qoob

Here are a couple of screenies to whet your appetite. These show the sun, stars, nebula, comet, asteroids and some of the 'alien meshes'












Follow qoob's development here...

http://dev.boiledsweets.com

Nice screen shots...What did you use to create the galaxy-looking background?

The galaxy is made up of...

2 huge spheres with 2 star textures with different scaling and half alpha'd so the tiny background stars kinda twinkle.

Then I have a 'nebula' bitmap that is applied on top.

Then I have an array of galaxies (the blue spirally things). I have added red ones too now and have angled then and I spin then gently too as they drift about.
See 3rd screenshot above!

Then have a star array for the bigger stars.

Then I have an array of asteroid entities that spin / rotate.

I then have a comet particle effect.

And a sun particles effect.

I'm gonna add intermittant shooting stars too!

This is just the background for the game!!!

They were done in PhotoShop 7

Added another screenie...

look forward to seeing this in action!

An aside: do you know that it's actually "whet" your appetite as in sharpen?

Added some alien mesh pics

New pics of the HUD, the HUD background can be alpha'd in realtime and the key icons can be left right or bottom of the screen.