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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Starks on February 24, 2005, 02:16:48 pm

Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Starks on February 24, 2005, 02:16:48 pm
Please!!!!
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Taristin on February 24, 2005, 02:45:38 pm
You want a giant sphere? :p
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Starks on February 24, 2005, 02:41:58 pm
Not really, I just want the trench run.
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Starks on February 24, 2005, 02:47:22 pm
Raa, didn't you post before me?
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Omniscaper on February 24, 2005, 02:48:18 pm
Hmmm.. interesting. I've thought about this for the longest time and made some experiments reguarding FSO's size limits. I think the best approach is to model a localized area of the DS. Theres no way anyone's computer can handle a high quality DS in its entirety.

I was thinking perhaps a 100km area of greebled madness, with a trench to play in. The Sky box can have a picture of the rest of the techscape and the arena could have an impassable boundary. Too bad FS2 doesn't have a landscape engine like Star Shatter.
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: pyro-manic on February 24, 2005, 02:53:50 pm
Might be tricky to get the thing in-game, as it'd be many times bigger than the play volume....
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Taristin on February 24, 2005, 03:05:16 pm
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Originally posted by LLivingLarge
Raa, didn't you post before me?


I did, but because you're on Long Island, and that's further east, the time has already passed over there, and my posts are coming from the future. :nervous:



Either that, or you're in Stony Brook... they have the particle accelerator there, and have probably screwed with the time-space-continu-um... >.>
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Starks on February 24, 2005, 03:09:41 pm
Well, if Omniscaper can do an asteroid landscape, why can't he do the DS trench or the DS surface strike?
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Woolie Wool on February 24, 2005, 03:18:06 pm
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Originally posted by LLivingLarge
Raa, didn't you post before me?


His post went into a time warp.:p
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: aldo_14 on February 24, 2005, 03:29:28 pm
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Originally posted by LLivingLarge
Well, if Omniscaper can do an asteroid landscape, why can't he do the DS trench or the DS surface strike?


I dunno.  Maybe perhaps because he has better things to do?
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Omniscaper on February 24, 2005, 03:57:18 pm
Easy there, Aldo. :)

There is a Starwars Project icon next to my name. If there is something better I should be doing, it should be bill paying work, collage graduation focus.
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Carl on February 24, 2005, 04:47:26 pm
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Originally posted by Omniscaper
I was thinking perhaps a 100km area of greebled madness, with a trench to play in.


well, the Death Star is 120 km in diameter, so why not just spring for the whole thing?
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Scuddie on February 24, 2005, 06:18:45 pm
Possibly because the sphere would have a surface area of over 45000km?
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Carl on February 24, 2005, 07:48:22 pm
you could make a smallish section that just keeps looping.
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Omniscaper on February 24, 2005, 07:59:12 pm
You read my mind Carl. Then I can make a mission  that requires the player to keeping flying down the trench until it reaches the exhaust port!...... Just keep flying till you see it :)

I'll experiment tonight... got snowed in.
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: Pnakotus on February 25, 2005, 01:05:32 am
Nah, do the 900km unfinished DS2.  How high can the polycount really go? :D
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: AqueousShadow on February 25, 2005, 01:32:08 am
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Originally posted by Omniscaper
Easy there, Aldo. :)

There is a Starwars Project icon next to my name. If there is something better I should be doing, it should be bill paying work, collage graduation focus.


Ahh, but what doesn't meet the eye is your Star Fox logo. ;)
Title: Omni, can you make a Death Star mesh?
Post by: KARMA on February 25, 2005, 03:13:12 am
we were thinking about using the new multi docking system for the DS (which should led to a better use of lods) but honestly we still have to work on it