Engine Change

posted on June 2nd, 2004, 6:07 pm

After beta 3 have you guys considered changing to a better engine, one that has better graphics. Have you heard of elite force 3 mod, they are going to use the half life 2 engine. Could you guys aquire a new engine somehow?

posted on June 2nd, 2004, 7:06 pm

it's not easy to find another engine that has these specific capabilites the armada engine has as it is designed for star trek related games. that alternate gaming engine should have more possiblities than armada has now and also it should have to have the possibility to recreate the same gaming experience that fleet operations has now including all special effects, ship movement, resource acquiring etc.
So, do you have any idea?

DOCa Cola

posted on June 2nd, 2004, 7:41 pm

is there any sw game sthat would do it?

posted on June 2nd, 2004, 10:50 pm

no, i don't know any

posted on June 3rd, 2004, 1:59 pm

The homeworld engine is pretty kool. But it's very limited. And there is a home made engine out there somewhere I'll find the link and post it later. It looked sweet!

posted on June 3rd, 2004, 2:12 pm

i already took a look on homeworld 2 and made the same experience as you and also at http://assimsoft.com/ they are developing a nice open source engine but it's quite unsuitable for recreating armada like gameplay yet

DOCa Cola

posted on June 3rd, 2004, 9:31 pm

Does it need to recreate armada 2 gameplay? I thought the reason it would be cool to have a star trek mod on it is because of the engine currently on it.

posted on June 7th, 2004, 1:54 am

This sounds crazy but what about the Starfleet Command 3 engine?

posted on June 7th, 2004, 9:07 am

I dont think that would work

posted on June 7th, 2004, 2:58 pm

no, it won't work, i want to say it should be a bit trek like gameplay, but there aren't many rts that allow that.

DOCa Cola

posted on June 7th, 2004, 9:32 pm

oh well just a thought

posted on June 8th, 2004, 2:44 am

well the ship models ingame lookin great, but i think its unmoddable in that way... i think homeworld would be the only good one.. but thats still a matter of p.o.v(point of view)... cause i think the A2 engine is really fine for them things... i would like to see a A3 engine... *still hopin for a newer release of that series*... but i think u can still increase things like resolution of textures, ship models, nebulas etc. just enough time and willing ppl to design things and u can still keep a P4 with a radeon9800 down till its laggin..