well. old andy. i like to beta test. but i never had done it.


@ bishop of war i sended you a pm.

hard to come by film footage of heavy ordinance? Exploding?!
Awe hell yeah!! :woot:


Mooi, hij zei dat je liever in 't Nederlands wou praten (je Engels is uitstekend, overgins) Er is niks aan 't testen. Ik begin zowiezo met gewoon de .esp opsturen om door te kijken. Als er wat valt te testen, hoor je het wel.
Ik ben gewoon blij dat je aan boord bent

Andy

yeah as long as the HD is not reformatted there's a place a folder or sector in Windows folder not sure if it's the System folder or system32 folder but it generally has all that stuff that get's deleted, but once a reformatt is done then it's basically gone for good!

Sorry to hear that old_andy, your a survivor though and you'll bounce back quickly!

Good Luck!
CJ

:blink:

its dutch - basically he's commenting about db's wish to speak to andy directly since he doesnt have confidence in his english skills(even though it's fine - excellent IMO) and he'll send him the esp when it's time, and welcoming him aboard(the project).

Yeah i figured it was Dutch or something similar, ive never been one for other languages. Im Canadain i cant even speak french that well..
I never new you spoke dutch old andy.

Well just think of Andy as an onion although imagining anyone as a wrinkly off-white vegtable is kind of fun the mental image of peeling it is even more so.
*Evil laughter* we shall find out all about Andy eventually, hopefully he does not run out of layers by then.

I'll see what I can do about digging you up some old cartoons if that is the thrust of your idea. I do have most every episode of Popeye somewhere so I imagine that the earlier ones might work for you.

Ish'mal
A old drunk that sits on the dock and tells stories for a few caps he always leads by introducing himself and seeing as he is constantly drunk slurs every word he speaks along with the fact that he is in fact bald people have taken to calling him Is'Bald because that is what it sounds like he is saying.

When in Rome..
..well, I've lived in Europe long enough now, and since work used to take me all over the place I because familiar with -most- languages here. Which means besides Dutch, my German ist nicht gans gut , my French: c'est un problem, and I blow at Italian and spanish, but I can at least understand them, order coffee, get a hotel room, hail a cab. That sort of thing. If I'm in country for more than two weeks it all of sudden becomes a lot easier..
I dabble in others :unsure:

@movingtarget
Are you implying I smell of onions?
:rofl:



Acolyte speaks nasally.. and LOUD!!! hur hur.. oh yeah, and fluent drunkenese
and Bossman does smell of onions, but shhh, Acolyte didn't say this here.
But 'puter-box peoples have good noses :blink:

Seeing as so many (two...but whatever) has hopped on the Trailer park theme, why not do a boat with that as a theme sometime? It seems to me that at least the dutchman has a new york theme, so a boat full of Rednecks in trailers and campers isn't to far fetched

LOL. I think for Point Lookout that would be easier then ever!

Shhh :ninja:
I have this pirate carrier in mind..
but it's a secret so don't tell anyone, 'kay? :hubbahubba:



Acolyte can keep secrets real good, especially the complicated ones cuz he just gets comfused and forgets :hehe:
Bossman is another matter altogether. Can't believe he used to make a living outta keeping secrets, huh?

Well..... are you off white and wrinkly? if so then you quite possibly smell like onions, that or feet depending on where you are.

I'm already working on a trailer park myself Hopefully Point Lookout will bring some more nice items for it, for now I'm making due with what there is along with HarryLuck's amazing trailer resources!

Oooo pirates. Will there be any pirate Booty?

Hm, frycook at KFC watching over the original recipe? :hehe:

Note: I may svck at guessing jobs. Slightly.

P.S.
This pirate carrier we're not supposed to know about - will it look like the tanker from Waterworld?

P.P.S.
I'm all for pirate booty if she's good looking and only tries half-heartedly to gut me.

Chick pirates?
Or just piles of bottlecaps in a treasure chest



I would be a better cook if I didn't have such an open minded approach to food
@p.s. ..but in better condition. Still fuzzy as to how they keep it all working, probably through piracy I suspect
@p.p.s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Swann. I'm not that old



Anywho, gotta get serious for a sec..:

Hi guys,
I'm addressing everyone at the same time , but don't get used to this because I feel kinda weird typing this way.

First off thanks dearly to everyone's willingness to help, wow. Bishop received a lot of queries as to what people could actually do.
Well, for one thing, the ideas are great. I'm loving them, bar none.

