Star Dragon

So in other words all that hard work is about to go into the toilet? And not one person has stepped forward... FOR SHAME! Damn, if only Ryunne hadn't disappeared. She was working on a MACROSS mod and it was like a sister project to my own (I had just taken the reigns of the RT one from Max then and began learning how to mod FS2). When she disappeared her project vanished also and it's lost forever. (I particularly had been very excited about it) Particularly not WHAT was in it, but HOW she got them to work. Her efforts were inspiring and proved to me it could be done, and now 5 years later i still haven't given up! I got several of my own projects/or ones I assist as it is and really don't see myself starting a new one for Macross. Besides, I would have to do massive research first and if focused on HW2 would run into the SAME problems the current team has. You also notice despite my impassioned plea on the Relic forums and last update one no one there said squat as well or appeared to come here and offered any help what so ever? So... Unless someone from the COMMUNITY steps forward and stops this madness I myself will sincerely offer to keep the files as an archive for future generations of MACROSS PROJECTS. Make no mistake, although I'm the lead Dev of the FS2 RT mod, I do know how to manage and separate projects. my love of Macross is completely separate from RT. I wouldn't make it a requirement, but I would make a request. Since I write a large cross-over fanfic and elements of MACROSS (as well as other macross sereis) are included. Would it be possible to use the works for image purposes only? Or possibly a video? Right now my computer is bonked and I spent my savings on another one I DON'T NEED! So the ones I had planned to make are now indefinitely delayed (again!) It's totally separate from game mods and I have NEVER released any mesh depicted in the fic since I started writing and making renders since 2004. Game mods used however have, but only with proper permissions first. If you need a character reference about my word you can ask Tolwyn, Lead Dev of the WCSAGA team for an example. I had asked about use of their models (since I had them as a voice actor for them and beta tester). I got the ok, but he said only once the demo was released... Well 4 YEARS later the demo is out, so now I can use them even though they've been on my drive the entire time, I never touched them. LOL!!! It was tempting, but the best one I can think of off the top of my head... I cannot in good conscience just let them go into the void. It would be a crime... Now excuse me for asking a very basic question, but as an alternative... Why wouldn't hosting them on the Macross World server be an option? No doubt it would be the most stable area and reachable by the majority of Macross fans worldwide??? Did the admins decline, not make the offer, or it simply hasn't been thought of yet? Whatever course you decide to take Lestat, we know that it's a terrible tragedy whenever a mod ends uncompleted. The only silver lining is that in the future others can begin. You could give them that head start, but if you choose just to destroy the team's work, that's your valid option. I would beg you to enrich the community rather than do that however!. Now all that's left is waiting to breathe until it's decided one way or another.

It would take a serious kick in the nutz for him to change his fundamental viewpoint.... I am working on it. I'm on like chapter 33 of my fanfic and he's about to get a glimpse or reality. Maybe in 20 more chapters I might actually get him to pull a frigging trigger! As for M7, I found it to be refreshingly different yet the same as SDF-m (if you can understand my meaning). Although the music is great (I totally love FireBomber), teh music they use is too limited and repetative. It's almost orgasmic when you hear a NEW SONG!!! I am so glad I found this site, I finally got MORE FB music and especially the Tribute album! I intend to use it in a few videos later... I defiantly think it could have been a better series but still say it's a MUST SEE for any MACROSS fan!

