Zeleni has not yet replace the ships and .png images for the Cards.
You have made that aspect ready for loading into the demo for Vegas.
Even if Zeleni manages to find enough models and gets permission to use
them and converts them to our game and replace the Cardassians .png in
the next six months there are still three other major races that need new .png images.

In the end it is up to you. This is a fan game and we can
squeak by with a few odd looking .png in Vegas. If you
really get excited about replacing a ship model then go for
it.

We can move this discussion of models and their .png images
over to thread now.

Guess what. I have spotted that you have some editors for this game. While MUI really isn't my thing (tried it more times that you can imagine), I can do GUI quite good. So is there anything GUI that I can do to help. I guess I can also edit a simple .xml, althought writing them on my own is a whole different thing.


Seeing Mikes programing being 20% complete in like 3 years really has me worried for the future of this game.

20% in 3 years = 100% in 15 years.

Hello all people.

I offer my help in spanish translation of the game if interested.

Also, perhaps could help with some voice files.
Maybe Federation speech. I would like to know how it´s supposed to be the Cardassian or the Klingon.

Also offer my help in simple graphic work (resizes, renames, screenshots capture, etc...)

In general, i offer my help for all i was able to understand. Try and we´ll see.

Welcome wulfbait and we are glad to see you.
Send a private message to user Matress of Evil. He
can get you on the list of translators. Matress is
offline until tomorrow at least as he is moving. He
will followup with you as soon as he can.

If you want to add to the combat voice clips we have collected
here is a link that explains what we need.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2565&start=0

Art work has reach a rather intense and demanding level.
Do check around in the threads though and other may be
able to point you to work that needs attention.

Hello Kenneth.

Ok, i´ll send him a PM just now. Thanks for the info, i begin to investigate inmediately. I hope i could be of help.

See you

Hello again, i´ve another question, related this time to writing exercises. Miraculously, i still retain several descriptions of the various empires, writed in a perfect spanish, full of inspiration and poetry. I´ve decided to translate them and share these gems with the rest of the forum. Is my contribution to all the victims of sleeplessness teeming the forums.
You want asleep? Don´t worry, the unsurpassed genious of Doc Jeckill Mcoy and Mr. Spockyde will win the battle lost in front of the hordes of the evil game servers of the world.

Where can i adress the priceless elixir?

Thanks in advance

See ya

------- HI Everyone ------

im new to the boards and spotteed this thread. As a keen 3D modeler and a fan of the originasl game your modding id like to volunteer my 3D services for making things... that is is you still require 3D meshes.

Also not sure if your aware, but theres a site that i use for 3D resources that has a LOT of ship schematics you may find useful.

http://www.the-blueprints.com

check out the sci-fi folder.

Anyhow le tme know if you still require people to make meshes.

Welcome Riija, we always appreciate help. There is a lot of work hrere, say in what are you interested ( ships, stations....) and you can start immediately.

Yes, we need modelers. What's your favorite, Klingons, Romulans, minors?

if im honest, i just like doin 3D. SO if theres like a list of whats needed, point me towards it and ill see what i can do. Got no preferences really. Just want to model things. Also need to know what file formats you use.

For now .3ds, models should be up 5 000 polys (ships). Ok if you wish you can do this one -corvallen ship- it's necessary as minor race ship and we need him for 2d special structure in the game.

Link: http://neutralzone.de/database/indexfr.htm

Click "alien" then find Corvallen race...

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/others_data.php

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schem ... traleb.jpg

I think you ll find on internet rest

Edit: here you can find Top and Side http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/alphabeta1.htm

ok cool. corvellan freighter got it now. how big do you want it to be?

I don't know when I do something in Max i model in real sizes, I would do corvallen ship as it is, aprox. 150m.

riiiiiiiiight......

well blender doesnt use real size sunfortunatly. the only unit of measurement is, i suppose, a grid of 10 x 10, so i reckon it sgonna need resizing in max when its done. co si cant really say how big it will be. other than that ill get on it. oh , you wantin it textured? or its that taken care of elsewhere?

model and textures...

