Final Frontier

[Highway of Life]

LOL, KAuthor must have just read your post, he sent me an IM suggesting I send out a newsletter to let people know that we are still alive.
Since I have my new computer now, I was able to download the newsletter programs I have been trying to get, and now I have them, so it will make it much easier for me to send the newsletters out...
The problem is my old hosting expired on AdventOneGraphics, and it's taking some time for the DNS's to make the switch to our server, so my AOG mail is down right now.

As soon as it is up, I'll be sending out the newsletter...
I've also been under a huge deadline, but I'm finally finished with that, so now I can finish moving all the STN:TFF posts from our old forum to this one... there is a lot planned, I just need a few more of me to get it done.
I'm happy to say that Jean-Luc has offered to help in putting the teasers and TC together, as far as "programming" the plugins... that should save me a TON of time, and I can just concentrate on making the graphics, and ships, since it seems that FunkMaster has truly fallen off of the planet.

Jean-Luc, I'll post the rank images in a new topic...

Edit: Here you are... viewtopic.php?f=16&t=713

[kauthor]

Yeah, but I still have the ability to contact FunkMaster. Keep that in mind.

[Handyman]

have you been successful at it?

[kauthor]

Let me check. I will be able to do some international phone calling this Thursday or Friday.

[Highway of Life]

Do let us know... BTW, you have not even been able to get a Voice Mail message or anything, right?

There is other good news... as many of you know, I have Bryce5 now, This will expand my 3D capabilities, and will also prove to make some really sweet 3D scenes, that with my Strata3D CX and Terragen should take care of about all the Planet Pics we need.
I already have about 100-200 (can't remember the exact number) landing pics for city type planets.
And perhaps I'll be able to work with Okan to get the rest of the ships done... kauthor, if I find an extensions for reading a certain type of 3D mesh, I'll need you to try and get some rendering done for us... as VirtualPC is not supposed to be able to handle any kind of graphics... but, I'm willing to be surprised, so I'll wait and see...
I have over 2,000 unique ship meshes, so we are pretty well covered, we just need to get them rendered and put into files... Jean-Luc will help with that as well...
Only about 10% of the meshes will work in Strata, so I'm up a creek for the rest, unless I get a willing Windows user to help.

[kauthor]

Heh. I think I got a few gigabytes of space free for Windows XP, if that is what you want me to help out about.

[Handyman]

where did all your space go? your comp comes with at least 80GB.

[Highway of Life]

Err... if you're asking about space to STORE files, no... don't need that... just need someone with Windows XP to render the ships.
As the progams are not for Mac, and won't work on Virtual PC (blame Microsoft)

[kauthor]

It should be no problems.

[sci-fi guy]

I have Windows XP, but my only 3D program is Blender 3D. But it does work with Linux and Mac, as well. Also, the computer does not have internet access. I would have to download everything to a flash drive and transfer it.