FreeOrion

ok here we go. http://mitglied.lycos.de/jacquesoden/fo/planets.jpg c&c more than welcome p.s. i don't know how long this pic will be available. it's hosted on a free provider, which may close my account cuz i'm making to much traffic *g* if it's down, pm me your email adress and i can send it to...

I prefer clicking as people will move mouse directly to building que option and accidentally opening planet view then would be frustrating.

i aggree on this.

Did you do asteroid fields and gasgiants as well?

not yet, but i'll create some...

the planets are nearly finished, at least the still renderings. rendering of animations will take some time(128frames x 9 planets x 3 variations + 128 frames for _orion_ ;) = 3584 pictures (we are using .jng for this, it's about 1/5 of the size of pngs). should be about 16mb all together. the nebula...

do you have any idea how much work this would be? you would need days(if not weeks) for just one image. we have 8 planet types, 3 variations of each(maybe even more in future) and if you want even racial variations this would mean we need 8 x 3 x 'amount of races' planetary background pictures... be...

what are the other 7(at least) rules? :)

but we already are displaying planet sizes in a linear way ;)

maybe you could make a very smooth map scroll when you select a star, so that the selected star is always in the center...

but we'll have problems with displaying this. besides this the aim we are going for isn't realsim.

[...] we need art for swamp, inferno, asteroids, gas giants, white and orange stars, and neutron stars and black holes

i'm working on the planets atm.

i think this depends on your soundcard, it simply doensn't seem to support multiple channels

well i'm pretty new here, you know. and ka's last post was on 20. january(he has only 4 total posts)

maybe this should only be shown for your own def bases, not the opponent ones

i like the stars of 0.1 much more, they were way better.

and why are the planetes transparent?

and who is ka ? ;)

vorenhutz wrote:[...] wouldn't it make more sense to have gas giants and asteroids be planet types (rather than sizes) and also invent a new environmental condition 'inhospitable' which would apply to these types?

i aggree, but i don't like the 'inhospital'-idea. i think of races which could live on those planets.