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MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 24 Apr 2019, 02:05

Hyperventila Ships:

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 24 Apr 2019, 10:52

awesome work, man!

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 25 Apr 2019, 13:59

So happy to see you get back to work in the digital world! And I'm also happy you took on the sebbattical, looks like it worked out really well. Your artwork is as detailed as ever, super amazing. I've always admired your skill and attention to detail meanwhile not getting lost in the over-all shape and silluette of your designs. It's a really good and needed balance concerning sci-fi design these days. Great work.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 26 Apr 2019, 17:15

Thank you Draise! It has been really fun to work on this project. I guess it did help to take a break from everything and everything still isn't back to the way they used to be, which is probably a good thing.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 26 Apr 2019, 22:41

MIkom! Your back!

The game looks great. Happy to see more of your cool designs.

Dragneye · Post by **Dragneye** » 27 Apr 2019, 04:00

Very nice work Mikom! I especially like that you spent time on internal design. Adds to believability so much.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 01 May 2019, 18:31

Holy Cow MikomDude !

You left us as a cave painter and returned as a Da Vinci!!!
Nice work!

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 01 May 2019, 21:19

Just to say though, as constructive criticism (to offset all the praise and keep you growing) - the lighting does need some improvement, like either more bounce light or rim light.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 07 May 2019, 12:43

Thank you Finis and Dragneye! Happy to be back.

@Steinie Thanks! I wouldn't quite go that far but I've surely been improving.

@Draise The lighting, in-game anyway, is quite limited for now. I'm working with an as of yet unfinished add-on for Gamemaker where I am the only one that has permission to use it by its creator and I'm not sure how actively the creator of said plugin is working on it. The lighting is all realtime though and there is almost no performance hit for adding more lights so my solution for making the lights look less like spots is going to be either; just simply adding more of them with less intensity or making an overlay sprite (similar to the flashlight) that lights up an entire area (not sure yet if this is going to be more or less of a performance hit though).
It sure beats having no lights at all though, all the shading used to be static and not even taking into account the direction of a light source (like the sun).

Original Artstyle (six months ago):

Old Lighting: (two months ago)

New Lighting (current):

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 07 May 2019, 12:58

Oh! The updated system is much better.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 19 Jun 2019, 01:39

Introducing one of the larger structures in the game, the shipyard. This is where you will be able to repair, upgrade and purchase new ships!

Render

Screenshot

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 19 Jun 2019, 03:10

Good to see an update!

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 25 Jun 2019, 10:56

@Finis And here's another one:

The shipyard interior is now done, dimly lit and unfurnished but it's in the game! In-game video coming soon.

Interior/Exterior Render

In-game

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 25 Jun 2019, 13:03

The interiors are all very cool.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 04 Sep 2019, 23:56

The Echron Cruiser. This ship interior took freakin ages. Glad it's finished now, it's the largest ship so far (with an interior).

Recent updates on the Hyperventila front include not only this but more importantly the ability to dock any ship to ...anything really.
At first I had to program a script that allowed me to, let's say, mix and match "rooms" (levels, maps, whatever you wanna call it) in Gamemaker to dock ships to stations. Unlike Unity on Unreal, Gamemaker Studio doesn't actually support pre-fabs or saving groups of objects so I had to get a little creative. The obvious solution here was to still be able to make ships in the room editor (GM's level editor basically) and then somehow get that room mixed in with the actual room I wanted to load (a space station for example, or planet level).

I did end up successfully using this script for a while but I actually ended up writing a new script that instead of loading the room into another room (which caused lots of duplicated instance-IDs and other problems) I wrote a script instead that allowed me to simply press CTRL-C in game and copy every instance in the current room into the clipboard (properly formatted in Gamemaker language an all) to paste into a separate script later which the game would use instead to load all the assets for a ship. This is not only more reliable but also saves me a lot of head-scratching every time it didn't load all the objects from the ship using the old method.

