Deimos

It needs to be hairy as the original one was and was susceptible to incendiary. Plus pretty much all of the contributing members like the hair so its got to be a feature

I like Fab guy's second idea. Makes sense from a techincal point of view and would explain why the craft always has lots of xenium on board. The other thing is, won't it be fun if the xenium reactors get blown up. The sides of the ship get wasted but it leaves the cargo intact.

Nice work Himmler. Ok to the actual sizing of the thing, would it be possible to have some scale references in there. I mean at the moment the only reference I can see is what I think is the door on the front of the craft. Pop the scale block in there so we can tell how big the thing is. If its as large as I imagine it'll be a pretty impressive site in game.

Yeah nice one Cpl.F

It was a compliment, honest I love amiga music.

Sorry old chap but these two aren't as good as the first one you posted. Some things you need to be careful of though is not to use stuff that we're not using. IE that picture of the guy's head from the front and side. I don't know where that's from but it isn't xenocide. As RK says Kenny Axeman's stuff isn't being used other than one of them, the vtol craft (and thats been changed too). Also I'd avoid using unskinned models in the movie, it doesn't do it any justice. Finally it would be best as others have said to use xenocide music, or upload the movie with no music so one of the music members can write something for it specifically. Though I like the 'amiga' style music you have on there it doesn't fit the right mood we're trying to portray with xenocide.

I'll go with RK on the numbers thing However Mar Kara is a colony in the Starcraft universe and knowing how they protect their IP it might be wise to change it to something else.

I'm not 100% on that angular style to be honest. It doesn't really fit with the rest of the alien tech. I'm thinking we need to utilise the xenium crystals directly instead of having something that looks similar to a ST warp reactor. Obviously it needs to fill the 1m2 area we have planned but for me this style of design is too human for alien tech.

