When can we expect to see some concept art for alien animals and plants? I'm looking forward to what trees and wildlife on other planets will look like.asked by Rodel the Great
TL;DRAlien races and their home planets are still being fleshed out; plants should start appearing in the social module in a month or so, and alien pets will be concepted later.
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I can't take that one. I wish I could take that one, I'm actually, well, I can't. I don't know the answer. But I want to know too!
Okay, so the long and short of it is, the alien races are being fleshed out as we speak. Their home planets are being fleshed out by the writers as we speak. The details of those alien races are they're...they're as complex as I think you'd expect them to be, given the scope of the project, but... by that I mean, every alien on Star Trek comes from the same gravity style planet. In our world, we've got a handful of races that come from heavier G planets, so that impacts the way they look, some come from lighter G planets, which affects how they look. Something we've been kicking around for a while, and is starting to reflect the way that they look is the Vanduul, they operate on much higher spatial function than humans. They think very 3D, they operate very 3D, their entire environment's very 3D, and by that i mean we walk on a 3D plane. We usually drive on a 2D plane. Everything we do tends to be very 2d. If you remember the Wrath of Khan, the way they beat him, is, the guy operates 2d, in other words he's going to attack, and then circle back and attack again, and they went in depth. So these things are starting to manifest right now. Plants are being worked on by the PU team, which is manned by Mark Skelton, and we should start seeing some of the PU stuff come on-line within the next month, month and a half. PU and, I'm drawing a huge blank on the other component of the game which is the...Social module. The social module is coming along also in a month, and that's where the audience is going to have the first opportunity to see a lot of the plants. The animals are something we've been kicking around for a while.
cause we do have petsLP: We do have petsEB: I want some alien, alien pets.
We're going to have alien pets. We're going to start concepting those out, and that is something that I think, once the PU puts a nail in a handful of environments, they'll slowly start working on that.