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Outlawstar15a2:
I was just curious. In the future at some point I was wondering if a alien campaign would be added? They seem pretty cool and it would be awesome to play a campaign as them.

Duke:
Interesting idea :)
But I'm not a game designer, just a stupid coder (TM).
In theory, it should be possible to make the engine "friend/foe-neutral". But that would require quite some work. So don't expect something like that anytime soon, if ever.

Hertzila:
It's more about "could" and "cared to" than "would".
In other words, parts of the human campaign are still done by engine code (ugly way according to devs) and in case it does anything major/what you want to change, it would have to be replaced with a scriptable way. It's also hugely dependent on someone actually bothering to do the campaign itself, which isn't a small thing to do.

I do agree that it could be great.

Nearly Edit: Well Duke managed to write that as I was writing this. But there you have it, the engine would require a decent amount of work.

geever:

--- Quote from: Hertzila on July 19, 2010, 01:43:45 am ---In other words, parts of the human campaign are still done by engine code (ugly way according to devs) and in case it
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Well calling the campaign an Engine is a bit funny ATM, but I'm working on it. ;)
Or you mean the renderer? Then I don't know what parts you refer to.

-geever

Hertzila:

--- Quote from: geever on July 19, 2010, 08:51:50 am ---Well calling the campaign an Engine is a bit funny ATM, but I'm working on it. ;)
Or you mean the renderer? Then I don't know what parts you refer to.

-geever

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I'm not actually sure what parts of the engine I'm referring to but I've repeatedly seen, IIRC, you and other devs saying that there is still some code in the engine to make the official campaign work. So, in case a custom one needs to change what the engine does fo the campaign, it would require messing around with the source.

Or am I just rambling like a maniac about something I don't know about?

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