Rassilon wrote:Marc I think its time I asked if you need help in creating your game? I can in any event create planets for you...but in a small part some coding as I learn more about OpenGL...
You have already helped, a great deal of the system generator textures are yours. Thanks again.
Of course I'm always on the lookout for more fictional textures.
There is still a lot of coding that I would like to get finished on my own before I get any other developers on board.
But if you were to do some opengl stuff. I'd be interested in code that makes emissives into real light sources. Also other little opengl stuff, like thruster exhaust effects, strobe lights, lasers and tracer fire. (but I still have to do the backend work for spacecraft objects)
Do you still have the work you did on the new stars textures and rendering code? I never got around to downloading it and I'd like to have a closer look.
And oblateness for stars, I'd really like to see that.
(later: I just had a look at the source it looks easy, all I need is the right formula )
Rassilon wrote:I mentioned I wanted to create a massive online game experience as big as everquest at some point...I know this is simply a dream but it could be possible with a team of developers...With your current star database in a sql server this is EXACTLY the idea I have for a server to hold several terras of galactic cartography!
Multiplayer is not something I will be doing. A major problem with multiplayer space sims is that realistic ones need time compression. Like you said its also a lot of work.
Thinking about how it could be done, the static cartography would be on a local embedded database (this data would not change), while the the dynamic data (player positions etc) would be hosted on a common remote server.
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