Just a few musings I wanted to add and then a request. A.) Guld had to "take out the limiter" a device assumed to restrict thought operation of the craft to a level NON-Lethal to the pilot. In order to ram himself into the GHOST, Guld had to override the machine safety so it would follow his order to accelerate and intercept (machine vs machine). Should he had survived the collision somehow, he no doubt would have died from internal injuries from the maneuver anyway. His thoughts were focused not on the pain, but only on hitting the target. B.) NBSG FTL does not take more mass with it than an established radius, even in a gravity well. This may be a technology limitation and answers why the OLDER Galactica has to retract the pods and the Mercury class doesn't. better FTL, more power, better control or manipulation of the field, ect... This is why a viper HAS to at least be IN THE POD or get left behind (Combat Landings). There is no Macross "carry along" effect, otherwise more civilian ships could have been saved by piggybacking FTL fields to cover STL ships or ships with broken FTl they left behind in the miniseries... C.) In FS2 (I lost the PIC online), during FS1 the community created "Subspace Missiles". A spotter ship (usually a stealth fighter) paints the target and the Capital ships launch their ordinance into subspace. The missiles emerge in a 360 bubble around the ship exiting subspace and demolish the target (like something out of The Irresponsible Captain Tylor!) A Devastating non-Cannon weapon system. If I can find a pic I will post it for you! D.) In TOS BSG they had viper that traveled a fraction of .C and the "Recon Viper" under computer control could actually go beyond like 1.1 1.2C causing the pilot to black out but get the manuever done. It was unarmed to accommodate the engines and AI computer system "C.O.R.A." Also flight was atmospheric, mostly like Macross with occasion RL physics thrown in for flavor. Apparently the Galactica near the end of the series had a primitive pin-point barrier, (Experiment in Terra) but only in the forward arc. Also in (Hand of God the FINAL episode), It sported a BFG bow cannon not related to normal defensive fire you see from the laser turrets. Instead of the usual dual forms of viper fire you see a big beam, like in Macross or a FS2 BFRED. ----- My request, If anyone is into math I desperately need help in converting Macross weaponry (or ANY other franchise) into units I can use. I need any listings of Offensive & Defensive weaponry, Missiles, and Shields converted from whatever power unit they use (ie Joules or whatnot) into Damage values for a single hit or one second of exposure. This is the only way I can replicate "what if" battles. I use FS2 for the baseline and have hard numbers for damage based on the MEGATON (ie 640pts) so a GT weapon does 6400 Damage (ETC) That means the Warsies who claim 200GT Turbos would do "1,200,000" damage per hit with main guns Under this formula even shields can be figured out as all you need to do is find out how much "damage" the shield can absorb per second. Recharge speed and amounts can be tweaked later and are not taken into consideration for the damage amount. This determines the base number of "points" each ship or fighter has. I know there is no great demand for realism in sci-fi, but this is a very earnest personal request I have wanted to embark on for quite a long time... It's also a great way to have fun on a topic that isn't real, yet you can simulate outcomes fairly accurately!!! Can we wage carnage against other Franchises??? In the voice of George Clooney to Arnold in that Batman movie, "Will you help me?"

He's looking down going, "umm, BIG..." Very nice! He (not an it) seems a bit depressed in that pose though, how about something more heroic next time?

I read the wiki article it linked to... I still don't get the wireless transmission of power. I would think we would have that NOW for devices like phones long before we enabled it for a power station from space... Gamma World had it in the 1980's RPG by TSR. It was called "Broadcast Energy" and as long as you were in the transmission radius of an active power source everything could work/recharge from main frames to individual equipment, vehicles and even hand weapons, power armor... They fail to mention the Solar weapon from Gundam 0083? I would wager enough energy could accumulate over time to have one shot ready at any time with an indeterminate/long recharge period... In one set of sentences they claim it to be very safe no contamination and yet, one of the "cons" of having a system receive offshore is "biological contamination" Both of these points can't be true. One has to be false... I suggest they do more study before making such statements! Good idea on paper but we should also be refining ground based receptors and then making them available to the public very cheap or even at NO COST as an incentive to build personal and NATIONAL sources of local power that reduce overall demand. If having better panels on my roof that I can choose to have (and they come out and install it for you!) that can power my fridge, alarm clock, tv, lights, stove, water heater, and gaming system/comp, then why the HELL NOT! Oh and charge up the electric /hybrid car in the garage... It may not solve all my power needs but any reduction of the electric bill would be a great idea and help get this country off other forms of power. One thing I did find kinda ridiculous though, the 18k reactors needing to be built... I would estimate we have at most a few hundred in this country (does anyone have a count?). Maybe HALF that would be sufficient for the global market.

