Introduction:
Two new vids:
Multiplayer Battle, featuring new maps and ships:
1 on 1 Dog Fight in a Asteroid Field:
I announce hereby that I have joined the Slot5 Team in order to create an awesome space shooter.
Most of my ideas will make it into Slot5 and I will keep you updated in this thread. If you have any questions concerning how I did things, just ask here.
Slot5 on ModDB
Old Concept
[shot]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4089/asteroidfield3.png[/shot]
My main goal is to create a combat focused version of freelancer with different ship classes.
The major differences being:
-Correct newtonian physics
-Primary foucs on combat/dog figthing, although I will keep things like trade, upgrades and exploration in mind during programming
-Designed for multiplayer without bots, AI scripting for this kind of game is a nightmare.
-Some unconventional weapon designs. I go into detail once I have them implemented. Some can already be found in the ship technology section below.
-Heavy usage of the physics engine
[shot]http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/8416/shieldko.jpg[/shot]
All in one video, best vid so far, although outdated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdkKXo5b09U
[shot]http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/211/earthgq.jpg[/shot]
Features so far
-Full network support
-Scaled Ship and Pawn down by 4 to sell the scale
-6 dof, gimbal lock free flight with correct newtonian physics
-camera that can be fully rotated around the ship with zoom
-Flight assistance, comparable to HAWX's ON-Mode
-Dog fighting with Boost, Velocity Redirector, Velocity Dispenser, Linear Drive
-Investigation of Mars' new asteroid belt. Showing Boost. Velocity Dispenser and Linear Drive in the process.
-Jump Gates/Star Gates
-Asteroid Field
-5 different cloaking device classes: crappy, simple, good, awesome, perfect
-Shield with Impact effects, fading in & out
-Star dust, global, map specific and area dependend with transition
various types without transition
with transition
-Planets with gravity, thanks to Jarro for the idea
-Navigation lights
-SkyCube from SpaceScape
-Spotlight^^
-Other minor stuff like only being allow to exit the ship in certain areas
Maps
System Gokzor
Asteroid Field
Blackhole
Battle Field
Target Game
I want the final game to be a multiplayer action space shooter with 4 selectable ships.
Hunter: A agile, but very fragile ship. It shines with its superior movement abilities, but has to compensate its weak armor and low firepower.
Assassine: A stealth ship with sniper capbilities. Otherwise it is weak.
Soldier: Heavy armor, shields and weapons with poor movement capabilities.
Scientist: Weak ship with super weapons, like force fields, gravity fields, active inertia cancler and more.
Ship Technolgy
An detailed overview of the ships' technology:
Hunter
Boost: Basicly a afterburner.
Velocity Redirector: Allows instant turns.
Velocity Dispenser: Allows instant and complete stops of the ship at once
Linear Drive: Short distance teleportation device.
Overall status: Except for the weapons and the custom mesh, the Hunter is completed.
Assassine
Cloak & sniper: Needless to say anymore.
Interphase cloaking device: moving through solid materia^^
Overall status: Except for the weapons and the custom mesh, the Assassine is completed. Maybe I ll add some features later on to balance it against the Hunter and the Scientist.
Soldier
Energy Shield: Absorbs weapon damage and regenerates.
Overall status: Except for the weapons and the custom mesh, the Soldier is completed. Maybe I ll add some shotgun like weapon to it to strength it.
Scientist
Force Field: A force field around the ship that pushes everything away.
Gravity Field: A force field around the ship that pulls everything to it. If this proves useless, I will remove it later.
Active Inertia Cancler: A field around the ship that stops every other ship that enters it dead in its tracks and prevents any further movement.
Overall status: Still needs some work before it is complete and of course a custom mesh. I want to add tractor beams and many other nice features.^^
Current goals
-finishing all effects, this takes longer than excepted.
-fixing all bugs, nearly none left
I except the current cleanup / fine tuning to take about two weeks.
After that comes the fun stuff, weapons.^^
Finished Stuff
-Movement 100 % Complete
Your Involement
Any feedback or suggestions are welcome.
Subscribe to my youtube channel^^
Seriously, because this forum doesn't allow double posts, therefore you won't get a notfication if I edit this post.
If you want some code or artwork, I don't mind sharing most of my stuff, just ask here.
If you want to help out, cool, leave a message here stating what you can do.
Demo:
THE DEMO IS OFFLINE FOR NOW. SORRY, BUT I GOT WARNED BY DROPBOX BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH TRAFFIC^^ I LL HOST IT SOMEWHERE ELSE IF ANYONE WANTS IT
The ship in this demo features all implemented technologies so far.
Known Issues
-The keyboard is running out of keys^^. I ll rearrange the input later on.
-Shield won't collide with rigid bodies no matter what, details. Treatment of vehicle rigid bodies seems to be intended to work only with one RB, so I am leaving this alone for now. I ll simply label it an energy weapon only shield.^^
Two new vids:
Multiplayer Battle, featuring new maps and ships:
1 on 1 Dog Fight in a Asteroid Field:
I announce hereby that I have joined the Slot5 Team in order to create an awesome space shooter.
