Starfury : Lacking a lot?

Phoenix-D · #1 December 15th, 2003, 06:45 PM

EV: Nova does that. It ends up not working all that well- either you're zoomed in tight enough you can't see much (and get shot from off-screen) or you're zoomed out so far you can't make out detail.

You can adjust the top-down view distance, though. What you want is to adjust these lines

code:

Viewing Distance Side                                := 10

Viewing Distance Overhead                            := 50

Viewing Distance Above Behind XY                     := 10

Viewing Distance Above Behind Z                      := 5

for any ship you'd care to use that with.

Phoenix-D · #2 December 15th, 2003, 06:51 PM

Just tested it. Going for what you'd like doesn't work so well, for the reasons I mentioned..you'd have to adjust the scales of everything to match as well.

MoFoQ · #3 December 15th, 2003, 08:45 PM

u can probably get some programmers in the bay area for less than 30k....hell...some will work for free for the first three months...

Or...u can have a pseudo-open source (for the graphics engine at least) and get ppl who want to program for free, to program for free.

Markavian · #4 December 15th, 2003, 09:47 PM

Yeah people like me? I was going to knock up my own Version of the the game, but with simlper constrainsts.

Kinda one solar system, shuttling cargo between planets.

I was also going to try a 'real scale' system, and represent everything on a holographic map, replacing the need for the view system map. My idea would use labels to highligh key items, because everythng would be too small.

In a real scale system, you could add alot more detail, and then do the Zelda thing where you can only see whats near you (based on scanner technology/speed of light response time), and then larger items such as the Sun and big planets would be always visible but 'in the fog'.

Too busy at the moment tho =)

Might try adjusting the view angle of some of the ships then, might make my life easier. Thx for the research/code Phoenix.

dHay · #5 December 15th, 2003, 10:33 PM

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Originally posted by Markavians:
Even so, the game was still lacking a lot. If it was made even better, they'd sell more copies right?
What were you getting at?:

quote:
that games at this level are not done to get rich....

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Your suggestion of hiring another programmer is expensive. It is easy for one person to work on something at a relatively low hourly rate of return. It becomes a much different proposition when you hire someone and have to pay them for every hour worked.

Open source? Interesting. But there seem to be a lot of open source projects that start, and never get very far.

Wydraz · #6 December 17th, 2003, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dHay:
Open source? Interesting. But there seem to be a lot of open source projects that start, and never get very far.

Um, based on the fan base here, I think that is a spurious remark. There are a few very talented and dedicated programmers on these forums, and some darn good artists too. I think an open source project is a fine idea for SESF!

Phoenix-D · #7 December 17th, 2003, 02:17 AM

More to the point, you can't really make money on open source projects, and this is Aaron's job. He may not be making enough to hire another programmer, but SF -would- suffer if he had to get another job (see the recent patch history for an example of that, and rememeber that he's working on the SE4 patch too)