Night-mode

I toyed with this idea for a different game a few years ago.
So, this mode could be applied to any game mode.
What happens is everything is very dark (almost black, but you may be able to see some movement, or walls dimly), and your ship emits a radius of light. Projectiles (like your phasers and such) also emit light. It may be useful to have flares, too, but that may be a different discussion.

The purpose of the game mode is to limit the information a player gets, and it would be super cool for a zombie-like game mode (may also work for some future single-player modes).

Thoughts? Afaik, we're using opengl, which has some built-in lighting mechanisms we could use (even older machines with OpenGL 1.0 should be able to do it).
-Beard

I have not thought of "night mode" but I have thought of having a nebula mode. Though I had imagined that as only a limited view, having your projectiles create light is an interesting idea.

[Skybax]

I like it

I sounds like a grease idea, but will the computers which meet the minimal requirements be able to smoothly run this game type?

I... Don't think... Someone with a computer which only meets the minimum requirements for this game is a 10 year old computer... Though, internet connection could be a problem, but in both cases the person is horrifically out-dated.

I... Don't think... Someone with a computer which only meets the minimum requirements for this game is a 10 year old computer... Though, internet connection could be a problem, but in both cases the person is horrifically out-dated.

Was not the question. My 10 year old eMac runs bitfighter just fine, an I would like to keep it that way. I'm just worried that with an addition of some sort of lighting engine would dull the proformance of this game.

Sounds great i would love having a night mode.

[watusimoto]

Bitfighter is always in night mode.

Then what would day time look like? A super nova?

[Little_Apple]

lets put it this way: since when does space have day or night?

[Skybax]

When you're behind the shadow of a planet, or when you're in a black hole, it's night

[Little_Apple]

when would it be day? and how would it look even slightly different from night?

Bitfighter is always in night mode.

i always thought it was daytime in space because you see all the suns and stuff. ._________.

[Skybax]

Darkness is simply the absence of light. So anytime you're in the light, it could be said you're in daytime, although really, you need an atmosphere to have daytime and nighttime.

I just want the zombie mode...

lets put it this way: since when does space have day or night?

Have you been to space before?

Im always in space. :U

[Little_Apple]

lets put it this way: since when does space have day or night?

Have you been to space before?

in my head.

No wonder why the OP isn't posting...
(original poster)
P.S.
RED: I'm always in La-La Land.
BLUE: I know you are, right? Tell me something new.
RED: I'm always in space.
BLUE: I know you are...

how about space dust to limit ones view.

and for all those science people out there if you were next a black out ( of of death range but close enough there would be very little light =)

Space dust! I'm not sure if that's actually a thing, but it sounds cool.

[YoshiSmb]

Space dust? Sounds Really good!.

[Skybax]

There is space dust. Space gas would be more realistic, however, as space dust can contain larger pebbles than would potentially harm ships ^_^

tecnicily then there is no night then light can goes a ininite distace if unubsrructed thugh it weakens by n to the -1 power so its always dat everywhere.

tecnicily then there is no night then light can goes a ininite distace if unubsrructed thugh it weakens by n to the -1 power so its always dat everywhere.

Could you, uhh, rephrase this? I'm not sure what you're trying to say...

light unless its adsorbed will go a infinite disatance but weakens over time by a factr of n^-1

So yeah we should use the upcoming rendering system to have some nice space dust

i think dust would be to hard to do just blackness with a cricle of light would work. (implied neer a black hole maybe?)

Yeah. We should do that

I want some more people to post on this letw seenwhat the admins think.