[Flaser]

I-War was cool but if you try and land, you learn the Dreadnaughts not atmos capable the hard way.........I miss the CNV-301

Aye, mate. 'as a fine ship I tell 'ya....pity Particle System's didn't cash in with I-War 2 since 'at was a fine game too.

[Colonol Dekker]

I fell for the Sparticus big time too, but CNV-301 is meh baby ftw!
Doesnt Inferno have 3d planets (Earth IIRC?)

[Flipside]

Fractal Generated planets would eat processor though. The only reason Oolite gets away with it is because it uses very simply graphics and gameplay compared to FS2. I suppose you could generate the textures as the mission loads using a seed number of something, but I'm not sure how that would work. Smooth transitions between space and planet would be pretty difficult to do realistically without volumetrics etc.

[Colonol Dekker]

Not on FS2s current tech, i dont think that would be feasible...........

[Gregster2k]

I vote give it a shot...even if we get 2 FPS doing it, at least we can say we tried. XD

[Nuke]

Fractal Generated planets would eat processor though. The only reason Oolite gets away with it is because it uses very simply graphics and gameplay compared to FS2. I suppose you could generate the textures as the mission loads using a seed number of something, but I'm not sure how that would work. Smooth transitions between space and planet would be pretty difficult to do realistically without volumetrics etc.

we know how to deal with that, somone start a thread titled "give us volumetrics or give us death"

[jr2]

Not on FS2s current tech, i dont think that would be feasible...........

Then we (not me, people that know how to code) could just keep the idea in mind whilst developing the future tech of FS2Open.  Given five years the hardware might be able to handle it.  Hmm, would a physics processor help any with this?  I hear they're coming to a new PC near you pretty soon.

I vote give it a shot...even if we get 2 FPS doing it, at least we can say we tried. XD

Hoo-rah!!

[Colonol Dekker]

  Hmm, would a physics processor help any with this?  I hear they're coming to a new PC near you pretty soon.

Hoo-rah!!

Dells lates beast has a physics processor in it.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=305&l=en&oc=D07XP5&s=dhs&sbc=xpsdt_700

Fill yer boots m8

[Nuke]

how much does one of them puppys run anyway? a better question would be what games actually support it? an even better question is, can they add support for it in the scp

[ME$$ENGER]

I believe there's a public release for the Ageia SDK. Problem is, the SDK is not cross platform unless you are a licensed developer with Ageia. Since the majority of SCP code gurus don't work on windows, it would be essentially useless.

[Wobble73]

There are games out there created by Starwraith3D games that have planets in that you can traverse from space to atmosphere, these games are usually less than 30mb and are quite impressive IMO. I've only played a few of the demo's (as you have to pay to get a code to unlock the full version) but from what I've seen so far they are quite good! (IMO). If they can do this in less than 30mb, why can't we?? I mean I'm no coder or anything but come on it must be possible?

Linky


http://starwraith3dgames.home.att.net/go.htm