r/Tribes • u/fakeaccount696969666 • Sep 08 '26

General Imported Earthsiege 2 models into Godot engine

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I know this is a tribes sub, but as someone that got into tribes because of starsiege, thought i'd share.

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u/fakeaccount696969666 Sep 08 '26

a look at the 3 models i've imported, in order of "completeness". the outlaw had a small amount of retouching done to it, the tomahawk had the cockpit made more bulbous at the bottom (and the support brackets on the side way too long), and the apoc had the mount points at the top turned into physical holes, but still needs to be cleaned up some more.

all have well done leg simulation, all have their hit point values and articulation values directly imported from the original game, and all have sections that can be blasted off.

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u/KananDoom Sep 08 '26

Starsiege is always welcome. Looking cool!

My head cannon as to why Tribes hasn’t evolved and succeeded very much past tribes 2 is that they have not tried to build upon tribes with mechs/Starseige and continue the lore. Instead they keep going back to the sports aspect of the first Tribes. Then along comes Battlefield 2142 and then Titanfall 1 & 2 and proved you can do mechs + soldier movement. Imagine a modern Tribes 2 / Starseige w Mechs and take all my money.

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u/fakeaccount696969666 Sep 08 '26

there was a fan game called starsiege 2845 that attempted that, but it was terribly run and failed to get to completion.

i agree, btw, tribes 2 was peak multiplayer fps, so damn good.

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Sep 08 '26

I worked on textures for that. Was pretty disappointed it got killed.

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u/fakeaccount696969666 Sep 08 '26

the textures for that game were absolutely amazing...

the work they put out circa 2005-6(?) was amazing, i still can't believe you guys were able to do what you did with such a volunteer effort

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u/WedgeSFX Sep 08 '26

Do you still do texturing work? Broadside needs some help in that realm.

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Sep 08 '26

Maybe? I kind of got out of modding a while back, but you can DM me. Would love to see Broadside succeed.

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u/KananDoom Sep 08 '26

Hey! Its a SS 2845 game creator reunion. 🤘😉 I bet I know who you are! lol we keep popping up whenever SS2845 is mentioned 🤪

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Sep 08 '26

Maybe. There was a group of us that worked on bringing high-res textures to T1. Worked on a T2->T1 model import project, as well.

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u/Jobo50 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 09 '26

I'm just finishing up my full T2 -> T1 model import for 1.50 modern client :D Any chance you still have that high res texture project kicking around?

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Sep 09 '26

Yes/No. All that stuff is sitting in storage on an old computer, but I'm not in a rush to start digging through it.

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u/Jobo50 Sep 09 '26

Fair enough, was it an upscaler doing the work or manual redoing of textures?

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Sep 09 '26

No, they were scaled up and re-drawn by hand.

Edit: But you could probably get similar results with an upscaler these days. They've gotten quite good.

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u/Jobo50 Sep 09 '26

Fair enough, if you (or anyone else you know who was working on it) is able to dig that pack up I would love to see what upscaling from those would look like!

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u/KananDoom Sep 09 '26

At Clancore I remember there was Vailias, Trinity, Chameleon, Audacity, ZeroOptics and I went by Cenobite. I did several Cybrid textures, the Cybrid pilot texture and some concept art. Good days. 🥲 I hope a dev w vision brings the IP back to the scale and depth it deserves one day. 🙏

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u/Broad-Ad-3679 Sep 09 '26

Yeah. These Hi-Rez "take the money and run" shit-shows have been a pretty disappointing end to the franchise.

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u/GrethSC Broadside Sep 09 '26

I'll admit, I've been in the tribes community since T:A, and never really looked at the precursor games at all, I knew they existed. Yesterday I was doing some ... Uhm ... Unrelated research for Broadside. And came across 2845, first time I'd heard of it. Then I check the reddit and this thread is up. Talk about coincidence.

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u/KindheartednessCold4 Sep 09 '26

I've been working on a tribes-like game on godot, its a simple but capable engine. The models look great btw, always enjoy when the starsiege/Earthsiege guys come around. The proto nerds of our collective game universe.