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Solar Battles Update (Video & Screenshots)

Name:	James Laker (BurNinG)
Date Posted:	Dec 10, 2007
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Just a fast update.

I quickly made a video for a friend of mine to show him the Scout Ship in Solar Battles, so I thought I'll share with you guys. The quality isnt great, but you'll get the idea.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iTzDjwkryw

I'll upload a video of the ships as I finish them, showing off what they do, and their roles.

Here are some screenshots I have of the game play. There is still alot to be done though, but I'm getting there.

The Interceptor, the second fastest ship after the Scout.

A Interceptor going through mid battle (stupid :P):

The Scout after locking its prey:

The next ship I'll be working on it the Drone ship... Look out for the screenshots :)

EDIT: I'm looking for people who feel comfortable with Contructor (in TGEA). Contact me for more information.

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Donald \"Yadot\" Harris (Dec 10, 2007 at 22:30 GMT)

Looking good... Can't see the video though.... Dell Blockade on youtube

Orion Elenzil (Dec 10, 2007 at 23:42 GMT)

wow that looks really good !

looks helluv hard to track where everyone is around you, just like in a real space battle ! ;)

James Laker (BurNinG) (Dec 11, 2007 at 00:11 GMT)

Hehe... It is pretty hard tbh. A LOT easier than a month ago. But the Scout still needs some serious tweaking too (too fast atm)

I'll try to implement a 3d kinda radar soon since the flat 2d radar is the thing I've received the most complains about after the controls.

I need to get all the ships in before I go on holiday first though.
Edited on Dec 11, 2007 00:13 GMT

Geom (Dec 11, 2007 at 01:19 GMT)

Wow, quite nice!

Donald \"Yadot\" Harris (Dec 11, 2007 at 05:22 GMT)

Thats very cool! Yeah I could see the scout being a little fast. Will there be a temp boost for the crafts? Maybe that speed you have it set to now would be the high temp speed boost. Very good lucking stuff. Do you have a musician yet?

Mikko Lintunen (Dec 11, 2007 at 05:25 GMT)

Moldel pack is one of the very best I've seen and video looks very good, there is a lot of potential in this one.

James Laker (BurNinG) (Dec 11, 2007 at 07:26 GMT)

Thanx guys.

The Afterburner/Boost/Jetting uses your energy (2 bar from the top, on left), and so does your secondary fire. So you'll need to save some energy if you want to use your ship's specialised secondary weapon. In the case of the Scout it is dropping bombs (4-5). So if you've used too much energy, your not going to cause maximum damage, since you'll drop less.

Martin Schultz (Dec 11, 2007 at 08:49 GMT)

Simply the best space game around made with Torque. Awesome.

Stephan (viKKing) Bondier (Dec 11, 2007 at 10:17 GMT)

Looking very good James.
Keep it up coming!

William James (Dec 11, 2007 at 23:59 GMT)

Looks good. Looking forward to seeing more. Did you use the flight example starter kit?

Cyberkada (Dec 12, 2007 at 14:32 GMT)

James, excellent progress. Looking forward to an alpha release.

(the B5SC team)

James Laker (BurNinG) (Dec 13, 2007 at 01:41 GMT)

@William: Yes... It is really worth it.

Kevin James (Feb 16, 2008 at 14:02 GMT)

Incredible. When is a demo of this coming out? It looks great!

James Laker (BurNinG) (Feb 16, 2008 at 18:01 GMT)

Glad you like it. The Demo is planned for April...

Kevin James (Feb 16, 2008 at 20:53 GMT)

Awesome. How is it going?

James Laker (BurNinG) (Feb 17, 2008 at 06:30 GMT)

Expect a blog with some more info soon. It's coming along very nicely imo. I've made alot of progress. Busy redoing the Option GUI (settings), Multiplayer GUI, Start Server Gui. Just got myself Tims Building Pack for Some Space structures, so I'll be testing that out today.

If anyone is interested, I need some help and community input as per this thread.
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=72158

Rene Damm (Apr 08, 2008 at 00:38 GMT)

Just stumbled across this and I'm certainly a bit late here to post but nonetheless:

Awesome work!! The artwork is really top-notch. Amazing stuff.

James Laker (BurNinG) (Apr 08, 2008 at 07:17 GMT)

It's still good to know there are people who likes it :) Thanx for the positive comments!

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