Terrain, physics, rings and motion blur.
Aug 26, 2007 Movies 11 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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Latest News: Terrain engine
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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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Gas Giant ring
Jul 15, 2007 Movies 4 commentsThis 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...
Silverbow and rain
Apr 15, 2007 Movies 2 commentsA short video made in the AseToBin showing off the Silverbow(spaceship) in all its glory and a nice rain effect.
Infinity Combat Prototype 2.1(Fixed)
Dec 20, 2006 Full Version 11 commentsThis 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
Sep 13, 2006 Movies 0 commentsSpuk'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
Sep 13, 2006 Movies 0 commentsCity 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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HOLY F***!! Sorry it's 3:31 AM and I just found this game :P
And it looks great.
Will it be a monthly subscription or a one time buy game?
Does anyone know how hard this will be to mod?
Very hard, its an MMO game
We changed server, everything should work fine now!
Small update:
The new website has been a success.. in fact a bit too much. All the new content, the streaming videos, the new forums.. are stressing the web server, which consumes too much bandwidth and randomly drops requests ( blank pages ). For this reason, we have decided to close the forums temporarily and disable the videos.
We will move to a more powerful, dedicated server soon, and hopefully within one or two days, everything will be back to normal. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I love you guys,Not because I am gay,Becuase you are doing this awesome work!
But you ARE gay, right? :P
I don't think any developer is aiming for a game that lags.
Ah, so THIS is what I upgraded my PC for! :D
Can't wait for it to be released!
Except, can I make a request? Can you engineer the game to not have a lot of lag? You know, for those of us with no-so-good internet? Please? :P
Everything you see is work-in-progress as we say everytime. We are not showing a finished product so some features are still missing.
Yes, some planets will have vegetation; you can see that we’ve already experimented with vegetation if you look at the latest terrain screenshots