Third Rail, a surreal adventure.

[Extrude]

new poll


Since my last post, all issues have been fixed. The skybox is much more visible, especially when outside the planet atmosphere. I also got transparency to work, and switched all models over to .x instead of .fbx, which as it turns out is a bad format.

The only issue I have right now is that the atmosphere actually adds realistic atmosphere lighting conditions, which would be good besides the fact that the planet is 90% sunny anyway and so it makes it look like a glowing blue ball.

The picture I took is from the north pole of the spawn planet looking out at it's moon. You can also see some stars & atmospheric glowy stuff.

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[Extrude]

Next feature is probably going to be directional light, something like a sun instead of just ambient lighting.

[Mega-Bear]

lol the lone moon no spouse XD

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Yesterday I did a whole lot of stuff, and today I did practically nothing. I'm trying to add a new major feature every day, next up on the list is UI, menus, and graphics settings. I also wasted time making a hot banner.



Oh yeah plus a new thing. You can press Q to slow down your speed, and E to speed up. This doesn't increase your speed in forward/backward velocity, it's just a multiplier. I call it hyperdrive.

[Mega-Bear]

car mechanic rp looks col

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[Mega-Bear]

Visible atmosphere, hote. Are planets going to have flora/fauna?

[Extrude]

Maybe they'll have basic landscape geometry, but no plants / other models.

[Extrude]

If anybody has some suggustions for planet generation and how to handle solar systems, or even what the menus will look like, post them.

[dUMBELLS]

As you get closer to a planet you see the landscape in more detail? (basic color -> land/ocean -> terrain..)

[Extrude]

I have no clue how to generate terrain randomly, so right now it's just solid textures..

[Extrude]

The menu/UI is making some good progress. I still need a new .dds starfield skybox though.

[Mega-Bear]

Bump because Extrude is good gamebocks.

[cheese6]

Use Perlin Noise for terrain.

[nienhaus1]

S0 hows DEFCON 1?