First Strike Forums — Test Port into Unity

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (FSDev| JayBiggS) — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 22:32:05 +0000

It seems The Galactic Civil War is shut down now?

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Slyfox_Elite) — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 02:12:04 +0000

Just wanted to say that I'm glad that you guys are still looking for ways to bring First Strike from the dead. Keep up the good work!

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (FSDev| JayBiggS) — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:32:11 +0000

Cool

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Dnamro) — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:22:29 +0000

The cloud Car from the BF1942 mod imported into game:

It's really great to see the old game getting a new life.

Also lots of Tat stuff imported:

Sandcrawler is great fun

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (FSDev| JayBiggS) — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 07:17:03 +0000

Hey Django! Good to see you man.

Yeah I gave GCW a try and its pretty neat. Cool that its getting some GC and FS assets put in.

EDIT: uhhh...I just saw they have linked to some very cultic websites in their FAQ...weird...anyway...

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Django) — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:56:50 +0000

I played and tested GCW several hours and I really like it. It has been always a dream in GC and FS to be able to leave the ground and fly right into space. The space feeling and gameplay is great imo. The capital ships, the hangars, interior and the weakpoints are well done. I am able to shoot down lots of fighters and hamsters knows how a bad pilot I am. Ground play and design looking good. Ok,several models are not the best one. What is disturbing all the time are the bad collision meshes from most of the buildings. Also the vehicles got none at all. But I believe most of this is caused by the (alpha-) playermodels and collisions. And hey, we got ATAT's.Crossing my fingers that there are no problems to add additional PCOs to the vehicles.
@Jaybiggs: nice that you are still around!
@Dnamro: impressive that you are still in modding business!

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Dnamro) — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 21:35:52 +0000

Things are working out well with GCW. There are already several things imported for Hoth, RhenVar and Tattoine as well as some weapons.

FS buildings in GCW

First Strike Demp as a playable weapon in GCW

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (FSDev| JayBiggS) — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 02:45:41 +0000

Hmm. That looks kinda cool. I'll have to check it out.

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Dnamro) — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 01:45:54 +0000

Well, it looks like someone is already doing Battlefront style star wars game in Unity. Alpha demo is available. check it out:

https://www.indiedb.com/games/galactic-civil-war

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Dnamro) — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:41:43 +0000

I am working with Lotte on another Unity Project right now. So far that is going very well. Since I am new to Unity, Lotte is doing the coding and I am helping with importing and creating a demo.

At any rate, I think Unity is the way to go with First Strike. It can handle Battlefield/Battlefront style game play of moving from infantry to land, air and space craft.

EOD already has support for bots that can play on multiplayer maps. This is critical to help round out a team without the player base of a AAA title.

Unity supports easy importing of models from various sources. FBX and OBJ are the best. Textures are then applied to the model in the Unity Editor. It is also easy to create pre-fabs of statics and vehicles (bundles in BattleField terms).

Check out some things test imported from the BF1942 Galactic Conquest mod into Unity:

Tat Sarlacc Pit:

Tat Skiff:

Bespin Cloud Car:

Here is a free model of the Z95 Headhunter that just needs a texture job:

Re: Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (FSDev| JayBiggS) — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 04:12:51 +0000

Hey, I'm just seeing this now. Cool project! How much access are you given to his game seeing as you are modding it?

Test Port into Unity

null@example.com (Dnamro) — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 14:43:08 +0000

I have been doing some test importing into the Unity Game Engine. Lotte from the Eve of Destruction mod for BF2 has created a stand alone version of EOD in Unity and is willing to support using his EOD Redux for Unity to mod for First Strike. I tried with the Battlecry team on Unreal Engine 4 but they were going for higher quality models, which has stalled out on development due to the amount of work needed to create a game from scratch. As a mod for EOD Redux, the basic gameplay has already been created. It would be a matter of importing objects and then modying as needed for First Strike.

I am also looking into importing some things from Galactic Conquest for BF42.

What I have found so far is that most statics imported from BF2 and BF2142 with 3dsmax import tools have corrupted texture coordinates (UV mapping). The player controlled objects import much better. I have not tried importing animations.

Importing from BF42 works better for statics, but player controlled objects are imported one part at a time.

Is it much better to use the original model, when possible, instead of trying to import from any Battlefield model formats.

Here are a few test imports (The Echo base Ready room and the Tie Advanced Prototype were ported to Unity from the original models. The others were imported from the Battlefield model format):