Having read this all the way through it was too funny to let it die. So I've collected the snippets of story together and posted it as one story. Come on guys we need to finish this up. Knock knock. John walked up to the door and saw a parcel. There was a piece of paper on it that said: "FOR JOHN ONLY." He opened the parcel. Inside, there was a letter folded many times. He unfolded it. Dear John, (it said) I hope you will receive this letter shortly. If you won't, then please tell me. There's something dangerous and evil around. I think it's going to screw up the whole world and Xenocide too, by the way. You must help us defeat this Great Evil (GE for short.) I'll contact you again in a few hours. Sincerely yours, Judge_Deadd Suddenly, John heard a noise. He looked back to see his window shatter into pieces, and out of the window came Richard Simmons. He tumbled to the floor, rolled across the room, got to his feet, dusted himself off and said, "I know the entrance was . . . Indiana Jones . . . but I'm such a fashion queen I couldnt resist". He went on, "I hope you got my flowers, honey". John pulled out his autocannon and popped in an armour piercing clip. Richard schrieked, "Oh you bad boy; giggle"! John grumbled, "you don't fool me you alien scum"! Richard stammered, "but but Johnnie whatever do you mean"? "The REAL Richard Simmons", John replied, "doesn't float when he's wearing his purple cape!" Meanwhile The Michael Jackson Clone (MJC) continued his desperate attempt to maintain his human disquise. His research into human children and their anatomy must reach fruition for the Overmind, else the eventual conquest of the humans through genetic abnomalities would never succeed. Initial tests to beat the humans with the use of cancerous growths was still going well, but human scientists were getting close to beating that line of attack. This was forseen by MJC's handlers (who he calls his "fondlers"), and a new form of subversion was attempted, using genetic mutation. If it were not for the trajic accident MJC had during the test trials, most humans would at this point be helpless to the withering disease. Instead, continuous funds were wasted maintaining the human clone's disquise as human, and even that was wearing thin. Now MJC was even suspect in his child analysis, and his fondlers were no longer sympathetic to his plight. One strong sneeze would mean the end of MJC. It would appear he had failed his fondlers for the last time... It was during this time that A heroic masked figure appeared in the sky. was it a bird was it a plane no it was kamikazee on his magic flying green scooter. he attempted to defeat the MJC with invisible mind bullets! but it did not work MJC done a swift moon walk and simply evaded the mind bullets. Then kamikazee had a magnificent idea, he said 'MJC there is a giant flying monkey on your shoulder!' MJC being a complete retard turned around and searched frantically for his beloved bubbles (it was actually a muton) then kamikazee aimed a really big mind bullet at micheal jackson but instead decided to blow up. the blast killed the MJC but one of his fondlers then appeared and there was no kamikazee to save the day! It was bill gates! He gave a geeky chuckle then spoke in an equally geeky voice, "The new age is beginning! You cannot stop my colleagues and myself now, for we now shall unveil my ticket back to my spot as the richest man in the world!" And with that, a fleet of boxes flew through the air, falling to the ground at the foot of the puzzled onlookers. The boxes burst open, dispersing everywhere mass media advertisements for Halo 2! A rumble was heard from the horizon, and Kamikazee, MJC, and the others looked in horror past the wildly laughing Bill Gates to see an army of SPARTAN soldiers led by the Master Chief himself racing towards them, with assault rifles forward. Things looked grim for our protagonists until the army of penguins appeared over the opposite horizon clucking wildly. Bill Gates worried for his plans of world dominance ordered his spartans to attack but the penguins simply ate them all. Shrieking in terror Bill gates moved his business to India and started packaging onion Bhajis with every product. Assured that no one in the world would now spoil his plans. Funded by his massive bhaji sales and the release of window xp v-08-907-83405-885-6564-2-4-6-636346-7.000906921.1 With security patch 9000.5 he secretely amassed a secret weapon in the isolated mountain known as 'the devils crutch'. With X-com in pieces due to the lack of rubber bands to shoot at te evil alien commander bill gates it was up to the project xenocide team to save the day. Kamikazee miraculously resurected himself and returned from the grave, while breunor added several rocket packs and hidden missile systems to his box cough* i meant car. They all got into breunors box (now known as the Xeno-Mobile) and headed to the secret mountain but they did not expect the threat that laid ahead. As they approached the cold isolated mountain a terrerfying yet geeky electronic voice echoed through the air 'It looks like you are trying to write a letter'. Then to the xeno squads shock several billion evil retarded paper clips flew out of the mountain. Breunor, using his best Arnold Schwarzenneger voice, grinned at the sight and said, "hasta la vista, baby!" With the flip of a switch, the mobile brick's tricked-out suspension (connected to dozens of Xenium fuel cell batteries) sent the box flying into the air. Spinning blades came out of the alloy rims, shredding the first wave of paperclips that were intent on flattening the tires. As the brick began to "descend", another switch activated the Xenium-powered sound system. 