GE Demo Videos And Pics
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Skotty summed it up fairly well. Plus there are very few people I would trust to have the ability to work on the engine, FF would be one though.
Most of the coding is done at this point, I mainly want to overhaul the AI handler and FX system to be more robust. The additional graphics stuff is really just extra icing on the cake. Mainly trying to finish up the code so I can focus on the MP side of the game. That part is still very much in the basic stages.
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The biggest hurdle is that I have no interest in doing a space sim
I’ve done a lot of the graphics for Freeworlds, but if I can make my own game from scratch it probably won’t be a space sim, or at least it wouldn’t be my first choice. There are enough quality games in that genre coming soon (hopefully!) that I would just be jumping in late and without any distinguishing feature.
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Actually I’m kinda the same way. I completed most of the space part of the game long ago. It was at about 10% as difficult to do that part as handling the FPS side of the game. When dealing with a ship there is only so many things you can add for it (hp’s, equipment, storage, missions, movement etc) but when dealing with a playable character added to the mix the possibilities expand exponentially. In that case you add personal interactivity, model animations, point and click pickup, personal storage, animated cut scenes (even FL has this in SP), secondary storage, crafting, hardpoint handling on animated meshes and so much more. If it hadn’t been for my many years of working with FL I probably wouldn’t have even bothered with the space portion of the game. But I felt it was needed to complete the game experience. In GE the main focus though is the first person aspect of it, not the ships. I wanted the player to feel connected to their character so that is what it revolves around, not an impersonal ship. Ships are property, the player isn’t. You can fight battles with your ship but you can also do that with your character. Anyways, I’m rambling, hope all of you enjoy it when I finally release the full version…
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You must be taking the piss LS, you need a massive team of people to produce a game on that scale surely. Nutter!
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Timmy51m wrote:
I agreed with the point, The scale may too large for a one man project, you at less need 5 people working full time for this to make the project successfully finish.
Look the Battlefield 3, it’s just a FPS game, but still take years to make.
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It wasn’t a criticism, I was admiring how crazy he is
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LOL, I agree Timmy, if I hadn’t been programming for more than 30 years I doubt I would even attempted this project. As far as building it, I do all of the coding but I’m not the only one who has put stuff into it. Sol Command & Fur Ball have contributed most of the models, Mathew Pablo and Rich Douglas have contributed the music (114 & 23 songs respectively). Also various other contributions from the users here as well, such as Alucard and Romuald.
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This is a test from the latest 2 day old project - deferred rendering. This is a map I converted from a free Quake 3 map from Trak. I’ve already added light ambient, light diffuse, normal mapping, glow mapping. Specular mapping isn’t cooperating even though its the exact same one I use in the forward shader.
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New shots with the completed deferred renderer, click on the images for a full size pic
Sol Commands SciFi city buildings and pyramid spaceship, also the new lens flare code has been completed
New main menu
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I made an interior scene using one of Sol Command’s asteroid station models, check it out
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Reminds of the asteroid base interiors from Freelancer. Nice job !
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Tribes+Freelancer!!1 And metal music - Excellent!
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Do it again, but this time blow some #$%% up!
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Thx, that base is the last one shown in the ‘Sol Command Showcase’ video. Since he recently did the building set, it seemed a perfect time to make it. I did consider using roads and such but since every vehicle is a flying craft there seemed no need for them.
@Timmy, lol, I had to intentionally disable the NPCs due to them constantly trying to kill me. If I had undocked from that station then that is what would have ensued.
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With the level of unrestricted playground you have here none of those games can match it, so you’ve got your > unique < feature right there, to make it stand out in the crowd.
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Appreciate it. That is something I have been working on lately. I decided to go with 100 levels of every part of tech development, equipment development and other areas. Currently there is well over 2000 different commodities in the game thanks to procedural generation. I am currently working on making every station have an interior. With the help of my 2 main modellers it is becoming a reality. Hopefully Sol you will help keep this going but I know you are currently working on the Dominion game, more power to you though and congrats! I am still working on getting your earlier models textured and into the game.
At this point I’m trying to get all of the code cleaned up for the first beta release. I have about 80% of the code implemented into the engine for that phase of the game. Once it hits 100% I will start fleshing out the universe and start building the SP storyline experience. I still have a few areas to clean up such as optimizations to the deferred renderer and expanding the in-game editor to support property editing, plus a few other areas.
Thanks for the support, I am still working on building this behemoth and I don’t see it stopping even after the first release version. Already looking into having procedural star systems to completely fill the galaxy with systems so it may end up with 262144 systems to explore and control by the beta release.
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That’s looking really good. I’ve not been here in a while and from before, it’s great. Hope things continue to progress with it.
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I work on it almost every day so it is coming along nicely. Just got thru working on the AI once again, added in collision feelers (like antenna on an insect). This is due to that the AI is handled in another thread and doesn’t have direct access to the collision system. So the main thread has to do the collision test for it and leave the result in the model it is using. Seems to be working out well since they have pretty much stopped running into the scenery.
On a side note…
Some new models added to the game, click the image for a full size pic
Starport Dock by Fur Ball
Mjolnir by Sol Command
