X3 Universe Remake & Planetary Flight Demo

[birdtable]

The lighting definitely makes it far more atmospheric,, actually believe you are in a cold harsh space environment… X Rebirth and X4 are far too excessively lit, does not really feel your in space...… Then of course there is the music ..

[ALien8ed]

Loved the look of your X3 - Oblivion videos a few years back and what a pleasant surprise it is to see you doing this for X4.

Really looking forward to this and what i have seen so far has me super excited. Can't wait to see more...

[wesley32]

Still working hard on the mod, will probably be a month or 2 before a release, I don't want to release unfinished work

Here's some more eye-candy in the meantime: an Omicron Lyrae remake from X:Rebirth to X4

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbW2ybCL2UM

[birdtable]

Can hardly wait to try it out... looks great... Settled down to watch Omicron remake and before I knew it was over... Always flicking through your series of youtubes... Giant
The start of the Ore Belt Test vid .... "We've detected contraband" ...

[wesley32]

Well, maybe one teaser more then! Check out the brand new Radiant Heaven sector I made. You know, that planetary sector from X Rebirth.. only better . I present to you: Radiant Heaven 2.0!

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayqQ_hdbMEw
VIDEO 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I1PRam6Jrg

[birdtable]

That's one ship I have not got yet ,,, off to get one .. Thanks with a radiant smile ..

[tomchk]

The work both of you are doing is amazing! Please keep it up! I think X4 sorely needs the wow-inducing sectors from XR, especially those in-atmosphere ones.

[shahman76]

That music!!!
I had forgotten it, forgotten how good it was when you logged in for the first time, hear the slow ominous tone gradually grow into this soaring melody; just watching dumbstruck as this massive capital ship gracefully, idly, glides by... a whole universe just ticking away in front of you... the size, the complexity, the overwhelming alienness of the universe, the sights you hadnt seen, the adventures you hadnt had yet... and there you were, in this small little titch of a ship, dwarfed by the universe and its music... struck electric and numb

That was my first ever memory of any X game, ever. Spawning in Argon Prime and being immediately overwhelmed with wonder and feeling utterly small and utterly lost. Good times!

Thanks for bringing back that memory. And good luck with the mod!

[OneOfMany]

Do the light blue highways show up well against this kind of background?

[balogt]

using celludril and kellerog's tool I remade the x3 universe with the x4 engine. iv tested it for a few days and it works great. now im just adding some unknown sectors to facilitate exploration play styles. and I want to modify some of the sector data to make uniquie looking ones. I did 2 systems in x3 rebirth and customized the color backgrounds etc, im looking into doing something similar with this set up. pop me an email I can send you the mod file with my x3. give credit to cell and kilerog for their continued hard work.

[wesley32]

Do the light blue highways show up well against this kind of background?

Not so well I'm afraid, I'm looking into recoloring them. Hopefully, that makes a change.

[wesley32]

Here's some impressions on the remade Albion Sectors.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5MBbNMI18

[celludriel]

using celludril and kellerog's tool I remade the x3 universe with the x4 engine. iv tested it for a few days and it works great. now im just adding some unknown sectors to facilitate exploration play styles. and I want to modify some of the sector data to make uniquie looking ones. I did 2 systems in x3 rebirth and customized the color backgrounds etc, im looking into doing something similar with this set up. pop me an email I can send you the mod file with my x3. give credit to cell and kilerog for their continued hard work.

Thanks but a note of warning, making the universes is quite easy. However putting life in them is another. All the default scripts from egosoft barely work at all in a new universe. There are a few that work if you adhere to special rules like:

- One xenon sector must border an argon sector or the wars don't happen
- Ministery, Hatikvah, Scaleplaet, Antigone, Alliance need special station requirements for their faction reps to spawn and their missions to work
- The ai will not take over any empty sectors , nor if they are not in a hardcoded defined war with them
- Rebuilding of lost trader ai ships might not happen if the jobs say rebuild false (and most of the default jobs do)

I can go on the list is long I've been at this for weeks now. Wesley is doing a great job making it all look good and great. But looks isn't all if you have a death universe. I'm still trying to come up with scripts to make it a bit more fun in my experiment galaxy thread. I've been working on this today as well but progress is slow to non existant since documentation and dev support is non existant. I even think I found a few bugs in the vanilla scripts that break the game.

[tomchk]

I can go on the list is long I've been at this for weeks now. Wesley is doing a great job making it all look good and great. But looks isn't all if you have a death universe. I'm still trying to come up with scripts to make it a bit more fun in my experiment galaxy thread. I've been working on this today as well but progress is slow to non existant since documentation and dev support is non existant. I even think I found a few bugs in the vanilla scripts that break the game.

I hope you will post those bugs for Egosoft to review! They have been able to fix crucial bugs they hadn't caught thanks to one player noticing.
Keep up the great work!

[alexringess]

I've completed the galaxy layout: https://imgur.com/a/GHKIWn0

Jumpgates are in place, connecting them now...

I just finished to watch all the video you posted.
I have only one word : Awesome !

[tomchk]

Here's some impressions on the remade Albion Sectors.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k5MBbNMI18

Might we get to see another video soon? I think I am more excited about this work than anything else happening for the game (other than Egosoft adding lore and plots)!

[wesley32]

Making quality videos takes time, I just quickly slap some recordings and music together and render it =]
Here's a demo of the Maelstrom sector:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesRjJgynGw

[alexringess]

Making quality videos takes time, I just quickly slap some recordings and music together and render it =]
Here's a demo of the Maelstrom sector:

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesRjJgynGw

Wonderfull !

[wesley32]

Here's some early footage of Home of Light and DeVries.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-ukGxRR1g

[tomchk]

Here's some early footage of Home of Light and DeVries.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-ukGxRR1g

You're amazing! I don't suppose you'll be able to recreate the superhighway into De Vries, will you? I always found that incredible.