50,000 watts of sound per channel eminated from the subwoofers modded into the wheel well housings. The shock waves generated were enough to blast the remaining paperclips apart at the atomic level, and created an anti-lift field strong enough to levitate the lightweight car. ALL THE FELLOW X-CORPS STAFF WERE AMAZED AND PROUD OF BREUNOR'S AWESOME DECISION TO PURCHASE SUCH A COOL AND MIGHTY VEHICLE! Reports of a raving mad Richard Simmons were cropping up in various parts of the world, too distant for just a single "man" to do alone, no matter how fit he was. Reports of hyperactive penquins eating masses of onion Bhajis were also increasing, leading to varying reports of the growth of the penquins. Some reporters felt the larger penquins would be better at eating the onion Bhajis while others were concerned the penquins might themselves start forcing various Hors d'oeuvres on the general public. Now floating above the evil Mount Bill, half deaf and dental work rattling loose, the X-Corps troops anticipated their next move. Meanwhile behind the facade of this innocent looking bookstore, the eco terrorist group man pidgeons set about their latest in a series of plans to take back the streets for gentle animals everywhere. Their daring plan involed freeing all animals caged up, whether it be in zoos or research labs. This particular arm of the plan involved a top secret corporation called x-corps. The brutal use of animals in ther experiments have angered the the eco group into a frenzy and they set out to make good on their plan when macdonalds began serving blasterbomb big macs thinking that the bombs were their so called '100% beef burgers'. Entire world population dies the end. except for kamikazee of course. Suddenly Kamikazee snaps awake from his dream, and his brow furrows as he realises his roommates put his hand in warm water again while he slept. As he searches around for a clean pair of pants to begin his day, reminding himself not to kill off the entire world if he can help it, suddenly Kamakazee turns into John from the first episode. After John puts his clothes on the door breaks down and a calcinite walks in. The calcinite walks towards John and John panicks and drops his weapon(a shoe) and runs towards the window. John thinks "I wish this were xcom 1 where there were no calcinites". Suddenly a chryssalid impregnates the calcinte and runs into the hallway. The zombie calcinite walks towards John. Is this the end of John? Did I mention hes in the 8th floor of an ampartment building and jumping out the window is not an option? His only hope is that he remembers the flying suit and heavy plasma in the closet. The Zombie lunges for him, missing by millimeters. John began running towards his closet, but the zombie had other ideas. It leapt at John, knocking him down. It then rammed its egg down John's throat. Within minutes, a new chryssalid burst from John's body. Meanwhile, in the alternate Xenocide universe; Commander Tommy, wearing his combat powersuit began combing his mane of hair. "Commander Tommy, report to the command center! We have a situation here!" A voice over the intercom blared. Tommy dropped his comb and ran to the command center as soon as he could. "What's the problem!?" he said. "Well...You know how we've been getting numerous death threats from some eco terrorist group? You know, the ones who want to be humane to any aliens we catch. The ones that threatened to blow up the base with 'flower power.' You remember them, right Tommy?" "Well, not really." "They've apparently staged a protest to err protest our killing of baby seals at Antartic base 1." "Hey! Antartica isn't exactly abundant with financial oppertunities!" "I know sir, but they're blocking the traffic to our base. And the little punks have spraypainted over our 'Secret X-Corps Facility- Tresspassers will be shot, Survivors will be shot again in the groin" sign. What should we do about them?" "Place prox grenades on their cars. And then, if they don't leave after that, let one of the captured chryssalids loose on 'em." "Yes sir. But...uh...what if we can't recapture the chryssalid?" "Then I guess the world will be less populated by dumb rednecks, won't it? We're in the mountains and those would be the only people up here." But what Tommy didn't know was that the Xenocide team was vacationing on those exact same mountains. John jumps awake with the dull ache of ruptured entrails, and grimaces at the sight of yet another pair of soiled trousers. "This is getting old!" He goes to his dresser and pulls out a fresh pair, only to hear the splintering of wood at the front door. As the zombie rounds the corner into the room, it is suddenly blinded by a well aimed pair of soiled pants, and trips over the piles of dirty clothes all over the floor. As the zombie stumbles about the room, it steps on moldy forks and slimy food, and finally loses its balance as it falls out the window from 8 stories up. John raises his hands in slob victory as the juicy splat from below verifies the zombie is no more. "Ha! Take that, neat freaks of the world!" Unfortunately a rally parade for the freeing on small animals everywhere was passing by at this time, and the projectile zombie from 8 stories high left quite an impression on the croud, in particular the penquin mascot leading the march. It would take coroners and vets some time to seperate zombie from penguin, but until then, the enthusiastic crowd was suddenly looking at John yelling his triumph of slob superiority, and thinking what nice sausage his intenstines might make... So as John prepared to fight off hundreds of raving mad pacifists with various soiled laundry items. Meanwhile, Breunor stood up and looked around. "What's this noise?" he said. "It sounded like a bunch of eco-terrorists attacking an X-Com base" Judge_Deadd replied. "Errr... What's big, green and moves 80 km/h?" Deathskull asked. "I give up" Cpl. Facehugger replied. "THEN LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!!!!!" Deathskull shouted. Cpl. Facehugger looked around and saw a bunch of Chryssalids running down the hill. "It looks like Chryssalids" Iblis said. "Okay, who's going to deal with them?" Kamikazee asked. "Maybe Xer0?" Deimos said. "Maybe Deimos?" Xer0 said. "No!" Iblis shouted. "It will