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Nice pic, sometimes dangerous environment.
Star Trek: Defense Line (Developing a new ST RTS game)
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Here a new Planet, inspired by u.s.s.sovereign Texture
I used only soft selections of Rock, Sand, Coralle Pictures and used some Mooncrater Pictures.
I used only soft selections of Rock, Sand, Coralle Pictures and used some Mooncrater Pictures.
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Wonderful planet. It is a kind of a small D-class planet on a stage of terraforming, isn't it? I can see some opened water surfaces and a few plants areas. The rocks in the equatorial part are extremely high, if compare with the shots of Earth's surface from satellites. I'd spend a couple of weeks exploring such world. Looks great!
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It's with Max Bumb, but for me it's not so important to get 1.0 closer to Nature.
Otherwise the High of Mountains depend on Atmospherepressure and Gravitationacceleration, look on Mars
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Yes, exactly. I just compared planet with the Earth. The Mars surface is much more rough, I agree.
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We haven’t written for a while. Here are things we were working on during last months:
1) The Attack order is now available and ships can attack even friendly targets at command.
2) The Protect order builds ships in a protective formation around the target to protect.
3) The Self-destruct sequence could be canceled now. A player has five seconds to change his mind and not to ruin the ship (the button is highlighted)
4) Now it is possible to order ships to patrol the area. There is a button in the Orders Menu or player can press Shift+Click to set waypoints. The set waypoints are visible only if the ship is selected.
5) The Stop order cancels any other commands to the ship.
6) The fleet now moves at the slowest vessel’s speed to make all ships move at the same velocity. This function is needed not to have your small ships destroyed by the defence line of enemy base while your big ships are still moving to the battlefield.
7) The ships create queue to the place where they could be repaired while the dock is already busy.
8) The Engine System is reconstructed again. Now the ships act more realistic.
9) Cursors are replaced with new ones.
10) We have upgraded our Unity 3D to the 2018 version. Because of this upgrade, our celestial bodies were broken down and we had to replace the whole module and remake all planets, stars and other space environments.
In the meantime, we celebrate Defence Line’s birthday, as it is 3-years-and-2-days old. Here is a wallpaper as a small present to you.
By the way, thanks to Don Woligroski (Cleeve) for his permission to use his models in our project. You can see his Klingon K'vek-class vessel on the wallpaper. Akira-class is by our friend and colleague TUB_Husker.
1) The Attack order is now available and ships can attack even friendly targets at command.
2) The Protect order builds ships in a protective formation around the target to protect.
3) The Self-destruct sequence could be canceled now. A player has five seconds to change his mind and not to ruin the ship (the button is highlighted)
4) Now it is possible to order ships to patrol the area. There is a button in the Orders Menu or player can press Shift+Click to set waypoints. The set waypoints are visible only if the ship is selected.
5) The Stop order cancels any other commands to the ship.
6) The fleet now moves at the slowest vessel’s speed to make all ships move at the same velocity. This function is needed not to have your small ships destroyed by the defence line of enemy base while your big ships are still moving to the battlefield.
7) The ships create queue to the place where they could be repaired while the dock is already busy.
8) The Engine System is reconstructed again. Now the ships act more realistic.
9) Cursors are replaced with new ones.
10) We have upgraded our Unity 3D to the 2018 version. Because of this upgrade, our celestial bodies were broken down and we had to replace the whole module and remake all planets, stars and other space environments.
In the meantime, we celebrate Defence Line’s birthday, as it is 3-years-and-2-days old. Here is a wallpaper as a small present to you.
By the way, thanks to Don Woligroski (Cleeve) for his permission to use his models in our project. You can see his Klingon K'vek-class vessel on the wallpaper. Akira-class is by our friend and colleague TUB_Husker.
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That sounds good.
The update of the windows lightning reached you?
Because the lights of the Nebula are all on.
The update of the windows lightning reached you?
Because the lights of the Nebula are all on.
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I like the images of the star and the planets. They look very good!
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The nebula on the background is just a skybox. The real 3D nebulas are still worked on.
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A litttle Issue in my Opinion, decrease the Ship movement in depth.
Because, in the first, I saw not the Sovereign in the middle of the Picture.
Picture what I mean is on modbb.
"4) Now it is possible to order ships to patrol the area"
is this with the blue lines? (picture modbb)
Because, in the first, I saw not the Sovereign in the middle of the Picture.
Picture what I mean is on modbb.
"4) Now it is possible to order ships to patrol the area"
is this with the blue lines? (picture modbb)
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Hmm, the ships are already limited in their ability to move in a vertical axis. Because of the physical engines system they found themselves too high or too low, but they have a script that makes them get back to the zero altitude.
