Terrain, physics, rings and motion blur.
Aug 26, 2007 Movies 10 commentsA new video showing off the ball physics and collisions, the planetary terrain (it's using one big tiling texture and it has some vertex popping...
Infinity is an open-ended game in which you control a spaceship throughought the entire galaxy, trying to make a name for yourself. You connect to an online server on which thousands of people are playing, 24/7. The game does not stop when you log off, but continues to evolve: it is a persistent universe. The game mechanics do not emphasize any particular gameplay style. Combat, trade, exploration, social relationships.. you are free to choose your own carrier path and goals. The only limit is your own imagination!
Infinity is not a traditional role playing game. Although all players are expected to act in concordance with their avatar's motivations, there are no classes or skills to restrict your choices. Combat between spaceships is in true real-time, and the outcome is determined by your own intelligence and reflexes. Forget turn-based action and experience the great excitement of a first person experience!
Using procedural techniques, the game universe has been designed to be huge and realistic. There are billions of solar systems and planets, each unique and awaiting to be discovered by a player. Coherent scales and distances are used, orbits of celestial bodies are correctly modeled and change continuously, allowing you to attend a sunrise on the moon of a giant planet, for instance.
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Flavien Brebion (aka InfinityAdmin) has been working hard on finishing the terrain engine the last couple of months. We are now at a point that we are ready to show the results of all that hard work. We still have a lot of things to do before its finished so keep in mind that this is all work-in-progress.
On the to-do-list:
- coriolis effect for clouds
- storm effect
- clouds have patterns
- terrain too blue
- over saturation to white
- areas too sharp / contrasted
- terrain only based on altitude / too randomized
- jagged / aliased shadows
- lack of bloom
- only one type of clouds
Enough talk, here are the screenshots of the terrain engine with terrain texturing, god rays, vegetation ( not procedural) and a lot of other new features:
Sorry for the lack of anti-aliasing.
Want more information and screenshots, take a look at our latest Development Journal update on the Infinity forums.
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A new video showing off the ball physics and collisions, the planetary terrain (it's using one big tiling texture and it has some vertex popping...
This video shows the procedural placement of asteroids in a gas giant ring. Keep in mind that this is WIP and it's just per-vertex lighting with...
A short video made in the AseToBin showing off the Silverbow(spaceship) in all its glory and a nice rain effect.
This is a new working version of the Infinity combat prototype version 2.1. Apologies to all of those that downloaded the corrupt file.
Spuk's outpost showing off the small station made by Spuk. Generic textures, no skybox/background, it's a bit plain, but it shows HDRI + dynamic...
City video ( 45.8 MB, Divx5 ) showing off the city and a few models. Stannum's buildings, Shawn's city dome, CutterJohn's Intrepid, and...
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Will there be smaller ships like fighters as well as big ships, say if you wanted to like follow a bigger ship around and help it out, so if ten or so players wanted to help out a larger ship then thatd be a nice little group :)
Just asking if ur like flying the ship then like move the mouse or something will the cam rotate?Cuz I don't like that view in back of ship cams just frozen,,,
Holy shit this looks awesome!
can't wait to see this finished :)
nice progress btw
Hey... Are there Going to be Cockpit Models?
If you've ever played Echelon you'll have an idea of what I'm talking about.
It really adds to the intensity =)
I agree, but unfortunately we are not going to add cockpits, that’s too much work for the art department atm. Maybe in a later release, but that’s a big maybe.
Will it be free?
no
Sad :(
Servers to run an MMO are not free ;)