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Black Holes #54

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Kroc opened this issue Apr 13, 2019 · 1 comment
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Black Holes #54

Kroc opened this issue Apr 13, 2019 · 1 comment
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enhancement New feature or request gfx Moar pixels -- for when we need bitmaps / sprite images, not for text-based stuff like the menus menu Menu screens

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Kroc commented Apr 13, 2019 •
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A black hole could exist at the exact centre of each galaxy (0,0 assuming centred co-ordinates). I was thinking of making this an Easter-egg, whereby the black hole is not visible on the charts and you have to move your cursor directly over it to know it’s there. Possibly an expensive high-tech scanner upgrade could make it visible otherwise.

Graphics are an interesting discussion point. It can’t be an outline, because that’s the same as planets. I was thinking of instead re-using a sun but inverting the colours, that is, space would be white [because the field of light & gas swirling around the hole] and the ‘sun’ would be an appropriately black hole, with the requisite gravitational / damage effects already in place.
@Kroc Kroc added enhancement New feature or request menu Menu screens gfx Moar pixels -- for when we need bitmaps / sprite images, not for text-based stuff like the menus labels Apr 13, 2019
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Kroc commented Apr 15, 2019

NB: If I can control the order of drawing so that the 'dust' is drawn first, then the sun, then the ships; I can optimize the sun-drawing to not merge pixels and instead erase the dust underneath it. This would give the black-hole a completely back appearance without the dust in the way.

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