the theme of the mod?, important decision #1 Options

[Team Black]

OK we've had several ideas, the most popular one being "What CNC3 should've been" - or "Scrinvasion", as others have called it. We'll decide on a better name later OK

It can be based off of things talked about on the Petroglyph forums.
If you didn't know, most of the ex-Westwood staff are now working in Petroglyph, including the ones who made Tiberian Sun.
There is awesome info here on the intentions of TS, before EA butted in, including some plans for CABAL and the Scrin. There were planned something like 2-3 expansion packs planned, that were cast aside for the crappy RA2 folly...
The information they gave is enough for a guideline, but there's more than enough gaps in to fill in with our own creativity.

Or it might be good have something entirely new and unique, but it'll be a lot more tedious to plan since there's no real guidelines, and anything is open game.
Not only that, but most 'unique' ideas are sometimes more cliche than ones that are borrowed from elsewhere - If our story is going to have an evil dictator plot world domination, we may as well use the Tiberian Universe anywho

Another idea is to have a star wars mod, but ehhh....

When I get a clear idea on what the theme should be, we'll proceed with the more detailed planning, like campaigns and unit concepts and stuff -
Right now there's a great deal of ideas already planned for the "scrinvasion" theme, so that's what I'm leaning toward.

But I want to hear what everyone else thinks. It is, after all, a community project

This post has been edited by Team Black: Jun 15 2007, 05:55 PM

[Bittah Commander]

I'd say finish the Scrin part first (with the story on the Scrin planet and everythin) and maybe later in an expansion to the mod or a new mod the Scrin arrive on Earth.
This mod and Tiberian Sun would basicly share the same sequel

All terrain will have to be replaced by the way (we should also see a lot of very developed tiberium life-forms and plants).

I was wondering though... Do we have a very skilled terrain artist on these forums? The only only person that comes to mind for me is only registered at PPM.
Lin Kuei Ominae and Machine are both very skilled graphic artist, so maybe they could give it a try (if Machine feels like contributing that is).

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

Scrin vs Scrin? hmm, could be interesting.
But i see 2 major problems.
1. The Player could lose the typical C&C feeling if some of the units/buildings he/she knows, doesn't exist anymore. Since this is a C&C mod this should support a quite good C&C feeling.
2. We have to watch out that this doesn't become a second Starcraft.

So my contribution to this topic would be making a mixture of Scrin vs Scrin and Scrinvasion.
Scrin:
-the first missions start on the scrin planet. You receive the signal from Tesla (old radio waves take long time to get to Scrin home planet) and have to prepare your Troops for the upcoming Invasion on Earth.
The Scrin rebels interfere this goal. The Scrin Rebels are a group of native Scrin and former Slaves from many different Worlds. So a colourful mixture of Aliens (giving some free space for unit ideas).

GDI and Nod:
They start right in the moment of the Scrinvasion. Maybe some time before, with missions where you have to analyse some received alien signals.
Nod (who knows about the scrin) could already start to prepare for the Scrinvasion and for their attack on GDI. But after they've recognized that the Scrin are also hostile against them, they ally with GDI against the Scrin.

All terrain will have to be replaced by the way (we should also see a lot of very developed tiberium life-forms and plants).

I was wondering though... Do we have a very skilled terrain artist on these forums? The only only person that comes to mind for me is only registered at PPM.
Lin Kuei Ominae and Machine are both very skilled graphic artist, so maybe they could give it a try (if Machine feels like contributing that is).

wow, this could be very much work. I don't see any problem with making plants and lifeforms, but the work necessary for this is by far to much for me.
Isn't there already something done, we can use?

Since i use 3dsmax for all shps and grafics i make, i think it's like shooting a sparrow with a cannon. As long as they dont have to be animated, these can be done by some picture artists as well. It's just 1 frame. just my opinion.
Those can be scanned as well, and then i think on Corsair or Tetnis shot Ninja. Both can draw awesome pieces of art, and some plants shouldn't be any problem to them.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 21 2007, 07:21 PM