| 50,000
hits young! Yes
today we passed through the 50,000 barrier, and I along
with everyone else here at SWTA hope there are many more
to come.
So I guess you guys want
to know what's happening?
Unfortunately as you may or may not know Jer had a little
mishap with his computer and it might be a couple of
weeks till he's back and working with us again :(.
Otherwise Hawkman has been his productive self, although
now he's diverted his enrgy into making tilesets for the
project.
Yensid has continued his work on the SWTA interface, and
the fruits of his labour are just starting to emerge.
Here's his first draft at the new frontend. Personal I think it's sweet, but your they
guys that will be looking at it all the time; so tell us
what you think I've opened a thread in our fourm.
Sadely Han and I went back to college yesterday, but I
did manage to make a start on one of the missions that
will be accompanying the final release of the TC.
Otherwise keep coming back
for updates and come talk to us in our forum. We're nice
guys … honest.
E~115 out…
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| 2 January 2000 |
| HAPPY
NEW YEAR!!! Hawkman has been VERY busy since
returning to SWTA, as the previous post
illustrates. He has now moved from units and
textures back to maps again, and revived his Hoth
tileset (with the moss). Check out this groovy screenshot!
Even more good
news (we're just full of it) is that an ex-member
Super Saiyan has just given me 5 top models,
which I'm going to finish up now.. Finally, the
boards are going strong, with ours currently the
second most popular board, only after TAU General
and TAU Strategy! This is superb so get over there and get discussing!
Later...HANSOLO
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| 30 December 1999 |
| Progress
as usual :) I'm pleased to announce that another
established unit maker has joined our cause. It
seems that letting us use his model as our
Repulsorlift Factory wasn't enough for Ninja, who
has now joined us as a full time staff member.
Otherwise work is being completed steadily, it's
even been hard to keep up with all the stuff
going on. Jer and Han are busy finishing of the
Destroyer Droid, which from what I've seen will
be excellent, Ninja will be starting work on some
of the gaf's soon, Hawkman is working on some
custom textures and a few more models. Slaya has
however diverted more of his attention to the WW3
conversion as it's first release is due on new
years eve, but never the less has bestowed a few
more models or Jer for scripting.
Don't forget to check out our forums, but
otherwise I'll leave you with a rendering of
Hawkman's rather sexy Sith Temple.
Element 115
out…
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| 28 December 1999 |
| Post X-mas The Christmas Break
is unfortunately now over, but progress
has been steady. Over the break more work
has been done on the Repuslorlift Factory
by Jer, Slaya continues to pump out
models, and even I have done some work. I
have completed the Destroyer Droid seen
in TPM, and have passed it to Jer for
scripting. I'll get a pic up in the next
few days...
Other good
news is that CAP is continuing to work on
SWTA tiles, and we may just be
'borrowing' some of his sweet features
from the new Snowy Evergreen tileset for
Hoth.
Finally, I would like to welcome Hawkman
back to the fray. He is our longest
serving member, and has returned laden
with gifts. He has given us a Sith Temple
model, and some sweet textures. Check out
the boards for details.
HANSOLO;
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| 24 December
1999 |
| Just an
Update Well
between me and Slaya we've made a
bit of an error, the Repulsorlift
factory was made by Ninja and not
Slaya as I mentioned in my
previous post. Ninja says we can
use the unit so there's no major
problem.
In recent news we are currently
looking at a new way to release
SWTA. We are toying with the idea
of incremental releases e.g. a
bit a time. We'd get all the base
units and interface working and
then build on that with
weekly/monthly releases. So what
do you think? If you want to put
in your two cents come and post
on our bulletin
board, there's a thread
all ready assigned to this
subject.
Well that's about it, although
here's an interesting titbit from our
past, check it out.
Element 115 out…
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| 21 December
1999 |
We
have returned!
That's right ladies and
gents, we have been
rejoined with our
original hosts, TA
Universe. That means
update your bookmarks; www.tauniverse.com/swta,
and change your homepage.
This move allows us to
update the page more
frequently, with news of
the most popular TC
around!
HANSOLO… |
Progress...
Well, I've been busy moving
things across from the old site
to the new one, which along with
'Real Life' has kept me pretty
busy. 115 hasn't really shown his
face today on ICQ, but no doubt
he's cooking up some kind of
scheme to make us work harder:)
Jer is currently tweaking the
Rebel Repulsorlift Factory you
guys saw the other day...and it's
looking good!
HANSOLO…
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Speaking of
progress...
Here is my version of the Rebel
Repulsorlift Factory. I think
it's nicer.
Jer of LD
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| 19 December
1999 |
The ball's
rolling…again.
Ok I think it can be safely said
that we are going forward again
:). Cheese has come out of fridge
or where ever he resides and is
moutching about again. Slaya has
decided he's in need of a new
project to get is teeth into and
has decided join up and has
finished four of the remaining
models that still needed doing,
my favourite of which you can see
at the end of this post. Jer is
busy doing scripting work for the
new models and no doubt tweaking
some of the older ones. Yensid
has also decided to pledge his
help and is currently refining
our in game screens after my plea
for help in previous couple of
posts.
Now for the rest of you, ok fair
enough you don't want to help
directly but we always respect
your opinion. So jump into our
forum, yes we do have one just
look over there on the side bar.
It's easy to register, just
choose a user name and enter your
own password, none of this wait 2
minutes and you'll password will
be emailed to you.
I'll try to update more regularly
in future, otherwise here's that
little piccy I promised.
btw your looking at a the Rebel
Repulsorlift factory.
A
special message for Sputnik:
The email address I've got for
you at Uni doesn't seem to work,
can email me plz.
Element
115 out…
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| 10 December
1999 |
Call to arms
'Lets kick the tyres
and light the fires big daddy'.
Here's the deal any SWTA members
still active and not in hiding,
who want to finish this project email me by next
Friday. We're getting ready for
the final push, it's now or
never.
A special message for
Cheese: You've
left us a good base to build on,
but as it is you not replying to
my emails. We could really do
with the latest files you've been
working on, however we can't wait
forever. C'mon mate come through
for us, and we can finish this
once and for all.
Element 115 out… |
| 8 December
1999 |
| Keep the
flag flying Well
someone has to keep the place
going I guess ;). The last news
page was getting rather long so I
decided to start a new one, don't
worry though i archived the other
one other there on the side bar.
Who
want's to help this project get
going again? Well don't all rush
at once ;). Anyway one of the
major aspects that still need
working on is the in game
screens. So I thought we could
have a lil competition on who
could design us the best front
end, a complete set of in game
screens would be grate but i wont
hold my breath. Some of the
current beta screens in the
spaceport pack aren't bad, so if
you fancy trying to smarten go
right ahead.
So what you waiting for? There's
plenty of Star Wars backgrounds
out there if you need some
'inspiration'. Send all the
entries here.
Dun
Dun Dun....
What you've all been waiting for
the results of the 'Which side
will you choose poll?', but first
I will say I was astounded at the
amounts of votes we received even
if people did vote more than once
it's still a huge amount.
Which
side will you play?
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Looks like most of
you are just waiting to see who
has the best units :). Not
surprisingly I think the pics of
the ATAT swayed a fair few of you
to the dark side.
Element
115 out...
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