Freeworlds: Tides of War is a fan built Star Wars total conversion mod for Digital Anvil's Freelancer game that was released several years ago. When fans began to make mods for Freelancer, one of the many things people were keen on seeing was a Freelancer mod based on the Star Wars universe developed by George Lucas. Freeworlds and Tides of War were the answer to this outcry. The development team of both mods have now joined forces to create an epic new Star Wars TC, Freeworlds: Tides of War.
This little teaser shows off the work that's been going into overhauling our systems' appearance. One of the key points was to make planets actually look like planets and not foggy, blurry spheres.
In order to do this, we scrapped the old-style Freelancer atmospheres and implemented a custom atmosphere shader which reacts dynamically to the lighting and viewing angle, after which we implemented normal and specular mapping support for planets.
More of this in the coming weeks!
And the size of the planets?
Ranges, but they're 4 - 5 x the regular vanilla FL ones. With a diameter of up to 26km vs 3-6km
The gas giants are much larger than that ;)
Kuat, pictured here, is 22km.
nice work guys.
its all coming along beautifully. ^_^
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