Salut
starfleet.commandstarfleet.commandstarfleet.command

Merçi bien, mon pot, pour le bienvennue.

by the way, i´ve already translated two of my texts, the one about the Federation and the other about Romulans. Where can i send them? or Whom? I´ve benn looking for an adequate post but found nothing.

Hey Wulfbait, welcome to the forums!

Sorry I wasn't around to greet you, i've been moving home. But now i'm back. I'll reply to your PM now.

...

Welcome to the site to you as well, riija. The link that Zeleni originally mentioned on the neutralzone website is located if you haven't yet found it.

@riija
Welcome and we are very glad to see new modelers here. There is a great deal of work that can be done on models. Keep in mind though that we do not currently have a working 3d combat engine. (We had one that ran in XP but had to be dropped due to incompatibility with vista and W7)

Here is a link to specifics on models.viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1760

What is currently going into the game are 2D window backgrounds for game user interfaces made from 3D models. Here is an explanation about that project.
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3484&start=0

As you can see we do not yet have anyone to make the Klingon backgrounds. They will be demanding because they require detailed humanoid figures. If you are up to it though you are welcome to it.

Welcome back Matress.

@wulfbait: You could wait for the editor so you can load it into the game directly. In the mean time Matress can load it up to our SharePoint file storage area for you.

Hy Kenneth, yes i´m waiting for instructions from Matress. But my question is other, Usually i´m a disaster storing data and other stuff, but i´ve foun mirculously some files, several docs and xml of an failed attemp to mod BofT, almost a couple of years ago.
The offer for jobs also mentioned writing jobs. In the docs i´ve rescued have several pieces of text, mostly with opinions and posibilities for a future expansion or a secuel for BoTF (i didn´t knew about Supremacy) most of them vastly improved after my exploration of dafedz site, but perhaps culd be of some use the text describing The Six Major races under a diferrent point of view. I mean, If Botf were a RolePlaying Game this would be my choice:

Ferengi: The Thief
Federation: The Paladin
Romulan: The Assasin
Dominion: The Mage
Klingon: The Barbarian
Cardassians: The Necromancer

lol, isn´t it? I´ve translated to english two of them. But i´m not sure about what to do with them.
Te first text is about the Federation, "Under the gaze of the dreamers" and the second is for the Romulans, "Under the shadow of the gaze". Probably, my english, will lead to the appearance of magnetic anomalies in your young brains. However i wait for instructions.

By the way i have the 80% of the file e.txt (in the strings folder of the game) translated ito spanish and have to recheck several things, accents don´t go. Camión, salchichón, etc... Also ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑOOOOOUUUU posible to include the ñ letter.

Give me a couple of hours and i´ll see what can i do with accents. Perhaps could fix the ñ. I´ll wait for the editor, althought editors and i have not good relationships, perhaps is the speed of my insult refire rate when the damm thing shows me my pathetic intentions to dominate the beast. Could be...


Seeya

Bienvenido wulfbait!

A question for the boss: better to wait for the editor or to start translating directly from the txt files?
I know there's a lot of things underway but I mean is the editor arriving soon?

piaccere Dim

io suono molto felice di avere trovato queste foro, dimando il tuo perdone por il mio italiano. Noi vediamo

Well, i cuold fix the issue with accents and other letters witouth much problem, just save the txt file in a different charset, by default it´s done in ANSI, changing this to UTF-8 (using save as) and no more problem.
But i have yet tons of questions. I´ve discovered the xml files also, they can be translated too. In fact they must do. The problem with the availability of the editor shoudn´t be a break to do this, don´t you think so?

Really i´m achig to see the game fully implemented, but the best i can get by the moment is playing the demo in spanish. Really cool.

Also, i feel a bit lost. Ussually i visit the forum often, but i haven´t enaught time to read all. I know i´m missing a lot of things, because a lot of work has be done, so i´m sorry if i´m repetitive. My question is:
is there any place where i can direct my questions related to translation issues? i don´t like to abuse of PM and think that a forum must be that, a forum, a place where be easy to find information or solutions.


See you

I agree, this way will make the XML files 4-5 times bigger. About the XML coding, I always here to fix the mistakes