Stars reach

**WILL** · 08-04-2012, 08:00 PM

Not sure if a traveling camera would do it.

But the ships in your game traveling between the planets (ala RTS form of conquest) could constitute the traveling aspect that you need to be 'in theme' for the challenge.

Maybe enforcing the theme into the gaem more by making the player actually 'invade' each of their planets as well? Once their main base / command center is defeated or something? That idea seems win/win because you can stick to the RTS theme with it and by all definition it's still traveling from location to location. Just make sure that you have at least 3 of them

**User137** · 09-04-2012, 09:22 AM

Day or 2 ago i ended up with thought that each player has a mothership. That's what the camera will focus on, and that's what is used to populate new planets. With the time limits i might end up with just 1 type of combat ship and auto-combat. Toggled with limited amount of diplomacy.

**User137** · 12-04-2012, 09:31 AM

Another screenshot added. Solar system is generated for 10000 sectors, although not all of them are guaranteed to have a sun or planets. This is last screeny i can give out before starting adding UI elements, which will be nearing the final product... There are also 10 different planet textures in use, although the texture mapping is wobbly on the sphere for now. Maybe i could generate the sphere myself, instead of relying on model file. Would at least get the coords right.

I had a setback with fonts. Installed some free scifi front from Internet but only Gimp can use it

TCanvas and MsPaint can't use. I could create buttons with Gimp but i can't make the font map for all texts.

edit: Added another picture from UI work in progress.

Hoping to add warp drive soon. Starmap is working, and i will use it to open sector view. From there player can open warp rift and send selected ships there. This is done by clicking any point in the sector, meaning that he can precisely decide how far or which side of the planet you want to come out from. Textures for all warp related are already done.

Still, there are a few unsolved issues in the design of this game that i hope can come to conclusion.