(02-18-2018, 01:14 PM)Nodoka Hanamura Wrote: With the advent of WebGL and HTML5, I'd *LOVE* to see a 3D map. something down the line.
I'm talking out my arse here since I don't really understand how this all works, but with the FL Mod Studio source, is it possible something could be created where it imports ini's from a server hosted up to date FL installation and renders them in 3D in your web browser? How difficult is something like this to create?
Entirely possible, the whole map can be even rendered as an OBJ (as its the simplest 3d format, containing only coordinates, based on floating point numbers). The hard part is to include textures in the whole thing, if we start wanting asteroid fields to contain actual textured asteroids, plus every other solar thats in a given system, we will be WAY better off just having a separate client-side tool to view the starmap.
Like Ichiru's system, where you can view models (withe textures, rendered in OpenGL, with drop shadows etc), and his System Viewer that lets you fly around any system in a quick fashion, like a virtual camera.
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