BrattyLord's: Alise Created 18 years ago2005-10-01 17:09:46 UTC by BrattyLord

I pretty much have a lot more time on my hands now that im rich and unemployed (kidding), so I decided to make a mod using everything I know about HL1 mapping. Although my overall mapping skills lack the quality of most of the members here, I do understand how to create a great game.

Heres the storyline:

Out in the uncharted regions of Xen, a small transport vessel maps the many floating platforms. Gordon Freeman is mysteriously picked up by the ship, as he is found on a random floating terrains of Xen.

The ship finds some abandoned land mass, as is custimary in the bizzare Xen region. This one, on the other hand, is much larger than any of the other ones they have ever seen! As the ship coasts the surface, searching for any sign of life, the Xen barbarians spring a sneak attack on the ship.

The xen platform literally catches the ship in a trap by shooting a long pole throught the middle. As it stays, stuck in mid-air, the aliens board the craft and kill anyone they find.

Now, Gordon must escape the xen forces and get back to the Alise, the mothership of the human fleet in the area. He must warn them of the large xen forces that prepare to attack. This would be the first attack by the xen monsters since the origional catastrophe of Black Mesa Research Facility.

The humans did not believe that the aliens could communicate and strike efficently. Now, their mass eratication of the species might be put to an end, but only if Gordon doesn't get back in time.

(Guest Star: G-man)

Good-o. Get on with it, then :).

Ill post screenies of the first part (A movie of the ship) as soon as I make it.

this sounds very fun

god, i love original ideas..

and i can really picture jumping from the wrecked ship onto a descending xeno-pole and looking at the damage from the outside. if you pull this off, its gonna rock ass.

if you need and human_grunt voice acting just ask me.

BL is teh pwnzorz

Goodluck! Somehow I don't doubt you with this unlike some noobs!

Thanks!

I've already finished the small model of the ship.

I'll be copying star-wars method by having the camera move toward the ship instead of the ship moving... This way my lights and effects will.. well.. have the same effect.

Nice idea, I wouldnt mind lending a hand if you want some help.

The only thing I would need help with would be modeling the crew of the Alise. I'm not too great with models, nor do I really know how to create another monster.

Pretty much, I would need the scientists in uniforms, like the officials of the ship, Barny needs a super cool HEV suit since he'll be your sidekick through this thing. The Grunts would obviously need black HEV suits, as they would be on your side, but the only way you would see them is from behind glass as they shoot aliens (Or get demolished by an invading Gargantua).

The first part of this thing is gonna be the hardest. The movie sequences, then the escape from the ship. Everything else will be pretty easy, and I'll be able to do it by myself.

aw, your not asking for help, and this sounds just like a perfect project for me once I finish Hostage Situation

I have posted your request on the HIT forums, check it out here.

http://www.hl-improvement.com/forums/index.php?topic=2482.0

Hopefully someone will be willing to help.

Once you finish, We'll see if I change my mind

I finished the entity and brushwork of the first movie sequence.

Now I need to compose the music, and do the voices.
I won't be able to do that til February, so Ill just move on to the "BANG BANG" part

I would be happy to help with voice acting, I have a very decent microphone and a set of walky talkies which make for awesome "over radio" effects.

Example of me using the radios and mic combined (I already had the file floating around from a previous mod);

http://www.websamba.com/tycell/Example%20Sound.zip

Well, I'll probably do most of the voice acting. I probably will need a totally different voice for a few of the characters though...

I only have a few, so thats good...

Dr. Johnson (Slick) (Dies in explosion, but has a short speaking part)
Lt. Greer (Einstein) (Also dies, has a larger speaking part)
Dr. Harold (Glasses) (He survives. Has a large speaking part)

Barney - Im doing him
G-man - Him aswell

Ship (Yes, the ship has a voice. Generic Female voice.)
Grunt Communication (As I heard form the example, you need to try and mimick a deeper voice if you want to do this.)

It'd be great if ya helped with that. My mic is broken right now, so I won't be able to start on it till I, well, buy a new one.

Tell me who ya want to do, and Ill send ya a script and time restraints.

BTW, I will do ALL mapping.
Otherwise I cannot name it "BrattyLords: Alise"

Obviously, if you help, Ill put credits at the end, and Ill give you each 1% of the profits

Well, if you send me a small section of each of the aboves scripts (or the whole thing if you like) and I will try them out and see who I feel I could do best.

tisell2000@hotmail.com <-- mail them here and I will do them tommorrow and upload the examples.

I could also "put on" or edit in a deeper voice if you like, for the grunts.

Love the idea..
I can do some VA or mapping, if you need some..

Hes already said he is doing all the mapping.

What do you mean by VA?

BL: send the script(s) and I will record the samples for you today.

Voice Acting

Ah thanks, I see now

BL: where are those scripts

Also, ALL of my radios have run their battiers down to nothing I think I must of left them all on last time I used them or somthing, I'll buy some more batteries today hopefully

need audio editing/mixing? I've got a bunch of open source editing crap. Just send me files! (email)

Yea I have Wavpad too ;D

wow BL very cool idea. Looking forward to it

wavpad? never heard of it. I've got Audacity (opensource, from sourceforge) and cwhs2002 (commercial, cakewalk)

very impressive idea, original, creative, HL-esque, could be done nicely if you hire some skill

hah, be patient, still working on the scripts.

