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I LOVE freespace, but i realise it needs substantial upgrades to be a market competitor again. Therefore I think that the programmers need as many ideas as possable so they can deside which ones are possable to make.

So on my website I am going to make a list of all the ideas that people come up with so programmers can trawl through them selecting the ones they might not have thourt of.

this is my list (I posted it [URL=http://www.volitionwatch.com/vwbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6028:]Here[/URL] earler):

1) Add a section to the fighter beam code so you can select the missile it uses for each beam.

2) A beam that acts like a tractorbeam and is cone shaped.

3) Make objects rotate around the models X Axis not freespace 2's defaut axis. (this alows for infinate degrees of rotations)

4) Alow objects to rotate in more than one Axis.

5) Up the table limit for all tables, up the polly limit and ship limit.

6) Change the cheat activation sequence "www.freespace2.com" to somthing like "FozzyRules"

7) Look for unused bits of code (SSM).

8) Make the beams celindrical (mapped on to a beam.pof) this will get rid of the flat look which is what drags me back to reality when i am playing FS.

9) Make .ANI files mappable onto FS ships so we can have cool new effects. (Could be usefull for the shaddow ships in the Babylon Project)

10) Make a 3D Hud (.pof) to go in front of the camera like Starlancer to give the player the fealing that they are in there favorate ship. (it would be hard to make it so it does not display outside aswell)

11) Make FRED run your current FS game you are making (could be acomplished by adding a comandline to FS
"FS.exe -level mylevel" but dont ask me how)

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I LOVE freespace, but i realise it needs substantial upgrades to be a market competitor again. Therefore I think that the programmers need as many ideas as possable so they can deside which ones are possable to make.

So on my website I am going to make a list of all the ideas that people come up with so programmers can trawl through them selecting the ones they might not have thourt of.

this is my list (I posted it [URL=http://www.volitionwatch.com/vwbb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6028:]Here[/URL] earler):

1) Add a section to the fighter beam code so you can select the missile it uses for each beam.

2) A beam that acts like a tractorbeam and is cone shaped.

3) Make objects rotate around the models X Axis not freespace 2's defaut axis. (this alows for infinate degrees of rotations)

4) Alow objects to rotate in more than one Axis.

5) Up the table limit for all tables, up the polly limit and ship limit.

6) Change the cheat activation sequence "www.freespace2.com" to somthing like "FozzyRules"

7) Look for unused bits of code (SSM).

8) Make the beams celindrical (mapped on to a beam.pof) this will get rid of the flat look which is what drags me back to reality when i am playing FS.

9) Make .ANI files mappable onto FS ships so we can have cool new effects. (Could be usefull for the shaddow ships in the Babylon Project)

10) Make a 3D Hud (.pof) to go in front of the camera like Starlancer to give the player the fealing that they are in there favorate ship. (it would be hard to make it so it does not display outside aswell)

11) Make FRED run your current FS game you are making (could be acomplished by adding a comandline to FS
"FS.exe -level mylevel" but dont ask me how)

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You realize there's another thread on this very same topic, right?

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You realize there's another thread on this very same topic, right?

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Make a launcher that you can change the pictures and placement of the buttons. They could be Called "Schemes" this means that when you launch the launcher through a commandline

"launcher.exe -Scheme Fozz.scm"

It will load a sequential text file containing the name of the subdirectory and the Files required to display properly.

its realy easy to make in VB, but I thourt that this was going to be cross platform.

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Make a launcher that you can change the pictures and placement of the buttons. They could be Called "Schemes" this means that when you launch the launcher through a commandline

"launcher.exe -Scheme Fozz.scm"

It will load a sequential text file containing the name of the subdirectory and the Files required to display properly.

its realy easy to make in VB, but I thourt that this was going to be cross platform.

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You realize there's another thread on this very same topic, right?

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I do but its getting rather off topic (PS2 FS) lets just stick to our PC's fo the time being, anyway this is going on my site as a list with a ASP forum if i can ever get the code to work

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I do but its getting rather off topic (PS2 FS) lets just stick to our PC's fo the time being, anyway this is going on my site as a list with a ASP forum if i can ever get the code to work

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If it's going off topic complain about it and post your own views. We don`t need 20 different FS Source threads. Especially as most of them will end up repeating themselves

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If it's going off topic complain about it and post your own views. We don`t need 20 different FS Source threads. Especially as most of them will end up repeating themselves

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8) Make the beams celindrical (mapped on to a beam.pof)

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8) Make the beams celindrical (mapped on to a beam.pof)

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This would be A-1 STUPED. You have any idea how slow that would be, and that it would be fundamentally at odds with how beam appearance is defined in the tables?

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This would be A-1 STUPED. You have any idea how slow that would be, and that it would be fundamentally at odds with how beam appearance is defined in the tables?

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it would sure look dull.
but if you make them the same way as primary blobs, then it would look cool.

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it would sure look dull.
but if you make them the same way as primary blobs, then it would look cool.

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it wont be that bad, i am talking about an eight sided cilinder with 16 verts.

each level will be a new instance of the pof file mapped diffrently (but transparent to a degree).

The beam width tag will become the radius of the cilinder.

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it wont be that bad, i am talking about an eight sided cilinder with 16 verts.

each level will be a new instance of the pof file mapped diffrently (but transparent to a degree).

The beam width tag will become the radius of the cilinder.

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