No problem, in fact I've never had a real problem with anyone in the last 6 years of modding. I've had incidents but that's been because of third parties. (Chinaman in the case of Lestat, and Little Ludi for Raven Night). IF I was able to contact the author MS wouldn't have a damn thing to say about it. It's unfortunate.... So consider my inquiry ended. (until I can find a SRW modeler ) Especially since MS allows extraction for FREELANCER (probably the only MS game I played regularly beyond MechWarrior series). Tools are hosted on the official site. As for Nanashi, SRW stands for Super Robot Wars, a series of games/movies in different incarnations that has been around for about 20+ years. Scramble Commander1/2 and Another Century1-3 are spawned from those creative roots. I was merely curious becuase after an exhaustive google search I found them, I haven't played a dedicated "simm" since f-15 strike eagle on the Apple IIe... I got no patience for them, heh! Oh that reminds me... I forgot, but there is one game out there where if you make a model for it and put it in their game it becomes THEIR property!?!?!? IS MS Flight simm like that? Sounds totally bogus to me. A work derivited from an existing franchise (paramount/Lucas) I can see, but not an original one!

Milhouse has to have longer hair up in a tail and be "Alto"!!!!! Bart can call him "Princess" lol!

I still wanna see Halley Berry...

Excellent! I was unable to open your two larger archives (hotmail or Windows Live is to blame argh!) Could you try sending them again to my Getter_Robo_G_2004@yahoo address? Anyway I knew that valk looked familiar!!! I have it also but the guardian and Bat modes my other source did to it (Rowhider) are horrible! For some reason my "contributer", instead of doing a straight up conversion decided to do his own personal "touches" to the meshes and in the Valk's case made all these spaces in between the parts that are simply not supposed to be there and looks ridiculous! In all the other cases he stripped the textures and used his own home made ones as if to disguise them? They came from Macross VO (and although rather low poly), are simply good game models and I had a go and did straight up conversions and kept the original textures. They came out just fine for my purposes. I do like your Alpha, but I honestly think it needs a little work. The rear section is bothering me. Do you have AA's Alpha/beta Legios combo? There are some bits I don't like but they do go together nicely. Also Aisiruls's(? I always get his name wrong ) Alpha is a solid one posted online for open use. He also did a Spartas Hovertank in bat mode and a transport called Marathon and what I know of as a Invid Gurab, there is also a Mollusk Transport ship. I thought AA's Garfish was superior though. I'm a little embarrassed to say I never seen the original Mospedia so is every mecha I know from NG needed? I have AA's REF fleet as well as 5 Invid types if you need them! Accused Raptor helped turned the Gurab into a Shock Trooper. He also made the Invid Scout. That's about all I have for meshes you'd be interested in I think. let me know if you want me to pack them up for you? I'll sort the ones out you want and make sure you know who did what with a read me. Actually, I just had a thought... IDK if I still have it but do you want me to look for the Gerwalk and Bat tha is messed up? If you can take out all the spaces it might look a lot better and give you two more modes? Unless that is you already animated the valk to do them anyway? They used these in the original right? I was still re-arming it physically when I took that but this was my wallpaper for a long time! fleet http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Sta...0Anime/48c5.jpg Gurab http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Sta...0Anime/673e.jpg Mollusk http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Sta...0Anime/a97c.jpg Forgot about the RCB AA last sent me! his last work before he went MIA Ignore the foot glows, it's a game engine bleed through glitch. Alpha http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Sta...ch%202/7e29.jpg Alpha Bat http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Sta...ch%202/fe53.jpg red, Green Blue Alphas Invid test battle looks funny as hell http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/Sta...ch%202/81c7.jpg This was also a long time Wallpaper: The first Episode recreated!!!! Hope you enjoyed those!

If you played the original or the expansion:Raider Wars then you know what to expect (or do you?). Regardless I urge you to give it a go not just because I am one of the many voice actors, but because it's damn good! trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/user/madaboutgames DL link here: http://ebw.fsmods.net/ebw.exe (note needs TBP 3.4bfinal to play.) Here: http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php...ic,51780.0.html list of various mirrors for the downlaod... ENJOY!!!

