The game progress

a-sennov

Hi,

Today I've experimented with some game engines and finally all went surprisingly well. I expected more weirdness but here is screenshot of Tesseract engine with new player model (other guys are their default player models). There are still issues with transparencies as I need to change the converter to be more smart when splitting/merging meshes based on surface properties and ponytail didn't come through (I have to try to just add needed bones and weights using Studio Content tools).

Next step is to produce the base set of animations so the char could do something.

Dream Cutter

Cool. I assume it will be a 3d game? What engine did you settle on?
I made some webgl and android games with much lower poly than this.

a-sennov

Dream Cutter said:

Cool. I assume it will be a 3d game? What engine did you settle on?

I think I'll go with Tesseract. It's rather small and thus has quite understandable execution flow. Being that small it's very advanced graphically: fully dynamic lighting with global illumination. It also has built in map editor and maps are based on octree voxels, so one can sketch levels quickly, have clean volume separation (air-water-lava-glass etc) and later add some scenery models. And it is open-source under Zlib license, game code is separated from engine and uses mostly C++ (small scripting language is also present), which is good for me. There are some pitfalls also: lack of docs, audio support is very basic, engine itself is mainly FPS oriented (thirdpersone support is present thou).

I've also got positive results importing models into UDK and Torque3d, but UDK is too big and you will be tied to UnrealScript.

I made some webgl and android games with much lower poly than this.

This is not too highpoly either - player character ~6500 triangles.

Design Anvil - Razor42

Looks good! I'd be interested in seeing how this proceeds.

a-sennov

I'll try to keep this thread updated.

Ruphuss

what you mean with new player model ?
for me it Looks like those cheap iclone models
i would like to see it in motion

a-sennov

ruphuss said:

what you mean with new player model ?
for me it Looks like those cheap iclone models
i would like to see it in motion

For motions look no futher.

The model is Loretta Lorez by Predatron + my custom FBM made in Hexagon. And yes, I think the model is too cheap for it's quality :)

As for motion: I have to complete ~30 base animations and export them to engine so she could start to run-jump-crouch. This is in progress, and at least the video will be released after completion of this stage.

Today's update: some of the motion concepts.

a-sennov

Hi,

Updating the project's info - the last week was devoted to quite boring stuff: Git repositories setup, compiler environment, etc. But now I have all common game states (intro, main menu, loading, credits etc.) up and running, rendered in OpenGL in real time, resolution and aspect ratio independent.

These are the intro screen, displayed while initial preloading phase and first attempt of main menu.

PS. and game now has working title

cyborgty_074ff6c243

If you are going to use the game engine to create an animated movie, then I will be interested.