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Thu Oct 26, 2017 2:50 pm
#77
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
What? You don't know about Spurdo Spärde?
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:40 am
#79
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
YES! Awesome! 300% blocky ship reduction? EPIC! Seriously it would be awesome to have spaceships as aesthetically appealing as EVE Online ships, but with an unlimited number of variants and designs due to procedural generation! Keep it up dev team!
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:03 am
#80
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
You are officially the best developer I have ever seen or heard of. You deserve a medal. I have been waiting so long for aesthetically pleasing yet procedural things...LindseyReid wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2017 11:01 amI saw your inpso post for stations, I love it!! I myself have a Pinterest board and a pile of books with pages marked with tabs for inspiration. And now a whole post!!!
The algorithms will slowly grow from being sub-par to passable to excellent. The stuff that your B and up ships are made of- curves, detail, and uniqueness- just take time to implement
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:16 am
#81
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
If you're being serious, S46, let me help you onto the bus and you can take your seat with the many others who have the same feelings about, "aesthetically pleasing yet procedural things".
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:21 am
#82
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
I'm hoping for some nice screenshots next week (I'm kinda starved of eye candy to feast on) and, when the game comes out, I can safely say that I will be buying it! Also I agree with Hyperion on how space stations and ships should look like - plenty of satisfying curves, greebles and so on. There's no point in getting a ship if there's nothing to feast your eyes upon! I'm hoping that I can get a ship and confidently say that it's a unique, aesthetically pleasing one that I can never get tired of looking at...
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:22 am
#83
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
Also yes I am being serious.
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:46 am
#84
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
Absolutely! I'm excited for pretty ships as well.Victor Tombs wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:16 amIf you're being serious, S46, let me help you onto the bus and you can take your seat with the many others who have the same feelings about, "aesthetically pleasing yet procedural things".
I wouldn't expect beautiful ships next week, S46. I expect Lindsey will have to scrap most of Josh's original algorithm and start from scratch, first building out a strong, stable foundation to work on. Josh was able to complete his quickly because there was a low maximum complexity. Lindsey is aiming for a much higher maximum complexity - thus, it'll take longer to see results, because increasing the maximum complexity to an algorithm drastically increases the amount of work required. When we do see pictures, they may not be gorgeous just yet... but they'll improve from there. In brief, they won't be gorgeous right away, but don't let that disappoint you.S46 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:21 amI'm hoping for some nice screenshots next week (I'm kinda starved of eye candy to feast on) and, when the game comes out, I can safely say that I will be buying it! Also I agree with Hyperion on how space stations and ships should look like - plenty of satisfying curves, greebles and so on. There's no point in getting a ship if there's nothing to feast your eyes upon! I'm hoping that I can get a ship and confidently say that it's a unique, aesthetically pleasing one that I can never get tired of looking at...
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:01 am
#85
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
There are only 2 ship algorithms that I liked. The very earliest (which actually looked like ships).
Which can be found in the videos here and here. The second one being the one that my signature is from.
Which can be found in the videos here and here. The second one being the one that my signature is from.
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:27 pm
#86
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
It is 100% my goal to make amazing stations and ships, but as Talv said, I'm writing everything from scratch, so there won't be anything amazing picture-wise this week! Just some basic shapes, joints, doodles, and lots of words. It'll probably be at least a few weeks before cool stations start happening. I'll talk more about the process and how it's all going to come together in the dev log that I'm working on.
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"You’ve got to work on something dangerous. You have to work on something that makes you uncertain. Something that makes you doubt yourself... because it stimulates you to do things you haven’t done before. The whole thing is if you know where you’re going, you’ve gone, as the poet says. And that’s death."
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:59 pm
#87
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
Just reading your post will make members very happy, Lindsey.LindseyReid wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:27 pmIt is 100% my goal to make amazing stations and ships, but as Talv said, I'm writing everything from scratch, so there won't be anything amazing picture-wise this week! Just some basic shapes, joints, doodles, and lots of words. It'll probably be at least a few weeks before cool stations start happening. I'll talk more about the process and how it's all going to come together in the dev log that I'm working on.
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Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:13 pm
#88
Make a Imgur Gallery (or equivalent) and upload random screenshots of your station and ship attempts. Especially the bad ones, those are always hilarious :3
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
You should do what Josh doesn't.LindseyReid wrote: ↑Fri Oct 27, 2017 1:27 pmIt is 100% my goal to make amazing stations and ships, but as Talv said, I'm writing everything from scratch, so there won't be anything amazing picture-wise this week! Just some basic shapes, joints, doodles, and lots of words. It'll probably be at least a few weeks before cool stations start happening. I'll talk more about the process and how it's all going to come together in the dev log that I'm working on.
Make a Imgur Gallery (or equivalent) and upload random screenshots of your station and ship attempts. Especially the bad ones, those are always hilarious :3
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Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:23 pm
#89
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
So...can we still design our own ships, or is it completely procedural now? I was looking forward to building my own ships in LT with the procedural parts ;-;
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Sun Oct 29, 2017 6:31 pm
#90
Re: [Josh] Monday, October 23, 2017
I suspect the improvements Lindsey is making to the geometries of ships and stations will also be applicable to those rendered by customization in addition to those by procedural generation. We as humans with mice and keyboards will be able to tweak the ships all we want (and perhaps have more complex ways we can bend and forge the metal to our will and specification), but her algorithms are to teach the computer to do a better job of slapping polygons together to make a spaceworthy (and hopefully, visually appealing) hunk of machinery.SpacePioneer wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:23 pmSo...can we still design our own ships, or is it completely procedural now? I was looking forward to building my own ships in LT with the procedural parts ;-;