Galaxy and Holomap! [20w40a EXPERIMENTAL]
The latest big update focuses on the galaxy with the addition of the Holomap. It is an important step toward interplanetary travel which should be landing soon!
The holomap currently shows the galaxy and will be used to travel through the galaxy.
Access it from a Spaceship by pressing the H key (bindable).
The stars distribution has also been revamped, and the skybox is now showing the galaxy depending on the current star location.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Features:
To-do:
If you played the game when it was called Skywanderers, you will see quite a big departure from the old holomap. The older one was fancy but not really user friendly: I had to move to a more traditional full screen with mouse UI layout instead of the 3d in-game one.
The star generation also had been changed, we now have a lot less stars. Having a hundreds of billions of stars was a real pain navigation wise and was not delivering anything special gameplay wise. This might be great for more realistic game like Elite Dangerous, but Starship EVO aims at delivering a more space-opera feel.
See you in the next one!
The holomap currently shows the galaxy and will be used to travel through the galaxy.
Access it from a Spaceship by pressing the H key (bindable).
The stars distribution has also been revamped, and the skybox is now showing the galaxy depending on the current star location.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Features:
- Access the Holomap by pressing H while flying ship
- Can access the holomap by linking the new Holo Projector to the Spaceship computer
- Can lock a Warp travel (but interstellar travel is not yet implemented)
- New star distribution in the sky, reflecting each star position, color and magnitude.
- Pan the view by middle-mouse clicking
- Zoom with the mouse scroll wheel
- In the sector view rotator around by holding left mouse button
To-do:
- Interstellar travel
- System view of current star, planets and point of interests
- Star Info panel.
- Holoprojector size settings
- Holoprojector will link to others systems
- Sector view might be replaced by a zoom on Star view.
If you played the game when it was called Skywanderers, you will see quite a big departure from the old holomap. The older one was fancy but not really user friendly: I had to move to a more traditional full screen with mouse UI layout instead of the 3d in-game one.
The star generation also had been changed, we now have a lot less stars. Having a hundreds of billions of stars was a real pain navigation wise and was not delivering anything special gameplay wise. This might be great for more realistic game like Elite Dangerous, but Starship EVO aims at delivering a more space-opera feel.
See you in the next one!