[Luis Dias]

I knew there was a page I was missing. Read the FAQs and so on and didn't find that chapter.

[AdmiralRalwood]

I knew there was a page I was missing. Read the FAQs and so on and didn't find that chapter.

There's only one FAQ page. It's under the "Legal & EULA FAQ" section.

[Luis Dias]

yeah I can't read. I'm so tired today my eyes are burning. But it sorta is interesting. Gotta check if it's easy to port more architectural stuff into this SDK. I tried to do this with UE3 and it sucked so big time that I quit the first day. Then, we got to play with Lumion - which obviously uses the CryEngine 3 engine - and it's such a marvel to play with. But it's ****ing costly. To bring this price down to 19$ per month would be really cool. But I fear there's like zero features in there from the get go and use this in our pipeline seems far fetched....

[Fury]

I wish The E the best of luck with his project. While UE4 does have paid subscription, there are many advantages with having UE4 engine as an alternative development platform.

While SCP has done stellar job with upgrading the FSO engine and associated tools, they come with decades old codebase and no amount of effort is going to fix all problems short of complete rewrite. UE4 engine and its associated tools are developed by Epic and contributors, who far outnumber our measly number of SCP coders. Meaning The E and anyone else willing to join his project can instead focus on meshing UE4 into a space sim platform we have always dreamed of.

Game engines are an outlet of our imagination and whichever offers the best productivity usually wins in the long run, unless money is an issue. And with those low subscription prices ($19 for UE4 and $9.9 for CryEngine) I doubt its going to be. If Star Citizen succeeds, then it means we'd have three platforms to produce whatever our imagination conjures up.

Also, let's not forget that nobody outside of FS community gives two ****s about FSO. If The E's project succeeds, that means we'd have the entire UE4 developer community at our fingertips. And those people would be certain to notice if we contribute our improvements back, making it even easier for other people to create space games on UE4. It would not be far fetched to imagine that it takes one small, dedicated community to build entire space sim platform around UE4, make it freely available to everyone and resurrect space game era. Assuming Star Citizen, EVE Valkyrie or another game doesn't do it first.

And if you doubt UE4 will ever make a good space sim platform, the folks behind EVE Online are building another game called EVE Valkyrie that uses UE4 and is a multiplayer dogfighting space sim. http://youtu.be/XkzdpW5pfSs (It's pre-alpha footage if you can't see those cat sized letters on the video)

[Lorric]

You certainly know how to make me feel excited Fury.

[Droid803]

Battlestations: Midway IN SPAAAAACE.

yesplz

[NeonShivan]

Battlestations: Midway IN SPAAAAACE.

11/10 would buy

Meanwhile I took The Daggers lovely new Vasudan model and made it more orange...

[roman14]

What do you think? 

[Rodo]

Heresy!
Why isn't she blowing up that star?

[Droid803]

She probably has her sights set on another.

[CommanderDJ]

That is really pretty.

[DahBlount]

Rainbow swarm missiles! (aka $Substitute is glorious, if a bit picky)

[Rheyah]

Poor Nehru didn't realize that Admiral Bei disowned his son because he kept breaking comms silence with bursts of Erasure.

[The E]

And now there are three:



Full-resolution download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/88p8ro18z74zuf5/HighresScreenshot00023.png?dl=0

[MetalDestroyer]

Is it still under Unreal Engine 4 ? or it comes from FSO ?

[Nyctaeus]

There is still not enough utility ship models here.

So soon I will give you the Pluto gas tanker . SolCommand is such a great guy.

[Trivial Psychic]

Quoted from the Screenshot Contest thread, since I didn't want to clog it up with conversation.

It occurred to me that the sun is out of position based on how the Earth and Moon are illuminated.  Obviously, if they had been actual models, the shading would be accurate.  I wonder how many campaigns have lighting goofs like this.

[Lepanto]

I'd say that kind of minor error falls under "cut the FREDder a break, they had fifty million other things to think about and let a minor graphical bug slip through" territory. I suppose standards would be higher for screenshots, but still . . .

[Aardwolf]

Mmm. Also it's using a near side of the moon texture, on the far side of the moon.

[Mongoose]

There is no dark side of the moon.  Matter of fact it's all dark.

...wait no wrong concept