Mod request!

[Mustang]

A humble request to all you skilled modders out there....

 

Is there a way to remake the ugly electricity pylons? to me they look like such an eyesore, especially now in Black Shark where we spend so much time flying and hovering near them.

 

Here are a few examples of just how bad they can look (to me anyways)

 

 

These objects are just some of the ugly leftovers from the lockon era which i'd love to see brought up-to-date, if anyone is willing to have a go i'd be very grateful, as would many others no doubt!

Edited January 20, 2009 by Mustang

[diveplane]

lol had to post this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pinkpylon.co.uk/photos/160-6037.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pinkpylon.com/&usg=__XNLViaxo--LT-eFkaDT2LJpYyOU=&h=400&w=333&sz=20&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=2ztgoI7DokaWHM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpylon%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[diveplane]

i do agree the pylons need a make over , also the ones near airports would have red beacons on the top no?

[Mustang]

also the ones near airports would have red beacons on the top no?

 

Anti-collision beacons? most likely, yes.

 

Although that wouldn't have to be a nesessity for a model remake, i'd be happy just like to see a nice new detailed model.

[opformaster]

I dunno if they do it in Russia but in allot of places they put wire markers on the power lines like this company http://www.tanawiremarker.com/

 

-op4

Edited January 20, 2009 by opformaster
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[soup55]

I do agree with them needing beacons by the Airports!

[Sunjah]

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Sometimes, I see a post like this and think how far we have actually come. Someone wants better than the picture above, yet look how far we've come from the Atari days in only 25 short years. I could never look at that transformer tower and think "bad, needs improvement," after growing up on this

 

 

 

Ps- By the way, that green dot is the hero, the "arrow" is a sword, the red beast is a dragon, the gold thing is the "Golden Chalice," the yellow line is a wall, and the green lines at top and bottom are walls. When I play Oblivion and think of this game, it makes me feel like I took one of Einstein's time-trips to about 100 years in the future!

[crazyeddie]

Beacons - Not possible unless you want a beacon on every single Pylon, each pylon is based on one single model. It would be unrealistic to have a beacon on every one.

 

The pylon itself could be improved though, that would make a good project.

 

No idea how you could put bird markers on the wires, HUGE hit on frame rate I would think, doubt if the game could take it !!

[Mustang]

Sometimes, I see a post like this and think how far we have actually come. Someone wants better than the picture above, yet look how far we've come from the Atari days in only 25 short years. I could never look at that transformer tower and think "bad, needs improvement," after growing up on this

 

 

 

Ps- By the way, that green dot is the hero, the "arrow" is a sword, the red beast is a dragon, the gold thing is the "Golden Chalice," the yellow line is a wall, and the green lines at top and bottom are walls. When I play Oblivion and think of this game, it makes me feel like I took one of Einstein's time-trips to about 100 years in the future!

 

I understand where you're coming from (we're all quite spoilt) ;)

 

Being 33 years old here, i can remember starting out on a Commodore Vic20/ZX-81 and marvelling at the graphics we had then, and yes, compared to what we had then and what we have now it's pretty much a quantum leap :D

 

I still want those powerline pylons to be improved though :P

[Chibawang]

They don't look that bad, really. The thing about remodelling them is there's going to be alot of them on screen at once. If you actually modelled the individual beams it would be way too big of a performance hit. Unless these use LOD's I think the costs would outway the benefits. The fuzzy sprite things hanging off the beams could do with an actual model though.

[S77th-RYKE]

lol had to post this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pinkpylon.co.uk/photos/160-6037.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pinkpylon.com/&usg=__XNLViaxo--LT-eFkaDT2LJpYyOU=&h=400&w=333&sz=20&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=2ztgoI7DokaWHM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=103&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpylon%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

 

lmao :megalol:

 

Why was it pink?

 

The pylon was painted pink therefore it was pink!

Edited January 24, 2009 by S77th-RYKE