qoob

Boiled Sweets

(Posted 2005) [#1]

Here are a couple of screenies to whet your appetite. These show the sun, stars, nebula, comet, asteroids and some of the 'alien meshes'

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http://dev.boiledsweets.com

JoeRetro

(Posted 2005) [#2]

Nice screen shots...What did you use to create the galaxy-looking background?

Boiled Sweets

(Posted 2005) [#3]

The galaxy is made up of...

2 huge spheres with 2 star textures with different scaling and half alpha'd so the tiny background stars kinda twinkle.

Then I have a 'nebula' bitmap that is applied on top.

Then I have an array of galaxies (the blue spirally things). I have added red ones too now and have angled then and I spin then gently too as they drift about.
See 3rd screenshot above!

Then have a star array for the bigger stars.

Then I have an array of asteroid entities that spin / rotate.

I then have a comet particle effect.

And a sun particles effect.

I'm gonna add intermittant shooting stars too!

This is just the background for the game!!!

They were done in PhotoShop 7

Boiled Sweets

(Posted 2005) [#4]

Added another screenie...

Grey Alien

(Posted 2005) [#5]

look forward to seeing this in action!

An aside: do you know that it's actually "whet" your appetite as in sharpen?

Boiled Sweets

(Posted 2005) [#6]

Added some alien mesh pics

Boiled Sweets

(Posted 2005) [#7]

New pics of the HUD, the HUD background can be alpha'd in realtime and the key icons can be left right or bottom of the screen.