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Topic: A star control 1 remake that may actually get finished (Read 33004 times)
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Dragon
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Whoops, sorry - I forgot about the Mmrnmhrm Y-wing. I found an old picture of it from when I was asking for suggestions on colouring over at remakes, so here it is:
The only change is that I've removed the detail from the wings so it's still pretty similar but with dark pink wing recesses.
And whilst I was digging through old piccys I found a final version of the starmap planets so here it is also 
The little planets in the corner are the starmap versions whilst the big ones are for the event animations and melee game.
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Data
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Wow 
Keep up the good work - this is like a dream come true, I actually asked a looooong time ago if anything like this is ever going to be made.
Now, your ship models are great, just look, well, differently. However, that is not a bad thing, actually quite the contrary, just expect a lot of people saying how you should have done this or that differently (for example, I would make, if I knew how  , Chenjesu a bit bluer and other Alliance ships more colorful, but you really shouldn't listen to me, Really, this isn't a joke, I suck at design)
On the other hand, planets look absolutely gorgeous no matter what way you put it. Just, please, please, PLEASE don't give up on the project. Please.
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Sig fixed at Shivers request.
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Malrunus
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I tried going to this link to check it out, and it's giving me the 404 error. Has it been moved?
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Bigryan
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Wow, you are making some really great models. I'm also a hobbiest trying to put together a star control fan game... my models are not half as cool though. Man I'd love to get a hold of some nice models like that for my fan game.
I can't wait to try yours! You've got some mad art skillz.
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Spurk
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Dude, Smalltalk? Wow.
I remember Smalltalk from college, but I didn't see much interesting it, except for the old 1 := 2 insanity. Then again, the prof teaching that class also loved wikis, which I thought weren't going to go anywhere either.
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UAF
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Will the ships have 16 angles to them or more?
I know that as a remake they should only have 16, but I've always found it annoying that small ships could hide between the firing angles of the bigger ships.
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UAF
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You can rotate one image and still only have 16 angles.
But I really hope there will be more.
But I'm not biased, I'm used to TW.
64 angles there.
Also when an enemy Ilwrath cloaks the camera focus on you so you don't know there it's coming from.
I'd really like to see those two things in a game that have a net version of the SC1 full game.
That's kinda my wish list - an enhanched version of SC1's full game.
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Dragon
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Thanks Nightshadow.
Just thought I'd mention that there are no prerendered images so I have no real angle restrictions. Everything is 3D so the ships can bank into corners and rotate arbitrarily. I could also add self shadowing if I were feeling brave (but I'm not).
The idea is this remake will include the stategic game from SC1 but I wasn't planning adding anything new so it's only the graphics and sound which will be enhanced. Regarding the stategic game: guesst has done a bit of digging for the original star generation algorithm but with no joy so I'll probably just have to make it up.
As an aside, C provides no method for rotating images (or even drawing them) itself. One has to either write those methods oneself or use an existing library. I'm using DirectX, well, directly but many people have written wrappers to make it easier to use for 2D games. Googling something like "rasterize sprite" should turn up some info on how it's done.
As a further aside, Direct2D (not 3D) is a hopeless and unusable pile of shit that must go and die quitely in a corner if it hasn't done so already. Do not like.
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