Do you have your camera setting in the shiparch.ini set properly? The cockpit setting should be ignored when it's set IIRC (been 2 years since I modded FL)...Commonly this is a separate file referenced the the ship entry.

Looked pretty close to accurate to me. I've seen it IRL so I know what it looks like (we get fog often around here). The billboard asteroids aren't casting it so that throws it off a little.

It's definately different since even the No CD version goes to 0x002dde03

Automatic UV doesn't work for me especially when working with your older models (no UV at all). I just tend to like customized UV for the models which points out your 'every modder has a preference' statement. Most of your textured models are unaltered but if they aren't, I texture them to my own preference. Hehe guess I'm used to it since Furball never textures his models anymore, it's a non-issue to me. Just keep creating great models and I will keep UV mapping them accordingly.

When you do texture them like he said, usually the modders will keep those textures intact, even I do...

Well it took me a total of 1.5 hours to texture the Mjolnir, most of the time was spent picking the right texture, thats what 89k polys? As long as u keep the part separate it usually is pretty easy. Most of my time working on your models has been reassigning polys to a specific texture then using various UV mapping on them. Its not hard though, just time consuming. I also recently did a one called Uberport, most of the mapping time was spent pulling the windows out of the model so the interior could be seen in-game (one of your 2009 starports btw). A tip, leave ur model in parts, it helps when UV mapping them.

I work on it almost every day so it is coming along nicely. Just got thru working on the AI once again, added in collision feelers (like antenna on an insect). This is due to that the AI is handled in another thread and doesn't have direct access to the collision system. So the main thread has to do the collision test for it and leave the result in the model it is using. Seems to be working out well since they have pretty much stopped running into the scenery.

On a side note...

Some new models added to the game, click the image for a full size pic

Starport Dock by Fur Ball







Mjolnir by Sol Command

Appreciate it. That is something I have been working on lately. I decided to go with 100 levels of every part of tech development, equipment development and other areas. Currently there is well over 2000 different commodities in the game thanks to procedural generation. I am currently working on making every station have an interior. With the help of my 2 main modellers it is becoming a reality. Hopefully Sol you will help keep this going but I know you are currently working on the Dominion game, more power to you though and congrats! I am still working on getting your earlier models textured and into the game.

At this point I'm trying to get all of the code cleaned up for the first beta release. I have about 80% of the code implemented into the engine for that phase of the game. Once it hits 100% I will start fleshing out the universe and start building the SP storyline experience. I still have a few areas to clean up such as optimizations to the deferred renderer and expanding the in-game editor to support property editing, plus a few other areas.

Thanks for the support, I am still working on building this behemoth and I don't see it stopping even after the first release version. Already looking into having procedural star systems to completely fill the galaxy with systems so it may end up with 262144 systems to explore and control by the beta release.