Plan for Ian Roach

Things have been progressing well on illumina on all fronts. New models, concepts, music and other things are coming out weekly.

2 of our newest models are new dropships. These come with a complete set of animations for landing gear, thrusters, cockpits amongst other things.

I created 2 short movies showing off the dropships in showtool and there respective animations.

You can find them here

www.illumina-game.com/dropship1.avi
www.illumina-game.com/dropship2.avi

Our main menu has been finalised to help create a sense of doom and a feeling of isolation we hope to carry out throughout our maps. Heres a quick movie of our menu as the background fades in.

www.illumina-game.com/menu.avi

The background artwork was done by fiesal, and is amazing, we hope to get more high res pics for other menus soon. A new soundtrack created by nicholas palmer really helps set the mood with some harmonics and orchestral sounds. You can find his website here :

www.nicholaspalmer.com

On the mapping front weve added a new Forest test level to see how we cope in that regard and results were very good, I took a few movies of me in the jungle and trying out the bravetree tankpack and other things :)

www.illumina-game.com/jungle1.avi
www.illumina-game.com/jungle2.avi
www.illumina-game.com/jungle3.avi
www.illumina-game.com/jungle4.avi

All the movies above require xvid to be played.

On the player front , Will Harrison has put together a draft of our squad leader model, There will be a few variations with different helmets,backpacks,pouches e.t.c but the look will be similar across the board.


Well thats it for now, more progress as it comes in :)