Sutton-Alpine NMM Research Institute

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making another one of these for the billionth time, actually making some decent progress though

metal doors with a clean and a dirty variant

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some textures

glass texture is a little hard to see so here's another image

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revamped icolight model

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keypad door

may change the textures since I feel the edge wear is a little hard to see from farther distances

finished door

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revamped textures for the trusses

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working on the reactor rn

currently just the base but ill add extra details

its already 13000 triangles 😭 im going to need to optimize this

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where the sunlight cannot reach

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working on reactor

[proven crater]

that looks super awesome

[thick prawn]

is las cherung still going?

[proven crater]

i, still have a active fourm, so yeah

but i dont wanna talk more bout it here in do respect of this owner fourm yknow

👍

[proven crater]

how long this take you to make? because this is a really clever design

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like 1 to 3 days

im still figuring out what to do for the actual main reactor structure

and ive got to try and optimize the particle accelerator bc its like 20,000 triangles something

the main general idea for how the reactor is oriented mainly came from my oldest amr

this is the old amr

and another old unfinished amr

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a single one of the particle accelerators is 28,858 triangles

but there's a ton of things that would look horrible even if I decimated them just a tiny bit

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unsure of what exactly ill do with the rest of the amr rn so ill probably work on something else like the control room until I get an idea

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its nasa control panel time

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I want to send a video I created but idk if sending the link would be considered self promotion

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my pipe is a little spicy

unintentional

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modular pipes yayyyyy

im certain the lighting level in this area goes against osha

surely too dark to be actually safe

yep

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im remaking the truss model

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we're so back

texturing the core

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pretty much done with the texturing

will need numbers and other labels

and ill likely be adding a bit more detail on the top and bottom

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havent really done much yet since I have no idea what to do up here

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id love to texture the reactor with actual textures but its a bit triangle heavy to do so

plus putting edge wear on it either requires a long and tedious process by making an edge map in blender or using the edge mask native to quixel mixer

or I just spend 80 dollars per month for substance painter

I have been trying to work on some lore stuff though!!!1!!1!!!

[trim ledge]

kinda peak

[hasty crystal]

woah this stuff is looking good!

[kindred stag]

not always

i might start actually paying for adobe though

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im thinking of maybe trying a heatsink for the top of the reactor?

[tulip kite]

if you uv unwrap i can generate one rq in substance painter

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working on something thats entirely unrelated to sanmmri but thought I would post it anyway

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why am I putting this much detail into this its freaking stairs 😭

[obsidian warren]

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progress update: decided to ditch the stairs and go with lasers but I likely will add more stuff to the structure soon

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had to remake it due to some issues with the geometry

[karmic lichen]

Dmr02 on tren

I like

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so apparently future lighting just didnt work at all

but now it does

and boy does it look WAY better

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vhs

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stalag sisters

(this isn't in SANMMRI but I will probably use the same style of cave building for it)

[dense sentinel]

looking for a scripter? i've been meaning to work on a reactor game for quite some time

messing around with a components system and states for them would be so fun to make

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I could use a dedicated scripter, I'm trying to learn how to script in luau and I could work on less complex things but you could do things that would be hard and tedious for a beginner programmer like me to do

[dense sentinel]

yes ofc !! thatd be perfect

i can teach you luau as well if youd like

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ok this actually is in SANMMRI

high contrast lighting honestly looks so good oh my god

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updating the building demo with new assets and style

[low mica]

this is amaznig

looks so cool

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Peak

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working on some stuff for the top & bottom of the reactor

[low mica]

this is so cool

[low mica]

Peak

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decided to take a break from working on the reactor chamber and start working on the design for reactor ops (for the like 3rd time...)

the design is mostly finalized, still need to add pipes & wires up top and add lights

what I likely plan to do next is revamp the textures of the metal doors, as they still use the old edge wear method

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Masterpiece

[dense sentinel]

very noice

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havent done a dev update in a bit so uh.
door

[low mica]

nice

[tulip kite]

not bad but the hinges are on the wrong side

if you have a push bar you want the door to swing away from you as you push

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oh shoot I forgot about that

thank you

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revamped door compared to old door (new on left, old on right)

the stripe will change in color depending on the use

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redid the stripe

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finished doors

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omg!!!!! window!!!!!!!!! idk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[worldly gate]

woah

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I made the window a bit wider

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the view

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control room wip

ignore the void that is the ceiling

the map from the older designs

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Fun fact: SANMMRI takes place in a universe where Alaska is much more developed. Anchorage, at the time the game takes place, is comparable to the size of New York City (in population density and general building density)

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we need a preview map build

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what specific preview map build

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new light model

for comparison here is the old one

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how did you make all of these detailed tubes and wires?