be that giant monkey over there" The xenocide team turns round and Judge Deadd, and breunor quickly hand iblis some money and ran away like cowards to the safety of the xcorps facility toliets, the most fortified part of the base (you dont wanna get blaster bombed on the bog now do you) little did he know that kamikazee and facehugger had placed claymores in there as a 'practical joke'. Their was a big explosion as the shrapnel ripped through the cowards. Kamikazee and the other less cowardly members turned round and gave a big gulp, was this the end for them? or could they defeat the overgrown chrysallids? the team held there breath. when all of a sudden several dozen jedi knights, led by , charged the oncoming crysallids and fought them in hand to hand combat. The jedi fought bravely but soon only was left. attempted to use the force to turn the cryssalids against each other. Soon all the cryssalids were fighting each other but there efforts were futile. Impregnated cryssalids turned into cryssalids and then rejoined the fighting. They all ignored who was trapped in the middle. eventually starved to death. While all this was going on the xcom members got flying suits and decided to scream at the sight of Breunor and J_D which left the burning debris of toilet. "Look! Tey've got our MegaBlaster Launcher!" Thomposon said. "Oh no! I wanted to play with it first!" Commander Tommy cried. Meanwhile, Breunor and J_D began chasing Kamikazee which stung them with a needle and called them cowards. Finally they found him and made a "practical joke" (they didn't bomb Cpl. Facehugger because he was forced to do it by Kamikazee). Kamikazee said: "Sorry, that was a joke ) and Breunor and J_D generously forgave him. Meanwhile, John trod on a kirbie. At first he did not realise but after several minutes of squelching under his shoe he thought he best check it out. There pasted to his shoe were the guts of the cute little kirbie. then to johns horror a billion kirbies surrounded him! luckily for him kamikazees evil army of potatoe special forces appeared teamed together with some strawberry pies! But unexpectedly an army of grotesquely overweight people began eating the Potatoes and Pies. And the Kirbies began eating the fat people, asorbing their mighty appetites. Meanwhile; The Chryssalids batted their heads against the thick steel door seperating the X-Corps facility from the world. After several hours of pounding, one of the chryssalids finally made it through and began knocking up everyone it found. It would be up to Bruenor and J.D. to fight the chryssalids while Facehugger and the rest of the Xenocide team have a party in the crew lounge, with discoballs and everything. Breunor and J.D. paniced at the mass of chryssalids in front of them, then Breunor had the bright idea of getting Deimos to draw up a superweapon, designed specially to kill chyssalids enmasse but, Deimos had no idea of the specs of the weapon so he called for the power of the ctd to assist him in this massive task. As the masses of Chryssalids swarmed through the breached facility doors, Breunor turned to Judge and commented, "Doesn't this remind you of Starship Troopers?" The alien assault is slowed as the 2 begin throwing squirming kirbies into the midst of action. Poor Kamikazee is found during the stand and every bodily orifice is packed full of Xenium explosives. "Once more into the breach, my friend!" Breunor yells as he gleefully tosses Kamikazee into the melee. As body parts fly in all directions, Breunor makes a note to rename the next recruit Kamikazee, and to send him over to lavatory duty Meanwhile Deimos has been strapped into the 3 dimensional matter assembly chamber, flanked by the CTD design corps. As data flies into his instruments, Deimos begins forging matter into the ultimate weapon. Unfortunately the inputs contradict each other, and the design encounters flaws just before completion. Deimos labors furiously to make reality overcome the design flaws. "There's too many cooks in this kitchen!" he screams as the engineers herd the designers out. Finally the design begins to take shape, but the chaos within the base moves closer. Chryssalids continue to stream in, even as they eat their dead to make room for the next. Judge Dread and Breunor continue to blast away as they are pushed further back into the base. Both become concerned as their plasma ammunition begins to run low. "Doesn't this remind you Aliens 2?" J.D. yells as he crushes the head of a bug as it lunges at him. "Yeah, but at least we have the hangars split off from the main base with this string of facilities! They can't flank us now!" As they work back past a series of proximity mines, activating them as they go, a new recruit with Kamikazee stapled to his forehead wanders into the room. "Hey guys! What's going on? Argh!" As yet another $60K is splattered across the room, Breu and J.D. dive to cover as dozens of mines are activated. The two stagger back into the living quarters where all the destruction was done, amazed that not even the bed sheets are singed by the assault. "Wow," J.D. exclaims, "these Martha Stewart linens from K-Mart rock!" Another shockwave is felt as the next wave of aliens pour into the base. The 2 brace themselves as the aliens approach, out of ammo and pissed that all the soldiers in the break room are oblivious due to the awesome sound system that's masking the battle. Just then the manufacturing bay doors slide open, and Deimos emerges with a weapon unlike any they have ever seen. It was a giant anti retard device! Knowing full well that chrysallids are geneticlly programmed retards he had made the ultimate weapon to target their weakness. The magnificent weapon chopped down wave after wave of chrysallids but then the weapon turned on breunor (him being a natural born retard aswell) luckily Kamikazee appeared and told everyone how breunor had accidently killed a PMR in cold blood thinking it was kamikazee when it was not. The xenocide team was