Abandon SE4?Opinions:Space Empires 5 screen shots?

[zircher]

Black_Knyght said:

While AT is certainly the best, he isn't the only DoGA user around. I've noticed that there are a lot of other sets with DoGA. I even have a few sets I've made and won't be able to translate over.

If you have not seen these links, they might help to show how DoGA and Metasequoia can be used together to make 3d meshes for games like Star Fury and SEV.

http://www.virmin.com/doga/design_1.htm
http://www.virmin.com/doga/design_2.htm
http://www.virmin.com/doga/design_3.htm

With a little practice, it becomes a failr simple operation.
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TAZ

[Phoenix-D]

Simple yes. Speedy..not really. DOGA meshes tend to have absolutely ridiclous polygon counts. That's fine for a render, but it'll turn any real-time display into mush.

[Captain Kwok]

Starshadow:

There is a top-down view for SE:V that's like SE:IV. I use it myself most of the time.

[Cipher7071]

One of the things I've always appreciated about SEIV is that it doesn't sacrifice game-play to graphics. I can't argue with fancier graphics so long as that doesn't happen, and I don't need to replace hardware.

I'm happy with the idea that so much will cease to ride upon who gets the first shot, and something that sounds a bit closer to SEIII style building queues is welcome as well.

[Raapys]

I think that's the most important question regarding graphics, though. Is there no negative effects on gameplay at all, concerning the new graphics?

One thing I was wondering about: Will the maximum amount of ships -limit in a single battle decrease?

[Atrocities]

I think it was mentioned that more ships will effect things because of frame rates. The more ships you have, especially ones with higher polygon counts, the more the frame rate will be affected.

[Captain Kwok]

The amount of ships in a battle is not limited, but with more ships there will be a slow down due to the large amount of objects on screen to render. However, this is not much different than if you were doing tactical combat with large numbers of ships in SE:IV with movement/weapon animation on.

[StarShadow]

Captain Kwok said:
Starshadow:

There is a top-down view for SE:V that's like SE:IV. I use it myself most of the time.

Thanks for the info, that's good to know!