Wow nice yf-19! I got a decent fighter and gerwalk mode, but the batloid we have sucks... Do you think you can put me in touch with your author? I'd like t get a hold of that bat!

You finally finished them... This is one of the most awesome things I have ever seen in my life... (and IMHO better than the "Gundam Girls") Looking forward to your next project!

Great work Darrtallion! I'm gonna have to take one of these and make it a full screen wallpaper for my desktop sometime Incidently, has anyone ever made a mesh of a VF-25?

SeminNV, If there is ever a problem I would like to offer you a THREAD over at my section. (ask and I will PM you a link) Since a Macross VO member has asked for one, I see no problem with allowing yet another MACROSS PROJECT to move in and have a mirror thread there (provided you know that since my project has stalled for quite some time MY hosting might disappear in the future). The problem with gaming (especially anime gaming) is that there are too many elitists). They take a point beyond reason and who suffers? All of us. Now with this latest example I have totally snapped! I'd like to talk to you later about models (for various reason as I have few sources, but luckily I have the full support of someone as talented as Ancient Angel of the MMO project) To the ones this is applicable to: I've been modding for 6 years now and unlike others can see myself going another 10-15 years. My love of all the animes I am involved with is more important that any political, legal, or economic views. You know what brings people here? Usually GOOGLE, that's how I found this place. I was searching for info/meshes and thought I would find a group of people who actually CARED and cherished things that came from the original source no matter how they were bastardized by others (anyone who says different is a bald face liar). Instead I found (some) who are just as bad as the ones who DELETED my threads over at that site (that place of course will not be named, but you all know what it is.) You know what you people are BOTH two sides of the same coin (at times)... The only tragic thing is that you are all totally in the right, but lord over it. Education is more admirable than attacks. I've tangeted this thread farther than I intended but my frustration demanded it. No one hates HG now more than me (I have a theory that Yune might be the Anti-Christ?). But if you can't wrap you head around the fact that if you grew up over a decade brainwashed you might have a certain viewpoint/beloved memories also. Do you think I would attack such a person? No... I'm a tiny bit more mature than that. Go Nagai is my God, followed by Shoji Kawamori, and Leiji Matsumoto is #3, but I like what I like regardless!!! As free discourse I've said nothing wrong and am 100% compliant to the rules of this site, but if anyone has been offended I say this to you: Maybe you should think real hard and take a good look inside yourself... At the very least it couldn't hurt!

I have never heard of this but would like to know more... It would help if you listed the artist or the art site he was on (was it deviantart?) IF you have forgotten then it might be a case of Google to the rescue... The only Dragon Valk I know if is mine from Getter Dragon working in stages from a 1991 altered VF-1AS pic to my only in game mesh to horrible to show (an alpha).

Hey guys sorry to add a tangent, but if you're knowledgeable about FS's is there any way to extract the simm models to some format a 3d ap can use? I only ask cause I stumbled on 2-3 SRW models that would be a nice addition to the army, but never was able to get in touch with the author (email listed must have gone invalid)... This was for 2004 I think... If there isn't then it's a loss, but if so it would be a great help! (I believe it's Koji Kabuto's saucer from Grendizer (he was a guest star throughout the series post Mazinger) and Double Spader and maybe one enemy mecha (saucer type).

And to think of all the knowledge and effort that went into that, the person must have known what a retarded concept it was... "The smarter a person is, the stupider they are..." (from some sci-fi show I saw once)

Sorry to jump in but people have barely touched on SDFM. Due to the long distance fold it took about 10 days equating to 3weeks to 3months in real time (I honestly don't remember the amount). During the fold the Zents would have to feed the prisoners eh? Not to mention bodily functions continuing. That little area of their's must have really reeked after 10 days of pissing in the corner huh? Thus the use of stasis devices. The computer calculates the time/distance of the fold and puts the crew out that long so you don't have to worry about food/sanitation needs BECAUSE TIME PASSES even in a fold. The majority of folks folding usually don't make longer ones than a day (without stasis) I would imagine to avoid just those issues... Sort of how our RL airlines are gimping back on stuff/services for passengers to save money... Now if someone were to say that SDFM was officially retconned then I have no issue on the matter. All other aspects talked about fit fine regardless... IF I'm wrong my apologies, but it seems pretty obvious to me.

