the screens simply look great, great textures, cool guy in the ... er ... 2nd or 3rd shot. respect. keep working.

Man, thaT looks really good. Almost like a game I would buy. Is there no way around your problem? Like leaving the hole mirror thing away?

Hey - the problem was actually that the way the mirror code worked, objects would "leap through" the 'window' and that it would leap off it's texture and do very unusual things. Not many people at that time (this was right about last year) had ANY experience working with mirrors, and we were completely stumped on it.

Right now, I'm very interesting in the render-to-texture solution that A6 has. In fact, it was not my intention to consider the resurrection of this project when I came here, but if this proves to be an alternative, would most definitely be willing to resurrect this project as it has been a very large passion of mine for several years.

If anyone has any input on render-to-texture and how fast/effective it is (esp. using it for a 'view screen' - I realize a true window would require depth changes this technique would be unable to account for - please let me know. Notably, since the team working on the project disbanded (literally only three of us), I'd be interesting in working with a coder on the prototype again. Much of the code would need a face lift (as do the graphics) to A6, but the majority is already done.

Anyway, if anyone can give me some ideas at how effective A6 is with it's new features, I will most definitely update to the Pro edition. The prototype was about 60% done when we stopped work on it.

I'll keep an eye on the thread

Looks VERY good!

I have no direct info subject at hand, but im very curious on why this feature is so important to your very good looking project that you decided to stop developing.
Was there no way to gamedesign around it?

Do you mean a 1st person view window, that gave you a view out of the front of your ship? Why not just use a 2D camera view window? that would be simple to do, why does it have to be a mirror?

Well the project's ace that I had hoped would give it the necessary kick to make the leap into primetime was the ability to be standing on a bridge, looking out the window and seeing space in real-time. From what I understand, render-to-texture is an extremely fast method to do this and may even include the depth. I will definitely be checking into that, and if it appears effective, upgrading to A6 in the very near future.

Cool, I understand your vision. Itll probably be fixable.
But, couldnt you simply use transparent surface for windows, and .wmp for the spaceship?

When come a demo?

That would be amazing, to be able to walk about on the spaceship as it is flying about and be able to look out of the window, but it would probably be bad for performance, I imagine the spaceship interior would have been a stationary level, 'pretending' its flying about, with a camera being the actual ship, flying around space to provide the window view.