UFO:Alien Invasion

General => Discussion => Topic started by: kaeau on October 11, 2006, 09:24:08 pm

Title: geoscape view
Post by: kaeau on October 11, 2006, 09:24:08 pm

forgive me if there is already a thread about this,
but are there plans to do the earth view in 3D like the old ufo games, and, well, like google earth, etc?
would be much better in visual and , more important, look and feel ways, so that the player actually "feels" the planet, he / she is defending.
ka

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Mattn on October 11, 2006, 09:25:30 pm

yes - the plans are there - but currently we have noone that started this topic - there is already some code to start with - just search for map3d, globe and so on in our codebase.

Title: geoscape view
Post by: kaeau on October 11, 2006, 09:27:12 pm

ok,
if needed, i have high quality earth textures in my archives (public domain ones, if i remeber correctly)
i ll upload them onto the server, which i sent you by PM
ka

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Mattn on October 11, 2006, 09:37:10 pm

thanks, will have a look

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Nightmare on October 26, 2006, 01:38:41 am

Ultra high quality earth images:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/BlueMarble_monthlies.html

But i dont know the licence :(

Maybe this is usefull:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Quote

Credits

Blue Marble: Next Generation was produced by Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). See The Blue Marble Next Generation—A true color Earth dataset including seasonal dynamics from MODIS (880 kB PDF) for acknowledgments. Anyone using or republishing Blue Marble: Next Generation please credit “NASA’s Earth Observatory.”

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Level on November 20, 2006, 08:38:26 am

I have received permission from Axel Mellinger to use a 2400x1200 rectangular projection version of his All-Sky Milky Way Panorama (http://home.arcor-online.de/axel.mellinger/), for the background of the Geoscape.
He asks that his name be added to the list of credits.

Where should I send it?

It would be cool to use the Blue Marble monthly images.
On the front page for Blue Marble it says: “Anyone using or republishing Blue Marble: Next Generation please credit “NASA’s Earth Observatory.””
In the MP Photo Guidelines (http://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html) it says: “NASA still images, audio files and video generally are not copyrighted”.

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Irinami on November 28, 2006, 05:58:58 am

Just a though, you've got some gorgeous night-sky and geographic overlays for the map... maybe some other optional overlays would be available? Like a political map, for example. For kicks or for actual gameplay (there's another similar game on SourceForge that has national concerns, it adds a little something).

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Nevyn on December 02, 2006, 07:27:03 am

Potential Overlays

Political Map
Alien Missions in the last 6 months
Alien Activity(Be it mission or aircraft flying over or sightings) in the last 6 months
Radar Coverage(Or just make that allways on in a circle around your base & radar towers)
Missile Coverage(or as above, a different colour circle allways on)
Cities

Title: geoscape view
Post by: Level on February 16, 2007, 09:26:47 am

I see a 3d globe is now being worked on.
I tried to Upload the All-Sky Milky Way Panorama on SourceForge but it was to big.
So if you would like it, Where should I send it?