So now having the ability to load fully mapped out ships into rooms by just calling this simple script, these ships essentially being a small level in-of-themselves, the possibilities are endless.

So far the biggest setback is still the time it takes to make these assets that, while looking great in-game, do require me to model a lot of detail which no matter how fast I model still takes, sometimes up to a week in modelling time.

I tend to keep my interest in the project peaked by varying my workload and occasionally making fun things like this, a space moth:

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 06 Nov 2019, 04:25

Another design for the game, the Hover Patrol Car. Three different units.
I decided to give it a nice few renders in Blender as well.

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 22 Nov 2019, 03:26

I love that car. It's like bladerunner, but with wheels.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 25 Nov 2019, 03:30

Thanks Draise! Yeah that's more or less what I was going for

Made another silly vehicle during the weekend, just for fun. The Looper bike. A sort of mono-cycle with two wheels.

Turned out to be a bit of a pain in the end, getting the wheel animations into the game. Spent hours just editing the frames...

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 15 Dec 2019, 01:27

A new ship design for the game! This one made for one of my supporters on Patreon, the Inter-Corp P.09 "Tracker":

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 16 Dec 2019, 13:46

I like the new ship on the block!

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 23 Dec 2019, 21:54

Made some new renders of the Atlas One tanker ship:

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 24 Dec 2019, 21:59

...and I also re-rendered the Manta Shuttle:

: Manta Class II Shuttle

: Manta Class II Shuttle

: Manta Class II Shuttle

: Postcard Render

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 31 Dec 2019, 18:33

Additionally, there is the Echron Cruiser:

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 06 Jan 2020, 08:26

looks great, almost like screencaps from some scifi movie...

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 26 Mar 2020, 19:42

@bitkar Yeah, that's pretty much what I was going for

Here is an update with some of the latest updates in Hyperventila:

New Planet Graphics

Made in Blender, these are procedurally generated through my own node set-up.

Bio Lab

A research lab for one of the side-quests in the demo.

Ship Painter

Are you just a big a fan of customization as I am? Well then you're in luck because along with planned mod support, here is an in-game ship painter that will make your ship look just as dark or funky as you like.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 23 Apr 2020, 02:59

The imperial "Dragonfly" shuttle, a short range (local system only) transport used by high ranking imperial officers and diplomats.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 23 Apr 2020, 14:29

This is all great work Mikom. A sci-fi TV series and movies with these designs would be great. I'm not much of a gamer but I might try this when it is ready. Will you earn money from the game?

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 23 Apr 2020, 15:35

Thanks Finis! Yeah a TV show would be great as well. I'll be putting it on Steam, Humblebundle and maybe Good old Games.com. But first I may have to try running a Kickstarter in order to keep development up for the rest of the year. It should be done by September.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 15 May 2020, 13:12

A dropship used by the Cespian Space Empire faction.

Not the best material set up for these beauty renders I know but I'm kinda in a hurry to get these into the game

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 18 May 2020, 02:30

Another good one! I like the rough, corroded, eroded areas. It is like the first Star Wars where stuff looked used and dirty. Your designs have practical features good for the purpose of the ship or equipment too. Does each faction have a style or look for its ships, stations, colonies, etc.? If a player sees a ship can he determine from its design "that's probably a Cespian ship"?

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 18 May 2020, 05:39

Finis wrote: 18 May 2020, 02:30 Does each faction have a style or look for its ships, stations, colonies, etc.? If a player sees a ship can he determine from its design "that's probably a Cespian ship"?

Thanks Finis! Yes, the Cespian ships are inspired by dragonflies, butterflies and flying fish. (more or less anyway) Whereas the Lander/Coalition ships are more rugged, inspired by containers, cars and trucks. The Echron ships (like the Cruiser above) will be more sleek and aerodynamic, looking like birds and aeroplanes.
The pirate ships while be more of a mash-up of all of those.

I haven't come up with any designs for the Praat species, they should also get their own ship designs at some point.

Another thing that should help with ship identification are the faction logos which I haven't gotten round to designing yet.

