Moon Heightmaps and Interactions

TIHan · Post by **TIHan** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:42 am

This is another discussion specifically talking about if moons should have any purpose in Evochron. If this has been discussed before, I apologize for starting a new one; I truly believe Evochron having a moon interaction would be amazing.

The first few things about what purposes the moons should have, of course, is a base, or a small city with specific missions and items. You could have a mission that you got from a station from space that tells you to go mine particular minerals from a moon.

Also, moons need to have some sort of heightmap instead of it currently being a sphere with a texture. Some moons don't have an atmosphere (technically they do but it would hardly affect an incoming ship).

Scavenger4711 · Post by **Scavenger4711** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:05 pm

Yeah, I totally agree with you. Moons should have more elements to interact with.

Stations on the moon would be great. Due that there isn't any Oxygen, cities might have to look different than those on planets. So if we could get a new city model especially for moons I would love to be able really to fly through them - that would be amazing

What imo also could work would be hollow moons with stations inside or at least with a huge crater on them with a city inside. So you have some kind of a 'cave in the moon'.

About the heighmap... I'm not sure about that, due it has to be rendered then - just like the planets - and I don't know how much more it would slow down the game. Imo it's not that nessecary. Would be great though.... but it's not nessecary.

Post by **Marvin** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:37 pm

From post: 99613, Topic: tid=7138, author=Scavenger4711 wrote:What imo also could work would be hollow moons with stations inside or at least with a huge crater on them with a city inside. So you have some kind of a 'cave in the moon'.

Mars (the real Mars) has two moons ... both of which look a lot like the asteroid cave in Mercenary.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:06 pm

Everyone has 2 Caves, one in the Attick and one in the Basement. The smell from the Attick is ussualy relatively better then the one from the Basement....

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MMaggio · Post by **MMaggio** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:10 pm

There are no attics in Florida, unless it's an indoor pool!

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:46 pm

From post: 99656, Topic: tid=7138, author=MMaggio wrote: There are no attics in Florida, unless it's an indoor pool!

And I thought there are no Basements in Florida....

:P:P:P:P:P

Zule · Post by **Zule** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:57 pm

Moon interaction would be interesting the more to do in the game the better in my opinion.