New Freelancer fan project

Look at Star Trek Online; most people agree that the space portion is fun, but the ground sections are a chore.

I also think that this capturing a battleship on foot isn’t the best idea, as it would require lots of players and a good coordination of these, and it would end up being SW Battlefront or something like that!!

you know, there could be purchasable bots for that purpose, only active when you enter a hostile base and only if you have a ship large enough to carry them with you.

That could create lots of server load, right? Imagine five of these battleships being attacked at the same time…

look, how many npc’s you see in orbit of New London, fighting, in orbit of NY, flying around and that’s far not many. imagine 5 players on a FL server, each surrounded with an NPC environment. is that a problem to FL? why should this one have any problems with that? we’re talking of four, maybe 5 help bots running behind you.

Excellent work!

Nice to see you’ve got bump working on those textures, looks a little harsh though if you don’t mind me saying. Could just be the crap textures you’ve got to work with though I guess. Interesting to see what happens with specular.

If you got to much time you should remove these shadows on the textures to generate them just by bumpmaps.
Could be better for the atmosphere

Gisteron wrote:
look, how many npc’s you see in orbit of New London, fighting, in orbit of NY, flying around and that’s far not many. imagine 5 players on a FL server, each surrounded with an NPC environment. is that a problem to FL? why should this one have any problems with that? we’re talking of four, maybe 5 help bots running behind you.

Well, I thought you meant a lot more…to simulate a battle inside a battle or so.

sigh don’t mention EVE, please. It’s not a space simulator if you can’t even fly the ship manually.

Eve is more sim than FL ever will be, but back to topic…

That latest video looks cool, the only ugly thing is that blue something in the background.

@ BUDU:

Very impressive work!
I would like to ask about that green clouded starsphere: Is this only one starspehere, or it has two different types like starsphere and a star cmp?

BUDU_KRATOK wrote:
It’s skybox. In FL background is sphere, but Unity3d skybox contains 6 images - textures for box
Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr0ZI142P5M&feature=related

Hmm, interesting. Would definitely make editing the background a lot easier.

@ BUDU:

Skyboxes can be made for FL background yes, (as Forsaken did) but my question was about the textures: I have had many headaches to make proper textures with stars integrated into the clouds but in the game the stars were fade and blurred, didnt matter what resolution the textures had. Thats why the orig FL backgrounds are separated into star cmps and cloud cmps. Your starsphere appears properly the stars are bright without fading or/and blur, and it seems its just only one file.
Its not clear to me yet this is about because you use an other engine, and you can make proper skybox by using this unity3d as a result of good appearance of the backgrounds in the game, or you make a skybox converting into ms3d and from there into cmp.

So, this is my question.

Will dynamic backgroup be done? I like lightning starsphere, just like the startup screen of EVE ONLINE:Revelation

Since you were asking for modelers may I assume you’re not planning on sticking with freelancers stock ships and assets?

I might be interested in joining up with you on this, I’m game artist in my final year of college and just recently I was getting really interested in the idea of a freelancer reboot. We should chat soon.

haha this is really cool. these seem to be popping up everywhere…why didn’t anyone give this a go when i was modding a few years ago! ahhh…

your game is looking great! i am using unity as well but i think i will steer away from freelancer a little bit. i was planning to replicate freelancer as well and then tack on new features, but i played freelancer for years, i know it like the back of my hand, and i have a good idea of what i think works well and what could be added, so i am going to build a new game from the ground up incorporating those features…

anyway, best of luck to you and your team!