"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in message
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> Next I want to do a Viper Defence Mk II and make a
> scene with police chasing the Cobra...

I had a friend who was "done" in a Cobra by a flashing blue light, but
then I guess there are Cobras and there are Cobras :-)

Alf

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Hi all

Its strange, about a month ago I was working on a very similar image, a
Cobra mkIII and a viper locked in battle etc. I modelled several ships in
Spatch, but only got as far as tracing this:

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James Taylor wrote:
> Its strange, about a month ago I was working on a very similar
> image, a Cobra mkIII and a viper locked in battle etc. I modelled
> several ships in Spatch, but only got as far as tracing this:

A bit dark to tell what's going on, but...
"locked in battle"?  I'm sorry, but I don't consider two objects
zooming around each other at a few hundred kps attempting to
alternately get a decent shot off or to avoid getting shot being
'locked'...now, hand-to-hand combat in a mech...THAT'S 'locked in
battle' ;)

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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I like this one, especially the phong an the glasshull

cukk

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"Timothy R. Cook" <tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote in message
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>now, hand-to-hand combat in a mech...THAT'S 'locked in
> battle' ;)


maybe I could put a couple of pirates fighting (in mechs) over illegal goods
(firearms etc) in front of the space port while some viper police dude is
attempting to shoot the cobra down for having "forgotten" to get launch
permision...

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...however frontier never really lived up to expectations and I remember
still playing elite after I bought frontier.
As I remember I achieved a pretty fine rating. maybe its time to dig the
A500 out....although I hear theres a soon to be released version of elite
(release 4 maybe) for the PC which should be mostly funkadelic.

"Elite, a game? It's a way of life" ;-)

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In article <3c1694a1@news.povray.org>, James Taylor <james@jamestaylor.
fsworld.co.uk> writes
>...however frontier never really lived up to expectations and I remember
>still playing elite after I bought frontier.
>As I remember I achieved a pretty fine rating. maybe its time to dig the
>A500 out....although I hear theres a soon to be released version of elite
>(release 4 maybe) for the PC which should be mostly funkadelic.
>
>"Elite, a game? It's a way of life" ;-)

I always preferred Frontier over Elite or FFE (Frontier: First
Encounters). Never could get the hang of docking in Elite, always
crashed ;).

Elite 4 isn't due out till about 2004 the way it's going at the minute.
For the record you can now download FFE from www.eliteclub.co.uk and
then get JJFFE from www.jaj22.demon.co.uk to make it run on windows.
Good fun :).
-- 
David Parrott

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David Parrott wrote:
> For the record you can now download FFE from www.eliteclub.co.uk and
> then get JJFFE from www.jaj22.demon.co.uk to make it run on windows.

Too bad I can't figure out how to flay my computer memory settings
to be able to run Frontier, or I'd be playing that instead (tho I have
grown fond of the RIG items)

...which brings us back to: simulating entire solar systems in POV.
Braben can do it, so should we! ;)
-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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James Taylor wrote:
> maybe I could put a couple of pirates fighting (in mechs) over
> illegal goods (firearms etc) in front of the space port while
> some viper police dude is attempting to shoot the cobra down
> for having "forgotten" to get launch permision...

I'd think the blues would be worrying more about the mechs than
a moving violation that's a 500 credit fine...

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Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com

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On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 08:45:16 -0500, "Timothy R. Cook"
<tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

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>David Fontaine wrote:
>> I like the colors and sharp contrast, but it's hard to discern much.  I
>> assume you were going for an artistic look though.
>
>I wasn't...attached image is more like what I was looking for.
>Render time 03:36:03.
>-- 
>Tim Cook
>http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
>

	I miss playing Frontier (Elite 2) on my Amiga.
	Good picture except for one thing ... the
flames from the engine look like a solid glowing
crystal, not a hot glowing gas.

Pete

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