Progress Report

This site has been up for one year and one day so I thought I would post an update for anyone who is interested.

There has been a lot of progress over the last year (at least as far as a hobby is concerned) and I am very happy with what we have so far but we have a lot more fun stuff to do before this is complete. I am aware that it is impossible to see actual visual progress which can sometimes give the impression that the project is at a stand-still. I don't really have plans to change that because doing updates etc only takes time away from making real progress. I have encouraged the A-Team members to not discus current progress or features in any of the public forums and to keep such discussions in the A-Team only forums. Even then most interactions are done through email so those two or three of you who keep looking aren't going to find anything heheh. Even the team members have a hard time seeing progress because I mostly only share info and assets about the aspects which they are working on. No one team member will have access to all parts of the project (That is until I start recruiting mappers). I do this to help prevent leaks and even if/when there are leaks they will only be small portions of the project. As the project founder the last thing I want is for these assets to get out and for someone else to release versions of my own work before I do.

Future progress updates (i.e., screenshots) will be done for the purpose of encouraging creative people to join the team. This means that the screenshots won't necessarily depict any level of progress but instead to show the quality of work that is being put into the project.

We have worked out a few kinks and have paved the way for easier asset creation and conversion. Things are beginning to move more smoothly now and I hope it is easier to create assets for the project and for the community to create custom maps and mods.

The project is alive and healthy and I hope it will be around for at least a few more years. So if you have any questions feel free to ask in these forums or by email to niuhaka@doomascension.com or mtatafu@doomascension.com. Note that there are currently no plans for modders to have early access to assets.

If you are interested in joining the team contact us at join@doomascension.com

Here's to another fantastic year of Doom Ascension progress and secrecy /ninjaface

-NiuHaka

Good stuff

I know the project is far from dead and I know its looking fantastic too! YAY

Holy cow! The website got a huge makeover. It looks pretty cool...

It is still a work in progress. I hope to have the "features" pages done this month but I am finishing some 3d weapons before I take the screenshots for those pages and i'm not exactly sure when those will be finished.

How's the project?
Is there anything interesting to say?

Yes, what bcwood16 said. I always say i'm going to post updates but never do. Let me say it this way- I might be posting some assets in the next couple of months lol

I know it's very difficult to upload images of progress.
can at least give a written advance?

It is still cooking and I am almost ready for some updates.

Gotta get some new stuff in before i'm ready to prep some screens.

The project is still alive?

Hello!

It is indeed still going

To be honest I have not had much contact with NiuHaka recently because I my self have been busy with life and Xmas coming up etc and I also think NiuHaka has been very busy with deadlines for other projects and stuff (correct me if I'm wrong NiuHaka). However, I did see a progress update not long back and the new assets have been very awesome! They are not quite ready to be converted to Doomsday yet so I have been unable to get my greedy hands on them for model conversion etc. However, in the eager participation of such good things to come I have been messing about with conversion processes and testing things out to make sure everything goes as smoothly as possible. The new models are going to be quite a bit more complicated to get in game, but will be worth it!

Once some of these new models are in game I expect NiuHaka will post some updates, as for a time line....I don't know, but I'm guessing early next year now?

Im sure NiuHaka will add more to this once he reads this.

Thanks for hanging about and showing support, but remember this project has along way to go yet and its only a hobby.....so its not being rushed! Though I appreciate peoples eagerness to see screen shot goodies

Yep, still alive.

And, yes, bcwood16 is correct. I have a crazy amount of deadlines and milestones i have to keep with other projects which has moved a lot of progress back for Doom Ascension.

Hey bcwood16, I just sent you an email by the way.

NiuHaka, hello long time no talk. I wonder if you've already done the Cacodemon's model? I just got into 3D modeling and I have something you might want to use: http://i.imgur.com/Y5DZUbl.jpg

Hi Kracov,

That looks awesome! If you are only just getting into 3D modelling than thats a sweet start!

Though unless thats bump mapped, it has alot of triangles and most likely way over the MD2 model limitation of 2048 vertices thats Doomsday engine uses. There is a way to combine multiple MD2 models together to form one big mesh, but consideration needs to be made were two models meet. Also, dont know if you are aware of the MD2 model vertices swimming effect? With too many vertices close to one another it will look like the model is made of water. Having said that that particular demon floats about and has no walking animation, but I guess the shooting and death animations will be effected by vertices sway during animation.

Personally I think that would be awesome in Doom 3!! With some nice bump mapping and texture work that would look incredible in Doom 3 and bring back that original look, with a bit of modern scariness...if that made sense lol!

Fantastic work though

Oh my gosh! I have somehow turned off alerts for new forum postings and I completely missed this.

I do in fact have a cacodemon model. Your's is really cool though. What program are you using for your models?

But yes, everything bcwood16 just said is true. It looks like that model has way too many triangles for the md2 format. There are tricks you can pull using lots of sub-models but you would still end up with performance issues.