When Firefly meets The Elder Scrolls by mEISdAVIDp

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When Firefly meets The Elder Scrolls

POSTED BY: MEISDAVIDP
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 09:46
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Saturday, April 8, 2006 8:32 AM

Has anyone tried anything truly creative like bringing Firefly to Oblivion? My character right now bears a striking resemblance to Jewel Staite. Striking as in I used Facegen's own software to model her head and then transfered it into Oblivion. If anyone's interested, I'd be more than willing to share images. Also, I'm not entirely sure this is the correct area of the bulletin boards for this, if it's not, please move it to somewhere more appropriate.

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Saturday, April 8, 2006 9:40 AM

SIGMANUNKI

Psyborg is planning an Oblivion mod.

First announcement:

http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=18312

His forums:

http://41.freebb.com/theversemod/

Last we talked, he was starting to play around with it. Not sure about progress. He'll know better than me

His profile so you can contact him directly if you want:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?un=psyborg

Looks like a shiny engine. Good luck

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Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:41 AM

HAZE

I created a custom sword named Firefly, I don’t use it much since I got Goldbrand though. By the way, what colour IS the void?

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Saturday, April 8, 2006 10:48 AM

MEISDAVIDP

Yikes! That does sound shiny! And here I was just proud of having Jewel's Face looking decent.

While I would be interested in helping out (although I don't especially know how), A project like this takes years. He's talking about adding aircraft/spacecraft physics to a game that specifically got rid of the previous incarnation's levitation spell. Not to mention multiple planets as I understand it. This is the sort of thing I just don't really see happening. Of course, I said the same thing about the Total Conversion of X-Wing Alliance to Tie Fighter and I'm still picking the crow feathers out of my teeth. In any case, thanks for letting me know about that mod. I think I'll go introduce myself.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:51 AM

NUCLEARDAY

That sounds real shiny! Oblivion is my other current addiction atm (all day long it's Oblivion and then pausing to check up on the forums :)

I'd love to see your Jewel character (or perhaps get your file, that'd be doubleplus cool to check out.) (Certainly it must be better than my lame attempts at making versions of the cast for The Movies... :)

Also, the Firefly Oblivion mod sounds super-duper shiny. I'll have to be checking out their site for developments definately... if there's any single game engine worthy of carrying our BDH's to the videogame world it's certainly Oblivion :)

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:05 AM

MEISDAVIDP

I've begun talking with pysborg about working with him on that mod and one thing that needs to be made very clear is that at the moment, possibly as much as 75% of the things we hope to do are impossible in Oblivion. We hope/expect that certain necessary things (such as the release of a fully compatible NIF exporter and working out a way to implement firearms and flight) will happen, but at the moment, we are working without all the cards we need. I'm not yet an official member of the team as far as I know, but I am hoping to contribute my skills to the eventual creation of this mod.

Regarding the comment about Oblivion being the single game engine worth, I have one thing to say: "Serenity Valley: Source" (this is purely speculative. repeat. purely speculative.) Will it ever happen? We'll see once I have my video card and have a look at the SDK.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:49 AM

NUCLEARDAY

Oh I'd imagine there's quite alot that won't work without quite a heavy amount of coding, not counting what's just downright impossible. Hey, at least there's horses, and I'm sure there's going to be quite a dearth of rather unshiny Oblivion mods coming out rather soon.

Even in full games you end up cutting 75% of what you originally plan on putting in there. (Fable comes to mind...) But if it's Firefly-related it's worth checking out, even if just to support some fellow 'coats.

Anyways, I'd love to see what your Kaylee character looks like. Facegen was always a fun little tool, judging from the demo I used to have.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:51 AM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by mEISdAVIDp:

Regarding the comment about Oblivion being the single game engine worth, I have one thing to say: "Serenity Valley: Source" (this is purely speculative. repeat. purely speculative.) Will it ever happen? We'll see once I have my video card and have a look at the SDK.

Google didn't give me anything. Can you link me to the SDK?

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 9:46 AM

MEISDAVIDP

The Source SDK is available with the purchase of Half-Life 2 (not sure if it comes with any other Source games) and must be downloaded from Steam. I poked around in it a bit and it looks like it would be more capable of recreating the Firefly universe than even I gave it credit for. not to mention it already is set up for melee and projectile weapons and already has support for hovering and wheeled vehicles. I've also heard a good deal of talk about there already being code for flying vehicles. I can't wait until I have a video card that isn't stealing 128mb of my memory and some time to fool around with this.

When I know anything definitive (such as if I'll be making this at all), I'll start a new thread about it.

There's one other tricky thing to worry about... I don't know whether you've heard of Bid For Power, but it was a Quake III Total conversion mod to Dragon Ball Z. CnD'd. I'm thinking that what I'll do if I ever start this is to make it "Inspired by Firefly." Then I'd release an open beta (hopefully with addictive multiplayer large scale battles on the side) and let people play for a while before sending info about the mod to Mr. Whedon, Fox execs. and VALVe. Who knows... It's a beautiful dream anyways. Wish I could do more than dream at this point, though... I need video card.

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