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Topic: Editing the Star Control 2 Source (Read 20625 times)
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lakota.james
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I would very much like to play this... sounds very interesting!
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chenjesummrnmhrm
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Are there any artists here? Because I'd be willing to lend my artistry skills to the project if you want to create new artifacts, modules, aliens, planets, ships, etc.. I'm not fantastic, but I could make up something nice if given time.
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Dakkus
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Just some more technical ideas I thought of before I noticed the age of the thread. Many might be alredy done, but I thought I could just as well write te stuff here. Maybe they'll be of help:
Rainbow planet shape:
Make them sometimes a spiral, sometimes a star, always have a different geometrical shape for them!
ZoqFotPik telling the coordinate: Just make the computer add a star randomly on the line that goes through both the Glowy bits star and the Frungy star.
Coreward could mean anything, it is easy imagining it to work according to some freaky dimension. That's how I originally thought if it, anyway 
And since the Ur-Quan prolly must be in the middle anyway, coreward is of course the direction from Sol towards the centre of UQ sphere 
Where Tanaka comes from can be defined so that the route goes through a rainbow world in someone's sphere. Just define the code so that one sphere must be around one of the rainbow worlds and then define Tanaka's origin to fit that logic. Constellation names can be included dynamically in the code.
These ideas of defining some stars atop the randomly generated starmap shouldn't cause problems, because 99% will remain random. If you make sure the defined stars are not atop other stars and that they will steal names from their neighbours (if there are any), choosing the first unused Alpha/Beta/Eta/blah prefix, you will not have any problems. (you may also define certain star systems "protected", in order not to mess with them. Whole predefined star systems (looking like a snake that has eaten an elephant, for example) can be rotated and randomly assigned in some part of the starmap.
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Cedric6014
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...right...
Anyway, I know I said before that I didn't want to open my presents early, but some signal that a beta is on its way would be just lovely!
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Shiver
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Send a private message to Arne if you need a professional caliber artist. I myself can do amateur photoshop work, but I doubt that's what you want.
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Yaddy1
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so this project is either almost done... or abandoned if it's not abandoned i'd be glad to help
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Cedric6014
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I suspect that its neither of the above. I reckon its just way huger project than Nicholai anticipated. And he's probably working on it every third evening or so...
Expect a beta in 6 months' time
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Valaggar Redux
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Also, note that this is the old thread; the newer one is here.
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Cedric6014
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Hmm, now I think about it, 6 months seems a bit optimistic, maybe more like 12. Then again, for all we know he might finish the whole thing next week
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