Maybe this exists already but i've yet to find it..
Is there a "media package" from Fdev including ED 3d models - ships, stations, planets (texmaps/shaders) that budding cg artists and game modders can have to tinker with under a public license in order create their own media/content.. i've seen some photos from community members of things they've made - was wondering if these guys are just mega talented or there exists such a package of public domain ED stuffs to have fun with?
I ask this because I'm dying to prove that we can have realistic looking stars in the current engine - the kind of stuff that we've seen in online media from NASA, SDO, cassini/huygens etc -
I still get this idea every time I do some fuel scooping - why can't we get stars and gas giants that actually look like the real thing?...
When can we fly below or close to the orbital drop altitude of gas giants and see colourful clouds whisping by?
and when can we scan different stars based on their "spectral" / "elemental" signatures?
when do we get black holes that are actually impossible to see because there are super-powered accretion disk emissions? (and when can we scan these?)
after all this nonsense with oddysey i don't even care for the new armors, guns, badly animated character toons or base interiors with dubstep & house playing in the background... all i want is to have a ship scanning system that instead of being a seperate mini-game actually gets displayed on the cockpit canopy screen and can be switched between the various microwave frequencies that would be used in scanning solar systems, having different shaders for each frequency set - and then with gas giants and stars that resemble what our current science has managed to uncover... i can imagine fdev doesn't have to time for these extra's right now - so i would be more than prepared and excited to provide my own graphics resources to this effect... if i had some insight into the game's engine, or similar assets to aid this type of production...
...just a suggestion...
Elite was always about the simulator for me..
Is there a "media package" from Fdev including ED 3d models - ships, stations, planets (texmaps/shaders) that budding cg artists and game modders can have to tinker with under a public license in order create their own media/content.. i've seen some photos from community members of things they've made - was wondering if these guys are just mega talented or there exists such a package of public domain ED stuffs to have fun with?
I ask this because I'm dying to prove that we can have realistic looking stars in the current engine - the kind of stuff that we've seen in online media from NASA, SDO, cassini/huygens etc -
I still get this idea every time I do some fuel scooping - why can't we get stars and gas giants that actually look like the real thing?...
When can we fly below or close to the orbital drop altitude of gas giants and see colourful clouds whisping by?
and when can we scan different stars based on their "spectral" / "elemental" signatures?
when do we get black holes that are actually impossible to see because there are super-powered accretion disk emissions? (and when can we scan these?)
after all this nonsense with oddysey i don't even care for the new armors, guns, badly animated character toons or base interiors with dubstep & house playing in the background... all i want is to have a ship scanning system that instead of being a seperate mini-game actually gets displayed on the cockpit canopy screen and can be switched between the various microwave frequencies that would be used in scanning solar systems, having different shaders for each frequency set - and then with gas giants and stars that resemble what our current science has managed to uncover... i can imagine fdev doesn't have to time for these extra's right now - so i would be more than prepared and excited to provide my own graphics resources to this effect... if i had some insight into the game's engine, or similar assets to aid this type of production...
...just a suggestion...
Elite was always about the simulator for me..
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