Galaxy Empire Showcase

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Thanks, the latest photos are from the testing I am doing. I added in sphere shell clouds (the ones on the Mars planet) and have started giving each planet in our solar system its own system. Plus as you can see I have made new planets at 1/100th their original size so they needed to be spread out. Making a new system was the easiest way to do it.

Also, I resized the city model to be huge, those shots were taken approx 60k units away from the city.

I am also experimenting with a bar scene that will have news feeds, what do u guys think of adding a shout-box in the bar?

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As to me, this is not a bad idea

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Surface of Mars

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Earth - Under capital city

New planet in Pentaxia

Another shot showing the new scale of the capital city

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Blowing up asteroids in the ring around Ceti Alpha III (Spawn)

My handiwork, the ring is missing a section now

Flying in reverse to show the new wingman code

Shot showing 40 wingmen flying with me

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This is test being done with the new HLSL 3.0 shader I'm writing. It uses up to 4 textures per mesh, a base texture, normal map (for bump mapping), specular map (for light reflection) and a glow map.

The original test ship on the previous pages with bump mapping...

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:48 am Post subject: Re: Galaxy Empire Showcase

Excellent! <insert>

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This is the model of Destiny (SGU) that Fur Ball made, with a few tweaks such as a gloss and bump map Smile

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:12 am Post subject: Re: Galaxy Empire Showcase

Interesting... have to say I like the shows version of the ship better but looks like a good start.

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Full scene render

The Destiny was designed to work with FL, in other words it is low-poly on purpose. That was a test to see how good the engine would render it fully decked out with multiple types of textures that the new renderer supports.

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A couple of images of ships from Gibbon.

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:37 am Post subject: Re: Galaxy Empire Showcase

what format are the models in? .dx ?
If you like I have a few models you could test.

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The models are in dx format, would love to test more models.

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