Galactic Melee

Rak'kar · Post by **Rak'kar** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:35 pm

By the way, I need pre-alpha testers. Please message me through the message board if you are interested.

http://www.galacticmelee.com

Post by **xavier** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:49 pm

Nice work -- and damn that was fast.

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:15 am

Congrats, I've been following the progress of this on your blog.

deficite · Post by **deficite** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:29 am

The first screen shot reminds me a lot of my current project. I, however, do not have such pretty graphics

. Your gameplay differs from mine though, from what I can see.

Looks very nice.

Post by **Praetor** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 3:44 am

The first and last shots are my favorite. I love the majesty of a good spacescape.

smernesto · Post by **smernesto** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:39 am

What tools did you use for level editing, mesh modeling, what scene manager ?

Do you load your scene from a file, what format did you use?

Thanks

Ernesto

kcbanner · Post by **kcbanner** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:47 am

I am currently working on a large scale space game am interested if you do any sort of paging, also how you render far away planets without them getting culled (do you use billboard?)

Rak'kar · Post by **Rak'kar** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:20 am

I export MAX files as osm and use a custom loader. This is a weak point of my system as I really need a true editor. Right now I have to interpret what my artists setup and do the materials by hand.

The render distance is infinite. Since I'm doing things by hand I do a lot of tricks for good FPS. The planet in the last screenshot is unlit, for example, using an emissive map and dual channel uv scrolling for rotation. There are also a lot of billboards.

Post by **sinbad** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:00 pm

Looking good!

Lioric · Post by **Lioric** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:18 pm

Excellent, good job (nice graphics)

serrix · Post by **serrix** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:42 am

Wow... very nice.
Would be very very interested in seeing how it all fits together as i'm trying to create something similar... i'll be uber-happy if i can get it to look nearly as cool as yours.

Nauk · Post by **Nauk** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:13 am

Looks great

Congratulations!

Post by **jacmoe** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:31 am

First and last screenshot really looks great!

Rak'kar · Post by **Rak'kar** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:12 pm

Public Closed Alpha has now started. It means anyone can signup as long as you agree to the NDA not to divulge specifics. Only 1000 slots open.
http://www.galacticmelee.com/beta/

andrei25ni · Post by **andrei25ni** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:07 pm

this looks great ! I like the ship in the 4th screenshot.

Rak'kar · Post by **Rak'kar** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:12 pm

Open beta has now started
http://www.galacticmelee.com/downloads/ ... _21_07.exe

Here's an action screenshot

Glenn101 · Post by **Glenn101** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:20 am

Truly stunning graphics.