Realism Mod Total Conversion And From Tehran With Love

Quick update on the current work on the Airship Dragoon realism mod/total conversion.

 Above: Before new grass and sky textures.

Above: After new grass and sky textures.

It's a total conversion of the original levels/battlefields, replacing all textures and models with more realistic/high-poly versions. Some of the work is created from scratch by myself, some previously licensed from other sources such as Ron Kapaun, GarageGames and Forester Pro.

Here's a few videos ... though youTube has frankly mangled the quality and introduced some annoying blurriness. Everything looks better in HD but you knew that already ...








In other news I had an After Action Report featured on Grogheads, a nice hardcore war/strategy game site.

Also, it appears that the Ayatollah is quite taken with Airship Dragoon, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard just can't get enough of it! Well ... I found a link to an Iranian pirate site which gave it a good review ...

Oh, and where torrents say "cracked" ... well there's no DRM, so what could all of those "crack.exe" files be containing? First guess that begins with the word "virus" wins a free internet.

Persian also seems to be a language which google translate knows fluently ... unlike some better known and more populous languages ...

Airship Dragoon is in the Top 100 games on Steam Greenlight. There's no legitimate reason you shouldn't vote for it ... except if you don't like traditional strategy games or you don't use Steam ... both of which are ... er ... perfectly legitimate reasons I guess ...

Mummzy Birthday Sale

Last year, Mummzy got a Viking broadsword for her birthday.

This year she got fruit ... which is kind of a come down on last year's present, I guess.

But Airship Dragoon is available direct from the dev on sale with 75% off until 8th May 2014.

That's 5 US Dollars, 4 European Euros or 3.25 of Her Majesticnesses' Quids Sterling.

Airship Dragoon Modding: Realism

Whilst currently working on documentation for the modding of Airship Dragoon, I thought it might be nice if I created my own "realism" mod. So here's a first look of the inital testing.

Realism Test #1

Muh Parallax! Probably needs calming down a little but it does look rather nice.

Trees are created using a specific tree modeling app called Forester Pro, created by some chaps with an interest in actual Earth Science and they scan their own leaves, bark, etc - except for endangered species, I liked how they mentioned that about some flowers. It comes with specific export for XNA, Unreal Development Toolkit (UDK), Unity, Torque3D and Dark Basic, as well as standard FBX and DAE export for most modeling apps. It also does LODs and billboards which is nice.

In other news, Airship Dragoon is now at 94% on Steam Greenlight with over 6000 votes.

More votes would be greatly appreciated, thanks! :)