Infinity

[staberas]

Infinity or how all previous space simulators got owned..
I mean ... just look

ok this game is an MMO (which i really hate)
but OMG they just impressed me so much i might have to buy it !

Since the X3 games i was wondering if such a game existed only in my imagination ...

edit website : http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php

[srredfire]

Wow, that's pretty fucking amazing. I wonder if it'll be like most other space sims though where you are confined to your ship. Hopefully not. It'd be even more epic if you could land and get out, or get out in space, or what not.

But yes, definitely very impressive, just the transition from space to going right to the ground of the planet.

[Hollow]

That is damn impressive

[Unstoppable Florence]

Wow. To any higher beings or deities who may be listening: please let this game be finished. Does anyone know where we can download the test environment that guy is using?

[staberas]

nah ... only the multiplayer (no planet exploration)

Inside the atmosphere of a gas giant. Another gas giant can be seen in the sky. Unrealistic scenario, as two gas giants cannot be so close and stable.

A render of various Infinity ships. The biggest ships on this image are many kilometers long. Note that the "Nimitz", on the bottom, is not an Infinity ship, but the real boat, shown for scale comparison.

ok that would be epic in an mmo

[Dionysos]

So awesome. Shame it's mmo... kind of makes sense, but I hate the concept. This might be the first one I'd give a try, the core missions sound epic!

[ErikKiller]

Oh sheet! So I can finally feel like in BSG and/or Homeworld 2! Epic.

[Dives]

Very, very cool. That planet was real fucking small though. Compare the size of the cockpit to the size of the ship, then compare the size of the ship to the size of the mountains as he flies right above them. Either the planet is really tiny or the pilot is ENORMOUS, like, a mile wide.

[staberas]

actually no..

It demonstrates an Earth-like planet with a ring, seamless transitions, a little spaceship ( the "Hornet" for those who remember ), a space station and a couple of new effects. The planet has a realistic scale, and the atmosphere is as thin as Earth is in reality ( which is surprising to a lot of people ).

and an another interesting fact

The backgrounds you see in the video ( starfield, nebula ) are dynamically generated and cached into a cube map. This means that if you were located in a different area of the galaxy, the background would be dynamically refreshed and show the galaxy from the correct point of view.

Each star/dot is a star system that will be explorable in game. In the video, as I fly to the asteroids ring, you will see that I click on a couple stars to show their information. The spectral class is in brackets, and follows is the star's name. At the moment, star names are using a unique code which is based on the star location in the galaxy. It is a triplet formed of lower/upper case characters and numbers, like q7Z-aH2-85n. This is the shortest representation that I could find that would uniquely identify a star. This name is then followed by the distance, in light-years ( "ly" ).

I still have to post a dev-journal about the procedural rendering of the galaxy on the client side, in which I'll come back on all the problems I've had, especially performance related.

more details about the video here.

[Dives]

Certainly didn't look realistic.

The area he flies to looks to be around the size of florida.


That area has to be at least 200 miles if this where an earth sized planet. The mountain he flies down to is circled. That mountain has to be at many miles long.


Look at the size of the ship's shadow on the mountain. If the ship is around 25-30 feet long, it doesn't match up with how big the mountain should be.


Not saying its not very impressive, its just not to scale.

[vcool]

Space?

[staberas]

...The final frontier.

[Unstoppable Florence]

Well right now it may not be as realistic as some would hope, but at least this is a titanic step up from X3 and Freelancer. Anyone here played Freelancer? Oh that brings back good memories...

[1447]

MMO's have never been my cup of tea, but I have to say... This looks pretty fucking amazing... Just listen to this:

In Infinity, the engine allows for the creation of billions of worlds and millions of star systems - the majority of which will never explored by any player, but that await each adventurous soul.

*drools*

[Gary]

It would be awesome if players could take over planets, then put ships and orbital cannons around them to protect it from other players.