Comments - Lowell

Also...if you look close...you will see My Name (Lowell) as the test player when these in-game shots were taken. Upper right hand corner...in blue letters.

This might just **** me off...

These pictures are mine! Where did you get them. They are from my Florida Gold 400x Scenario I am completing and will have posted on Hookedgamers.com for the RailRoads forum. I might post my mod here as well as I also have other mods here at ModDB.

Who posted this? Not to mention that it isn't called Intercontinental either...it's from my Florida Gold map. There will be a 20x20 sized gigantic map with a double sized at 17x17.

Please don't steal my work...at least wait till I post the darn thing...how stupid can you get.

Lowell@CrimsonSun.cc

By EvilChili | Thu 29th Mar, 2007 @ 6:14:54pm

You still working on this mod?

Yes...my wife's father had a stroke, her mother got cancer...my father got bad cancer. So everything has been upside down for some time. However part two is just about complete. A story re-write has been done as well as a few "fixs" for part one. Also more models, Hadron has been fixed...for higher frame rates. Let's see...only a couple models need converted and finish the last three maps and DONE.

I think you will like the changes...I know it's been forever and the game must be long lost amungst all the new ones...but it still is fun to play and the new revised Particles mod will be even better.

For those who would like to "move-on" through the story...I will ship out two versions.

One.......will be Part Two, as a finish to the part one you have played so far.
Second...will be the New Part One AND Part Two all in one mod ...not split.

It will be worth waiting a bit more for...after all it's free...

Part Two is well under way. Several fixs have been made to the game. I was hoping that the CD users would have the new 1.5 update but as of this date only the Steam owners have the update...I have both a steam copy and the cd version.

The work is progressing well...Heavy Leptons is almost complete. The other maps in the set are right behind Heavy Leptons, part two should be ready for testing in a couple weeks. Then I will add the finner points to the maps as I play them in detail.

I also have been working on several other mods, Sid Meier's Railroads for one, Traniz, and a couple others.

Thanks
Lowell

Well EvilChili, I make the landscape maps. Have created 3D models (buildings) and imported them into the game...more to come in part two of the mod. The big part is writing the game scripts from scratch. Game scripts, speech scripts, objective listings and linking of buildings with tasks and/or objectives through the game script. I place all objects and land surfaces on all maps. I animate the camera in intros to the game and levels. It takes some time to get everything just right and timed with game play.

Darwinia has been a great project. I have been swamped with work and new projects. My CrimsonSun.cc site will have a page dedicated to this mod, as well as many others I am about to post. Dystopia (WW3 servers username=Lowell) will be my one of my next projects...I have to beta test GoBroto's windows platform as well as finish my LightWave beta 9 tests. Render time is critical.

Part two of The_Particles_Within is being built now. Part one stops at version 0.15
If you have the game, add the file and fire it up. I tend to make large maps and missions. "Part one is the easy half."

Thanks everyone for playing...
I will be posting some screen shots later this week.
Lowell

Thanks for your interest. I found Darwinia to be a real cool game. I wished they would have developed it further and done a few more things I have run into, but it is still a way cool game. Simple in concept and fun to play. I have been building this mod for a month and a half. I did rework the first maps, way too much stuff on the first map. I am hoping to finish the script this week and get it out on the internet. The game has some "built-in bugs" that I have had to work around, and even change some maps because of it.
If you have any questions or comments let me know.
Thanks
Lowell@CrimsonSun.cc

I would guess it would depend on the type of Mod. Using game objects and themes and just making new maps maybe a couple new models or fancy script...I would say would belong to the Mod community with credits given to the older modder. A full mod with most everything different may be a special case, and I don't think you would have all the old files anyway, maybe get a model or two out of the deal. Take Dystopia, it is off of Half-Life2, if they paused development for awhile I don't think they would like the idea of you comming out from the blue and making it yours. But something like the maps and mods I do for say Earth 2150, 2160, I don't mind if you change it and remake things. Or...like the Darwinia Mod I am working on, The_Particles_Within, The first set needed reworked, but I have been telling people "don't throw that file away," keep it and learn from it. Even the buildings I am making I will offer the darwinian community, this helps others make better mods and have more fun with the games.

Darwinia is a Great game. I have been working on sereral Mods, Darwinia is by far one of the most fun. The_Particles_Within is my version of the game. I have built the first level with four maps, the game takes after the theme of atomic particles. Nucleus, Neutrons, Protons and Electrons are the first set. I am finishing the next two maps for the second set. Gluons is in the final stages. Gluons is the next level but right after the Electrons map.

It is still a work in progress, I would like to hear anyone's comments and or improvements. If you have finished the Darwinia game there is a Mods dir. inside the main game files. That is where you will place my file folder for The_Particles_Within , you can download it from my site"underconstruction, changing page type to css, some links may be inactive still," or direct link here...
CrimsonSun.cc

I normally use LightWave, Bryce, Poser6, 3D Max8"just started", Vue 'd Esprit5 In, Hammer with Steam's SDK and anything else I can get my hands on.