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Work in Progress / SSE (Space Sim Engine) Build 9

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X Trade
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Posted: 16th May 2005 08:18 Edited at: 16th May 2005 08:22
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many of you will not be familiar with this, as i mainly post on LLRGT forums. but i have been working on this project for quite some time!
(9 is the number of times that i've started re-coding from scratch on the project)

So far, the engine has:
basic vector/inertia movement
NGC collision
Weapons firing, colliding, sounding, damaging
destruction of objects (with effects)
engine effects
various ships (loaded from ini files)
stations recently implimented
turrets
(dockports coming soon)
Stars
Planets
simple targeting HUD
simple AI (attack, goto, crash ? formate functions)


i apologise for the carying sizes of the shots, but i have bad experience with resizing... (i have no app that i can currently do it with for a start)
[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/new1.JPG[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/new2.JPG[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/new3.JPG[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/new4.JPG[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/targeting.jpg[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/distantsun.jpg[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/Frigate%20and%20Megatransporter.JPG[/img]

[img]www.aofp.co.uk/images/forum/Freighter%20Detonates.JPG[/img]

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the image tags dont work?
attached sample

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 16th May 2005 09:46
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Sweet crap. That image took 12min to load on my cable connection.

Anyway, flying that thing looks like fun. Any chance of a demo so we can really try it out and comment?

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Posted: 16th May 2005 10:07 Edited at: 16th May 2005 10:08
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Well, it looks very nice, I must say... dunno about the img tags, I just tried it with the http:// bit and nothing showed up Ah well, your ctrl, c, and v keys need a workout anyways.

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Posted: 16th May 2005 13:27 Edited at: 16th May 2005 13:29
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Looking good man.

I have been falowing X's app for a long time .. this new build is quite awsome. from what i have seen and know is in it should be a blast as soon as he is ready to pop out the demo.

X's has helped me stay on track with my app
(us space sim guys gotta' stick together LOL)

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Posted: 16th May 2005 21:17 Edited at: 16th May 2005 21:17
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I like these screenies (not least, as a lot of people know, I'm working on a space sim myself, so screenies of other space sims are inspirational).

I'm interested in how you did the Suns. Are they sphere objects with a texture and a plane with a sunglare effect texture on it? Or is something more complex going on? I can't help noticing that the G star (the yellow one) doesn't look like a perfect sphere?

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Posted: 16th May 2005 23:28
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i'm not shure how X's is doing his stars .. i think he's using plains that are textured as am I

that planet only looks warped because of the camera settings. they look real nice when you are moving about in engine.

same happens to my planets and effects ..

good to see an other space sim coder

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Posted: 17th May 2005 01:53
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hmm site is down atm..... no idea why.
should be back up soon - i hope


the stars and planets use about the same technique - a plain at the same position as a sphere. for the star, the plain is about 8x the size of the sphere, and the colour at the centre is the same colour that the sphere is coloured with, and you set lighting on the sphere to off. that way, the sphere blends with the image of the plain
i'll attach my function

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Posted: 17th May 2005 07:11
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Thats roughly the same as what I am doing. I'm not sure whether the set object emissive has any effect though.

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Posted: 17th May 2005 07:50
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emissive is cool if you want it to be a light or have extra bright spots .

the dark side of my planets will have city lights later on .

my planets are spheres with 1 is a atmos' layer using blen mapping .
note bump mapping is off because i have to re do it in blaned mapping stack .

and the planet and atmos' react to point and flood lights . as my star contains apoint light the same as it's color.
take a look .
my star is a place holder . and is just a plain that orients towards the camera, the old one had effects , but i'm not done the new ones.

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Posted: 18th May 2005 08:05
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As you are both fellow space sim creators, I thought I'd direct you to the following thread:

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=54149&b=1

This is the thread in which I posted a link to some VERY old screenies taken of Entropy.

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yay more to the fold.

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Posted: 19th May 2005 22:22
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heehee...i had a space sim that i was working on but i won't get back to work on it till i've finished 3 other projects i have lined up

"We make the worst games in the universe."

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Posted: 19th May 2005 22:27 Edited at: 19th May 2005 22:28
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3 projects lined up for myself...

After my puzzle game failed (DBP editor bugged overwrote my code with a blank project) these are the three remaining ideas:

1)Dream::Catcher ~ My 3D RTS/RPG

2)The Trap ~ Player sets up a hotel in a tycoon-esque game. Except, the aim here to create fake insurance scams by actually killing/injuring visitors with macabre traps...

3)Gamer ~ A game in which the player... makes games.....

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Posted: 20th May 2005 02:01
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i've been following this project for a while too, xtrade, image tags work like this:

needs the http://
and paint can resize, under image then stretch/scew, just set the width/height to the same percentage change eg 50 for both to reduce the image to 1/4 the original size.

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Posted: 20th May 2005 02:37 Edited at: 20th May 2005 02:38
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Quote: " i've been following this project for a while too, xtrade, image tags work like this:"

Eh you know, I tried that but it didn't work for me... just did a rerun and it did!



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Posted: 20th May 2005 03:07
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well i dont know.... because it origionally did have the http:// then i removed it coz it didnt work... then put it back in.....



im working on responsive AI at the moment... and im really stuck for that function to dock two ships together... (position two objects so that their dockports are in the same place and at the right angle also)

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Posted: 22nd May 2005 14:43
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you know X' the rotation probs might be a change between ezro and patch u58 ??I'm looking into it .

2 + 2 = 5 (for extreamly large values of 2)
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Posted: 14th Jun 2005 02:07 Edited at: 6th Apr 2006 21:28
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i have some new pictures here to show now:
[img]http://www.aofp.co.uk/images/MV at Shipyard.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.aofp.co.uk/images/assult on defence station.JPG[/img]
[img]http://www.aofp.co.uk/images/MV on FreeFlight - unfair.JPG[/img]

plus a small vid:
http://www.aofp.co.uk/files/downloads/Assult_on_Frigate.zip


edit:
dang it, the image tags still don't like it! well, one does..... oh well.. it works it you paste the address into your browser

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That was really friggin cool. It's got a good "Homeworld 2" vibe.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2005 02:29 Edited at: 17th Jun 2005 02:30
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another pic everyone'l love:



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Yes, and even better for all of us space trading game addicts, check out Cloggy's announcement in the Program Announcements forum. High speed DBPro text and, best of all, 3D text! Woohoo!

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