Pixie squad is my harem (so by default Klan gets a vote, MINE!)

I voted Basara Rules... Yes I often found him annpoying, and at times I hated him, but overall he was RIGHT! I just wish we could see more character development. Spot on about Gamlin, he was probably the best fleshed out character in general the series ever produced!!! I'm taking great liberties in my fic with Basara, and how just cause he was right once, doesn't mean he can sing cumbaya and solve every problem till the end of time non-violently... Also I agree about the depth of his music, however it was limited in the series. Most of the exposure was: Seventh moon, Planet Dance, Tosugeki(?) Love Heart, Try Again, On the Wind, and Submarine Street. (not including Mylene's songs) I doubt most people have heard: Starlight Dream Holy Lonely Light Diamond Calling Heart & Soul Remember 16 New Frontier (urge to make a fake Macross-F video! He he...) and most awesome of all Angel Voice! (I'm saving this for a special end story arc) I got most of those on my work MP3 player...

Omg bio, that's hilarious. Realistically I can see Claudia doing that for the hell of it and "Minmei" could be dared into it, but Lisa? Lots of booze had to be involved: "Ok girls, I dare you to strip and let us take you around the block once!"

It's 3 years old... Probably inactive links now (if any existed). Until I saw the dates I was gonna ask him if he wanted to do low poly VF-19 but then realized it was just a Necrobump.

Hey James, Like the design, if you ever get it in 3d could I use it? Also I'd like to use your Officer and Enlisted color schemes and call them the "Yellow Jackets" and Wasp wing for my fanfiction...

Link for your convenience, my post back in August: http://macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?show...mp;hl=xenoforce Includes motivational posters I made from Xenoforce screenies and my observations about the mod. I ran teh mod for months on XP with few problems (mostly overheating and crashing) but I won teh generals challenge no problem with the Macross General. Now that I got a NEw computer and Windows Vista my folder wont run right and I fear I will need a total reinstall of both the Zh game and the XF mod. Will post results in a few weeks. I'm a little busy with mod projects right now to get back into ZH tinkering.

Basically for now just on my HD. I've been modding for 4-5 years now but have relative no skill, especially in 3d. It is only thanks to the works of others (like AA above) I spin them to my vision. Most of the time I get lucky and things work. I have a great many projects started but none in any form of release as some have a handful of models and no actual missions, but look great for screenshots (like Gundam, Trek, or Starblazers) BTW if anyone wants to try out for a voice role for any RT character I'm eager to hear what's out there (although there is no script ready by any means.) I barely started work on the Demo Audio as I found the perfect guy for Captain Kramer (also Dr Lang). I got another one for Gloval, but that's not a lock yet. Essentially if they were a major character or secondary one with voice lines in the episodes with combat, I can use people for those roles. At this point castign is only for MACROSS SAGA, not the other two parts. One benefit is if a person is picked for a Role in Macross Saga, if that same actor in RL had a role in the other two parts, the person chosen that sounds best for the role will also have first dibbs on the second and third part characters unless they ar not interested in continuing the other two projects then. Like Max sterling was Lancer(yellow Dancer), Lisa Hayse was Sara (Invid Princess), etc... Also ATM no plans are made for Southern Cross (as space combat was limited in that series and we have NOT solved many of the ground element issues other mods ARE working on as we speak. So basically Part three RT Next Generation (based on Genesis Climber Mospedia) will be the next project tackled. Any interested persons should make a few recording lines the character would typically say (be it a joke, order, or battle response) and send me 3-4 of them as that character. IF you want to try for multiple characters that's fine, just don't over do it. PM me a DL and I'll get back to you with a critique of how I can best use you in comparison to the character list. One final thing, this is mainly a feeler and to let people know I am looking for VA's but actual work for it will be started at a much later date. I might have some people ready earlier than others based on how much more content can get refined and ready for missions. We have an enormous amount of content to work with testing wise, but few 100% ready or completed (mainly a 3d mesh issue).