All while still keeping that classic sci-fi look of course

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 22 May 2020, 14:25

Updated the renders of the Hyperventila blasters:

v3rd3 · Post by **v3rd3** » 23 May 2020, 02:47

Beautiful lines on those weapons..... they look like clean precision oriented tools.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 03 Jul 2020, 02:53

Anything new?

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 03 Jul 2020, 06:47

Yeah! The demo went live on Steam for the Steam summer festival but it was a bit of a shaky launch to say the least. Now I'm working on setting up an IndieGoGo campaign to see if I can secure funding for the coming 6 months of development.

I may also be moving soon to Italy but that's somewhat unrelated, although it will impact development...

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 07 Jul 2020, 09:26

those guns look sweet!

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 09 Jul 2020, 21:00

Thanks! I tried to go for that Starwarsy cold gunmetal feel. I think they turned out quite well =) Could maybe be a bit more detailed though.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 10 Jul 2020, 07:08

i dont watch starwars, but i think they look a bit retro, yet still belonging to future.

Steinie · Post by **Steinie** » 24 Jul 2020, 17:44

Excellent work!
Where did you render the weapons? I love the lighting.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 24 Jul 2020, 18:33

@Steinie Thanks! They're modelled in trueSpace and rendered in BlenderForArtists. The first render is Cycles render engine and the rest are in the Eevee render engine.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 30 Jul 2020, 14:26

The standard Mark I escape pod. This will reliably get you to the nearest shipyard, eventually...

It has been a while since I made this little thing, originally just a collectible object that would spawn randomly in the game, it became the first object that worked with the lighting engine and is now a playable ship, so I figured it deserved a render.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 07 Aug 2020, 10:42

Today I would like to present the Donner Industries MK III Transport Shuttle.
The Mark III is your go-to ship for pirates and smugglers.

A bit of a quick design in trueSpace & Blender for the game since it needs more NPC ships.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 10 Aug 2020, 09:43

this is literally whole new universe... it could be used for entire scifi movie :)

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 15 Aug 2020, 02:14

Can NPC's and players use all the ships or are some only NPC and some only players? Will those asteroids be in the game?

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 15 Aug 2020, 19:01

Any ship can be an NPC ship and any ship in the game right now can be used by the player.

Yes the asteroids are now in the game!

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 03 Oct 2020, 11:23

New ship, the PIR-3 Loader.

A carrier for the type 3 habitation module, intended for colonization of hostile environments such as moons and planets that are otherwise inhospitable to human life.

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 07 Oct 2020, 10:07

thats TOP !

Draise · Post by **Draise** » 08 Oct 2020, 13:06

The latest PIR kinda looks like russian tech.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 09 Oct 2020, 11:22

@draise It's old Coalition tech and their ships were never really going for looks in the first place. Imperial ships or Echron ships tend to look better.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 09 Oct 2020, 11:24

A strange addition to Hyperventila, a relic really. This is the Huntress crossbow. A weapon used by one of the time traveling mages in the game.

This is a bit of a speed model as I didn't really know how it would end up looking in the game anyway. It actually is quite fun to use in-game.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 23 Oct 2020, 00:24

Here's another there's-never-enough-detail kind of model of mine. I decided to combine the interior and exteriors to give people a better idea of what it's supposed to be like on the inside.

First the ship, for reference:

The interior:

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 25 Oct 2020, 14:08

I recently had been wondering about how this docking port I kept putting on my ships worked and I came up with this:

This is how it works, I guess.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 25 Oct 2020, 16:43

Let's see two of them dock with each other. Also illustrate how passengers and cargo move through them.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 25 Oct 2020, 17:34

If I have time for that then sure!

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 05 Nov 2020, 10:33

that cuts of a ship looks so cool...

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 24 Nov 2020, 00:09

@bitkar Well here's another one

In game:

Painted in the ship painter:

Currently testing out some multiplayer features on this ship as well:

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 03 Dec 2020, 15:12

Currently working on some mini-games for the upcoming multiplayer mode in Hyperventila.