As for blue lines - yes, it is a patrolling course))
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Good evening, officers!
Today our project celebrates its 4-year anniversary since the beginning of work. We're still alive, though a lot of game modules had to be rebuilt. Thanks to unexpected reinforcement we finally managed to finish a workable engines module. It causes no bugs. The work is going on.
Today our project celebrates its 4-year anniversary since the beginning of work. We're still alive, though a lot of game modules had to be rebuilt. Thanks to unexpected reinforcement we finally managed to finish a workable engines module. It causes no bugs. The work is going on.
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This looks very promising! Hope to see more!
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Greetings, Ladies and Gentlemen!
The Defence Line project celebrates its 5th anniversary. We’ve been silent for a year, and you could consider DL dead. Well, that’s not true. Now I’m going to tell what has been done since our last news report.
Five years ago our project leader was a schoolboy whose enthusiasm started our DL project. He was just an amateur solo developer. Since then, the old Defence Line had been under construction. Of course, the amateur programmer had to make his own billion of mistakes. The project had a dreadful amount of troubles and bugs, and each next got was more and more difficult. So our project leader had to start the re-coding the game mechanics from the beginning.
After a year of working we finally got to the point where we left the old Defence Line.
1) The main part of game mechanics has been successfully recreated. The game feels as it used to be before the “reboot”.
2) The building system is much better and more stable than in the old DL. The player can select unconstructed stations and decommission stations and ships.
3) Each starship or station has its own building animation (Armada 1-2 style — polygon by polygon).
4) The starship’s or station’s icon now has a faction background that shows which faction controls it. The colour of the selection circle shows the colour of the player:
5) A small but very nice effect for phasers: arcs are now visually loading before firing. USS Typhoon is about to fire phasers:
6) We have upgraded the MSD system to display systems status in colours. Green, yellow and red on the MSD icon of the ship or station:
7) We’ve improved the sensors. Their effectiveness depends on alert status. The range is not affected but if your ship is on Green Alert, the full range allows you to see starships and stations, as well as all the data about them. If the ship is on Yellow Alert, only part of the range is fully informative. The outer part of the range shows only a noisy shape of the ship, without any info about it. If your ship is on Red Alert, you can see only full data in close range, in the middle range you can see a noisy shape, and the outer range shows you only noises, even without a shape to guess the nature of object or its side:
8) Impulse engines now stabilize the ship’s position if it got impulse after impact. If the engines are down, the ship or station will keep drifting through the map until it is destroyed by stellar bodies or leaves the map boundaries.
9) We started created special abilities of ships. By now we have antimatter mines (Defiant class) – mines model is needed; and phasers sheaf (Saber class) - 4 accurate shots at the selected target or its subsystem with heavy damage to the shields or the selected subsystem.
10) The main death explosion effect is now preceded by small explosions:
11) We have added pulse phasers for the Atlantia class:
12) The research system has been completely changed. Upgrades are now located not in the science station menu, but on the separate screen where the player can choose which station or facility should conduct the research.
13) Asteroids are now selectable and mining ships are gathering dilithium from them.
14) The light has been changed. The skybox now creates soft illumination.
15) And perhaps the most odd thing is that now the name of the ship is displayed on its hull. The NCC numbers will be added a bit later.
16) Ships now can change the altitude. It allows you to build your fleet in formation in full 3D.
17) If the ship is severely damaged its lights (nacelles, impulse engines, etc) will wink.
18) The ships’ “parking lights” added.
19) Thanks to TUB_Husker we have Defiant class, Prometheus class, textures for some models and drydock model.
Along with the good news we have some problems that still take time to solve:
1) The engines works a bit oddly (we cannot find the reason for ships’ short range teleportation. Spore-drive experiments?
).
2) The fleet control menu is now absent. It will be added after fully functional MSD and Specials.
3) The Borg Collective is still needed to be created. We plan to make the Borg very different from other factions. One of the reasons is to make the game for the Collective more complicated as the Borg is outbalanced.
4) Borg ships moving needs to be created.
5) The trading station and the trading itself have not been created yet.
6) The AI is lost and needs to be recreated from the beginning.
7) The cursors system needs to be readapted from the old DL.
8) The Main and Pause menus are lost and the only way to exit the game is with alt+f4.
Here is our leader’s attempt to texture. Klingon construction ship.
As you can see we are still fighting and have the desire to win.
Live Long and Prosper!
The Defence Line project celebrates its 5th anniversary. We’ve been silent for a year, and you could consider DL dead. Well, that’s not true. Now I’m going to tell what has been done since our last news report.
