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Community Darkreach 2024

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Foreword
A big thank-you to the developers who have transformed an idea into this absolute masterpiece of an ‘indie’ game; to the moderators who keep our community engaged, informative, and clean; to the many members of said community who participated in this project; and of course, to you!

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Credits

• Credit for this amazing game (and corresponding logos) goes to the hardworking devs at Shockfront Studios: B25Mitch, Squeegy, James, and PatatorCBF (and of course Opal, too)
  
• Credit for the stellar soundtrack I listened to non-stop while completing each draft (and inspiration to create something community-made) goes to peak composers Jeremy and Justin
  
• Credit for the existence of such a large and active Discord server goes to our wonderful moderation team: AAA Battery, Brassy, RNG, and Wolf
  
• Credit for the original idea goes to Emord Nillap
  
• Credit for support and the idea to share UV panels goes to Error
  
• Credit for support and the idea to invite people goes to drunk driving compilation #42
  
• Credit for various decals goes to the list of contributors (who have not requested to stay anonymous) who can be found on this doc [docs.google.com] and on the underside of the livery
  
• Last but not least, credit for those in the Discord [discord.gg] who've supported me while making this project, providing suggestions and answering polls to help me shape this livery into its final form.

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Personal Note
This is by far the most complex livery I've made by far, and it happens to be my 100th workshop item for Nuclear Option, too (and just as I've reached 100 awards!). Thank you all for your support, praise, and feedback on my liveries, missions, artwork, and Primeva 2082! [discord.gg]
I'm incredibly proud to be a part of this rapidly growing group of NO fans, and I look forward to what is yet to come!
-offiry

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The Process
This livery was initially conceptualized in the Nuclear Option Discord's #livery-creation-and-discussion channel. Inspired by the 10th Anniversary BeamNG livery, which B25Mitch had contributed to during his time there, I decided to attempt to organize something similar: a single SFB-81 Darkreach livery with contributions from as many active community members as I could reasonably get in a short span of time. It was later suggested that the Darkreach act as a time capsule of sorts, to represent what the NO community consisted of in 2024, after just over a year of the game's release to Early Access.

After getting flagged countless times on Discord by bot filters and only around a 50% success rate, I was able to finally get a decent number of decals together, and so the application process began.

This livery was created in Blender with the UCUPaint addon, set to an 8K (8192x8192) resolution with minimal compression. 4 different layouts were started, with Layout 2 making it to a total of 15 drafts. The colors "Off-White", "PALA Black, "PALA Monochrome Splinter", "Nuclear Option Green", "BeamNG Orange", and "Rainbow" were decided as the final background colors to be made available. It was baked at the same resolution with 4 samples and 4x anti-aliasing levels, along with FXAA and non-linear filtering. The final project file size was 7.8GiB, or 8.38GB, with the final image being roughly 36MB.

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Just In Case...
If you submitted something and would like for it to be edited (color-wise, scale, rotation, etc) or you would like to add or remove your name on the underside of the livery, please DM me on Steam or Discord, and I will get it changed.

If you submitted something but do not see it on the CDR, or are unsatisfied with its placement, sorry! Application was done in a mostly randomized order, and some content had to be cut due to space or content concerns.

If you were expecting an invitation to contribute, but never received one, my apologies! I had initially created a recommendation list of around 150 (which later expanded to twice that number) simply based on the most recent activity in the Workshop and Discord. Anyone was welcome to contribute something, of course, but managing hundreds of direct message conversations was quite difficult for me, and it’s entirely possible that I’ve missed a few people.

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Addendum
Where it all started.

Originally posted by B25Mitch, 11/13/2021:

I'm working on a game, it's a futuristic physics based combat flight sim with nukes

If you participated in this project and want to be credited via Steam Contributors, please add me as a friend and I can send you a contributor request! (Note: Steam Contributor requests do not appear correctly on Steam Mobile.)

If you’d like to participate in future similar community projects, please DM me on Discord! [discord.com]

Edit: If you are a contributor, please feel free to add more screenshots after the first 5! Thank y'all!