Your First Plug-in/Graphic

mrxak

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Originally posted by Bomb:
**Not too self centered, eh..:p

so when is mrxak plug 2.0 coming out?

_bomb

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Well, I never released 1.0, so I don't think 2.0 will be released either, sorry.

Bomb

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**Well, I never released 1.0, so I don't think 2.0 will be released either, sorry.

**

Damn.

throws away "Return of mrxak 2.0" promotional t-shirts

_bomb

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"I've over stayed a while..
my time in exile..."

mrxak

On the other hand, a lot of the new Nova features could come in handy in adding my name all over the place...

Bomb

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Originally posted by mrxak:
**On the other hand, a lot of the new Nova features could come in handy in adding my name all over the place...

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Sensors detect mrxak reinforcement fleet approaching..

_bomb

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mrxak

Really? My own government? Awesome!

Steeley

My first plug expanded on the Lethe government, later renamed Steelix's. It gave them their own ships, green Rebel Cruisers and green hawks. The Cydonians were given red Kestrels and lightnings, the civilian lightnings were turned blue. The Cydonians never got missions but the Letheans did and both were given larger portions of the galaxy. I changed the governments of the systems around them basically. It was never released but I later got Magma and did it with that.

Steelix

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STraven

My first plugin was Outfits Enabler.
I think it has been quite successful for someone's first plug.

It allow certain outfits to be bought/sold after you got access to them. Without the plug, you can't.

Starbridge42

The first plugin I EVER made? It can be found on the addons page under LW&D.;

Don't play it... its crap.

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seant

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Originally posted by Mazca:
**I was just wondering: What was the first plugin you ever made? What did it do? Did it suck?
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Well, I have never released a plugin to the public. Having said that, the most interesting thing I did was back before EVO came out (i.e. when EVC was all there was). I was playing with the idea of a storyline involving Von Neuman machines. I used the graphic of the Red Alien's homing weapon and as a ship graphic. I kept the speed and turning of the homing weapon for use with the ship. These ships had a short range beam weapon that caused almost no damage. They also carried 2 of the homing weapons (and launchers), a bay for ships like themselves, and 2 other ships like themselves. Of course I gave myself 1 bay that carried 2 of these craft. I should also add that their shields and armour were quite weak.

Long and short of it: when one launched the ships and gave them a target, they would launch ships that looked like themselves along with homing weapons that looked like themselves. Those ships would launch other ships, etc. The system would quickly fill with these ships, but the illusion was that there were more of them than there were because the ships and the homing weapons looked the same.

It was quite amusing to watch. Battles would go on essentially indefinitely. A large capital ship could hold its own against their puny beam weapons, but there would be so many, moving so fast, the capital ship would have a hard time picking a target and would sort of wiggle, firing (and usually missing).

WHat was most interesting was that the 3rd generation of ships and up would seem to forget who they were fighting at times. On at least 2 occasions I saw swarms of these things attacking each other.

I'd kinda like to remake the plug and see it working in Nova. With the battle sizes it allows, it would be quite amusing to watch.

-STH

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Kame

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Originally posted by seant:
** <snip>**

That sounds awesome. I'll have to try it out sometime. Reminds me of when I accidently put a fighter bay on a fighter thinking it was a wraith cannon along with 500 ammo. It's always strange to see divide into two especially with that many.

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Pave_lation

My first plug-in is Stellar Destroyer, an advanced version from all those stellar destroyer plugs. It let's you to buy Stellar Polaron Torpedoes, wich can blast off entire planet. Launcher costs 3 million and weighs 100 tons, ammo costs 1 million per torpedo. Sounds balanced, huh? One bad thing: If you shoot the planet, it regenerates itselfs when you leave the system, so it's just for laughs :D. Also, it converts now graphics of EVERY stellar you destroy, unlike former versions.

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AnubisTTP

My first ship was an Alien Cruiser from EV classic that had been changed from red to blue in Photoshop. My first plugin was Polycon.

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Martin Turner

My first plugin was this kind of story about a teenager who goes to university to become an archaeologist, gets hold of this amazing FTL ship, falls in love with a blonde chick and gets mixed up in revolutionary politics. Later he tangles with this dark haired chick who's in line for the throne of some mean empire. He doesn't get it together with her because he still loves this blonde chick, but she gets killed and he wipes out an entire planets defences trying to rescue her because he doesn't know she's dead. Eventually he blows up a black hole.

My second plugin was about another chick whose memory had been erased and she tries to discover who she is, but the more she discovers the less she likes.

My third plugin is sitting on my Mac right now. It's about this well, I see I'm boring you so I'll shut up.

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what_is_the_matrix

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Originally posted by Martin Turner:
**My first plugin was this kind of story about a teenager who goes to university to become an archaeologist, gets hold of this amazing FTL ship, falls in love with a blonde chick and gets mixed up in revolutionary politics. Later he tangles with this dark haired chick who's in line for the throne of some mean empire. He doesn't get it together with her because he still loves this blonde chick, but she gets killed and he wipes out an entire planets defences trying to rescue her because he doesn't know she's dead. Eventually he blows up a black hole.

My second plugin was about another chick whose memory had been erased and she tries to discover who she is, but the more she discovers the less she likes.

My third plugin is sitting on my Mac right now. It's about this well, I see I'm boring you so I'll shut up.

**

Must've been pretty minor, because I don't think I've ever heard of those plugs :).

Matrix

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orcaloverbri9

(quote)Originally posted by what_is_the_matrix:
**Must've been pretty minor, because I don't think I've ever heard of those plugs:)

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(This message has been edited by orcaloverbri9 (edited 10-09-2003).)
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Mazca

(quote)Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**Me either. I wonder what they were called?

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There's absolutely NO chance that these plugins Martin Turner is talking about could ever be related to those esteemed TCs Frozen Heart and Femme Fatale. The very thought...comparing Martin Turner's plugins with these two TCs is completely unthinkable. After all, how could they EVER be related? There's just no way.

We need more TCs like Frozen Heart and Femme Fatale. Who knows who'll write them one day ;).

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Captain Z

First Plug (unreleased): a small cheat plug making the Luxury Liner in EV available for purchase as a really big cargo ship. (finished August 1999)
First Released Plug: the Cygnus Alliance for EV (released May 2002)
First Graphic: the Exploration Shuttle, a wacked out variant of the Courier.
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With the way my latest project, EVN Omega, is progressing, it will surpass the magnetude of the EV Nova universe by the end of the school year. As it stands it's already 46MB, without most planets, half the ships, or any missions made yet.

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Emperor Cary

My first and only complete released plug-in was a small cheat I made a few years ago for EV Classic. It was called "Antimatter Beam," and it added a kill-anything-with-one-hit weapon that came in every beam color, and it had some lame outfit graphics. It was pathetic and cliché, but it got a few hundred downloads.

My first complete ship graphic was a freighter-gunship thing I made years ago in an old program called Macromedia Extreme 3D 2. I couldn't ever get it to import textures, so it just had some built-in "organic" texture styles and colors with random bump map patches turned up to make it look like it had excessive battle damage. It was awful, and I never got the plug-in for it to load without crashing.

Nowadays, I'm making ship models in Strata 3D Base 3.5 for a TC idea I came up with; I don't know if I'll ever release it, though.

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sparky

ok, not the first ship I made (that's long gone, but don't worry! You can picture it in your mind: one big pyramid with two smaller pyramids on opposite corners. very cool. )

this is one of my first ships in Strata:
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well, we all had to start somewhere.

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