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10th Jan

The ship – it flies – in all directions, just like freelancer handles a ship.
I see a sun – it gets bigger when we fly towards it. smaller when you fly away.
There’s a rear view Picture in Picture, so I can see if you are sneaking up behind me.
Another camera gives me an external view of my ship – and I can move that all around me too.
Ahhh – and now there’s a scanner working showing a miniture version of the universe in 3d so I can see where I am

Networking was talked about but it was too late in the night to get started on

But…..

More talking

One account is all you will have – after all, you are only one player.
Now, – you are worth a wealth – even at the start. a shuttle would cost about 10mil credits? what if you were in it and were shot up – your ship is destroyed… However, – all ships have an escape pod, which is ejected in a random direction from the one that killed you. Good job that you have enough funds in the bank to call for help. a good % of your total wealth, so there is a risk in not banking enough credits should you leave space dock.
There’s going to be a lot to think about now all the time…. The distress call goes out – and after an rescue warp at 9.99, your rescuer is in the facinity and checking the radar that your attacker has left. It’s also a good job that the distress signal can only be picked up by any member of your faction… but that doesn’t stop the enemy trying to ambush you as I’m sure that they can see you when you are close.

You get picked up, and your rescuer warps you to where you or they want to go.
Do you have any other ships you can use? Thumb a lift or request passage if someone is going past. Access your bank and buy a new shuttle or ship. Buy a shuttle and dock with a larger ship capable of taking you somewhere…

This is getting bigger by the minute and a list of major things to do before fine tuning them will be made.

1st Jan 09

A new year and a new start. Some other engines had been found, suggested and dismissed after a while. The original seems to fit all aspects so that’s a good thing.

Another good thing is gravity. It’s there in the world and when the ship stops, gravity takes over and pulls it into the ground.
However, flying is ok- but rolling a ship when flying is causing a problem as, as it rotates, up is no longer up.

various things were tried and failed. A frustrating new year’s day. But at least the stars are out in this world…. We have space

29th Dec 08

Is this do-able? – I fed Buck a feed to a 3d Engine and script, something he admitted to having looked at before, we looked at several – some free, some by disney, and some worth several thousands of dollars. If we were to do this, we had to have something that was good at 3D, and able to cope with many different things such as networking, client / server stuff

the orginal system worked a treat, it was compatible with the models that had already been created for freelancer and various mods.

The space shuttle was imported, but it came in back to front. Forwards was backwards, and left was right. However, by exporting from milkshape into 3d Max, and then into the engine, that issue was corrected.

So

We have the spaceshuttle from Startrek, sat beside a house, and it can “fly”

23rd Dec 08

Spoke to Buck at length regarding the lack of playing of freelancer and muted idea’s about what has driven people away. FLSM was part of the issue as was Ogame and the amount of time players were spending on that. We talked about the current mod as FLSM is pretty much there working as it was intended, and the idea that he had back in May 08 came up again and the demo of the mod was shown.

Essentially, it requires re-writing the whole of freelancer, creating new factions, missions, npc’s ships, planets – everything. no small feat. It would work on the combination of Star trek, star wars , battlestar galactica and babylon 5 environments and factions versus their enemies. A role playing mod with no clans. you create a character and play in the faction you decide.

The environment would be more releastic, Planets would be scaled accordingly so they were realistic in size, revolving and orbiting their sun. the moon, for example would rotate around earth. Ships would also be scaled accordingly. The star trek space shuttle would be small enough to dock inside the galaxy class ship, and that in turn would be small enough to dock inside the space station.

For the demo, this environment was up and running and whilst visually it looked great, it was still freelancer and bound by the limitations that freelancer gave.

I fed Buck a little line and left it at that.

The line????? – Lets create a sequel to Freelancer built how we want it based on the sucessful elements of games we have played in the past.

So – it’s not a mod

Rather than just use the forum to show what is going on, we thought it might be better to use a real blog instead. So, here it is