Oolite ?

Mikhayl · 01-30-09, 11:20 AM

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Tachyon · 01-30-09, 02:38 PM

Ah Oolite, yes I remember playing a really old version of that.

Anyway, I wonder if you've played "Hardwar" . It's also a worthy successor to Elite, it doesn't take place in space though. You're restricted to Titan (a moon of Saturn). The game's developers are long dead though.

Game's available for free here :

http://zedo.hardwar.org.uk

Btw Mikhayl, what mods do you recommend for OOlite? There's a lot as you mentioned.... I'm confused as to which ones to download.

GlobalExplorer · 01-31-09, 09:13 AM

Face it, the space sim genre is dead these days. There is a small market for X3-type games that imo don't have much in common with being in space.

Oolite is very good, but I got tired of it after a while. It would really need a big graphic overhaul to get me into playing it again. Especially the planet surfaces are really not state of the art. To illustrate my point, some planets from a demo I did with the Ogre3d engine. These planets were done on the basis of free NASA textures with some photoshopping. It really does not require a million $ budget to do so.

And what actually happened to Beyond the Red Line?

GlobalExplorer · 01-31-09, 10:13 AM

The craft do indeed look sweet .. and concerning planets it's of course unfair to compare procedural worlds with static textures like mine. Still, they need to look better to convince me.

Anyway, good to see there is this new development, I always thought Oolite programming stood out among noncommercial projects, very much like the original elite did among its peer.

CaptainHaplo · 02-07-09, 12:16 PM

Mikhayl - thanks for pointing it out - I dl'd it and have been playing it some. You can tell its still a bit old school interface wise - but thats the intent and a good thing. Thanks!

kiwi_2005 · 02-07-09, 07:05 PM

Just reminded me i came across this game few weeks back "Vega-Strike (Windows/Linux/Mac) and marked it for download then forgot all about it, till now. Trekies might be interested going by the pictures up on the site.

Quote:

Vega Strike is an Open Source 3D Action-Space-Sim that lets you trade, fight, and explore in a vast universe.
Vega Strike is built on top of OpenGL and runs on Win/Lin/Mac platforms. Vega Strike (the game) is currently in a playable state, but both game engine and dataset are under continued development. For more details, see About VS or visit the forums and dev blog.

vegastrike (last updated 6 Feb 2009)
http://tinyurl.com/avvne7

01-30-09, 11:20 AM	#1
Mikhayl Captain Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 485 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Oolite ? --- Last edited by Mikhayl; 02-10-10 at 11:11 AM.

01-30-09, 02:38 PM	#2
Tachyon Captain Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: India Posts: 514 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ah Oolite, yes I remember playing a really old version of that. Anyway, I wonder if you've played "Hardwar" . It's also a worthy successor to Elite, it doesn't take place in space though. You're restricted to Titan (a moon of Saturn). The game's developers are long dead though. Game's available for free here : http://zedo.hardwar.org.uk Btw Mikhayl, what mods do you recommend for OOlite? There's a lot as you mentioned.... I'm confused as to which ones to download. __________________ My propellor is faster than yours!!!

01-31-09, 09:13 AM	#3
GlobalExplorer Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Location: Berlin Posts: 2,015 Downloads: 165 Uploads: 0	Face it, the space sim genre is dead these days. There is a small market for X3-type games that imo don't have much in common with being in space. Oolite is very good, but I got tired of it after a while. It would really need a big graphic overhaul to get me into playing it again. Especially the planet surfaces are really not state of the art. To illustrate my point, some planets from a demo I did with the Ogre3d engine. These planets were done on the basis of free NASA textures with some photoshopping. It really does not require a million $ budget to do so. And what actually happened to Beyond the Red Line? __________________

01-31-09, 10:13 AM	#4
GlobalExplorer Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Location: Berlin Posts: 2,015 Downloads: 165 Uploads: 0	The craft do indeed look sweet .. and concerning planets it's of course unfair to compare procedural worlds with static textures like mine. Still, they need to look better to convince me. Anyway, good to see there is this new development, I always thought Oolite programming stood out among noncommercial projects, very much like the original elite did among its peer. __________________

02-07-09, 12:16 PM	#5
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Mikhayl - thanks for pointing it out - I dl'd it and have been playing it some. You can tell its still a bit old school interface wise - but thats the intent and a good thing. Thanks! __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo