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New Power INC is back online with a new look, some new friends and my old butt. :P
NPI host both original and mainstream skins,skopes and meshes from:
- House Quake
- Tomato
- Billdamn22
- Souix City Dynamo
- Cascurudo (own site coming in a few days)
... and a few more new peeps who are just around the corner.
- Death's Jester
- Carravaggio
- Failed Hero
- Voltimax
- Zivon23
Subsites
Meshworks
meshes and other FF addons
- Valandar
- Vertex (general vx meshes only)
- Texas Jack (select meshes)
Keyframe Central (dipository for many universal KF sets)
The Archives
Original chars from past NPI greats(skins, hexes, meshes)
- Paradox
- Matrix
- Zuludelta
- Titan136
NPI'Pedia
Reference guide to the New Power INC Universe(s).
The Insider (currently down... will be back soon)
A fictious news blog from the world of NPI
Downloadable content is a tad on the lite side right now, as RL obligations have gotten a few people way behind in thier ability to make available some great skins/skopes... but more updates are coming soon.
Woot! :thumbup:
Sure looks good. :pk:
I got an early sneak peak of the site yesterday when i tried clicking on a NPI link. :P
Can't wait for those archive files too. :thumbup:
Hellz Yes!
Grah, you moved the link! Now I have to actually look at what I'm doing when I'm typing in urls. *shakes fist*
In all seriousness, great to see it finally semi-completed... I've really missed keyframe central.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D Yippie
Yay!
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Hurrah!
06/30/09
The Insider is online. In blog format, the Insider is a mixture of fiction and role playing. It will keep you up to date on what's going in the NPI Universe through articles ranging from the latest news headlines to character spot lights and one on one interviews.
Enjoying this!!
:D
Good to see that you guys are up and running.
Great revamp of the site, HQ. I'm really digging it.
I was curious, those skins that you mentioned by Zulu and Paradox and Matrix and the rest, are those both original and mainstream?
Quote from: AfghanAnt on June 30, 2009, 05:44:52 PM
Good to see that you guys are up and running.
If only we can get our butts going!!!! :P
Quote from: laughing paradox on June 30, 2009, 07:18:45 PM
Great revamp of the site, HQ. I'm really digging it.
I was curious, those skins that you mentioned by Zulu and Paradox and Matrix and the rest, are those both original and mainstream?
original definately
the mainstream stuff will take awhille.
No major updates right now... but I'll just say that my peeps keep me busy.
In the coming weeks, I'm hoping to feature the work of a skinning newbie or two. I love seeing the development of the new guys.
Also a couple older members have said, "don't archive me just yet!" I'm looking forward to seeing what FF's resident drunken dead guy and the sexiest cat to ever grace these boards have in store for the community.
Hey HQ, just want to say that I am really enjoying the renaissance of NPI!
Quote from: House Quake on July 10, 2009, 11:20:04 PM
In the coming weeks, I'm hoping to feature the work of a skinning newbie or two. I love seeing the development of the new guys.
Also a couple older members have said, "don't archive me just yet!" I'm looking forward to seeing what FF's resident drunken dead guy and the sexiest cat to ever grace these boards have in store for the community.
Both of these statements make me happy.
Anyone seen or heard from Damnage lately? I know he had computer issues, wasn't sure if they were cured
Quote from: primus on July 12, 2009, 03:51:00 AM
Anyone seen or heard from Damnage lately? I know he had computer issues, wasn't sure if they were cured
Last word was PC issues.
Quote from: House Quake on July 10, 2009, 11:20:04 PM
In the coming weeks, I'm hoping to feature the work of a skinning newbie or two. I love seeing the development of the new guys.
Also a couple older members have said, "don't archive me just yet!" I'm looking forward to seeing what FF's resident drunken dead guy and the sexiest cat to ever grace these boards have in store for the community.
Definitely something to look forward to. :cool:
How about Carravaggio? When will his work be uploaded? :)
The new NPI is looking very nice, House.
Dana
07/15/09
NPI welcomes one of our newest members, Sioux City Dynamo. he's a good talent who has been making avatars and renditions of some of the more off beat characters from DC, marvel and other comic publishers which are available on 'Main Street'. Of course... some original stuffage will be coming down the line from him as well.
Wow! SC Dynamo has quite a roster! I got em all!
Just a question here, but I can't download some of Tomato's influx characters. For example Red Ant V2 and Darek Barrie (highly anticipated in my opinion)
Quote from: detourne_me on July 17, 2009, 07:28:14 AM
Wow! SC Dynamo has quite a roster! I got em all!
Just a question here, but I can't download some of Tomato's influx characters. For example Red Ant V2 and Darek Barrie (highly anticipated in my opinion)
Fixed :cool:
Weird, I downloaded some of the files in Tomato's Influx, but i get only a damaged archive. (Darek Barrie, Classic Tomato)
EDIT: Red Ant works, weird :blink:
Ah, I know what happened. Give me 20 minutes, I'll fix it... the zips are renamed ".rar" files, instead of actual zips. The server wasn't letting you DL rars at the time I put them up, so I just renamed them to zips (I know the compression is different, but any program capable of using rars could still open them even with the different name). After I realized the issue with rars, all further zips were just encoded as actual zips... thus why Lina, Red Ant, and a few others wouldn't be affected.
Edit:Ok, I think everything is fixed now (I just rearchived everything), at least the stuff on my personal page. I have re-uploaded the newer zips for the mainstream stuff into alternate folders until HQ can move stuff around though, so in case those are broken (and they may not be) just post here and I'll link it for the time being.
Excellent Tomato. I really love all of your latest meshes and skins!
...sorry I just have one more problem.. which keyframes should we use with Lina? there's no readme in the zip.
Quote from: detourne_me on July 17, 2009, 07:02:58 PM
Excellent Tomato. I really love all of your latest meshes and skins!
...sorry I just have one more problem.. which keyframes should we use with Lina? there's no readme in the zip.
I believe I set her up to use female_basic_cape keys or female_basic keys, depending on which you want to use. If you're looking for specific sets of cape keys, Gren has a few on Meshworks and I think some of Tommy's keys are set up for cape movement also.
Edit: Going through them again, I'd suggest Gren's Vision-type keys.
I wandered around NPI and found out that vx meshes are there again, yay :thumbup:, Of course, the new stuff will be on the Champions' site. ^_^
not exactly GG... V's GENERIC meshes are up, but his MAINSTREAM meshes are still going over to Champions.
Yeah, I noticed that just a little earlier, I didn't read the whole thing. :mellow:
Quote from: GGiant on July 21, 2009, 06:12:09 PM
Yeah, I noticed that just a little earlier, I didn't read the whole thing. :mellow:
LOl... thats OK. I hadn't announced anything publically yet because I have a couplethings to iron out with Vert and some other updates to Meshworks I wanted to do first.
07/22/09
New skopes by Cascarudo are now available on Meshworks.
Speaking of Meshworks... meshes by Vertex are back on Meshworks. However, Meshworks will only be carrying his 'general' non-mainstream meshes. Other meshes by him will one day... be available on the Champions of Freedom site.
Also skopes and meshes by Tomato are now available on Meshworks as well.
Enjoy.
nice stuff guys!thanks cas. for fixing blk rapier and iron demon.looking forward to mirage!
The site is great! Loved Valandar's Gargantuans.
Just a question, i downloaded VX Females, but can't find any keyframes for them, any plans for the keyframe central?
Once again congrats!
Keys for the currently released VX Females are in Keyframe central, which is in Meshworks.
Edit: Updated Meshworks with my Colossus_TM mesh. Enjoy!
Thanks, but may you tell me what set i can use, please? I can't download the VX keyframes and Grenardier's didn't worked. Tried the old Female Basic KFs, without effect.
Changing the topic,
Great X-Men meshes, Cyke and Colossus are perfect, are planning to do the "All-New, All Different X-Men" from the 70's?
Why can't you download the VX keyframes?
Dana
Edit: Ah...I see...The links are broken. Well...That's not going to work, is it?
:oops:
Quote from: John Jr. on July 31, 2009, 12:51:25 AM
Thanks, but may you tell me what set i can use, please? I can't download the VX keyframes and Grenardier's didn't worked. Tried the old Female Basic KFs, without effect.
Changing the topic,
Great X-Men meshes, Cyke and Colossus are perfect, are planning to do the "All-New, All Different X-Men" from the 70's?
There was an error in the links to the VX female keys. It's been fixed an they're now downloadable again.
FYI... VX meshes for the most part.. will only work with VX keys.
FYI x2... any problem with downloading anything on NPI, for fastest results simply bring it to my attention. ^_^ Sometimes things slip by me and I'm unaware that there is a problem.
Quote from: John Jr. on July 31, 2009, 12:51:25 AM
Great X-Men meshes, Cyke and Colossus are perfect, are planning to do the "All-New, All Different X-Men" from the 70's?
Not really... Cyclops was kind of a whim thing (I had meshed/skinned the Visor kind of on it's own for use with C6's skin and Miguel's skope, but since I wanted to release it to FR I just made the other pieces) and I did Colossus because he's probably my all-time favorite X-man.
Besides... the ANAD X-men includes Wolverine. Really, between TJ, Syn, and Ren, I think Wolverine is kinda set in the meshing field... I think the only think he really needs is some new hair, and I'm not that good with Hair yet.
07/31/09
The NPI Archives site is now up featuring original creations by some of NPI's past greatest. I'm dedicating it to the found memories of Dan and Wil aka Paradox and Matrix. Two of the finest people the community has ever known. R.I.P.
New Colossus TM by Tomato now available on Meshworks.
Also... the links to the VX female keyframes in KF Central has been repaired.
doing a fine job HQ!
Quote from: herodad1 on July 31, 2009, 01:18:26 PM
doing a fine job HQ!
Awww, HQ gets all the love :P
Quote from: House Quake on July 31, 2009, 10:36:44 AMI'm dedicating it to the found memories of Dan and Wil aka Paradox and Matrix. Two of the finest people the community has ever known. R.I.P.
The design is really nice man. I'm sure they'd be honored that you remember them so fondly.
A really good update Quake. I never realized the depth of the NPI characters before, so it was cool to go through and read all the characters origins and stories. I could really see the love that the creators had for their characters.
doing a fine job Tomato...and everyone else involved in NPI.
Colossus is incredible!!!!!!!!!! So happy it's released. Great Job Tomato and C6!
EDIT: never saw the Archives. Thank you HQ, Will and Paradox were some of the greatest guys in the community. RIP.
Fantastic job with the archives, sir. I don't think I'd ever seen the profiles for some of those characters before, even on the old NPI. I certainly appreciate it as a resource (and an interesting read) now.
It's nice to see the zuludelta, matrix, and paradox stuff back up.
Fantastic job on everything HQ, thank you :).
After several years with the same host.. i finally did what i should have since they became craptastic... moved to a new host. My old host had become so craptastic.. they made the move more issue than it should have been. The site should start coming back up in a day or two as the domain shifts to the new servers.
Excellent. Any site changes going with it?
Best of luck with the switch HQ, hope its a smooth transition
Yay it's back, I think it was back since yesterday, but I'm not sure... :unsure:
Quote from: GGiant on August 08, 2009, 10:06:44 AM
Yay it's back, I think it was back since yesterday, but I'm not sure... :unsure:
Yep... wasn't sure how long it would take for the domain switch to propagate through the webservers. The only casualty has been the NPI news blog... The Insider. The blog script I used was native to the old webhost/servers. I'm installing a new one sometime this week.
UpdatesCarravaggio is alive!!! But he's been working in a very remote area with limited at best internet. This is why his many many great skins have been delayed from hitting the site. Also MIA, Billdamn22 has had major tech issues as well which accounts for his absence.
In the near future... on NPI's 'Main Street'... I'm going to put up select skins/hexes by Zuludelta, Matrix and Paradox... which just may include some never before released skins as well.
Also...
Death's Jester will be making a return with a lot of unreleased skins. And being one to always support the new guys... Failed Hero and Iris will be making thier NPI debuts in the coming weeks. A couple more old NPI peeps may also be seeing thier way back to active participation.
And...
We've been trying to kick start a new FF wiki. More details very soon. But we are really.. really going to need people to help to gather and update the information.
Lastly...
Don't forget about the FFC. (http://ffcenter.net) A lot of work went into setting it up and making it a place for everyone to enjoy. History has shown us that consolidating all of our eggs into one basket.. is always a risky thing. No one is ever going to try to replace FR as our home... but having some place to visit and just let it all hang out once in awhile ain't half bad.
If I seam busy.... yes I am!!! ^_^ Somewhere in the middle of all this... I will get back to doing some skinning (and maybe skoping) myself. But 'meh'.. I get as much joy supporting the efforts of others as I do creating my own.
Male_Basic_TM, Male_DPMask_TM, and Male_Fullmask_TM have all been uploaded to NPI and are available for download. Huzzah!
Something's wrong with the male_basic_TM file...I can't open the zip (invalid archive). :(
The other 2 are fine tho...
Quote from: Courtnall6 on August 14, 2009, 09:18:33 PM
Something's wrong with the male_basic_TM file...I can't open the zip (invalid archive). :(
The other 2 are fine tho...
! C:\custom_characters\Tomato\bse-male_basic_tm.zip: Either multipart or corrupt ZIP archive
re-uploaded, if anyone sees this PLEASE recheck. The archive works on my end, but I'm unsure whether it works on anyone else's
Got it! All good now :cool:
it is entirely plausible I just added something. Conceivably.
many thnx
Ahhh... forgot to post Meshworks was updated yesterday with some new skopes by Cascarudo. Check em out... and enjoy.
