Thanks Kwok! I guess we can at least start making some 3D models and do the renders later once we find out what's needed
BTW, could you tell us what kind of texturing SE5 supports? I know Starfury only let you have plain old diffuse textures, but will SE5 let you use bumpmaps, emissive (glow) maps, HLSL (High Level Shader Language, used for procedural textures), or whatnot? Since it's upgraded from DirectX 7 to DirectX 8, I'm kinda hoping there might be support for some of those
Will any race use both normal ships and organic or crystalline ships, or are they more like the "paradigms" in Adamant where each race uses only one?
I'm kinda curious, too, if we do have to make the slot layouts, how are they balanced so you can't "uber up" your shipset by giving it a lot of extra slots of a particular type? Limits such as "destroyers have at most 4 armor slots"? Or was that issue never resolved?
