Zanzibar Weekly Update 6

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Zanzibar Weekly Update 6

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This week's been a bit of a bitch, that's the reason our little (literally) update is a little late. It's been more of a week testing than it was playing, especially in the Energy Swords' case. We want it to be an exact copy of the Halo 2-one, which also means the energy. And that is exactly where we find problems; the Halo 2-engine has a much more advanced lighting engine. We tried almost a dozen different shaders, but each time it would look better.

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The reason for the short update is the fact that JamesD restored his comp due to his computer was hacked (including "guess who"-messages in Word and browse through files). Earlier Madrox' comp was hacked, so let's hope this is just caused by the many porn-websites they visited. ZexGX is moving this week, so a lot of time has been lost this week.

Mucho el animationes
JamesD and Madrox are working on very cool stuff, such as FP-animation. In order to do this, we would need to completely rebone the Chief's FP-hands, which is, even generously said, a pain in the ass. Madrox had to create every single joint, and there are about 44 of 'em. He didn't do it for nothing though, because soon, FP-animations will be possible. That means the Battle Rifle (of which we saw the first in-game images this week) will get his respective reloading animations (as in, moving the switch and putting in the magazine).

Model-O-Rama
cold_Fusion has been extremely busy this week, basically creating the Warthog Rocket Launcher and the Stationary Turret while recovering from surgery he had this week. It isn't really easy to model while you're half asleep because of the anesthesia, I can tell that from experience. Now for somewhat sad info: this will be the last visual update... From now on, we will only give away 1 screen every 2 weeks. The explanation for this is simple; we don't want to give you guys half-finished material. It's not that we hate you or something. Really. It's just that it saves us a lot of time, instead of being forced to have a playable build ready every Sunday to show you guys the new material we have (+ the changes will be more than visible, since a lot changes in 2 weeks).

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Well, that's about it for this week... Join us again next week.
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Post by Trkle_II »

we dont need ingmae pics just some more of those awesome models. Keep it up and release it on time and it will be better than new mombassa and all those other maps
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ya, just send renders instead of screen pics, btw, that energy sword looks kick-ass! too bad my crap card only shows energy swords as blu-ish stick thingys, and mc's don't have color either.....i team kill alot....
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[cc]z@nd! wrote:ya, just send renders instead of screen pics
Well, basically, what I meant by visual update is visual updates alltogether...
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[cc]z@nd! wrote:ya, just send renders instead of screen pics, btw, that energy sword looks kick-ass! too bad my crap card only shows energy swords as blu-ish stick thingys, and mc's don't have color either.....i team kill alot....
as far as i know it WILL show it like this, or very similar, this is NOT the blue stick energy sword, its a totally new one.
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Stefander wrote:JamesD restored his comp due to his computer was hacked. Earlier Madrox' comp was hacked, so let's hope this is just caused by the many porn-websites they visited.
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The FP-animations sound pretty sweet. Pretty stoked about that. I like the energy veins in the plasma sword. Pretty sure my card won't show that :? but maybe I'll get a better one soon. Like someone said earlier, I'll just be swingin' a blue stick and using my imagination.

That turret render looks pretty sweet to. Is that the Gauss Gun/Rocket Mount?

Sad to hear about the lack of visuals. But in the end, I guess it all boils down to building anticipation (*coughnewmombasacough*). Keep up your great work, Zanzibar Team.
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holy crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that energy sword is so good skinned and moddeld!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(finaly sead something else than fucking good guys)
and tha stationary gun it is so good!!!!!!!!!
maybe u guys can use this high resolution video of the zanzibar movie of e3.
i'v downloaded it on the net and even with full screen it is a good resolution!!!!!
but its 226 mb....
maybe if u give me ur msn i can send it any time.
or with irc is good two....
just add [email protected]
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tha master wrote: maybe u guys can use this high resolution video of the zanzibar movie of e3.
We all have that video :p
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WOW the skin for the Energy Sword looks Alsome. I really cant wait till its out. Are u going to make a seprte map called Zanzibar classic and doesnt have the mod like newmombasa? and that one is realsed first?
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(WB)ghost wrote:WOW the skin for the Energy Sword looks Alsome. I really cant wait till its out. Are u going to make a seprte map called Zanzibar classic and doesnt have the mod like newmombasa? and that one is realsed first?
no, we are only releasing a halo2 version,
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Red Dead Revolver wrote:That turret render looks pretty sweet to. Is that the Gauss Gun/Rocket Mount?
No, it's the stationary turret.
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I think u should change the place where the left hand is on the plasma sword so it doesnt look as if mc is grabbing the blade. But everything looks awesome..

ps. will there be doors with switches because I remember in the hek faq it said that u could.
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davidsacasa wrote:I think u should change the place where the left hand is on the plasma sword so it doesnt look as if mc is grabbing the blade. But everything looks awesome..

ps. will there be doors with switches because I remember in the hek faq it said that u could.
read the thread man;)
we are doing the FP hands so we can have custom animations or positions
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that energy sword is amazing
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looks real nice, keep goin with it
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Stefander wrote:Earlier Madrox' comp was hacked, so let's hope this is just caused by the many porn-websites they visited.
Lmao.

Nice update, hopefully it comes out soon :)
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Wraith wrote:
Red Dead Revolver wrote:That turret render looks pretty sweet to. Is that the Gauss Gun/Rocket Mount?
No, it's the stationary turret.
Damn. I missed that. I was half asleep :? Guess I was lookin at the big barrel thing on it.
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