Tribute to the old game netstorm

I am pleased to show for the first time the newly finished skinned and animated Sun disc Thrower unit that our skinner Feng has helped finish.

Working from my Sun Disc Mesh he improved my original mesh and tweaked it.

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormssdt01_.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormssdt02_.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormssdt03_.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]




We are also happy to show off the new bridge section meshes that our skinner Feng has been helping work on for the project.


[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsbridges01_.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsbridges2_.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]


[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsbridges3_.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]


At some point soon the Arc spire will be done, so for those who voted for the arc spire dont you worry about that Things to look forward to will be the rain temple and priest in the future Duhprey is also working hard on the programming side with many new features being added to the test build of Rising Storm.

As always feel free to drop us word on the forums about what you think of the updates and be sure to check the projects website often since we are getting more and more done on the project! http://risingstormhq.com/news.php

Things are coming along nicely on the project and we have gotten the bridge system just about worked out and placement of buildings from build menu. we are just waiting on the finished skinned bridge meshes from skinner and platform so we don't have to use these temp ones we are currently using.

Here are two screen-shots of how things look currently.




The island mesh is a temp one we are using until we get the rest of the grid system implemented.

I did say they are temp meshes, we have some rather kick ass bridge sections that are being skinned at the moment just wait until we get those in .

We have gotten the new multi part bridge meshes into the project and are working out the shaders for the bridges! just thought everyone would like to see how the new meshes look currently!

Spent a few hours this morning working on modeling one of the few things I most dread modeling and that is a player model, give me a truck tank or aircraft and I can model it no problem, but on human organic models I just am no good.

Anyhow here is the Priest mesh I am working on modeling, right now blocking out the main parts and starting to tweak and adjust them. will probably get to modeling the head tomorrow.

Also have to redo the priest hat the current one was for reference

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsRainPriest.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

Let me know what you guys think so far of the model.

Here is an update from the latest build coder sent me, platforms are in. we still have to finish the rest of the platform system and scaling of the platform mesh and the weapon system meshes that sit on the platform. But I thought everyone would like to see how one can now build units off the bridges in the project.

Ok guys and gals got two more screen-shots showing scaling on platforms scaled and bridges now working connecting the platforms to bridge sections enjoy and let us know what you think!







Also update on priest mesh!



Enjoy

We have gotten the bridge erode system implemented and are working out a few bugs and also working on adding in some optimization that will greatly speed up frame rates. This morning I put together a small video showing the new bridge erode effect.

Bridges will go from having the cracked textured to being actually cracked and then start to erode and fall away.

The video may be viewed here
[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpOGT8cskus[/M]


Hope you guys like the update

Here is a screen-shot of the thunder temple mesh I am currently working on! its still a very early WIP render and still a lot of tweaking and details left to be added in. I hope you guys like how its coming along!

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsThunderTempleWIP.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

We have a good amount done on the unit placement and bridging systems and we just have to finish the last few features on the bridging system for it to be finished. the next set of things we will be implementing are.

1. Power system for the generators and temples
2. Unit attack and attack ranges


There is an internal team build demo that has everything in it that we have implemented so far but we will not be releasing anything until we get everything implemented and the MP working.

Small update today from the Rising Storm project: Our coder is back from vacation and is back to work busy implementing new stuff, Even though he just got back last night he took the time to implement our new Skybox texture I did up for the world map.. The new skybox is based off the original background sky and gives it a more classic feel for Rising Storm. Just thought you guys would like to see how it looks!

Got an update for everyone we are busy working on getting the first generator finished and our one skinner just about has the rain generator finished and ready for implementing ingame so we thought everyone would like to see how it looks so we took a quick screenshot of the new mesh!

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsRainGenerator.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]


Our coder is busy implementing the power system so temples and generators will now generate power around them allowing units to be built in their range.

We have now gotten it so buildings now require to be placed inside the power radius of a temple or generator or they cannot be built, when a temple or generator is selected the power icons spiral out and rotate around the temple or building that is selected.

with no more delay here are some screen-shots showing the new power system in-game.

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsPowerSystem.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormsPowerSystem2.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

I am very pleased to show today yet another update from the project our one texture artist "Feng" has finished the Man O War pool building mesh for the rain faction. The Man O war Jellyfish is in the works that goes along with the Man O War pool!



In our last updated we showed that the energy system was being implemented into Rising Storm, Since that update we have made improvements on it and implemented more of the system. Building now are set to require so many power supplies to be able to be built as in the original game and they must be of the type required.

We have also further implemented the building system for buildings, now when a building is placed from the build menu on the map it is not automatically built and instead will place the ghosted image of the building and the temple or outpost now shoots an energy bolt that travels to the site to construct the building. Also when any building from the priests build menu is placed it will not automatically be built but the priest now travels to the site to start it constructing.

Our Coder is currently implementing the resource system and resource harvesting collecting system so players can start to collect money from the storm geysers.

small update guys..


The priest mesh before


And the updated fixed Rain priest now textured ingame.


We have to correct the texture so the transparent black parts on clothes become see through.


Now onto the coding status update of our project. Our coder has been very busy working on implementing the attacking system and should have it all the way implemented soon so we will be putting a video together showing the start of game with the player building the islands temple and workshops then bridging out to enemy island and attacking the defense very soon!

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormprogressSunCannonFireAndRange.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/RisingStormprogressSunCannonRange.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

Our coder uploaded a new build last night for everyone on the team to test out and this afternoon I put together some videos from the latest build of RisingStorm to show everyone, the video's are short but each one shows a little from the latest build of Rising Storm.

[M]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdvzOeoheLM[/M]

[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZBrw9BpIo[/M]

[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieHwIdTOa7c[/M]

[M]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTE5NUMYGfE
[/M]

[M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJfWKE14--U[/M]

We have been busy over the past weeks and our main artist Needa has done up reference sketches of the classic Rain workshop from NS as can be seen in the below images

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/picture026ao.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/picture027b.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

[SCREENSHOT]http://www.uskaarj.com/RisingStorms/picture028z.jpg[/SCREENSHOT]

Working from these sketches this weekend I completed the basic model level-1 Rain workshop mesh, been a learning experience for me because unlike most models I have done in the past that have been vehicles or other model this one has a lot of organic type curves and surfaces.



We are making a few adjustments to the mesh and then the texture artist will start unwrapping and texturing the new mesh!