horrified and were going to leave breunor to die. but then kamikazee threw bill gates into the firing line of the weapon that drew fire long enough for breunor to escape. breunor promised to stop being a moron and admitted that he smelt like an elephants backside. and signed a truce with kamikazee. But only as they were shaking hands that a spatial anomaly appeared ten feet from them, large enough to have someone through. As both Breunor and Kamikazee look at the portal, something starts to emerge from it… it’s another Kamikazee! Both our heroes jumps back in shock as they’re trying to realize what they’ve just witnessed. The Kamikazee from the portal says: “I come from the future. Fifteen minutes from the future to be exact. I just couldn’t let history repeat itself!, so Micah designed a time machine so I could come back and save X-COM”. While the rift was still half open, he turned to face Breunor and aimed his heavy plasma rifle towards him. Kamikazee (the one from the present) jumped out at the scene and primed an alien grenade, tossing it into the visitor’s jacket, and pushed him back into the portal. As the rift was closing on itself, both Breunor and Kamikazee heard a Sectoid voice coming from it saying: “Oh! Not again!”. Breunor was so relieved that his new friend had saved his life! But as they were both jumping out of joy, Kamikazee realized that the alien grenade he had primed is not the one he used on the Kamikazee from the future. That grenade was not active, but in their panick the future baddies prime it, thinking they instead were turning it back off. The primed grenade rolled from Kamikazee's other pocket, stopping between him and Breunor. They both began to kick it at each other, eventually they both threw a temper tantrum and started slapping at each other like sulking toddlers. The instant the grenade began to vaporize them all, a blast from Deimos' Retard-B-Gone saved them all. It enveloped the grenade, as well as the 2 squabbling soldiers. "Enough! Start behaving, or the next weapon I point at you won't be so gentle!" The two stuck out their lower lips and sulked, staring at the floor. As Deimos turned up the anti-retard settings and they began to squirm from the pressure, both agreed to behave like they were potty-trained. Unfortunately, the time-space gate was quite unstable due to the blast from the future, and started to break down. A strange smell and wailing came from the gate, as a dark fog seeped from the portal and writhing tentacles reached from the darkness towards the soldiers. Both Kamikazee and Breunor eyed each other and the chance to push the other into the gate, but a firm nudge from Deimos set them backing away like the rest of the group. Suddenly the tentacles reached out and grabbed Deimos' Retard-B-Gone device and pulled it through the portal. Slightly miffed Deimos leaped to where miliseconds before the portal had been, but landed flat on his face as the portal closed. Breunor and Kamikazee laughed like hyenas until Deimos' size ten connected with their rears. Not a happy camper Deimos stormed off to the rec room to placate more behinds when from the base’s kitchen blazed out a cook that had one forearm missing, pleading for his life. While Deimos was busy trying to design a Retard-B-Gone annihilator, Kamikazee and Breunor rushed to the injured cook. Another cook came out of the kitchen, and said to the first cook: “See? I told you that lobsterman wasn’t cooked enough! Now who’s going to put back the lid on that thing?” Everybody looked at each other, silently. Breunor finally said to Kamikazee: “Sounds like a job for you! Here, you can have my Stun Rod.” Kamikazee, insulted, said: “I don’t need your help!” and stepped in the kitchen. He saw the lobsterman trying to get out of the giant pot, and before he could react, Kamikazee knocked him out with a punch right between the antennas and pushed him down the pot. He then armed a grenade, plunged it in the water with the lobsterman, and locked the lid. As he was coming out of the kitchen, a choked explosion followed by splashes was heard coming from behind him. Breunor was about to say something when PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) showed up, banging on the suddenly repaired access lift bay and sorming mad. "That was cruel, even for an extraterrestrial alien hellbent on destruction that only half looks like an animal! We won't stand for it!" The PETA protestors began to chain themselves to the base in protest, when the agents were informed of another battleship in the area, looking for base for a follow-up attack. "Should we tell the PETA people in case they find us?" "Na, let the aliens waste a plasma ball on them. Looks like some idiot selected superhuman when they wrote this story..." While our intrepid heroes ponder their chances of victory Kamikazee was busy designing the worlds most powerful weapon. More powerful than the retard be gone, or that teleport thingy or even a blaster bomb. The highly powerful weapon consisted of the sewage pipe from the xcom alien containment area and several alien power sources linked to a high explosive in a high impact combustion chambe made out of the densest material known to man. Breunor The xenocide tam loaded the weapon with an assortment of soiled garments, blaster bombs and pre-chewed chewing gum (the sickly airwaves kind) and ran to the toilet cubicles (the strongest part of the base). Then detonated the explosives. The explosion was heard throughout the whole base, and destroyed the bathroom, including the blast doors. The Sectoids even saw the seismic disturbances on their scanners, and deployed a Battleship to the area. Kamikazee was so proud of his new creation, but Deimos rapidly brought him back to reality with a slap behind the head and said: “What did you just do! The aliens just deployed a Battleship towards our base!” Kamikazee said: ”Well, we just have to put one on their ship!” and so they began to devise a plan to put the bomb on the Battleship.

