Links to the steam workshop download and our discord can be found in the description! Awakening of the Rebellion is a total overhaul of Forces of Corruption. Inspired by the old RTS Star Wars: Rebellion, AotR brings many features from this game and other titles such as a more in-depth mission system, tech system, and many new units! Immerse yourself in the Galactic Civil War era as the fledgling Rebellion, the oppressive Empire, or the criminal Black Sun pirates. This mod is not for the feint of heart and will test your RTS skills with a completely overhauled AI and difficulty. Versions newer than 2.6 can be found on the steam workshop only (due to issues with the non-steam versions)
Okay, as u can all see, in our Screenshot Gallery, we are working on many Fronts.
After your positive Feedback to the new Galaxy Layout, I decided to show you a another little Step in the process...
In this Video the Point of Interest is Corellia, as u can see the brave Corellians got a Sun and two Planets surrounding it. I know Corellia have much more Planets in the System, but its a Protoype and a Design Study its also to big, they will be scaled down properly.
Too many Planets on the Galaxy Map flying around may be a bit distracting.
If you have any Suggestions, Critics and Ideas please leave a Comment.
Regards - Steiner
Finally someone get rid of this planet model. It may sound ridiculous, but I think that such details that make sense make the game much more enjoyable. Amazing work on that!
Endlich hat sich mal jemand dieses kleinen, aber feinen Details angenommen. Es mag meckern auf hohem Niveau darstellen, aber dass ihr euch dieser Sache annehmt, die zumindest für mich weitaus mehr Sinn ergibt, finde ich doch sehr beachtenswert. Eine echt tolle Sache!
Nein finde ich nicht, etwas was bei 90% aller Mods für EaW/FoC gekonnt ausgeklammert wurde, die Aufhübschung der GC Map.
Ich arbeite nebenbei an einem 2D Look wie im alten Rebellion. Vielleicht werde ich diese dann als Alternative zum Download anbieten, muss ich erst noch mit dem Team abklären. :D
meh, seems like more work than it's worth to be honest. I mean it looks kind of cool at a first glance but wouldn't the result be that almost every system looks roughly the same (a central star being the emphasis with some planets orbiting)?
Jip, like now... every System has one Planet. :) But there is a technical aspect behind my Goal to bring some Variance. At The Moment one Planet from FoC have around 6500-7000 Polygons. Thats much, our ISD 2 have 20000. We have in our biggest current Galaxy 91 Planets, thats are 591k Polygons displayed... That needs a lot of resources.
My Planets will get around 1.5k-2.5k Polygons and if my other Idea Works the whole Galaxy needs around 30k-40k Polygons. A huge Improvment in my Eyes and worth the additional work. Also AotR gets a new Look after almost 10 Years.
Neat, well I do certainly love optimizations! Hope it all goes smoothly! :D
Steiner0185 your explanation impresses me! I applaud your effort! :D
Two negatives. The one CapnDan already mentioned and if you have all the planets from one system you eliminate some planets that will never be playable. An example of this would be Corellia's system where planets Selonia, Drall, Talus & Tralus could never be playable ground or space maps since you're not going to take Corellia out of a GC for one of them. Though these cases are actually relatively rare.
The polycount reduction seems huge. However, is the polycount even the performance killer for large GCs? Isn't it the fact the AI just likes to move around the planets with hundereds of single stacks of units? If the planet polycount reduction increases performance than this is quite a good upgrade.
Look forward to seeing updates on this.
Good Point, at the Moment we don´t have these Planets in the GC´s but in a future Update it could be necessary. Hm maybe not every System should get its own Sun... I have to rework that... *runs back into the Laboratory...*
Yes, in a GC with 90+ Planets its Part of the Performance Killer, for sure the AI and his useless Single stacks are the other Side of the Medal.
Could you not just have a few satellite systems placed closely around the main system in question for those planets deemed important enough to game play, then still have your new system design that you've shown us?
This would fix the issue of certain planets being excluded from the GC scenario.
Granted one would probably increase the planet count quite significantly, which I can imagine would probably cause some problems with regard to performance.
Good idea, hm depends on how many space we have between the "core" planets. But i sucessfully reduced the amount of polygons by 50% with the acutal Planet models, thats a good thing.