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Fyron
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:22 am Post subject: FQM Beta 5 Posted |
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Announcing the posting of FQM 5.00 Beta 5, for SE5.
download link (878 kb)
Note that the mod now contains Credits and License files.
Beta 5 version history:
1. Added - New StarGlow.bmp texture with solar flare effects, courtesy of Captain Kwok.
2. Added - New PlanetGlow.bmp texture for better atmospheric effects on planets, courtesy of Captain Kwok.
3. Added - Green stars. Texture coloring courtesy of Captain Kwok.
4. Changed - Reduced the size of atmosphere glow for large and huge planets.
5. Added - Large Ringed planets have a Tiny atmosphere glow. Huge Ringed planets have a Small atmosphere glow.
6. Note - The solar system named planets (eg: Mercury, Earth) do not have glows. They do not appear to be used in-game (no references exist in StellarObjectTypes.txt).
Please note that this is a work in progress. There are bound to be quirks, which you should report. All suggestions for improvement are welcome!
It seems that SE5 still indexes data by file position, rather than name. As such, this version will tend to break savegames created with beta 4.
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CaptainKwok
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Fyron
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Yes.
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Santiago
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Deja Vu you guys are everywhere 
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Fyron
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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Working on some fancy quadrant types...
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ColonialAdmiral
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:25 am Post subject: |
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Thats Neat!!! 
Maybe you could make some that spell things! 
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gaultesian
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Green stars?
Isn't that physically/chemically impossible?
(just a question - please let me know).
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Gaultesian
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albi_joe
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Targets!
Can you specify what a star in the center will be? maybe some system with lost relics and a neutral race with one relatively hard-to-beat ship? Or is that too close to other possible copyrights? 
There is a fine line between Genius and Insanity. I am firmly on one side of that line!
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ekolis
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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As if MOO was ever original... isn't one of the possible Darlok emperor names a misspelling of "Nazgul" and if you are a Meklar you can be "THX-1138"? 
"Figuring out the UI is half the fun!" - Xintis, fan of both SE5 and WarioWare
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Fyron
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| gaultesian wrote: | | Isn't that physically/chemically impossible? |
Well, green light exists. Surely there is some way we could conceive of the majority of reactions producing light in the green band of visible light. But even if its impossible, its pretty and adds more variety.
albi_joe:
You can specify what the star will be, but you can't seed "relics" (other than tech ruins in a roundabout way) or "races".
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gaultesian
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed, it is very pretty, and it does add character to the game.
However, a good friend of mine (an inorganic chemist who is world-renowned for his continuing work on devising a new form of periodic table) told me once that it is not possible to have a green star - the physics and chemistry of the star and the heat seen in the visible spectrum makes it impossible.
Still, after trying it out - it looks cool!
Cheers,
Gaultesian
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Fyron
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:49 am Post subject: |
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The nebula are a performance concern on some systems. One way to help might be to make the individual clouds bigger, and reduce the number of them. Compare the original to the new version, and tell me what you think:
40 small clouds per storm
20 large clouds per storm
I'm leaning towards even bigger:
20 huge clouds per storm, with larger distances between them
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Last edited by Fyron on Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:10 am; edited 1 time in total
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ColonialAdmiral
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: |
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I think that the 40 is better...nebulas should be places to play cat and mouse with your opponents, visiblility shoudl be absoulutly crap...
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CaptainKwok
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CaptainKwok
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| ColonialAdmiral wrote: | | I think that the 40 is better...nebulas should be places to play cat and mouse with your opponents, visiblility shoudl be absoulutly crap... |
Note that the number of clouds etc., has nothing to do with whether you can see your opponent or not. It has everything to do with the obscuration level of the nebula.
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ColonialAdmiral
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| CaptainKwok wrote: | | ColonialAdmiral wrote: | | I think that the 40 is better...nebulas should be places to play cat and mouse with your opponents, visiblility shoudl be absoulutly crap... |
Note that the number of clouds etc., has nothing to do with whether you can see your opponent or not. It has everything to do with the obscuration level of the nebula. |
Tnx for making me look stupid kwok 
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-Admiral William Adama
Speaking at the decommissioning of the Galactica
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Santiago
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:44 am Post subject: |
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I like the large and huge clouds
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Fyron
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:25 am Post subject: |
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The larger textures actually obscure uncloaked objects more, not less.
After various optimizations, they are looking more like these:
a view at a normal angle
a top down view
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TheRowan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:43 am Post subject: |
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oooh... pretty...
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