3D Starchart - Teaser 1: Rendering Planets

great job on the object selection code mate. worked like a charm, and was easy to add to to be able to use the left mouse button to select the object.

As i mentioned after doing a quick convert of my app into C# i found that planets and lighting were rendering as they should based on revision 05. I have also intigrated the code changes for the object selection (ie: Revision 06).

I noticed you put in the code i wrote for the costume display, thanks mate, cheers for that. I plan on continuing work on it to allow for editing and saving it, as well as the faction class i am still working on.

anyway wanted to show this new screenshot of my app with the recent code changes, and the full conversion of the app into C#.

awesome

i will go and integrate the new revision.

cheers.

Those labels seem to be just a little out of place.

Works fine for me, Vista Ultimate 64 bit.

I can run it with XP (Pro SP3).

I’ve attached a new font definition, adding a few more characters (AgencyFB doesn’t have superscript 4, though, bit of a nuisance).

Hey Adoxa,

thanks for the new font deff. i will check it and then update the svn when i get a chance over the next day here.

cheers.

OMG I CAN’T BELIEVE ITS POSSIBLE!!

well good job, fortunately i didnt waste too much time on my own editor.
since my friends and server are gone and my work is useless, i wish you all farewell.

Nice project. Great to see such interest in developing FL further still after all these years! Using C# .NET and XNA framework to develop your application seems a good way to go about it. Perhaps there is an element of irony in the fact that it was MS who ultimately pulled the plug on this game, and now you are (in a sense) using their own freely available SDK’s and IDE’s to redevlop their game….

@Chili

never thought of it that way, lol. i guess in that sense there is a bit of irony there

ok some new updates

(Note these updates have not yet been integrated into the svn as yet)

obstbaum has done some code refactoring along with several new classes being added to support object picking.As well as being able to toggle the tradelane lines on or off with the ‘T’ key, toggling jumphole lines on the sector map on or off with the ‘H’ key, and toggling the jumpgate lines on the sector map on or off with the ‘G’ key. (note these updates are available in the current SVN release)

The initial object picking was hover state only but I have extended the code to support left clicking an object and maintaining the bounding box display.

Also added is a zero plane grid that you can toggle on or off by using the ‘Y’ key on your keyboard.

I am currently working on adding in a 3d object translation gizmo (move and rotate).

added a faction parser class to the FLApi that parses the initialworld.ini and empathy.ini files to retrieve full details on the selected faction including proper name, shortname, nickname, empathy rates, and reputation values. (currently working on reversing it to save changes back to the ini files)

i will let you all know when these new changes are available on the svn.

here is a new screenshot of it:

GPL or gtfo lol

can you possibly repeat that in plain English. :-?

GNU Public License (are you releasing your code?) or Get The F**k Out (no, I’m keeping it to myself).

Just a couple of typos: Archetype and Nickname. Where do we get your studio?

That was… very well put, masternerdguy.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but please don’t be obnoxious.

ok i thought as much but did not wanna make a fool out me

ok so to answer your questions.

FLApi, FLParser, and Starchart System viewer are already open source and there is no plans to change that.

Freelancer Mod Development Studio however cannot be open source. It will be completely free to use, but because of commercial licensing on some of the applications parts it restricts this. I wish i could do it open source but i do not wanna get my proverbial nuts chopped off in a legal issue.

as for where you can get the studio , no where at this point. The application is not ready to be released yet.

I still have allot of work to do on it, i just barely got object movement in 3dspace working (only working via keyboard commands at this point) and am currently working on getting the rotation working (i can rotate it, but that old problem of multi object meshes comes into play here making all the objects rotate independently of each other at the same time) so yeah, working that out is proving to be a challenge.

All right, it isn’t working. I’ve installed the .NET Framework and XNA stuff, but when I double click on Starchart.exe… nothing happens. ???

first, Starchart itself takes quite a bit of time to load up as it is reading allot of data and interrupting it for display in XNA, but you should get a dialog asking for a FL location to use. if you do not get this try running starchart under admin privileges and see if that helps.