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[4E6] Libertine

Started by XDigital Sep 28, 2007 at 1:54 AM 71 replies 24.1k views

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Sep 28, 2007 at 1:54 AM

Title: Libertine Genre: Space-Trade-Simulation Features: Spacecrafts: Pony - small fighter spacecraft Blooded - heavy fighter spacecraft Mule - small transport spacecraft Workhorse - heavy transport spacecraft Enhancements: Turrets, Energy Weapons, Projectile Weapons, Software Upgrades, Cargo Bay Extensions, Shields, Structure Plates. Tradegood: Crystals, Alloys, Machines, Food, Luxuries, Drugs, Weapons Fractions: Police, Technocrats, Miners, Pirates Places: Planets, Moons, Space Stations, Asteroid Fields, Nebulas Traveling: Warp Storyline: Each fraction has its own short storyline but with a combined titanic finish. Engine: Selfmade, Multibody ODE, Swarming, 6DOF for each Spacecraft, OpenGL, OpenAL/FMod Platform: Multiplatform (at least Ubuntu, Windows) using glut Tools: Eclipse (IDE), Gimp (Textures), Wings3D (Meshes) [Edited by - XDigital on October 28, 2007 1:46:02 PM]

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Sep 28, 2007 at 2:11 AM

I think just calling a spacecraft after one of the elements is really pushing it.

Say for instance I decide to nickname my characters "Crystal", "Pony" and "The Accountant" do you think that would pass?

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Sep 28, 2007 at 2:20 AM

wait and see

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Sep 28, 2007 at 3:32 AM

the significant inclusion of the element is the small fight spacecraft...not the pony name you've slapped on it. you could name it anything you want...doesnt make it worth inclusion. Unless maybe the spacecraft was shaped like a horse, with individual thrusters that were leg shaped, and an elongated neck with the cockpit on the end...lol

also worried about your use of economy as accounting.
its hard to say if that will fly.
economy is the act of trade
accounting is the act of record keeping
fundamentally different things
i dont think being an accountant pilot with an inventory is very clever...
but it may work.

ambitious project, and i wish you luck :)

[Edited by - mindrot on October 1, 2007 5:32:43 PM]

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Sep 28, 2007 at 6:41 AM

I don't know, making a spaceship and calling it a pony seems to go against the spirit of the competition. Unless the shapeship is shaped like a pony.

Worked for Giraffes.

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Sep 29, 2007 at 2:17 PM

The first screenshot...

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Shot at 2007-09-29

[Edited by - XDigital on September 30, 2007 3:17:45 PM]

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Sep 29, 2007 at 2:30 PM

I'm truly shocked at the speed with which screenies appear in this contest. I'm no where near screenshot time, and I'm still nailed down ideas. Perhaps is a difference in a hands-on and just go with it approach to careful planning and then execution? Still, I'm amazed.

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Sep 29, 2007 at 4:38 PM

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Original post by Jason Petrasko
I'm truly shocked at the speed with which screenies appear in this contest. I'm no where near screenshot time, and I'm still nailed down ideas. Perhaps is a difference in a hands-on and just go with it approach to careful planning and then execution? Still, I'm amazed.

Well, some ideas lend themselves to pretty much any set of elements (except, perhaps, Europe). Honestly, once you know it's in space, it's probably worth your while to start making planets and moons and stars.

I am curious to see if there's a good cause for this Pony ship to fit the elements category. And I'm optimistic!

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Sep 29, 2007 at 5:09 PM

Quote:
Original post by Jason Petrasko
I'm truly shocked at the speed with which screenies appear in this contest. I'm no where near screenshot time, and I'm still nailed down ideas. Perhaps is a difference in a hands-on and just go with it approach to careful planning and then execution? Still, I'm amazed.

I imagine the winning games will not even have got names yet.

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Sep 29, 2007 at 5:29 PM

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Original post by d000hg
Quote:
Original post by Jason Petrasko
I'm truly shocked at the speed with which screenies appear in this contest. I'm no where near screenshot time, and I'm still nailed down ideas. Perhaps is a difference in a hands-on and just go with it approach to careful planning and then execution? Still, I'm amazed.
I imagine the winning games will not even have got names yet.

I haven't actually seen that many screenshots aside from the one here and my pony model. I don't have a title or anything either, I just made a pony as soon as I saw one of the elements was "ponies" because it's almost guaranteed that either I or someone else will make a game that includes, you know, ponies.

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Sep 30, 2007 at 3:50 PM

The ring planet with its two moons.

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The asteroid field from random mesh generator (noise map for random numbers)

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Oct 1, 2007 at 3:16 PM

The same scene with texturized asteroids (the ring planet in background).

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next graphical item will be a spaceship (the pony?)
next ui item will be event handling to switch between space and station/moonbase
trade and quest classes to be determined
first ideas for soundtrack from team mate

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Oct 1, 2007 at 5:29 PM

very nice :)

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Oct 3, 2007 at 2:05 PM

The Interface together with Object Selection. Planets are classes now and are fully accessable by mouse click (step towards change between space sim and trade sim).

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Oct 4, 2007 at 9:57 AM

Looks sweet.

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Oct 4, 2007 at 12:01 PM

You've got some pretty good looking stuff there! Feel free to post your screenshots in the 4E6 Unofficial Screenshot thread.

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Oct 5, 2007 at 12:56 PM

Today I incorporated my swarm engine. If it works as wished, spacecrafts can fly in formation, avoid obstacles, use waypoints and attack without scripting or other stuff. Everything is ODE driven...
Well, thats the theory. Right now there is a severe memory leak, the stiffness and damping coefficients have to be optimized, influence spheres have to be added and tons of other stuff. But if everything works fine, there are going to be some nice space battles with about 256 different spacerafts from 4 factions with each 4 different vehicle types.

What you see on the screeny is a pack of ODE nodes connected to each other. Sorry for the less quality.

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Oct 6, 2007 at 9:18 AM

Incorporated my mesh loader. And guys, I hate (!) OpenGL picking. There is nothing, which I understand less than the behaviour of the picking matrix return values, grrr.

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Oct 7, 2007 at 3:27 PM

Just finished the 4th of 5 space station meshes. you can see them untextured in the 4 screens. Incorporated the render to texture function to see the clicked object in the HUD. Am really tired now. Vacation is over, process will slow down now - unfortunately...

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Oct 8, 2007 at 8:59 PM

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Original post by XDigital
Just finished the 4th of 5 space station meshes. you can see them untextured in the 4 screens. Incorporated the render to texture function to see the clicked object in the HUD. Am really tired now. Vacation is over, process will slow down now - unfortunately...

Looks almost like the ISS.

This is pretty similar to the idea that I had, I'll have to watch this one closely!

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