Star Wars Homeworld 2 mod

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-10-13 01:24pm

Le sigh...

Another game I have to buy. Is the mod done at all yet? Beta or anything?

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2004-10-13 02:02pm

Stofsk wrote:True, I should cut him some slack. My gripe wasn't at his work though. It's more to do with the game itself, Homeworld 1 didn't have the sea-of-stars I wanted, but instead countless bloody nebulae. Homeworld 2 looks the same. It's not a slight on the modder's sole effort, and I did not mean to disparage his work.

But hey, wouldn't a starry backdrop actually increase performance? I mean, the particle effects surely take more computing power than what is in essence a repeating texture... right?

In that case, it should be possible to tweak it somewhere down the line.

InnocentBystander · Post by **InnocentBystander** » 2004-10-13 02:10pm

Mod looks great - so great in fact that I coughted up $20 to get it (though I've gota wait a week

On a side note; I hope they have different rulesets; limits to supply. While it's fun to have big ass RotJ battles, it's also fun to have the single star-destroyer type battles, where it's a couple of destroyers and a handful of lighter escorts and some fighter wings.

I think this may replace Rebellion as my favorite star wars ship combat game!

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-10-13 02:30pm

Eleas wrote:
Stofsk wrote:True, I should cut him some slack. My gripe wasn't at his work though. It's more to do with the game itself, Homeworld 1 didn't have the sea-of-stars I wanted, but instead countless bloody nebulae. Homeworld 2 looks the same. It's not a slight on the modder's sole effort, and I did not mean to disparage his work.
But hey, wouldn't a starry backdrop actually increase performance? I mean, the particle effects surely take more computing power than what is in essence a repeating texture... right?

In that case, it should be possible to tweak it somewhere down the line.

The nebula you see in the background of most screen shots are just textures mapped onto a sphere. You can change it just by changing the background for the map, IIRC.

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-10-13 02:41pm

Kuja wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote: WOW, what ship are they attacking?
Mon Remonda or something of the like.

The Remonda is that big?

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2004-10-13 04:29pm

Beowulf wrote: The nebula you see in the background of most screen shots are just textures mapped onto a sphere. You can change it just by changing the background for the map, IIRC.

Okay. Then I hope the background texture allows for enough resolution to depict decently small stars.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-10-14 03:14am

Agent Fisher wrote:
Kuja wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote: WOW, what ship are they attacking?
Mon Remonda or something of the like.
The Remonda is that big?

I doubt its the Remonda

dacis2 · Post by **dacis2** » 2004-10-14 04:13am

what is the katana fleet?

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-10-14 08:04am

Agent Fisher wrote:
Kuja wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote: WOW, what ship are they attacking?
Mon Remonda or something of the like.
The Remonda is that big?

I think it's just the perspective. The camera is zoomed in fairly close to the ship in the foreground, and the dreadnoughts are pretty far out there (SW ships have longer ranges in the mod than Vaygr or Hiigarans), so the sizes look goofed up.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-10-14 08:28am

dacis2 wrote:what is the katana fleet?

A fleet of 200 dreadnaughts that got lost during the clonewars. IIRC, after ROTJ admiral Daala (?) found this fleet back and used it against the new republic

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-10-14 10:24am

You're thinking of Thrawn. How you could mess that up is... hard to understand.

Daala? She was a dumbarse.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-10-14 10:24am

wautd wrote:
dacis2 wrote:what is the katana fleet?
A fleet of 200 dreadnaughts that got lost during the clonewars. IIRC, after ROTJ admiral Daala (?) found this fleet back and used it against the new republic

Thrawn.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-10-14 11:13am

Stofsk wrote:You're thinking of Thrawn. How you could mess that up is... hard to understand.

Daala? She was a dumbarse.

Daala was pretty bad, but she was also what, 15 years out of date? She was good in her time though.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-10-14 11:18am

StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:Daala was pretty bad, but she was also what, 15 years out of date? She was good in her time though.

To be perfectly blunt, I simply couldn't stomach the KJA books and so I don't know much about Daala, except that she was largely inconsequential and has been ignored I believe by later EU works.

The Cleric · Post by **The Cleric** » 2004-10-14 11:34am

Stofsk wrote:
StormtrooperOfDeath wrote:Daala was pretty bad, but she was also what, 15 years out of date? She was good in her time though.
To be perfectly blunt, I simply couldn't stomach the KJA books and so I don't know much about Daala, except that she was largely inconsequential and has been ignored I believe by later EU works.

Yes, she is entirely KJA's creation. And yes, Darksaber was a travesty to SW and the EU.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-10-14 12:03pm

Stofsk wrote:You're thinking of Thrawn. How you could mess that up is... hard to understand.

Because I didnt read the book or comic or whatever

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-10-14 01:32pm

wautd wrote:
Agent Fisher wrote:
Kuja wrote: Mon Remonda or something of the like.
The Remonda is that big?
I doubt its the Remonda

It isn't. The Mon Remonda is in one of the screenshots in the OP, and it's body shape is entirely different. If I were to take my guesses, I'd say that was a Mediator, though I could be entirely off base.