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Wydraz · #31 September 10th, 2003, 03:40 AM

Is the Quadrant map the same each time you play? Is there a random quadrant map generator for mod makers, or do all the systems and planets need to be input by hand?

Wydraz · #32 September 10th, 2003, 03:44 AM

What is the average/maximum poly count suggested for ship models?

Wydraz · #33 September 10th, 2003, 03:45 AM

what size are race/npc portraits?

deccan · #34 September 10th, 2003, 04:11 AM

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2) Can you visit the surface of planets and moons or is it all space? Are planets and moons 3-D objects at all or just background graphics?

I'm thinking of Elite 2 here in which there are physical, 3-d buildings for spaceports and such on the surface of moons and planets.

Fyron · #35 September 10th, 2003, 05:26 AM

There are pictures for the facilities, yes, but they are not 3d, and you do not go to the planet's surface.

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Originally posted by Wydraz:
what size are race/npc portraits?

256x256

[ September 10, 2003, 04:28: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Wydraz · #36 September 10th, 2003, 09:03 PM

Thanks for the info, Imp.

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Originally posted by Wydraz:
Is the Quadrant map the same each time you play? Is there a random quadrant map generator for mod makers, or do all the systems and planets need to be input by hand?

What is the average/maximum poly count suggested for ship models?

Just thought I'd BUG everyone and ask again. Conventiently packaged in one message!

[ September 10, 2003, 20:04: Message edited by: Wydraz ]

Captain Kwok · #37 September 11th, 2003, 04:15 AM

The objects of maps are randomally placed (i.e. planets, etc), but the number of them and location of systems are set by the data files included in the campaign. At this time, there is no random galaxy generation.

Ship poly-counts are usually a few hundred, and a couple of starbases are just over a thousand.

[ September 11, 2003, 04:49: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #38 September 11th, 2003, 05:32 AM

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The objects of maps are randomally placed (i.e. planets, etc), but the number of them and location are set by the data files included in the campaign.

logical impossibility. cannot randomly place planets, etc at st locations.

Captain Kwok · #39 September 11th, 2003, 05:50 AM

Woops, I had meant to say that the locations of systems and warp point connections were in the data files.

narf poit chez BOOM · #40 September 11th, 2003, 07:05 PM

kinda like the 'pizza world' theory? 'it's round, yet flat!'

i've been thinking about something. could you place more than one solar system in a sector? make a galaxy in one sector?