Choice of Ship Display Angle in Future Versions? re: Frogboy's "What Went Wrong"

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Maybe you guys can show the ships at an angle to show all of the designed 3d glory in a future version.
I read that Frogboy was upset that he went with the top
down version of the ships since they are really 3d.

Perhaps you'll give the user a choice in the menu.

Ships Displayed- Toggle TOPDOWN or ANGLED 3D VIEW

hmm?


Great great game.

Douglas
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
CariELF said it would take something like hundreds of hours of render time to make all of the angles for each ship :(

Maybe for GalCiv 2, but no joy for this one.

Oh well... I for one don't mind top down graphics all that much. The graphics for GalCiv have been complained about by reviewers since it's release, which I think is just insane! The graphics are great!!! Unfortunately these days a game is not considered "good" unless it's rendered in 3D and requires a 128 meg accelerator card :p
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I just meant one angle ..instead of top down...
a certain angled view. fixed. a different perspective.
as in the ship always being viewed at angle 60 or something :)

Doug
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Ahh... I got ya. You could just mirror the image if the ship was moving left or right (still need some kind of direction indicator).

Still a lot of renders tho'

Lets see 20 some ships times 5 major races & the minor race set... Someone would have to do over 100 renders!

Don't get me wrong - I think it would look cool! But it is a lot of work on the artist. ;)