One game requires a rat trap... and a rat. In space. Here's my progress so far:

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 04 Dec 2020, 16:25

i found something on youtube, that you might find interesting :)
https://youtu.be/aTPwbVqU6lc

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 05 Dec 2020, 10:12

It's been in my youtibe reccomendations for at least a few months now. Finally gave it a watch and yep, that's pretty cool!

Prodigy · Post by **Prodigy** » 09 Dec 2020, 14:44

A rat with 6 legs.. that's odd.. but I like it..

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 09 Dec 2020, 20:42

Prodigy wrote: 09 Dec 2020, 14:44 A rat with 6 legs.. that's odd.. but I like it..

Prodigy! Thanks, yes it's a mutated space rat.

Prodigy · Post by **Prodigy** » 10 Dec 2020, 20:56

that rat needs some radioactive cheese

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 11 Dec 2020, 20:08

Prodigy wrote: 10 Dec 2020, 20:56 that rat needs some radioactive cheese

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 12 Dec 2020, 14:41

Prodigy · Post by **Prodigy** » 12 Dec 2020, 17:35

That's what i'm talking about!!

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 06 Jan 2021, 04:44

Hyperventila Update:

Made some glowy cables:

Some Pipes:

A floating Praat:

And the ship can now be set on fire:

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 12 Jan 2021, 07:13

The Khalar space captain:

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 12 Jan 2021, 10:25

AR goggles?

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 12 Jan 2021, 18:25

A scanning visor. Kind of like fancy binoculars.

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 12 Jan 2021, 18:50

Please tell about how you make the clothes.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 12 Jan 2021, 19:14

Finis wrote: 12 Jan 2021, 18:50 Please tell about how you make the clothes.

I tend to take a human basemesh and model some low-poly clothes around it in trueSpace. Then I import them into Blender and set up the materials, do the weight painting for rigging etc. and pose & render.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 02 Feb 2021, 07:42

Updated the station in the game with new renders, this time all in Blender.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 06 Feb 2021, 14:27

A new ship design for Hyperventila:

WIPs:

Renders:

bitkar · Post by **bitkar** » 06 Feb 2021, 20:39

you should do those ships for hollywood scifi films.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 06 Feb 2021, 22:01

bitkar wrote: 06 Feb 2021, 20:39 you should do those ships for hollywood scifi films.

That would be cool. Not sure if my models are quite detailed enough for films though.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 27 Aug 2021, 23:00

Updated the renders for the Duatron Looper bike. It's an older model and design but it's one of my favourite vehicles in the game so I decided to give it a new render.

Here are also some other ships from the game I designed since my last update to this thread, in no particular order.

PFR-1 Space Bug:

PJ-400 Space Barge:

ZL-70 Personal Shuttle:

Oh and I decided to make a little animation with the Hover Patrol Car.

You can watch it on Youtube:

trueBlue · Post by **trueBlue** » 28 Aug 2021, 00:13

Great models and beautiful renders!

I love the animation too!
Do you animate in Blender?

Finis · Post by **Finis** » 28 Aug 2021, 00:19

How about an animation with the Looper bike?

You could design a submarine vessel.

MikomDude · Post by **MikomDude** » 28 Aug 2021, 10:27

trueBlue wrote: 28 Aug 2021, 00:13 Great models and beautiful renders!
I love the animation too!
Do you animate in Blender?

Thanks! yes, animation in bForArtists with assets from the game (all made in tS of course).

Finis wrote: 28 Aug 2021, 00:19 How about an animation with the Looper bike?

It's kind of animated already to achieve the motion blur, I was thinking of rendering the whole animation but even just one frame took a lot longer than expected so that's a project that'll have to wait until I have a bit more time.

Finis wrote: 28 Aug 2021, 00:19 You could design a submarine vessel.

I'd love to actually. It's on my list for future project for sure.

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