Improved the atmosphere of planets even more!
[img_thumb]http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7114/atmosphereimproved.png[/img_thumb]
looks cool but is the 'gameplay' working ? I mean, mining, pvp and stuff like that are already implemented and working ?
Keep up the great work, it's all going to pay off in the end. I can't wait to play this gamemode.
[QUOTE=The Surfer;40301653]looks cool but is the 'gameplay' working ? I mean, mining, pvp and stuff like that are already implemented and working ?[/QUOTE]
Base PvP, as in Player Damage and Player Health/Shields are implemented, as well as mining mechanics. However, the more advanced items and weapons still need to be designed.
That is, that's what I can derive from the previous test session. Maw will tell you otherwise if he has added anything more than I have written.
I cant wait
Looks like something worth playing.
Very excited for this. Back in 2009-2010 ish I helped run/admin the old Liquid Game servers including the Divinity Servers, we used to call it Universe RP. From what I remember if my memory's not malfunctioned I think I suggested the new name :zoid:. Had great times on the server, The Maw gave us the code for Sunrise as I recall and our coders Portalcake and other's updated it. We ran a 64 player dedicated server. We also had a Pirate Ship Wars and a Dogfight server among others.
If you haven't seen it already this is a video I made of a large battle we had in-game, this is real time no tricks involved.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yd600iEFhE[/media]
Look forward to playing this, nice work Maw.
Look's amazing now when will u give this to newbienation to host ;) <3
-Shi Btw maw
p.s It's a joke maybe i didn't make it clear enough ;3
Ok, I've been working on improving some visual effects on the gamemode.
First off, the skybox now generates random nebulas in the background, making the skybox a little less repetitive for each solar system.
[img_thumb]http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/3249/nicenice.png[/img_thumb]
Also, all the tiny stars represents actual stars in the Devinity 2 galaxy. The sun flares has been improved as well.
video coming soon...
EDIT:
[img_thumb]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7692/mygodj.png[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img69/6566/beautifulman.png[/img_thumb]
Things feel a lot more dynamic now, rather than looking at that stupid same skybox texture all the damn time!
This looks really, really good! Great work, can't wait to play it in the future :D
Also, I realize that this gamemode is going to be based off of EVE Online's concepts, but may I suggest another game you can somehow get ideas, inspirations, or suggestions from?
Sins of a Solar Empire series. Similar to EVE online, except you command an army instead. They have a lot of cool-looking ships in the game :P
Holy crap this looks amazing. One suggestion, make it so you can walk around the inside of your ship. Maybe set the ship to auto-pilot somewhere and then be able to walk around you ship and maybe interact with other players who are also walking around inside your ship. Super psyched to play this!
[QUOTE=Wafflepiezz;40370741]This looks really, really good! Great work, can't wait to play it in the future :D
Also, I realize that this gamemode is going to be based off of EVE Online's concepts, but may I suggest another game you can somehow get ideas, inspirations, or suggestions from?
Sins of a Solar Empire series. Similar to EVE online, except you command an army instead. They have a lot of cool-looking ships in the game :P[/QUOTE]
I haven't played EVE Online properly for years. It got bored.
I've been taking inspirations from the smaller space games from the steam greenlight cus' am such a nice guy to actually check there. Some of the planetary simulation stuff comes from the Stardrive Beta game. Several other inspirations comes from other players. But the fact is I actually don't get my inspirations from EVE Online that much. Most ideas actually pop up in my mind and I discuss this idea with the players in order to adjust it and confirm: "GOOD IDEA" so I can impliment it. Ofcourse some may say that this is a bad way of making a gamemode, but it's the way I've been doing it for years in Garrysmod. (No this isn't why my gamemodes are dying, it's because I keep learning new and better ways of doing things in them).
To the thousands of players that keep suggesting walking around in spaceships. No... it's not the style of Sunrise!
EDIT:
A list of games, where I got inspirations from:
EVE Online
Homeworld 2
Stardrive
Star Conflict
Solar 2 (Simulating part)
Age of Empires II (Simulating part and the planet walking)
Anicator's making a sketch here for the theme song:
[url]http://www.anicator.com/gallery/music/DevinityThemeIdea.mp3[/url]
The nebulae and the theme song look/sound great so far. This gamemode is visually improving from the alpha aesthetics that I'm used to seeing. It's a thing of beauty, really.
Aight, I added some detail stuff on the asteroid fields:
[img_thumb]http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2449/asteroidfix.png[/img_thumb]
The asteroids now has a bunch of smaller rocks around them.. Just to make it look more crowdy and rocky!
looks better, and are the small rock random or not ?
[QUOTE=The Surfer;40379698]looks better, and are the small rock random or not ?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, obviously.
