Galaxy at war (temporary name?)

[Lopess]

A mod designed to make the most of 0ad, with many battles with automatic weapons, maps on alien planets, ships and drones. I've had it for a while now but I intend to make it playable in alpha 27.

It is only possible thanks to the beautiful animations created by @Alexandermb . I use a lot of AI generated images (https://www.imagine.art/).
In addition to ideas and adaptations, especially in mods Delenda Est and Hyrule Conquest.

Edited June 2, 2024 by Lopess

[Stan`]

Nice work. This is why stella artis was made happy someone else made a scifi mod

[Lopess]

Special attacks with bombers and nuclear missiles: (slowness is from the capture on the notebook, FPS in the top corner of the video).

Edited 16 hours ago by Lopess

[Eilat]

It turns out it has such a long history

[fabio]

It reminds me the Death Hand of the Harkonnen... 

[Asher]

Is it on github or something, @Lopess?

[Thalatta]

This and @Eilat's Modern warfare mod make my think of my latest general suggestion:

On 09/09/2026 at 7:50 PM, Thalatta said:

60) Map layers: as a possibility for people who want to experiment with it, I was wondering if certain actions could trigger other maps and options. For example, one could have a campaign map, where buildings are cities and units are armies moving slowly, and when one wants (city building), or with some triggers (battles), the map is "zoomed in" and there's another map, more local, like they normally are now in the game. Maybe this requires obscene amounts of memory.

 

That is, for this Galaxy example, could one have many maps "running" in parallel, representing many planets? And another map could connect it all, which instead of water and ships would be space and spaceships, and when arriving to a planet, one arrives to one of the other maps. Seems to me that maybe with quite some tweaking it could be achievable?

[Lopess]

1 hour ago, Asher said:

Is it on github or something, @Lopess?

For now, it will take a back seat until Endovelico stabilizes further—so, for the time being, it's less than an alpha; take a look.

 

Spoiler

https://github.com/wltonlopes/mars_wars

Feel free to contribute anything you'd like; Aila and I have already discussed this, and we plan to share good ideas and mechanics of mutual interest.
The concept of the mod has changed significantly since 2024; now I plan to go for a setting closer to the present day—something like a civil war on Mars—featuring just a few civilizations that are highly distinct from one another.

[Lopess]

1 hour ago, Thalatta said:

This and @Eilat's Modern warfare mod make my think of my latest general suggestion:

 

That is, for this Galaxy example, could one have many maps "running" in parallel, representing many planets? And another map could connect it all, which instead of water and ships would be space and spaceships, and when arriving to a planet, one arrives to one of the other maps. Seems to me that maybe with quite some tweaking it could be achievable?

Now, that would be something quite different; I plan to use the grand strategy mod for a campaign map set on Mars.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

16 hours ago, Lopess said:

Special attacks with bombers and nuclear missiles: (slowness is from the capture on the notebook, FPS in the top corner of the video).

 

I suggest using 2 or 3 differently-colored "smoke" textures/particles to give the mushroom cloud some visual depth.  

Also, for Mars, you could definitely start with the Nubia terrains.