

doctor, the medical specialist in Liojor's crew;http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/DoctorC-597114038
merc, works for Riodal as part of security; http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/MercC-597114326
maint tech, she works on fixing the equipment when it gets broken; http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/mtC-597114489
Riodal, Liojor's tactical expert; http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/RiodalC-597114669
Sardel, a science officer; http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/SardelC-597114986
Treyla, a science officer; http://marhawkman.deviantart.com/art/TreylaC-597115153

zionus0

Should be up in a couple minutes.

markhawkman

so, the security column map, the spawn is too close to the columns, one of the team got stuck.

Might be partly because I did a 3-man run, but we had serious lag issues on the space battle maps. Not the ground, but the space.

BTW, I liked the dialog you did for Liojor.

zionus0

Thanks for letting me know about the spawn point lssue. I hadn't thought of that.

As for the space maps- was the lag constant? I know that mobs scale up with the number of players in the foundry. Perhaps there was more than one battleship? (primary targets in the first space fight- other hoshostiles should vanish when they go down)

If you remember :
Are Liojor's eyebrows positioned right?

markhawkman

Hunh. forgot to scrutinize the way Liojor looked. I didn't see anything that grabbed my attention though. The lag did seem to vary with ship numbers.

zionus0

Just did a run through on my main character. Again I experienced no lag.

markhawkman

hmm, guess it only pops up in team play.

zionus0

Update: Added optional RSU warbird information to the sun map.
Fixed diologs, in security center and courtyard
Moved spawn point in security room map

duncanidaho11

I approve of the Haasra crazy scheme, I'm sure the shoes were necessary to calibrate sensitive medical equipment. :P

zionus0

duncanidaho11 wrote: »

I approve of the Haasra crazy scheme, I'm sure the shoes were necessary to calibrate sensitive medical equipment. :P

Good to hear. I admit I wasn't to sure about that conversation myself.

About the final space map: (I noticed from your review- Thank you very much btw) I used the largest nebula clouds I could... Maybe raising them up a bit? Other than that I really don't know what else to try- the first few attempts I made on that map had alot of holes in the "sun" if you looked down at the right place.

duncanidaho11

zionus0 wrote: »

About the final space map: (I noticed from your review- Thank you very much btw) I used the largest nebula clouds I could... Maybe raising them up a bit? Other than that I really don't know what else to try- the first few attempts I made on that map had alot of holes in the "sun" if you looked down at the right place.

What I was thinking is maybe using a gas giant or monochrome planet for the body, a few nebula clouds for the solar activity, and lighting that makes said gas giant look radiant.

There's some other idea in this thread from not too long ago.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1210241/how-can-i-show-a-big-star
But what you have works in terms of the visuals (and how the mission is structure). It just might pose a problem for temperamental or lower range hardware.