Meanwhile I just made a quick video illustrating the graphical improvements. Everyone kept going for the old video made a few months back so...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvsiKAsV60[/media]
EDIT:
Someone do something cool with this snip:
[img_thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img690/1678/bannernewrr.png[/img_thumb]
Don't be shy and post something you silent stalkers of Facepunch!
[QUOTE=themaw;40379819]Yeah, obviously.
Meanwhile I just made a quick video illustrating the graphical improvements. Everyone kept going for the old video made a few months back so...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvsiKAsV60[/media]
EDIT:
Someone do something cool with this snip:
[img_thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img690/1678/bannernewrr.png[/img_thumb]
Don't be shy and post something you silent stalkers of Facepunch![/QUOTE]
The video looks fantastic! However, when that star/sun thing starts moving independently of the rest of space, it looks a bit strange.
This is literally almost a direct copy of eve online into gmod? I like it :o. Only problem your not going to be able to hold the huge battles like in eve as srcds will just melt.
[QUOTE=Lordgunner58;40383221]This is literally almost a direct copy of eve online into gmod? I like it :o. Only problem your not going to be able to hold the huge battles like in eve as srcds will just melt.[/QUOTE]
Nope, the gamemode its-self uses less resources than sandbox, the map is essentially completely empty too. I asked maw this earlier, he expects to see 128 players on without any issue.
Here:
[t]http://puu.sh/2Fgdj[/t]
(Hope maw doesn't mind me posting this here, just trying to clarify how awesome this will be.)
[QUOTE=Lordgunner58;40383221]This is literally almost a direct copy of eve online into gmod? I like it :o. Only problem your not going to be able to hold the huge battles like in eve as srcds will just melt.[/QUOTE]
It isn't a direct copy of EVE. Why would we want that?
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;40383438]It isn't a direct copy of EVE. Why would we want that?[/QUOTE]
Have you played eve? Even the items he has shown in the videos he has made EX: Civilian Miner, has the same description and name. ALL the categories are the same as eve, such as all the ship classes ie: Titan. Even the name New Eden? Eve has used that since its release in 2003. This gamemode was not around then.
[QUOTE=Lordgunner58;40383798]Have you played eve? Even the items he has shown in the videos he has made EX: Civilian Miner, has the same description and name. ALL the categories are the same as eve, such as all the ship classes ie: Titan. Even the name New Eden? Eve has used that since its release in 2003. This gamemode was not around then.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110653/[/url]
This movie has been using the name new eden since 1993, eve must be copying them
[QUOTE=Lordgunner58;40383798]EX: Civilian Miner, has the same description and name.[/QUOTE]
Damn, I must be pretty awesome at writing item descriptions from scratch, then.
[QUOTE=Lordgunner58;40383798]Have you played eve? Even the items he has shown in the videos he has made EX: Civilian Miner, has the same description and name. ALL the categories are the same as eve, such as all the ship classes ie: Titan. Even the name New Eden? Eve has used that since its release in 2003. This gamemode was not around then.[/QUOTE]
These ships name were in Freelancer (2003) too (i don't know if anyone here played it), well yes for the moment the names are the sames maybe description too, but i think that Maw has not alot of time to do all that, he is working on the gamemode itself, not the "database" for the moment.
And if the description of one game feet, it's possible to have it in another game without coopying, just writting it from scratch and you will have a description about the same thing.
The gamemode was renamed to just "Devinity 2" ages ago. Just noticed the thread has the "New Eden" on it, but the reason why I renamed it to just "Devinity 2" is just to have a cleaner name. I like clean and simple names.
Other than that, most categories and item names were actually suggested by the community, so who knows where they come from?
Anyways, I've been looking into making a system that will make the gamemode generate random and new materials everytime a new solar system is created. That means there are more items to generate out of those materials. The gamemode will then over time have hundreds of different materials and thousands of different combinations, resulting in a gamemode where people make and discover new items and they can then sell those items to the auction or the shop. The materials define the quality of the product, that the players create. This means... Every piece of item except the ships and models are entirely usercreated and generated.
Close to a breakthrough, already have some theories on how it should work out. Just give me sometime to setup some visuals for it!
W.e just thought they were similar and the items were copied. Not saying it wouldn't be awsome if it were in gmod XD
Looks very nice! Can't wait for release!
You got me, when do you release this? If you need a test environment like a server or something anum-gaming is ready to help.
He said that they won't be any release, the gamemode will be on only 1 server with like 100 slot.
I drew this wonderful image of how I imagine the manufacturing menu would be like:
[img_thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img708/7531/conceptn.png[/img_thumb]
Just the concepts of it, a little bit inspired by Guild Wars 2 discovery system. ;P
Just incase people haven't seen the designs of the station:
[img_thumb]http://imageshack.us/a/img405/627/newstation.png[/img_thumb]
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