Re: Lighting Model
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:34 pm
Okay then, gather round the fireplace, children 
My viewpoints are too embedded in the past.
I used to play Oolite on a G3 PowerPC Mac with a Rage128 card. (my main OS was Linux on that machine, only used the mac os for Oolite)
I did battles for hours on end at 15-20fps. Somehow that sometimes worked out
Giles was adamant he wanted Oolite to be accessible to peeps with low specced machines.
But I really really like the eye candy and some atmospheric OXPs (or whatever you younguns call em these days, grumble )
When Jens started the whole shader business, it was a glorious new era. New ship models that looked great, even if they brought my machine to its knees.
And planets couldn't look good enough for me. (I never liked the planets...)
But then with more realistic lighting ,shaders ,bump maps, planets, atmosphere etc etc...
... I realised the planets and the sun were too close!
Og Oolite was unrealistic in its depiction of systems because playability needed that....
But now that 'unrealisticness' started to stand out because all the rest was becoming more and more realistic.
And then Elite Dangerous came out...
I mean....
(Where's my glasses)
I can see the allure of Oolite looking like og Elite... But... Maybe a start menu that asks you you want in original or 'new standard' (Subset of expansions that most people use/install anyway after a week) or ... pimped to the gills?
Even the most basic laptop these days is completely OpenGL compatible... Memory no longer an issue...
I dunno I dunno
out of the loop.
Time for my nap. (where's that drool emoticon if you need it.... kids these days. )
My viewpoints are too embedded in the past.
I used to play Oolite on a G3 PowerPC Mac with a Rage128 card. (my main OS was Linux on that machine, only used the mac os for Oolite)
I did battles for hours on end at 15-20fps. Somehow that sometimes worked out
Giles was adamant he wanted Oolite to be accessible to peeps with low specced machines.
But I really really like the eye candy and some atmospheric OXPs (or whatever you younguns call em these days, grumble )
When Jens started the whole shader business, it was a glorious new era. New ship models that looked great, even if they brought my machine to its knees.
And planets couldn't look good enough for me. (I never liked the planets...)
But then with more realistic lighting ,shaders ,bump maps, planets, atmosphere etc etc...
... I realised the planets and the sun were too close!
Og Oolite was unrealistic in its depiction of systems because playability needed that....
But now that 'unrealisticness' started to stand out because all the rest was becoming more and more realistic.
And then Elite Dangerous came out...
I mean....
(Where's my glasses)
I can see the allure of Oolite looking like og Elite... But... Maybe a start menu that asks you you want in original or 'new standard' (Subset of expansions that most people use/install anyway after a week) or ... pimped to the gills?
Even the most basic laptop these days is completely OpenGL compatible... Memory no longer an issue...
I dunno I dunno
out of the loop.
Time for my nap. (where's that drool emoticon if you need it.... kids these days. )