-The Background Story-
—I’ve always liked space battles in movies of any sort so I decided one day to just play around a bit. Because of PFlow and it’s greatness, animating much of this has been easier than expected. This has always been more like a side project to me that i’ve been able to put a bit of time in lately. I’m happy with what I have now and I feel like it’s enough to be able to show to CGtalk as example of what i’m doing with this.
[b]-The Story-[/b]
—There aren’t any names for the two sides battling in this scene. It originally started out as a ship bombarding a planet surface, a shot i managed to include in a Goverment class ad that we did. I decided to add to it by adding Offense and Defense. To this day that is how i refer to the ships because I never intended to make much of it. However, as I worked on it, I decided this shot has some good potential and figured others might want to pitch in and help.
[b]-The Plan-[/b]
—The idea here is to create a Space Battle that, aside from the ship models themselves, is totally driven by 3ds Max’s particle system PFlow. Nearly everything except for the ships themselves will be PFlow generated and driven (a big plus for the scene): Explosions, lasers, muzzle flashes, debris, the fighter ships battles etc.
Originally, this was just a nice big artillery type of scene showing the battlecruisers and battleships pounding away at each other. However I decided to make this a different kind of project. The PFDSB, as it is abbreviated, is a two way project now.
One part involves developing the engine/system that powers the the AI for the fighter ships in the scene. They will be completely autonomous and PFlow-Driven. After the technology is mostly finished, anyone will be able to pit two teams of ships against each other and watch them fight it out.
The second part of this project involves applying the technology to our own ships and adding capital ships and, in short, making our own space battle scene, as both a fun thing to do, and to show off the technology behind the fighter AI.
Below are some screenshots of, first, the Defensive Battlecruiser and, second, the Offfensive Battleship as well as a couple shots of the shot as it looks so far. There are also more of the same images plus a couple more small screenshots from the project on my website. See the Elysium 3d link in my signature.
[b]-Want to help?-[/b]
---If you are interested in helping out, knowledge of PFlow isn't necessary. I need artists who can provide [b]FX work[/b] that can be translated over through PFlow, texture artists for the ships if needed, [b]Concept Artists,[/b] and finally [b]lighting helpers[/b] who could help lighting the scene in space so parts of it don't seem so dark... Knowledge of PFlow is expected, of course, if you're interested in helping out with the aforementioned scripting with PFlow for the fighters etc.
[b]Important: [/b]We are in [i]most[/i] need of [b]Concept Artists[/b] so we can further the modelling aspect of this project. For the moment, I have only drawn one picture of a ship which, can do, but we need talented Concept Artists who can expand on our original design style (see pictures below) and give us some more ideas for ships to model.
We also need some [b]scripters [/b]who are willing to work with me and help build the AI Engine behind the fighter ships.
[color=LemonChiffon][b]-Team[/b]-
[b]
-Project Leader
[/b][color=White]Cryptite
[/color] [color=LightBlue][b]-Team Positions[/b]
[/color][/color][b]-Engine-[/b]
Cryptite
-Concept Art-
dark-elf2
-Modeling Team-
ace4016
the best
3d_guru
InfamousX
SpooX
-Music-
filmcomposer
ChrisBG
-Directing-
ChrisBG
Cryptite
[b]Needed[/b]: Concept Artists & Scripters
Note: I'll be updating this post with screenshots (new or updated) as we work on project. So keep checking this post every once in awhile to see some of the updates of the project.
[b]- Last Update for this thread post -[/b] [color=White]6.29.05
- Rewrote, organized, and colorized this post for ease of view and to give people a better idea what this is all about.
[/color] [img]http://cryptite.f2o.org/SpaceBattle/defense_screen3.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cryptite.f2o.org/SpaceBattle/offense_screen1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cryptite.f2o.org/SpaceBattle/offense_screen2.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cryptite.f2o.org/SpaceBattle/defense_attack.jpg[/img]
[img]http://cryptite.f2o.org/SpaceBattle/defense_attack2.jpg[/img]
hi again this is the ship that tom draw (I know it still need some working)