Misc. feature/improvement ideas

[Julius]

In this topic you can post about (minor) ideas and feature requests for the game.

[Julius]

Given the abstract nature of the graphics, quite a bit of emphasis needs to be put on the background/skybox.

The current cloud layer looks cool already, but for the remake we should probably come up with something more awesome.

Sadly fully 3D skyboxes are not supported in Torque3D yet, but you can have some pretty cool dynamic light scattering and various cloud layers. See more details here:
http://docs.garagegames.com/torque-3d/o ... ngSky.html
http://docs.garagegames.com/torque-3d/o ... erSky.html

A new feature is also alphaed skyboxes for combination with scattersky: http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/22265

Obviously everything is a bit geared towards realistic settings, but with some clever colors one can probably create some cool backgrounds.

Inspiration for such backgrounds could come from: the Tron Legacy movie, or the surrealist skies of the Evangelion remakes (a blood ocean might look cool in RotC also).