Five years ago our project leader was a schoolboy whose enthusiasm started our DL project. He was just an amateur solo developer. Since then, the old Defence Line had been under construction. Of course, the amateur programmer had to make his own billion of mistakes. The project had a dreadful amount of troubles and bugs, and each next got was more and more difficult. So our project leader had to start the re-coding the game mechanics from the beginning.
After a year of working we finally got to the point where we left the old Defence Line.
1) The main part of game mechanics has been successfully recreated. The game feels as it used to be before the “reboot”.
2) The building system is much better and more stable than in the old DL. The player can select unconstructed stations and decommission stations and ships.
3) Each starship or station has its own building animation (Armada 1-2 style — polygon by polygon).
4) The starship’s or station’s icon now has a faction background that shows which faction controls it. The colour of the selection circle shows the colour of the player:
5) A small but very nice effect for phasers: arcs are now visually loading before firing. USS Typhoon is about to fire phasers:
6) We have upgraded the MSD system to display systems status in colours. Green, yellow and red on the MSD icon of the ship or station:
7) We’ve improved the sensors. Their effectiveness depends on alert status. The range is not affected but if your ship is on Green Alert, the full range allows you to see starships and stations, as well as all the data about them. If the ship is on Yellow Alert, only part of the range is fully informative. The outer part of the range shows only a noisy shape of the ship, without any info about it. If your ship is on Red Alert, you can see only full data in close range, in the middle range you can see a noisy shape, and the outer range shows you only noises, even without a shape to guess the nature of object or its side:
8) Impulse engines now stabilize the ship’s position if it got impulse after impact. If the engines are down, the ship or station will keep drifting through the map until it is destroyed by stellar bodies or leaves the map boundaries.
9) We started created special abilities of ships. By now we have antimatter mines (Defiant class) – mines model is needed; and phasers sheaf (Saber class) - 4 accurate shots at the selected target or its subsystem with heavy damage to the shields or the selected subsystem.
10) The main death explosion effect is now preceded by small explosions:
11) We have added pulse phasers for the Atlantia class:
12) The research system has been completely changed. Upgrades are now located not in the science station menu, but on the separate screen where the player can choose which station or facility should conduct the research.
13) Asteroids are now selectable and mining ships are gathering dilithium from them.
14) The light has been changed. The skybox now creates soft illumination.
15) And perhaps the most odd thing is that now the name of the ship is displayed on its hull. The NCC numbers will be added a bit later.
16) Ships now can change the altitude. It allows you to build your fleet in formation in full 3D.
17) If the ship is severely damaged its lights (nacelles, impulse engines, etc) will wink.
18) The ships’ “parking lights” added.
19) Thanks to TUB_Husker we have Defiant class, Prometheus class, textures for some models and drydock model.
Along with the good news we have some problems that still take time to solve:
1) The engines works a bit oddly (we cannot find the reason for ships’ short range teleportation. Spore-drive experiments?
).2) The fleet control menu is now absent. It will be added after fully functional MSD and Specials.
3) The Borg Collective is still needed to be created. We plan to make the Borg very different from other factions. One of the reasons is to make the game for the Collective more complicated as the Borg is outbalanced.
4) Borg ships moving needs to be created.
5) The trading station and the trading itself have not been created yet.
6) The AI is lost and needs to be recreated from the beginning.
7) The cursors system needs to be readapted from the old DL.
8) The Main and Pause menus are lost and the only way to exit the game is with alt+f4.
Here is our leader’s attempt to texture. Klingon construction ship.
As you can see we are still fighting and have the desire to win.
Live Long and Prosper!
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Hey cool, you alive 
. A lot of points, I can imagine me, that the game is now in the whole verydifferent from you start.
If you go on modbb you find my new discord channel. Intrepid is nearly finished and the supply depot is ready
. A lot of points, I can imagine me, that the game is now in the whole verydifferent from you start. If you go on modbb you find my new discord channel. Intrepid is nearly finished and the supply depot is ready
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Hey cool, you alive
If you go on modbb you find my new discord channel. Intrepid is nearly finished and the supply depot is ready
That's really great! Thank you! By the way have you ever made an antimater mine model? We need it to finish the Defiant class specials.
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Oh, yeah, and in fact we have a long road ahead. The road will be mastered by the walking one...You guys have certainly come a long way
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Hello to all fans of the Star Trek universe. Today Star Trek Defence Line project celebrates six years since the beginning of active development of the game. We have been silent for a long time, but today is very special day for us. For the last six years we have been working on the game, for these six years you have been supporting us giving strength in our struggle. Thank you very much for being with us.
