Star Trek - In Development

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rjord2021
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Testing of a new desert planet......
Each planet created for this mod is tested in the editor to make sure color, atmosphere, and brightness are correct.



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The planets look great and I'm intrigued over what you plan to do with ship sprites. Have you found a way to animate them based on which direction they are facing? The old quasi 3d flight games used sprites for the aircraft by having it show a different frame depending on where you were at around it and it worked quite well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eosVhMLr1A
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An atmospheric world using a new technique I have devised........

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ORIGINAL: rjord1

An atmospheric world using a new technique I have devised........

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Hey Roy, you're back! :D

I thought you totally abandoned DW:U modding and maybe wanted to wait for DW 2. Keep up the good work. The planets are GORGEOUS
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ORIGINAL: EliphasTheInheritor


Hey Roy, you're back! :D

I thought you totally abandoned DW:U modding and maybe wanted to wait for DW 2. Keep up the good work. The planets are GORGEOUS


No... Hadn't given up on the modding ..... just got extra busy this year making sure my business didn't collapse with this virus.

I also got a little disillusioned with the negativity going around about Star Wars, Picard, and Doctor Who.

However, I loved Doctor Who and Picard when I eventually binge-watched them ..... and with Star Wars.... well I am looking forward to Season 2 The Mandalorian.

I am looking at modding for DW1 and DW2 in the future.
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Below is an example of the new gas giants being added to the mod along with an example of how the original gas giant looked.

The next screenshot will show an example of how the ringed planets will appear.


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Creating this Federation starbase took about 45 minutes to do in photoshop to get it to a stage where it would work in the mod.

Then added a touch more saturation to the color to give the same appearance as seen in the films from The Motion Picture onwards.

When posting the picture in the forum I lose some detail in the picture which is strange but this looks great in-game.



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The one on the right looks good. The one on the left is kinda bloomy with the blue glow.
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I was trying a new way of creating a ringed planet but it looked terrible and was aborted.
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as with the last post..... this attempt at a ring planet was not good and thus aborted.
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