Planet Calypso: Found some old 3D rips and used my new 3D Studio ;-)

Good old times. Thanks to my new 3D Studio several Ullas and one Kristin in different armour met at old Fort Pandora.

Do you remember old Fort Pandora?


Near Pandora in the South was this big tower. I placed one of the landing pads from Ithaca close to it to get an impression how tall it was.

Here is a detail view of the dome


Once I helped Cat with her "Battle Royale"-Event at Zychion Citadelle. I made a map of the place

But I used a grabbed 3D model for it. Okay, we had no vehicles at this time. So I made a lot of single grabs and put them together in 3D Studio. We had not much time and the assambly is a bit rough. Alas, was for a map only. Now I'm happy to own this place in 3D

Finally I found Cat herself - lol!
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Last but not least Ulla in sexy Hermes attacks
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It's like a time travel. In the past I was able to grab the textures too. Later MA changed the start procedure and I got pale 3D models only.

 

Grin ;-)
Well, I'm an EU retiree and a necromancer only. I found a lot more old 3D data. I think history is important but not important ... if you know what I mean ;-)

 

Once upon a time in an Universe far far away ...
Does anyone remember the Noob Arrival Area at old Port Atlantis?

The ramp I spent so many hours together with others to welcome new colonists and help them with the first steps. At the other hand we often had incredible fun there. Later MA-officials Emma and Simon helped us with this job. Simon was pretty cool. He helped Cat with her "Battle Royale", played a role in the story, was mortal and died. I asked him if it would be okay for MA to grab 3D-geometry with 3D RipperDX from the game for private purpose. He gave me permission. So here we are with old memories in 3D :-)

The welcome house ... kinda museum. One of MA's failed installations to make it easier for newcomers


Holla! I was once in an old hangar. And grabbed one of the old Spaceships. What was the maximum again? Five passengers? Or only three? I can't remember.


Or this one. Old Akmuul

Rivaval Pad


And yes ... once I owned an apartment at Sakura near TP


LOL! Ulla in red-yellow outfit. That was the time when we had a famous suuuper-colourer: Sarah!

 

Well, I managed to run old 3DS Max 2010 and import old 3D Ripper DX - files. As far as I can see from my archives we have 141 rips. I don't know yet what they contain. 18 days left to use the 3DS Max 2010 license to import them and save as *.max-files. I can handle them later (adjust, reduce, grab special parts) with my 3-year-license of 3DS Max 2016. Looks good. I will make a library of EU-3D-models.

@Tass and/or RAZER: I grabbed this geometry by permission from MA (long ago: Simon|MindArk). What about asking MA for sharing my 3D-archive to the player base? I doubt they will agree. But it's worth a try - for private purpose only. Probably there is a chance to create kinda database with a form of agreement ... dunno ...

 

LOL! Most of the rips were narcisstic grabs for Ulla and Kristin. But some of them may accidentally contain additional stuff. I will check this next days. I didn't love places like sweat farms and such. Let's SEE, what we'll find.

 

Puhhh! Two or three more than 140 grabs it seems. For now I import them to 3DS Max 2010 and save them as they are as Max-files to have further access to them. No clue if I will get a second chance to do that. 16 days left to use the demo-license. It's enough. I'm close to the end. But I want to sort it out asap.

 

Well, found it. Old spaceship:

Three passengers beside the pilot (no standing rooms if I remember right):

What a waste btw! Such a ship should be able to transport at least a dozen men. Alas, it's all about RCE me think ... ***roll eyes***
I have no good scan from the old hangars. Just this rough one with wrong textures:

 

I still love the idea of independent workshops wich are able to tune vehicles with special parts and software in a way official workshops can't. For spaceships as well as for planet bound vehicles. Parallel to this we could have a black market for illegeal (and dangerous) or stolen/smuggeled materials and components. (Or even drugs [= illegal skillpills coocked be unscrupolous crafters like Walter White ...]).

I mean - IF they accept and implement crime like piracy - why the hell don't they implement other crime like prostitution, smuggling, illeagale crafting, drugs ... dunno what else?

Guess what: I would come back to the game. Just to establish my own official legal but in fact illegal tuning workshop, contact smugglers, pirates, recivers and junkies to build up my own network. GTA even. Why not?

At least it would give pirates a good chance to trade their "special loot" (=smuggled illegal goods) at the black market for more money. Howling Mine even ...

Just my 4 Cigarettes ...

 

Well, import of old 3D Ripper data is done. Gasp to relief.
190 grabs in total. Some are doubly. Most of them are "Ulla in armor", "Ulla in clothes", Ulla in poses", "Ulla and Kristin", "Kristin and Ulla", "Kristin in clothes", "Sisters" ... and so on - LOL! At least I have models of all Calypso vehicles, more or less all space vehicles including space stations + old space station with swimming pool ...

... and all buyable houses and apartments in EU (Calypso, Monria, Rocktropia, Arkadia).

And I have a little secret from Arkadia ;-) I don't know if it's still there. In the past they had kinda newcomer area with two big transporters if I remember right:


Close to this underground hall was a cave. I think it was part of a mission. A few scientists and security staff were there.


The cave is way bigger. But they blocked it by some massive rocks.

Here is the complete cave:

It's crazy: Ingame you stand in front of the blocking rocks and at your second monitor you can see in Rhino or Max what's behind them. But you can't go there. Can someone help me where this area is? (If it still exists ...)

Same here: I got that mysterious cuboid/MA event theatre from that small island west of Cape Corinth

 

Yo, on my way to Arkadia to try to find this tricky cave ... game crashed while reaching Arkadia, website not available at first relog. Second relog:

Bahh ... that's the true way to drag retirees back to the game. I am pissed again. "Contact Support Department"! Sure folks. That's the last thing I would do.
Third relog:

Got it finally ;-) The blocking rocks still in place, probably the hidden cave behind them.


3DS Max ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------> Arkadia

Harrrrr! I can use my 3DConnexion Spacemouse to zoom in and out at EU!

 

Oh btw. does someone by any chance owns an old running 32bit computer with WinXP installed and a halfway good videocard? I would like to buy it. That would enable me to grab some more geometry. A few parts I miss, some weapons and such. Or even what you want to have as 3D-model ... animals, bots, buildings, avatars ...

3D Ripper DX would run at such system. RAZER, Tass, McCormick, anyone?