they were staying in their system for quite some time, afraid of the terraformers to return. We decided to make the terrans bright, clean & huge.
The ships are divided up into military ships and civil ships, so for some classes you will find mutliple ship designs. Though we had already seen some of their ships in X3:Reunion, we obviously needed a lot more of them - as well as factories, stations and the famous ringstation around earth. The other big chunk of assets came in with the terrans themselves. for normal X3 planets we use a technique to circumvent this limitation, but for large scale surfaces that feature lots of unique details (jupiter's stripes & red spot, mars' craters, plains & volcanos) only texture resolution helps. One of the main restrictions for planet design was texture resolution. Though the best looking planets we have in the sol system were created by nature and I tried to stick as close to the originals as possible: jupiter and saturn. some of the solar systems planets are a bit boring in reality - so I decided to interpret them more freely to get atmospheric sectors.
As some of you will surely notice, I've not always sticked to all the scientific facts, but (like in the case of Venus) let my imagination play in, too. I've created the solar system planets & backgrounds for those. the most obvious ones came with the integration of the solar system and its inhabitants to the universe. this ranges from modelling/texturing, coordinating external teams to writing exporters & plugins for 3d studio max.įor X3:TC there were a lot of new art assets needed. I've been working on the X series since X2: The Threat and my main work area is 3d graphics. My name is Markus Pohl, and I've been working on X3:TC as art director.
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