Q&A Session with Aaron Hall. (Offline Edition)

Asmala · #1 August 14th, 2004, 05:16 PM

I wasn't able to attend the chat, but after reading log files a question came to my mind.

Is it possible to release the syntax of SEV's map files? Then somebody could make his own map editor.

Ed Kolis · #2 August 14th, 2004, 11:50 PM

I was there, but I still have more questions

1. What kinds of new techniques can we have to texture our ship models that were not seen in Starfury? I'm talking about stuff like procedural shading (yeah! yeah! uv is SO hard to align right

), bump mapping, gloss mapping, transparency, etc.

2. You said we'll be able to completely customize our unit types so we could for instance make fighters that warp or ships that go in cargo... will we be able to do the same with stellar objects so we could make for instance colonizable stars (for plasma based races) or remote-mineable nebulas?