Planeshift a first person shooter?

[Bartholin]

i was looking around the forums and decided to look on daveg's profile. on it you will see 4 links in small print one of which can take you to http://sourceforge.net which would be the location of ps. source codes and all that.. PS is listed in said site as... (or so i beleave )

Crystal Space 3D SDK
 Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL or software and features curved surfaces, volumetric fog, dynamic colored lighting, terrain engine, LOD, procedural textures, portals, etc. 

Topic: First Person Shooters, Role-Playing, 3D Rendering, Real Time Strategy, Frameworks 


and yes i know that Crystal space was like the first version..

now..

click on the screenshot on the side.. and you get taken to here. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/crystal
click the screenshot again.. and you get here > http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=649
intresting bunch of ss.. like this one > http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=649&ssid=820

hehe.. so question.. did anyone play the shooter version of the game? or is this another game that this game used its source code to, made some changes and POOF, we got us . hehe.. i wonder if im right.. or im just insane.. we will find out

[miadon]

Crystal Space is just the games engine, not the game itself. SO you can use Crystal Space to make MMORPG's, shooters, etc

[Bartholin]

Crystal Space is just the games engine, not the game itself. SO you can use Crystal Space to make MMORPG's, shooters, etc

but wasnt the first planeshift called Cystale space thats what i was told.. many a time.. thats where im getting the thoughts from ...

umm.. the screen shots are just from projects that used the code or w/e right? that could be the only way i could see the ps site ss being in the ss page.

[steuben]

the version sequence of ps is
atomic blue
molecuclear blue
crystal blue
steel blue...
something blue.

.... and somthing borrowed, and somthing old, something new.

[zanzibar]

This is opensource.  Everything is borrowed.

[emeraldfool]

And old...

[Cyl]

Actually at one point the devs were planning to change the direction PS was heading to to an FPS. The project was codenamed "Heavy Kran" and got canceled after a certain April 1st.

Edit: What troubles me is the fact that I am the first one to remember the incident.

Ahh found it:

taken from the News section of planeshift.it
2004.04.01
Hi planeshifters,
Lately we have been very busy with next release, and we finally understood why we are having issues in releasing CB. Two issues:

1) A mmorpg project is really too complex for a OS team.
2) I've investigated on the morale of the team, and it seems that most of them is against a fantasy game, basically they are very bored of spells, swords, orcs, etc...
This was discovered about 1 month ago. So we finally decided to switch gears.

From now on PlaneShift will move to a First Person Action Game and will be based in a futuristic setting: year 15.000

Check the new short movie on that here. We hope you will like the new PS!

[Peacer]

* Peacer giggles "silly Bartholin"

[ThomPhoenix]

To explain further:
Crystal Space is the 3D engine, it renders the graphics so you can see them on your screen.
Crystal Entity Layer is the "game engine", it makes game logic possible.
Planeshift is one of the many projects utilising CS's and CEL's technology.

That screenshot that you saw with the guy standing before a console is an early screenshot from Crystal Core, an effort of the CS devs to make a FPS.
Planeshift and Crystal Core do not share code in any way, they only use the same rendering engine.

The reason why you can see a screenshot of Planeshift on CS's SourceForge page is because
a) Being a graphics engine, they need to show off graphics
b) Planeshift is by far the biggest project using Crystal Space.

[zanzibar]

When I see people kill steal in the arena, it gives the impression of a 1st person shooter.  It also gives the impression of a 1 player game - and I'm not that player.

[Bartholin]

* Peacer giggles "silly Bartholin"

im sorry, but im POSITIVE that that post has no information in it.. and as such shouldnt it be removed? or rather.. not even posted in the first place since it doesnt follow the posting rules? j/w

and peacer.. bite me. i found something intresting.. and asked about it.. dont like it.. dont post.. 

[Parallo]

* Peacer giggles "silly Bartholin"

im sorry, but im POSITIVE that that post has no information in it.. and as such shouldnt it be removed? or rather.. not even posted in the first place since it doesnt follow the posting rules? j/w

and peacer.. bite me. i found something intresting.. and asked about it.. dont like it.. dont post.. 

I'm pretty sure that one doesn't either.

That video is brilliant! We did we go back to silly RPing anyway?

[ThomPhoenix]

* ThomPhoenix mumbles "April the 1st"

Nah, there was an uprising and...don't ask about it, many died that day.

[shorty13]

yea...
I stopped playing PS for a week cuz i saw on its news that they were gonna change it to a 1st person shooter.  I didn't realize until a week later it was an April Fools joke.....little slow on the draw lol

[lordraleigh]

Ohhh, I would love to play(and roleplay) as a thief in a Massively Multiplayer medieval world(or preferably steampunk) First Person Action and Roleplay game.

Well just a little more than 2 months for next April's fool day! 

I hope next 1st April joke won't be about this