[deep_eyes]

A while back Treize told me someone was working on a Terrain feature. is this still going on or has it ceased?

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[Red5]

 Its real easy to have planetary terrains and daylight and nightime atmospheres with moons but canyons and realistic ones i think are harder.

[Fineus]

Yeah, thats what I gather as well - at least it's harder if you want to have a large land... one small canyon shouldn't be a problem...

[Nico]

bah, I can make a landscape terrain for fs2 in a matter of minutes if you want, with hills, canyons and so on  

[Setekh]

What's it run like? Dramatic slowdowns or anything? Got screenshots?  

[Nico]

hey! Let me make it first!
ok done:
     
   

no slowdown, nothing, sorry to disapoint you    
(btw, I used the tbl for my planet, and the vdebris map)

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[Setekh]

Oh... wow... that was quick  

Nice one!  

[aldo_14]

I wish i could do my other campaign idea   .... that was supposed to be totally terain/near planetary combat based.

But I can't be bothered with the effort of organising another campaign.

[Inquisitor]

Hey, that is REALLY cool!

[Fineus]

Yeah! nice one! can you make more pronounced geometry so you can have dogifghts down the canyons and so on? (and could you use sub-objects to blow up mountains and so on?   )

[deep_eyes]

 

Originally posted by Thunder:
Yeah! nice one! can you make more pronounced geometry so you can have dogifghts down the canyons and so on? (and could you use sub-objects to blow up mountains and so on?   )

be like in star wars where u got darth shooting lasers up ur butt while ur trying to blow up the death star LOL... how large in kilometers was the "terrain"?



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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Oh... wow... that was quick  

Nice one!  

about 15 minutes to model, map, convert, test and take screencaps
 otherwise: sure I can make it have more relief, but mountains submodel would look wrong.
the model is quite small, i didn't scale it right, in fact, under the fighter, there's void  . Making the model larger would ruin the feeling of smoothyness (?), but I can make it bigger by making landscape tiles, and link them to the main one as submodels  

[Turnsky]

I guess now you'd want to make the death star trench run  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Turnsky:
I guess now you'd want to make the death star trench run  

me? not interested sorry  

[deep_eyes]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
me? not interested sorry  

but remember independence day? imagine remaking an old FS1 mission, but in a moon area, and like fly through the canyon with no shields, just the hull runing from manticores in apollos! that would be so cool....! just a though, or howbout land masses, like former planet chunks that blew off a planet or moon. floatnig islands....?



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[Darkage]

Looks prety cool, dude Venom

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[aldo_14]

Would need to use smoothing on the terrain geometry.... better for atmosphere-less planets methinks  

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[Nico]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Would need to use smoothing on the terrain geometry.... better for atmosphere-less planets methinks  

open you eyes dude, the model is smoothed (just look in the target window, more lighning there)  
Independance Day? I rather make that triangle tunnel used to enter/exit the giant mother ship (the one as big as a half-moon).  

[joek]

 

Originally posted by deep_eyes:
...or howbout land masses, like former planet chunks that blew off a planet or moon. floatnig islands....?

Now that would be something. Larger asteroids than FS's, like in Empire Strikes Back, one's you can fly close to and even in.

Joe.

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Originally posted by joek:
Now that would be something. Larger asteroids than FS's, like in Empire Strikes Back, one's you can fly close to and even in.

Joe.

not even, but beyond that! asteroids hitting the surface and ur dodgin them in the canyon! escorting a cruiser! remeber that scene in wingcomander (if anyone saw it) where the tigerclaw was in the crater? stealth missions added to it would look soo COOL!

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