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Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/01/07 21:51
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Hi everyone. I've been working on making a good space environment and I've figured out some pretty cool techniques for making skyboxes, sprites, and planets. I'm considering putting together a pack of: - 20-30 planet models
- 10+ "space" cubes (skycubes)
- a couple dozen sprites of things like stars, nebulas, gases and other stuff you tend to see in games like Freelancer
- particle effects for things like engine thrust, the fast movement effect, space dust, etc
Right now, I'm working on the planets and I've gotten over 10 of them done. I wanted to show some screenshots so I could get some comments on the styles. The idea would be to include just about everything you need to make a good looking, complete, and compelling space environment for probably $10. That way, you can spend more time coding and less time getting distracted with "looks" , which always happens to me... (Note: the ship model below was made by Vincent from these forums)  The sphere model used is 960 polys. The textures will have 3 levels of detail, the highest being 2048x1024 (which is shown in the above pictures). You'll notice there's a transparent cloud layer in the WED shots...that's still being worked on. If you'd be interested in buying such a pack, please let me know. You can even request specific types of planets and I'll do my best to include them.
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Re: Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/02/07 12:50
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anyone not working on minigolf and space projects??  where did all the fp shooters go??? xD okay... very nice, and a good idea since so many people are working on space games right now. Thing I noticed with those planets is that they've got waaaay too much relief (is that the right word?) the mountains look like they're way too tall.  you don't see nearly as much of that on planets in our solar system...
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Re: Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/02/07 17:54
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anyone not working on minigolf and space projects?? 
Top-down survival shooter here 
About the colors I dont agree...we know the colors of just 9 planets , how could you know what other materials , metals or anything like that exist in the whole galaxy ?  But I do agree about the relief , the clouds and a suggestion...the skins are too bright  If you put those things away you've copied Freelancer very good I hope I'll see the same gameplay (with diff. story) on theese forums soon 
PS.: I'd buy this pack only to place models temporary until I have my own , otherwise we'll all have the same space sims 
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Re: Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/02/07 18:05
07/02/07 18:05
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This all looks nice, the models and the texturing, so nice job on that part !! The relief isn't disturbing me since everything is possible in that beautiful virtual world but if you've had the intention of making it as realistic as possible then I think the relief should be decrease to correspond to that realistic thought  Nice start, keep on going Zelek  Cheers Frazzle
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Re: Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/03/07 00:30
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Hey everyone, thanks much for the C&C. These seem to be the main criticisms (feel free to add more): - Relief/Bump is too high
- Gradient between colors is too low
- Less colorful
- Skins too bright
- Not enough detail
The last one really confused me, to me they seem super-detailed. I can pick out little hills and features in very small locations. What kind of detail do you think needs to be added? As Frazzle pointed out, it really depends on whether you want realistic or game-style planets - I was definitely aiming for the latter. But if people want realistic planets instead, who am I to argue?  I just figure if I'm going to play a space game and discover new planets, they can at least be intriguing planets that make me wish I could actually visit them and explore. I tried making a planet taking your suggestions into consideration: Any better?
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Re: Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/03/07 08:35
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Well, it does look like you've decreased the relief so I think you can keep it this way because you've got to make it so it suits your needs relative to the game style  Btw, the lack of detail is a miss interpretation if you ask me, your texturing and ingame views you've posted look quite detailed to me  Maybe it's the 'huge cliche explosions' we miss in the ingame shots you've posted when it comes to outer space kind of games ^^ Cheers Frazzle
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Re: Space Environment/Planets (picture heavy)
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07/03/07 16:48
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I thought they were fine in the beginning! Perhaps just sell them as you originally presented them, and let people use a graphics program to customize them to their own tastes? Most people will probably tweak them anyway.
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