Run and Hydra (March 29, 2007)

The Hydra looks quite nice. What kind of interface can we see in the movie and which software is used?
 
That's XNormal's interface.
http://santy.xnormal.net/
it's a free download, so it's perfect for anyone who'd like to take a look at a 3d model of your choice real-time. I believe it accepts most 3d formats.
Anyhow - Each ship is using a combination of 5 different maps, all at a resolution of 1024x1024. These are palletized and compressed as much as possible, to keep the memory required low. For example, the Phalanx only uses 3MB of texture space. if these textures we not compressed and palletized, it would take closer to 12MB on the video card. This might not seem like much of a savings, but when we take into account that some players might only have a 64MB video card we see that we need to be as frugal as possible. This is especially important when the texture of the Camel come into play - they're 2048x2048. Uncompressed that's 64MB by itself! Compressed, they're only 6MB, so you can see why we're doing it.
Also, there are two more videos up for grabs:
http://www.hedfiles.net/wcpioneer/Phalanx3d.mov
http://www.hedfiles.net/wcpioneer/Camel3d.mov
Both are compressed with Sorensen 3, and are 17 and 23 MB respectively.
Enjoy!
 
Status? How exactly do you mean? It's not the low-end ship, if that's what you're alluding to. It preforms the Long-range explorer role in the game. As far as we're able, it will have the identical stats as the one in the original Privateer.
 
Howard Day said:
Status? How exactly do you mean? It's not the low-end ship, if that's what you're alluding to. It preforms the Long-range explorer role in the game. As far as we're able, it will have the identical stats as the one in the original Privateer.
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That's got to be one of the things that I am most interested in, seeing the Tarsus in its prime.
 
Ditto. You're a great artist and all, but I just don't have a reason to *care* about the new ships (yet)... the Tarsus is the treat.
 
I know where you guys are coming from. Whenever we release the playable demo, the flyable ship will be the Tarsus. Just doesn't seem right to do it otherwise.
 
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