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JP · Post by JP » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:11 pm

404'd!

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:25 pm

yes, it works now !!!

also the file is now 23MB, the other was only about 4-5MB (AFAIR)...

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:51 pm

Wow.. It's so.. Beautiful..

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:07 pm

The music is great, it creates some awesome ambience. I will give you some pieces of criticism though.

I love the fact that you kept it simple, but I believe that since you kept it simple that you could have focused a little bit more on texturing. I don't know how you did it, but you didn't do it the "right" way of how a sphere should be.

You just cut the mesh UV in two, and apply one texture to one side, and the other to the other side. (The pictures of the planets from 0 degrees, and 90 degrees).

Other than the texturing, and some skybox artifacts, then I would say that this is a great program, and I am glad that you finished it!

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:39 pm

Wow thanks for the feed back! Halifax yes I know about the planets texture coordinates problem, I am really not that good a modeler so it was quite hard for me to get them looking good, something goes wrong when I apply the texture and I would have to spend a bit of time trying to fix it

I will try in some future releases. The skydome is also a bit of a problem, I don't know how to fix this.. I think its to do with the texture itself and I have not been able to find any tillable skydomes. Jp 404 ! Wow you must have been trying to download the file as I was re uploading it!

I plan for later release (see pre-alpha documentation for more information). Information/ in game audio / in game clip (e.g rotating around the planet) when a user clicks on a planet from the menu.

I was originally going to use a screen loader but I really should warn that it took up an extra 200 k of processing :/ when I got rid of it it went from 260k to 60k so I left it out. I am sure their is a way to fix it.. I deleted it from stack etc as well oh well.

Thanks Mastergod and Acki for looking at it as well.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:19 pm

I could always help you out with the planets. Pay no attention to the seam in the middle of this picture, because it is caused by the horrible 256x256 texture that I got off the internet. If I had more time I would have found a cool double-sided picture of the earth, but since I was only making this in 2 minutes, I just threw this together:

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:42 pm

You can add rotation animators to make it look more alive.
Rotation on the planet themselves and on the whole system (like around the sun)

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:05 pm

MasterGod wrote:You can add rotation animators to make it look more alive.
Rotation on the planet themselves and on the whole system (like around the sun)

Yeah, I agree with that. That would definitely be cool.

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:12 am

That sounds like a really great idea, I want each planet to have replicas of the orbit they would actually take, but I suppose I could just make some less than accurate figures for now and implement more complex algorithms later on. Cool I will work on that in a bit. But I will make it a feature you can turn on and off.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:43 am

dejai wrote:...and implement more complex algorithms later on

Complex algorithms

, why would you need'em?
I'm sure half accurate values would be just fine without the need to go complex.

On second though it might be a good practice for you so just threat me as one of the sheeps from Acki's signature.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:34 am

By the way, last night just before I went to sleep there was a professor on TV saying that according to his theory, in every major Jewish event the stars were lined up

. (Like in your demo

, hehe)

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:09 am

Those must be fast moving stars.

I liked this, the texturing was nice. The planets could do with a little more detail though.

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:01 pm

Thanks! for the replies.
To answer mastergods question. Yes I really need the practise

Wow thats interesting about the whole Jewish thing, it must be really strange when all the planets line up....

To answer "monkeycracks" sorry but (lol),
Yes the texturing is off, I am not a modeler.. I will have to figure out how to fix this shouldn't be to hard.

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:09 pm

PS:
Halifix, I provide all the models and texture in the /media/models directory. Feel free to edit the texture coordinates and send back a patch. If I could ask one small thing, it would be to keep the planet size the same so I can keep my scaling algorithms.

Cheers.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:23 pm

One thing I can say regardless of the content of this great demo is that you started something and finished it.
Kudos for that.