But first I need to get everyone a .esp of the Flying Dutchman.
It's not much atm, obviously. But feedback on what there is would be great.
I also want to set up a comms network, using skype or such so that you can look over my shoulder and point out where I'm heading for disaster. It'll also keep my smoke breaks to a minimum since there will be people monitoring me, and not to surf 'other' sites while I should be working.

I now have a Big Brother. Always wanted one

It was asked in what format did I want test results back? Good question, dunno. Any ideas?
Kidding.
Initial testing is all about the build. Does it fit, mesh and flow correctly. There isn't even a c.o.c. marker in it yet so that'll have to be done manually.
Nothing is navmeshed as of today so probably by the end of the week it still won't be, so no companions -actually, I'm not even sure a character can walk anywhere where there isn't any navmesh... oh crap.
And watch out for open areas you can fall trough, since there is nothing beyond it, and you will fall forever :ahhh:
then as interior rooms and the like are completed the portal to the different areas will have to be checked.
And then the really long list starts.
Since I don't want this floating around loose on the 'net, if you could provide an email address, Bishop will collect them and you're .esp will be in the mail.
The return address is where initial communication will go through.

Format is simple, either English or Dutch, German if you have to.. no french :yuck: please in bog standard .txt format, use wordpad or notepad even.
NO OFFICE FILES!!!! NO .doc FILES!! Acky hates them, and so do I.
Thank you

I'll enclose along with the .esp screen shots of the different interiors done so far with comments as to whats what written into the sidelines of the pic. you can use these when stating where something is you wish to report about

well, that is about as much as I want to talk in public in this fashion -which is a lot different than just posting oddly enough

Small update in general as to the building strategy I'm following.
I'm doing all the public access areas first, no individual interiors as of yet. These areas are the interior decks of the ship themselves and thus also interiors as well -except the top deck and waterline, which are worldspaces.
The interior below deck areas are broken up into three main interior spaces, with a fourth being the Engineroom/drive assembly and ballast space, a fifth being the top deck world space and the sixth being the outer world space
The three main below deck interior areas start directly below the top deck with the first being FDlvl06Metro
This is area one gallery level in height and runs from the bow all the way to the stern in one stretch. This is still a fairly nice neighborhood/deck to be on..

next comes FDlvl07UpperBronx/Newark
This deck has two gallery levels and runs from the bow of the ship to the bridgehouse, where the lower decks of the bridge are, as well as the engineroom.

lvl07 is the last deck that isn't split across by the shipping canol that cuts through the ship (and people are worried about corrosion ). This canol is about 12.5 meters high and 10 meters wide with sliding "hangar doors" on each side. Everything forward of the shipping lane is considered "the bronx" while everything aft of the waterway up to the engineroom is known as Newark.

The closer you get to the waterline -and thus the docks- the less tourist friendly the neighborhood gets

More as I go


Acolyte is staying in the background for this. Bossman being all serious and all.

A bit of both bootys. Just had a weird idea, how 'bout a ship within a ship... like on of the levels is filled with water and sand and the likes with a pirate ship sailing the 7th of a sea?

To be honest, I think pirates in FO3 would basically just be raiders. You could have the more organized kind as well that would fit more into the Talon Company style. As for booty, loot would be caps, guns, ammunition, and clothing in addition to spare parts and other useful clutter.

But we need eyepatches and parrots.

Oh yeah, dont forget the Booty.

I think that would be verging on tacky or cliche.

Oh no it would be wayyyy past verging on cliche. But this is the fallout '50s, what isnt cliched?

Well, the shipping lane that cuts through the ship has an offshoot canol that goes the length, sort of. This is the actual "dockland area" thats on the waterline. So in that sense there are boats within the ship..
but I have an idea that wasn't what you meant.

[see pun for the first time]
:rofl:



Acolyte saw it sooner, but then he hasn't had anything to drink.
Bossman has

Sorry, maybe I'm being ignorant here, but did you check your Recycling Bin for the Backups?

Yup, gone. I even went into the prompt and looked there. Nada. All I have left are a few of the downloaded mods from other people that was on a flash stick, some pictures posted on photobucket and my draft drawings
ah well, I've moved on now, and actually am making some great progress.


@ you guys
patches? parrots? err, I was thinking of one of those baby deathclaws in a cage or on a shoulder somewhere. Like the man said, cliche is where Fallout starts. We stomp happily further from this point onward. Personally, a few red/white stripped shirts goes along way.. And a lot of sawed off shotguns and cutlasses.



Acolyte can "AAARRRR!!" with the best of them
edit: due to a frontal lobotomy bottle in front of me.
thx Rydain

I love how you think.



I think you may have had a bit to much to Drink