http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3262 is the style guide. The look of the ui has to be in line with the alpha 4 as that is going to be our final official layout. It took months of hard work to get a ui that everyone agrees on and likes so we won't be changing the style of it. Trust me you don't want to go through the design process again.

Yeah a renderfarm is going to be useful for the bigger jobs and believe me the cityscape is one of the bigger jobs. Also anyone else that is interested in doing some animaiton work (hint hint Fidel ) all you'll need to do is set up the assets for the render, do lots of test renders to make sure it looks right and get in touch.

Flashy light alert! Oh Fidel that is purdy. I like the almost marine influence you have going on with the engine glows. Top stuff. How about as a challenge run up a small (30 sec) animation cycle of the ufo showing it taking off, buzzing around and landing. Pure eye candy stuff but it always generates a buzz. If you can get the landing zone and takeoff zone to be the same and then the vid will loop. Like RK says we should have this up on the main page.

This is going to be included in the next alpha release right? If so dear art people we really gonna have to start nailing into this asap. Breu, has made a start but we all need to get working on this one, priority one. What I suggest is that we break it up into chunks so that its not too daunting a task for one person to attack. So for the planetview screen can someone work on the main screen, someone on buy and sell and so on and so on. If everyone jumps in on this we'll have so much more to include in the next alpha.

I see bright flashes coming from that muzzle. Top work Mikker

Hmm, how about a mix between the last of fuxor's ref pics and what MPaans has. Sort of a boxy tube with buttons on. That doesn't make sense but I hope you guys get what I mean