This birthday will be special primarily because along with this post we are releasing a demo 0.10 of the second phase the project development. The last playable demo available for anyone was released in 2017. Since then a lot has changed and it is very important for us to know your opinion on the current state of the game. If you find any bugs write to us about them. Unfortunately, not all systems have been restored since 2020 data loss, and some functions are turned off. For example the resource collecting is not working by now (the player is given 1,000,000 points of Dilithium and Titanium instead).
What you can do:
The player can build five types of stations: starbase, two shipyards, research station and outpost.
The player can build twelve starship classes: five in the first shipyard, six in the second and one in starbase. Outpost is also capable of building Defiant-class ships, but since this class could be constructed in the first shipyard, it does not count.
The player can upgrade the starbase twice. So far, upgrades have not effects.
The player can start a research, which is also just a test and has no effect. To do the research, you need to build a research station, select in the research menu the station and after that research itself. Then it will be possible to start it.
In addition, the player has four starships’ abilities to test: antimatter mines for Defiant-class, a phaser bunch for Saber-class, warp trail scanning for Nova-class, and tractor beam for all starships.
As to completely new mechanics that our players have not seen before we would like to demonstrate the global minimap, which is very different from the old version, that could be seen in previous test demos. The new global minimap can be scaled with the mouse wheel and moved by moving the cursor to the edge of the screen.
On the opposite side of the map, there is a hostile base consisting of one starbase, two builders, and a Sovereign-class starship. They do not have AI, so they will not build something or fly around the map, but they will allow the player test the firepower of his ships. If you do not want to fly to another part of the map, the ‘orders’ menu will allow you to attack any target, including your own ships. Key 'A' on the keyboard is responsible for the same order.
Download the demo:
https://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-defence-line/downloads/demo-m2-10
Thanks again for being with us. Live long and prosper!
This birthday will be special primarily because along with this post we are releasing a demo 0.10 of the second phase the project development. The last playable demo available for anyone was released in 2017. Since then a lot has changed and it is very important for us to know your opinion on the current state of the game. If you find any bugs write to us about them. Unfortunately, not all systems have been restored since 2020 data loss, and some functions are turned off. For example the resource collecting is not working by now (the player is given 1,000,000 points of Dilithium and Titanium instead).
What you can do:
The player can build five types of stations: starbase, two shipyards, research station and outpost.
The player can build twelve starship classes: five in the first shipyard, six in the second and one in starbase. Outpost is also capable of building Defiant-class ships, but since this class could be constructed in the first shipyard, it does not count.
The player can upgrade the starbase twice. So far, upgrades have not effects.
The player can start a research, which is also just a test and has no effect. To do the research, you need to build a research station, select in the research menu the station and after that research itself. Then it will be possible to start it.
In addition, the player has four starships’ abilities to test: antimatter mines for Defiant-class, a phaser bunch for Saber-class, warp trail scanning for Nova-class, and tractor beam for all starships.
As to completely new mechanics that our players have not seen before we would like to demonstrate the global minimap, which is very different from the old version, that could be seen in previous test demos. The new global minimap can be scaled with the mouse wheel and moved by moving the cursor to the edge of the screen.
On the opposite side of the map, there is a hostile base consisting of one starbase, two builders, and a Sovereign-class starship. They do not have AI, so they will not build something or fly around the map, but they will allow the player test the firepower of his ships. If you do not want to fly to another part of the map, the ‘orders’ menu will allow you to attack any target, including your own ships. Key 'A' on the keyboard is responsible for the same order.
Download the demo:
https://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-defence-line/downloads/demo-m2-10
Thanks again for being with us. Live long and prosper!
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Thank you! We're going to work till the game is finished, so wish a good luck to us!Congratulations, 6 years is a long time and you've done a lot for such a small team. Getting a demo out is a huge deal so Congrats on that as well.
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Best of luck you're welcome to use anything of mine in your project too. Not sure if you've done Klingons yet but I have some designs you're welcome to use if it helps with production time
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Hello:
I think it is safe to say we are all wishing you the best of luck and success for your project!
Thanks a lot! We appreciate your support very much!
Thanks for the proposal! Sounds great, as we have very few Klingon models by now. The issue is that we need quite definite Klingon starships, and most of them are not so popular. We could discuss this subject via e-mail.
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Sure feel free to private message me here if you're interested. Or you can check out my old Yesteryears thread here on the site or even download the completed models in the download section. They're TMP era but Klingons use old designs a lot so I don't see how that'd be a problem for a more modern Trek timeline.