I don't have the entire storyboard mapped out yet...

If anyone is interested in Voice Actor, or helping in any way, please e-mail me ( brattylord@yahoo.com ) as It would be a more efficent way to communicate (meaning it is private (To an extent))

Thanks for your interest

Here are some rough draft images of the ship

(PS, it looks better as the camera is moving )

Front side:Under the shipThe side view (Platforms move past it)

Shrug, looks kind of awful. Textures look way out of place.

woopsy... hehe.. I see what ya mean...

Well, I just wanted to get all my cameras working right...

The textures really are terrible, heh. Sort 'em and then post some more.

rofl I thought you were a great mapper Bl! But it looks horrible, textures don't fit.

[attempt to be polite] OMFG WTF SHIT IS THAT?"!?!? [/attempt to be polite]



Looks like a pretty good ship but yeah, textures are awful :S

I question the shape of your ship, how big is it? Estimated crew count etc. It looks ok but its not like any type of vessle I have seen before. If it were a space ship I could understand but Xen has atmosphere and therefore wouldnt it be better if the ship was streamlined? Plus it just looks cooler that way.

Nice to see work is progressing.

hey there...

Its my first time trying to do a fricken space ship, give me some slack

Yes, I know, its bad.

Tried to re-do textures.Edit:

Damnit!

Noticed I screwed up the textures again...

arg... well, Ill get back to work

at least it looks better then the first one. still looks like you need a rehash of intro to mapping

Getting better, slowly, keep at it

All that spaceship needs is some better textures. Even the biggest block of concrete crap can be turned to sumthin nice, by texturing it right.

Different textures to stress the hugeness of the ship are important, yes, but I think also small details will add to the feeling greatly. Right now the shapes of that mothership look very blunt and rough.

bah, this is one of the transport ships, not the mothership...

Alright, Ill redo the whole thing. And Ill actually take my time this time...

You only see this onefor a few seconds though, so I don't see why I should put that much detail into it.

bah. bad feedback makes my head hurt

Heh, indeed, good feedback is wonderfull, bad feedback isn't so motivating sometimes...

Good luck with it, Bratty. Nice to have you back here, too...

I was just thinking...Why not make a flying saucer with a TWHL logo on it that flies by

hah, Ill add easter eggs... don't worry.

okay...

I decided to make another ship since my first really does look like shit...

I've come to a tough spot...
I want some input on how to do the main body of the ship...
Keep in mind this is NOT the mothership, just a smaller one, the one that picks Freeman up.

Here are a few shots of the head, NOT TEXTURED YET, so don't even comment on that Heres the dilema:

Im not sure what to add next. Should I continue it, making it get larger outward, or should I narrow it down flat and add wings.

Should it have wings? Its a space ship, but wings would look nice...

anyway, heres what I have to work off of... VM nightmare...Thank you for all input.

EDIT: oh, BTW, you see that section on the head that looks like it should be glass? well, it will be. Thats the observation room...

The controls to the ship are in a big computer room... not overlooking the battlefield.. cause that would be unintelligent and stupid for the human fleet to do...

(Lets put the controls right in the front of the ship so we can see everything!!!

even when we use cameras anyway!!!)

#oh Canada, oh Canada#

Better, but now a little plain :).

I think some small stabilizer fins up front would look nice.

The inside looks pretty awesome.. Although it still needs work.

i think it should expand a bit more into an engine room and you need one biiiig engine with some nice sprite usage

i wanted to do something like this. your on a massive space station that full under atack from space fighters and frigates.
the section your in get a hole blown into it sso as to stop the entire ship decompresing the ships computers started shuting all the airlocks so you have to run and duck under one just in time.
the only thing is as a good frigate would be 10,000+++ units long hl didn`t like it
but anyway i`ll like to see how you get around that

leave it how it is now and it could be a ship thats been destroyed and the front part broke off and drifted away.
how bigs the mothership going to be(i don`t exspet something as big as the one in homeworld and homewrold2 (the windows are just like a dot at closest zoom)
i think it should be longer(the ship in your pic) and have some kind of ion cannon at the front and some smaller weapons along the side.
make it blast an astoid to bits that was in it`s way

If you played Star Wars Sith Lords then you will get good idea from the main ship you fly in

Looks awesome, much better.

Needs: Sensors array, Airlocks, stabaliser engines (all around so the ship can turn, this isnt a fighter jet), Some form of weapondry, perhaps a shuttle bay?, engine vents (perhaps), Landing gears or stilts, a name and a flag (HMS/USS Scout or somthing like that), Escape pods (maybe, or hatches for them to launch from), End needs to be squarer, no point having the end going into a fine point (also leaves somwhere to have some weapons), perhaps if you just cut the square bit off, and extended the cylinder like part in the middel and then added a ramming pannel or somthing (so it looked a bit more like this; http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/GAW/GAW10-08_360.jpeg ).

Errm, thats all I can think off, other than the obvious "texture it"

Good work, keep it going.

Still 1 important question that will determine where I go with this...

Wings or no wings?

(This is the ship that will be impaled with the xen pole... Should I make part of it break off and fall, or have the entire thing just stuck in midair??)