Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-02T23:18:24+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
Yes. Actually the current idea for cybran is to disconnect planets from the network by destroying gate links. A planet entirely disconnected return to neutral state.

If a faction ends up sealed off, they will auto-capitulate to the bigger empire (so you will play on their side, but as "slave")

They are called game enders because they are supposed to end the game in a low number of days

If a planet gets sealed off perhaps factions could pay the nomads ( mercs ) for a lift so they can assualt the planet directly

Statistics: Posted by Gyle — 02 Feb 2013, 23:18

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-02T21:22:13+02:00

I'm not that far from the mockup done in photoshop :

previewGW4.PNG

Tomorrow, I will add the network creation to the editor, and I will be almost done with it..

http://users.edpnet.be/zepilot/gwPreview4.zip

What's left for this week :
- While the zooming is working as expected, I'm not entirely happy with de-zooming. I will spend some time smoothing that.
- I need to implement the right-mouse button for panning (should be trivial, it was done in an earlier test but I need to smooth it), and implement keyboard arrows too.
- The lighting is not done, that's why I'm not showing anything now
- I need to draw the planet influences and networks. I've already have all the 2d polygons, I just need to extrude them.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 02 Feb 2013, 21:22

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-02T01:26:30+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
ie. you will spend point to fire black sun and destroy any planet in the network..

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 02 Feb 2013, 01:26

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-02T01:30:16+02:00

i guess UEF will get Black Sun?

EDIT: oops i didnt saw it

Statistics: Posted by ColonelSheppard — 02 Feb 2013, 00:42

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T18:23:54+02:00

Yes. Actually the current idea for cybran is to disconnect planets from the network by destroying gate links. A planet entirely disconnected return to neutral state.

If a faction ends up sealed off, they will auto-capitulate to the bigger empire (so you will play on their side, but as "slave")

They are called game enders because they are supposed to end the game in a low number of days

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 01 Feb 2013, 18:23

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T18:04:04+02:00

that sounds like we'll experience some epic showdown battles for some planets while everything else gets blasted away by the enemy super weapons
epic!

btw... does that mean you can compleately seal off an enemy/own sector of the game, and just wait on the "hidden" planets nobody can access from the outside anymore? eventually there should be new routes appearing once a planet is gone, but maybe it's intended

Statistics: Posted by Myxir — 01 Feb 2013, 18:04

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T17:57:16+02:00

Yes. There will (normally) be several way to win the game. Either by conquering a certain % of the galaxy, or building your faction game ender.
The game ender is not an autowin : ie. you will spend point to fire black sun and destroy any planet in the network..

The positions of the planets will be dumped by the editor, and loaded by the client from the server, allowing me to test any number of planets easily in the alpha stage.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 01 Feb 2013, 17:57

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T17:54:42+02:00

Does that mean we can destroy Planets?

Statistics: Posted by Zock — 01 Feb 2013, 17:54

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T15:29:50+02:00

The zones limits, before the extruding process :

zones.jpg

(Of course dynamic if you add/remove planets, that's the whole point of using voronoi sites

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 01 Feb 2013, 15:29

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T13:41:53+02:00

:-p

sry for spam ...!
gw_pilotrules.jpg

Statistics: Posted by discoverer2k4 — 01 Feb 2013, 13:41

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T12:50:28+02:00

- Fixed the little precision problem when you add a planet zoomed out in the corners of the screen.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 01 Feb 2013, 12:50

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-02-01T00:12:11+02:00

- Fixed all kind of bug in my matrices computations.
- Fixed the lighting.
- Fixed the specular highlights in the shader.
- You can now add planets by left-clicking (also a proof of concept of the 2d/3d interaction).

By adding the planets, I have the final step required to finish the implementation of the editor, and next update should finally display the planets zones.

http://users.edpnet.be/zepilot/gwPreview3.zip

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 01 Feb 2013, 00:12

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-01-31T00:18:12+02:00

What's left for this week :
- While the zooming is working as expected, I'm not entirely happy with de-zooming. I will spend some time smoothing that.
- I need to implement the right-mouse button for panning (should be trivial, it was done in an earlier test but I need to smooth it), and implement keyboard arrows too.
- The lighting is not done, that's why I'm not showing anything now
- I need to draw the planet influences and networks. I've already have all the 2d polygons, I just need to extrude them.

http://users.edpnet.be/zepilot/gwPreview2.zip

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 31 Jan 2013, 00:18

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-01-29T19:18:05+02:00

What's left for this week :
- While the zooming is working as expected, I'm not entirely happy with de-zooming. I will spend some time smoothing that.
- I need to implement the right-mouse button for panning (should be trivial, it was done in an earlier test but I need to smooth it), and implement keyboard arrows too.
- The lighting is not done, that's why I'm not showing anything now
- I need to draw the planet influences and networks. I've already have all the 2d polygons, I just need to extrude them.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 29 Jan 2013, 19:18

Re: Weekly Update - Week 1.

2013-01-29T21:06:22+02:00

Thanks for the new tooltips - really useful.

Statistics: Posted by Helcaraxe — 27 Jan 2013, 23:32