Irrlicht Engine

i remember those discs from my youth..

i also remember a spiderman web shooting toy you strapped to your wrist..
that was back in 1974...


anyways.. i have not stopped the project, just put it on hold to play with
newton physics for a bit. i made a pooltable with a ( hopefully ) working
track ...

looks really good.

i will drop my 2-cents in if i understand this correctly, you want the planets
to receive light so you should set EMF_LIGHTING, true

and since the sun has no external light to light it up ( as it should be ) but
you want to see it obviously, you can set its material's emissive colors with

node ...

intresting... so far i have been allowing memory for 20 ships but intend
on using the <array> pushback for missiles, here is what ive been doing
for the ships, addship and removeship functions,

//------------------- in header --------------------------

typedef vector3df vec3; // we use vec3 cause ...

thanks for the comments rogerborg, and the info.. i obviously dont want
to take any profits from paramount, nor do i intend to make any. i cant see
my simulator as having the high polish of a pro game.. but i do want it to
look good. but i will play it by ear for now... although i have started to ...

Thanks Sudi.
currently im doing ok with the programming, although very very slow.. since
im learning better ways to do things that ive done and have to redo them.

as for the concept of what im trying to make, i do have a general idea of
what it should play like, one thing that bothered me about ...

new ship just finished, tried it out in the simulator.. looks good, however
i may have to go the uv route if i want more detail on the models, and i
would like to have normal maps eventually..

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6862/enemy1tw2.jpg

I did email startrek.com about the terms of ...

hmmmz.. copyright.. well.. i would have to say that this is a fan based
simulator with no intentions of being commercial or profit oriented in any way
and that the simulation is based on the star trek universe. the ship models
are based on the star trek ones, but are obviously not exact replica's as ...

or... what you could do is download blender and use it to build a skybox,
here is a tutorial on how to do it,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Build_a_skybox

if you decide to try it the blender way, i would recommend just painting an
image of 1024x512 or larger of just space ...

last update for a few days while i try and figure out how to plot the torpedos,

here's 2 finished ships that will be in the simulation, the refit and a scout.
the scout is the 1st ship a player gets, after a promotion comes the miranda
class, and then the refit and finally the excelsior class ...

actually, the torpedo does have some animation to it, here's a rather
crummy screen captured vid that where i slowed the torpedo's speed,
and just for fun i tossed in an explosion off in the distance that is meant to
be triggered where the torpedo hits its targeted range

http://img360.imageshack ...

@Anteater

it does actually.. im using 2 refits for now since im not done the next ship
which is a reliant style from wrath of kahn, close to 60% done on that one,
then comes the excelsior which im dying to make since its the best starship
startrek ever had.. then enemy ships.

basicly the idea is ...

thought this was cool looking, i have a buggy chase cam on a torpedo
being launched, its funny to see the starships fall back into the distance
from the torpedo's point of view

thanks zeno60,

i actually figured out the mouse wheel, it was a mistype on my fault..

and i did change the name to IrrTrek after noticing the missing r, another
mistype..

if there's one thing im consistent at, it's typos.

thanks for the replys, the ship is in the style of a constituion/refit that i once
saw in some movie's that were based on some show from the late 60's..
it rymed with "bar trick".. or something.. and since im not officially creating
a simulation of those movies/shows, but instead an interpretation ...