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    Stars reach

    Ok, that's not real project name, propably... i haven't thought of it yet.

    But here's something, can you call it "eye candy"? I thought to try something completely new for 3D parallax background. It's actually roughly 80 objects total in the picture, can you spot them?
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    First competition thread, congrats!

    Nope don't see much other than your ship. I'm guessing that they are very very far away in other solar systems?
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    Nope, each star in the screenshot was not a dot, but neither was it a big background picture. It consisted of "parallax background sprites"... However i came to conclusion that this will not work for me, because the camera is 360 degrees in all directions. Current implementation is going for cubemap, but i might make more than 1 layer, will see...

    So how much is it ok to reveal about the project? Naturally i'm using my nxPascal library to make this At this point it'll propably be a RTS, and no clear character or a single player owned ship to speak of. As for travelling criteria filling, i'd still think i could manage that. Then again, just trying my best not to put the bar too high for myself so that this would finish.

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    An RTS would be interesting, but how would you fit in traveling from location to location?
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    There are a few AI controlled races, and each player has a number of ships they can divide between planets. Each planet being the source of resources of construction is also a sight on its own. They will be visually big and noticable, each different for as far as i can graphically do. Each star system may have their own perks to have unique looks, so that it may feel a little different to have a major fight in system A than B. Color of the sun makes some of the atmosphere.

    And what travels; camera does, limited to what player has vision of, but ships should be quite a interesting sight as they enter and leave warp space to their destinations. They are the real travellers. Camera might lock to one of the player's ships, maybe at all times. It might be the only way to ensure that the camera isn't focusing places it shouldn't.

    But yeah, definition of "location" is a little vague in this case. In game like this it's not an issue at all to have 100 different locations. Maybe what decides is unique locations. Maybe blackholes, wormholes or other natural wonders that might be the key to change the game in player's favor. Thinking too big again...

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    Hello. Any progress this week?
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