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I hate to say the last time I got to work on this project at all was about the same time I uploaded that video. The original idea was to bring it into *real* production last March, but unfortunately my co-founder left and I had to try and fund a smaller project.

Hoping to finish that in the next ...

GOTY 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdve7Oyy4Nw

Merry Xmas my fellow BZ fans!

Shamelessly ripped an Elite Dangerous cockpit from the Direct X pipeline (WHY are there no decent free 3D cockpit models out there?!) to see what it looks like with a nice cockpit.. Strongly considering moving to a 3D ui for first-person vehicles.

Oh there's a *chance* we'll be bringing this ...

Most likely new game and new gameplay, but definitely taking strong inspiration from Battlezone. I have some interesting ideas I want to experiment with. The core of it is still built on BZ-style vehicles / weapons etc, and some kind of RTS element eventually (long way off though).

FPS / RTS ...

Haha I wanted them Purple originally but the accidental orange looked pretty good, although that is a valid observation! Luckily it's just a simple colour parameter to tweaks the colours!

Experimenting with my own ideas now. Plus new netcode / weapons etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPb70PUf7KE

It doesn't seem to always import UV's correctly.. which is the first thing I've noticed.

https://jkhub.org/files/file/2092-xsi-import-maxscript/

Found this a few years ago and just had to go looking for it again after a format (thankfully still around). This script let's you import all BZ2 .xsi models, directly into max without the need to convert first in 3DE or something (rip).

Just ...

Music player because... bored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuJ_dqto18

@RD - Yeah there's a short spool-up time then they start firing. The other buildup sound is the heat but it's a nasty effect atm... it might not make it in to the weapon at all but it'd be a nice thing for modders if not.

@BBB - It's just designed differently that's all, BZ2 is deterministic and ...

This post is turning into a dev blog lol. I can't remember if I posted the vid before this one...

Did a major rehaul of the weapon class to reduce memory allocations. Working on some kind of ordnance / projectile pooling system as well to reduce that even further. It'll definitely help later on ...

Thanks RD.

MOAR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfEoaXnI1AY

IIRC, the lists are really easy to edit!

Time for a wee update! Been working a lot on the Radar recently. This thing has been an absolute pig but I'm really happy with where it's at at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-RPdJvIIM

I'll spare the gory details but I did a big write-up on it here. All the blips are hardware ...

Google Drive can be good too, especially if lot's of people are downloading what you upload.