Most of my ideas will make it into Slot5 and I will keep you updated in this thread. If you have any questions concerning how I did things, just ask here.
Slot5 on ModDB
Old Concept
[shot]http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4089/asteroidfield3.png[/shot]
My main goal is to create a combat focused version of freelancer with different ship classes.
The major differences being:
-Correct newtonian physics
-Primary foucs on combat/dog figthing, although I will keep things like trade, upgrades and exploration in mind during programming
-Designed for multiplayer without bots, AI scripting for this kind of game is a nightmare.
-Some unconventional weapon designs. I go into detail once I have them implemented. Some can already be found in the ship technology section below.
-Heavy usage of the physics engine
[shot]http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/8416/shieldko.jpg[/shot]
All in one video, best vid so far, although outdated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdkKXo5b09U[shot]http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/211/earthgq.jpg[/shot]
Features so far
-Full network support
-Scaled Ship and Pawn down by 4 to sell the scale
-6 dof, gimbal lock free flight with correct newtonian physics
-camera that can be fully rotated around the ship with zoom
-Flight assistance, comparable to HAWX's ON-Mode
-Dog fighting with Boost, Velocity Redirector, Velocity Dispenser, Linear Drive
-Investigation of Mars' new asteroid belt. Showing Boost. Velocity Dispenser and Linear Drive in the process.
-Jump Gates/Star Gates
-Asteroid Field
-5 different cloaking device classes: crappy, simple, good, awesome, perfect
-Shield with Impact effects, fading in & out
-Star dust, global, map specific and area dependend with transition
various types without transition
with transition
-Planets with gravity, thanks to Jarro for the idea
-Navigation lights
-SkyCube from SpaceScape
-Spotlight^^
-Other minor stuff like only being allow to exit the ship in certain areas
Maps
System Gokzor
Asteroid Field
Blackhole
Battle Field
Target Game
I want the final game to be a multiplayer action space shooter with 4 selectable ships.
Hunter: A agile, but very fragile ship. It shines with its superior movement abilities, but has to compensate its weak armor and low firepower.
Assassine: A stealth ship with sniper capbilities. Otherwise it is weak.
Soldier: Heavy armor, shields and weapons with poor movement capabilities.
Scientist: Weak ship with super weapons, like force fields, gravity fields, active inertia cancler and more.
Ship Technolgy
An detailed overview of the ships' technology:
Hunter
Boost: Basicly a afterburner.
Velocity Redirector: Allows instant turns.
Velocity Dispenser: Allows instant and complete stops of the ship at once
Linear Drive: Short distance teleportation device.
Overall status: Except for the weapons and the custom mesh, the Hunter is completed.
Assassine
Cloak & sniper: Needless to say anymore.
Interphase cloaking device: moving through solid materia^^
Overall status: Except for the weapons and the custom mesh, the Assassine is completed. Maybe I ll add some features later on to balance it against the Hunter and the Scientist.
Soldier
Energy Shield: Absorbs weapon damage and regenerates.
Overall status: Except for the weapons and the custom mesh, the Soldier is completed. Maybe I ll add some shotgun like weapon to it to strength it.
Scientist
Force Field: A force field around the ship that pushes everything away.
Gravity Field: A force field around the ship that pulls everything to it. If this proves useless, I will remove it later.
Active Inertia Cancler: A field around the ship that stops every other ship that enters it dead in its tracks and prevents any further movement.
Overall status: Still needs some work before it is complete and of course a custom mesh. I want to add tractor beams and many other nice features.^^
Current goals
-finishing all effects, this takes longer than excepted.
-fixing all bugs, nearly none left
I except the current cleanup / fine tuning to take about two weeks.
After that comes the fun stuff, weapons.^^
Finished Stuff
-Movement 100 % Complete
Your Involement
Any feedback or suggestions are welcome.
Subscribe to my youtube channel^^
Seriously, because this forum doesn't allow double posts, therefore you won't get a notfication if I edit this post.
If you want some code or artwork, I don't mind sharing most of my stuff, just ask here.
If you want to help out, cool, leave a message here stating what you can do.
Demo:
THE DEMO IS OFFLINE FOR NOW. SORRY, BUT I GOT WARNED BY DROPBOX BECAUSE OF TOO MUCH TRAFFIC^^ I LL HOST IT SOMEWHERE ELSE IF ANYONE WANTS IT
The ship in this demo features all implemented technologies so far.
Known Issues
-The keyboard is running out of keys^^. I ll rearrange the input later on.
-Shield won't collide with rigid bodies no matter what, details. Treatment of vehicle rigid bodies seems to be intended to work only with one RB, so I am leaving this alone for now. I ll simply label it an energy weapon only shield.^^
), and space dust also, this dust moves with very, very high speed (most of Space Shooters dont makes so many of asteroids and dust because in real life the speed of these stuff is being increased by the gravity and it cant be decreased by any of forces like air density ) so I would add space fields of broken pieces of asteroids and would turn it to a mini-game (like to hide out from very high-speed stuff) nobody didnt make it at any game as I remember.
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