New skins/skopes from Sioux City Dynamo located on NPI: Mainstreet and his own DDynamic Designs. Enjoy
Thanks for the updates! Lots of new great stuff there.
Male Fat, Stocky, and Football are all on NPI. I'll have an update for the Influx section ready tomorrow or Thursday.
awesome they looks great
Influx section has been updated, I've now split the page between Heroes and Villains in preparation for a later update, which will add information about the universe.
We will be making a few asthetic changes to NPI over the next couple of weeks... the first of which have already started (Tomato's and SC Dynamo's spots). I also hope to have up new skins by the returning Bloodshadow and more as well.
Ummm... am I the only one seeing this? I go to update NPI and it's like... completely empty :wacko:.
No mate, getting the 404 message as well :(
Quote from: growlermike on November 06, 2009, 04:37:45 PM
No mate, getting the 404 message as well :(
Correction just tried and it's back up now :thumbup:
Not exactly... it's back up, but at least on my end it's an old version.
Wonder what's going on...
Updated the Influx section some more. Now if you click on the center link (Between "Villains" and "Heroes" near the top) you'll be taken to a page that'll explain just a bit about Influx and the universes they encounter.
Quote from: Tomato on November 06, 2009, 04:42:20 PM
Not exactly... it's back up, but at least on my end it's an old version.
Wonder what's going on...
was likely a temp prob on the server side
But... OHHHHH... now I see what you meant by older version. Ohh hell this SUX!!!! It effectively reveresed the changes I had made ealier this week :banghead:
First three Female meshes added! Go nuts people.
*gets nutty, like the professor*
Just a quick update: I've "updated" the Yellow Lantern zip file, now it includes Ren's GL Hal keys, since I know there was some confusion as to the version and so forth. Plus, with Ren's site down I thought it'd be prudent to finish them off.
:cool:
Just a little heads up
Updates for S. C. Dynamo and Cascurado should be up in a few days. :cool:
Cool
Sweet :thumbup:
Psst. Check out my section at NPI. Then do it a second time.
Deuce Face - very nice!
can't get the male suit or muscular bases to download as valid archives, and I don't even see Two-Face :(
What program are you using to open the zips? Winzip might have issues with them because I used winrar. As for Two-face, did you check the mainstream section? It sounds like you only looked in Base meshes
I use 7zip and it worked fine on one of the older bases (and everything that everyone else released yesterday), and yes...I looked in the mainstream folder (the one with spidey, sylar, etc)
figured out part of it...seems NPI and Chrome don't get along very well...still can't get a good copy of the suit base with IE though
meh... so I've seen the site, and gotten some pms about it... something is borked, but I don't have enough control to do maintenance. Been trying to im hq a few days, finally emailed him a few minutes ago. I'm sure it's just a stupid server hiccup, but we'll see.
It's actually not that bad, just takes a few refreshes to do things. Or for the pages you can't fresh on just a few repeat clicks, still I can see why it annoys some people.
I'm on explorer and NPI is real strange for me also. I'm getting lots of errors. Ussualy I can get partual functionality if I refresh several times though. Still I'm glad you got word to HQ
I'm getting a 503 service unavailable message. Hope they'll be able to fix this.
Mk, with New Power Inc up and running again I decided to do some major internal restructuring (very little of which will impact normal site-goers at all, it's mainly organizing everything a little better so I don't go insane trying to find things). I've decided to move the Freedom Corp skins out of avatars and over to my Influx "Heroes" page instead of lumping them in Avatars... the "normal" versions however (such as Detourne_Me's classic outfit) will still be placed in avatars, however.
Nothing much on the release side of things yet... For now it was mainly restructuring, but I've uploaded/updated pretty much all of the Influx stuff for the moment... updated portraits for the core team, as well as completed bios and updated meshes for those that needed them.
I've got a bunch of content still to unload, so expect more from me in the next few weeks. Tomorrow my big push will be getting all the FC stuff I've gotten done or pretty close to it uploaded and finalized, and hopefully I'll be able to clean up the avatar section as well.
Oh, and for those who like those custom figures... I've added a clue of sorts to two face's readme. ;)
So... before anyone else says anything, NPI is down again. HQ has been online a bunch recently though, so whenever he gets on I'll let him know.
Thanks for the heads up 'Mato.
HQ was able to fix the issue. NPI 'tis up.
thanks tomato, time for a download spree.
Awesome, thanks HQ!
Yay...Thanks HQ! Thanks for letting us know, Tomato!
Dana