A few question about SOASE and the engine

from Sins Forums

Hi, everyone. I have question about SOASE, why the dev let ships and buildings not fully animated?Can ships and building get fully animated (by a mod or a patch)? And does Iron engine is licensed? How much it's cost? Will Iron engine released as open source or free like what ID software did for their engine?

Hope there is a answer from the dev too. Thank you for read my post and answering my quetions, and sorry for my bad english

modding
2,464 views 2 replies
Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Only the devs can answer most of your questions about the engine, so you might want to send them an email about it.

As for animation, as far as I know they did it to save on computing power. Unlike most other space strategy titles out there, SoaSE was designed with a very large number of ships in mind. Its not uncommon to see battles involving several hundred ships at one time - having all those ships with animated turrets would probably hog even the most powerful rig.

And I doubt that we'll see animated turrets, certainly not via a mod, and very likely not via a patch since it would probably require a rewrite of a good sized section of the code.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Moving ship parts are actully very easy if you use particle effects.

But they do take up more computation power, and making the moving parts TRACK is a differnt problem intirly.

Siege of Centauri