this package is under heavy development, the game itself is not yet
playable, this version should only be seen as a demo version
your Contribution ... Help Wanted!
This free, Open Source game relies heavily on you, the reader/player/user,
to contribute to the project and therefore make it bigger and better with
the time (so let's build a bazaar...).
At the current moment, TuxFleet is programmed by a single person,
which may enough to create a real good game, and I don't think that I am
such a good programmer to deliver as well a 3D space fight engine as well
as intelligent bots/AIs as well as nice-looking 3D models of starships
and starfighters.
At the moment, the game is in an really early stage, the source code
really looks ugly (but compiles and works) and I will have to do some re-design
and write a better API for programmers (you) be able to expand TuxFleet
by creating new, better AIs or more or better headup-display-objects, or
add new features to the game.
So, if you are a programmer, better wait some more time until this
is done, then contributing code will get easier for you.
Right now, I am searching for:
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people who can design free space ship models with a 3D-modeler like ac3d
or 3dsmax
I maybe can program a little bit, but in no way I have the talent or the
time the model space ships myself - I tried, but I am not able to use those
3D-modellers, hacking source code is more my type of thingy.
I have searched the net for free 3D-models to use, but wasn't very
successfull - the models I've found have too many polygons and no texture,
cause they were designed to be used for raytracing purposes, but not for
fast gameplay on todays commonly-used 3D hardware accellerators like my
TNT2pro.
What I need are models with _few_ polygons and _lots_ of texture.
I am searching for everything that can be used inside my simulator, this
includes:
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models from the 'Star Trek' theme - Klingon Birds of Prey, Borg Cubes,
Defiant-class spaceships, various space stations, etc
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models from the 'Star Wars' theme - X-Wings, Tie-Fighters, Star Destroyers,
freighter ships etc
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models free from known space themes maybe the ships of the Tux Freedom
Federation or any other space ship design that you've in mind which was
before never seen on any screen
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dont't let stop your imagination at 'honest' or 'sensible' space ships
- what I also want to see in my game are Borg Cubes with giant tits, Ferengi
Fleeships (isn't every Ferengi ship a Fleeship?) or Laura Crofts
floating around in space (with clothes on, but spacesuit off ;-)
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people with enough artistic ability to draw 2D-images of explosions or
other stuff
I am desperatly searching for good explosions - small ones and big
ones.
What I need is a set of pictures (gifs,png,whatever) of square size
(i.e. 32x32) which give , if displayed one after another, make up a real
good explosion animation
If you want to contribute 3D models or animations or pictures, please do
_not_ send me the archive - please make your work available for me per
ftp or http and just send me the url.
If you've found suitable free models or animations while surfing the
net, please send me the url of this place/file.
I want to spend more time programming and less time searching for suitable
models myself...
see also: Who is TuxFleet?