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curve and the bevel option in the data tab

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do you use curves, face bridgeing, or any of that stuff?

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for the cables I used the path curve, for the pipes I mostly just duplicated the joining sections and joined them using bridge edge loops

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plagerism?

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what

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from quantum

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broski qserf did not invent code doors

im also pretty sure the original code door image that was used as a base for the revamped code doors wasn't made by qserf

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iirc they USED to be Inspired by Portal Stories Mel

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the heat exchanger exchanges the heat to heat the heat exchanger

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fun fact: the AMR operates similarly to a pressurized water reactor, and this system was chosen for it due to the incredibly high temperatures and pressures that the AMR reaction chamber operates at

later designs of the amr bypassed this system all together by converting the gamma rays produced by annihilations directly into power

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new chamber details current state

in terms of the thermal loop ill have to do the pipes for the input water

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simple little graphic

this is incredibly simplifed

and it doesnt show what exactly happens when the proton beam hits the fuel channels but ill make a more detailed infographic soon

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how directly into power

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whah

[manic lantern]

the gap between the big pipe thing and the actual core is infuriating me

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the gamma rays produced by antimatter annihilations are converted directly into an electric current

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which gap are you referring to

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hoow

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just look it up or something im not a physicist :/

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lol

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efficiency <0.5%

btw

you really cant do that in any method other than mere solar panel

annihilation grants you high energy photon

light

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I know that there's a hypothetical method possible for doing it that's very efficient but im not well knowledgeable in that sort of field

[karmic lichen]

you make a hard absorber made of a really heavy metal and call it a heat exchanger

and then cycle really high pressure water into it

its the simple boil water method

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that's how the first major version worked later antimatter reactor designs worked differently
also this is science fiction so im not sure why you care so much about it

[karmic lichen]

because if it doesnt work then it cant work

the antimatter reactor concept is possible with a superior fuel sourcing method

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dawg im not making a real concept this is a science fiction roblox game

[karmic lichen]

you would need the cern but a few trillion times to make a solid chunk of antimatter

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sorry for not posting anything recently, ive been feeling kind of undermotivated

christmas break is soon though and that will provide me with a lot of time to work

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im thinking I might pause developing on SANMMRI for a while, ive not had a lot of motivation recently and I kind of want to try and make a game that's more unique than the pretty generic core game that ive been planning SANMMRI to be

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ive kind of devised a game idea that will allow me to keep the underground facility aestheitic while also going with a game concept ive wanted to do for awhile

basically think if you put parkour/parkour reborn in an underground facility and make it a story game

[covert marsh]

Let him cook

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my idea for how gears will work in the game is this

you'll have two gears on either side of your arms

your right arm gear will be a main gear that you cannot switch while in the air that can interact with your left arm gear

your left arm gear will have its own base functionality but it will have a function when paired with the right arm gear

your left arm gear will be able to be swapped in air

for example a right arm gear im planning is essentially a shotgun fist, similar to the knuckleblaster from Ultrakill

a fist thats propelled by shotgun shells

you'll be able to use it to propel yourself normally by hitting a surface and you'll also be able to use it to hit anything your left arm gear launches

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anyways

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truss with pipe running through it thing

its modular btw

also

ignore the screws

they are untextured currently

[tulip kite]

looks good so far, do you plan to bake in some AO or add some welds/bolts on the ends of the beams?

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adding welds and bolts on the beams would have too little gain for the triangles it would add, as for the AO roblox already has AO in its lighting system

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oh i meant adding the details to the texture

as for ao, baking in some ao helps a lot since roblox's ao is really spotty and prone to not appearing

not to mention it's disabled for future lighting

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doing the uv maps for this thing would be hell

I don't really think baked ao maps would add much for how hard it would be to do the uv maps

[tulip kite]

well for a prop like that I'd strongly recommend making a trimsheet, which once you make one and learn how to texture with it, would make it really easy to texture a lot of modular variants

not to mention you can add more details while not increasing memory usage and streaming requirements

[solar cliff]

be my instructer

flawless perfections

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wooden crate

looks kind of worse in studio but it's using 4k texture rendering

should probably switch to a new forum since this is a different game

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I need to actually keep working on this game

haven't actually done anything in a while

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it is okay to take breaks

[hazy marten]

Is that the matanuska river by any chance?

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idk