Moon Base

Observe · Post by **Observe** » Sun, 30. Apr 06, 22:54

First image:

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This is a planet (actually moon) sized ship that has zero speed and about 100GJ shields. It will be considered a ship by enemies who will try to destroy it. To the player, it will be a dockable planetary base, with huge cannons, and perhaps even "cities" on the surface to be protected at any cost. The "cockpit" will be the Observe Space Reseach headquarters, with a command and control cockpit graphics environment.

Planning to add this to the upcoming Community Mod.

Trigg004 · Post by **Trigg004** » Sun, 30. Apr 06, 22:59

HOLY SH*T A PLANET BASE!!!!!

UR KIDDING!, THATS WHOA!, MAN, HOW CAN U STOP THAT THING!!!

ANOTHER THING IS
HOW CAN anyone destoy it!!>!>!!>?
omfg

UR KIDDING

seriously, i can't see how u can destroy it, plus, omfg

ahhhhh

Observe · Post by **Observe** » Sun, 30. Apr 06, 23:08

Trigg004 wrote:HOLY SH*T A PLANET BASE!!!!!
UR KIDDING!, THATS WHOA!, MAN, HOW CAN U STOP THAT THING!!!

ANOTHER THING IS
HOW CAN anyone destoy it!!>!>!!>?
omfg

UR KIDDING seriously, i can't see how u can destroy it, plus, omfg

ahhhhh

You won't have to "stop" it because with no speed it won't move around much.

As for destroying it, I imagine the Khaak could do that if left alone with it long enough. Once destroyed however, a script will cause your ship to explode, and GAME OVER

DarthVain · Post by **DarthVain** » Mon, 1. May 06, 00:12

Utterly awesome Observe

"That's no Moon..... That's a spacestation!!!" but with all the trimmings of a planet

Will it rotate on its own axis?

Tiberian Commander · Post by **Tiberian Commander** » Mon, 1. May 06, 00:40

What can i say

LV · Post by LV » Mon, 1. May 06, 01:45

I hope this idea turns into reality, very nice, i'm certainly interested in the CD, that's for sure.

LV walks away but slaps Trigg004 around the head a few times first for excessive shouting.

Red Spot · Post by **Red Spot** » Mon, 1. May 06, 01:46

first of all ... I think it looks really great!! ..

however I do wonder ...
have you made something attack the planet ..??
did the signals respond correctly ..??
(or did you make it an LT ..??)

G

Galaxy613 · Post by **Galaxy613** » Mon, 1. May 06, 02:10

Observe wrote:First image:

[ external image ]

This is a planet (actually moon) sized ship that has zero speed and about 100GJ shields. It will be considered a ship by enemies who will try to destroy it. To the player, it will be a dockable planetary base, with huge cannons, and perhaps even "cities" on the surface to be protected at any cost. The "cockpit" will be the Observe Space Reseach headquarters, with a command and control cockpit graphics environment.

Planning to add this to the upcoming Community Mod.

Crazy awesome. It's almost like my idea of making down-sized dockable planets! (Freelancer style.. sort-of)

Matt Armada · Post by **Matt Armada** » Mon, 1. May 06, 02:51

Well DAMN, i goa way for a while, come abck and Look at that....
I will have to say, this is definatly something im watching....

FluidFire · Post by **FluidFire** » Mon, 1. May 06, 03:00

NOOOO! I don't want no stinking planet?!!!! GIVE ME A DEATH STAR!!!!

heh J/k very sweet.

You know, if there was actually planet economics and planetary bases to this game, it just might be perfect... Like MOO3 in scale but first person...

rustybucket · Post by **rustybucket** » Mon, 1. May 06, 04:42

Don't forget to arm ot with one million high powered guns which are all to slow to effectively combat an m3; then leave a tiny door open, for no particular reason, with direct access to the main reactor core so we can blow the whole $$$$Mazzinga$$$$ dollar thing to bits with a single mosquito missile and a lucky rabbit's foot.

rustybucket · Post by **rustybucket** » Mon, 1. May 06, 04:50

I just wanted to add the following to my previous coment:

COOL!

Observe · Post by **Observe** » Mon, 1. May 06, 08:59

FADMFred wrote:...Will it rotate on its own axis?

Yes it does. Actually, the ship doesn't rotate - it just appears to.

That particular X3 planet material has the rotation effect that you see on some of the planets in the game.

It quite cool to see. It'll be even cooler to fly around the skyscrapers I want to put on the "surface".

Calliste · Post by **Calliste** » Mon, 1. May 06, 09:09

Looks nice !

Observe... we'll have to get in touch, I think I could make a good use of your help, since I just started a project quite... similar

, and I could need a hand regarding some stuff eventually

Blueman · Post by **Blueman** » Mon, 1. May 06, 09:20

VERY COOL!

Yellowman · Post by **Yellowman** » Mon, 1. May 06, 11:59

Wow finaly a planet to land on yeah nice m8te

bendyspex · Post by **bendyspex** » Mon, 1. May 06, 12:32

WOW

If that had skyscrapers on and everything, that would be amazing. Does it slow down the game much, or have you found a way around that.
Excellent work

targettio · Post by **targettio** » Mon, 1. May 06, 13:07

i only hope this makes it into the extended mod, and i will officially never use any other mod!

Targ

Observe · Post by **Observe** » Mon, 1. May 06, 15:57

bendyspex wrote:Does it slow down the game much, or have you found a way around that

Currently the moon base is nothing more than a sphere. Hence it has less polygons than X3 factories and such, which have all kinds of shapes requiring additional polys. In fact, it has less polys than some ships in the game. Adding some surface features, cannons, etc won't have any significant game performance impact. Also, since this ship doesn't move around, the game does'nt have to deal with motion calculations for the object per se.

SpatryX · Post by **SpatryX** » Mon, 1. May 06, 16:37

Having a planetary base in X has always been on my wish list.... I will be keeping an eye on this topic

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