War Effect (working title) "by spheresoft"

Very nice levels! Is it just a 2 man team, that's what it looked like from the websites names on it and everything. Please keep up the work, and definitely keep us posted on the project!! Very neat and graphics are very good too!

hi guys... its my english fails...
this is my tools developed in 3dgs to help me with the game i call it "engine"...
FPS is to low cause my video card is low end card, and the grass are to heavy

i´m modeling caracters, i´m trying to put a demo in 1 or 2 weeks, with the level editor...

the game are developed by me, and a help of my girlfried with textures and story...

thks very much
i hope you like it
and i hope you understand my poor english too..

leandro and Maruska
spheresoft...

out of curiosity what is your video card?

Looks very nice. Good artwork.

That looks like one neat tool
Great graphics indeed, keep us updated

Cheers

Frazzle

Interesting! I would like to know how to achieve such effects using a low-end video card, especially the bloom and water shaders!
But it looks great.

my video card is radeon 1300 agp
but with no grass the FPS in my video card its about 40/50

textures...
terrain, plants and tree 1024x1024

terrain vertices 200x200

thanks

You should implement LOD, if your Models are so hardware hungry.

yes... i forgot to say the screenshofts original are in 1024x768 in window mode and using sylex bloom... using sylex i lost 6 fps more or less...

i will implement LOD... but at the moment i´m fixing bugs e implement new functions...

thanks..
leandro and maruska

i find the problem that causes Low FPS...

i put 20 trees on the scene its about 20/30 fps with normalmapping and specular (shaders by Taco Cohen)

and i put another shader (bump mapping) and the FPS 40/50

...

Looking great and would love to know more about your editor.
But I see you are displaying screens using the trial version, how is this possible?

i think he might have wrote his own editor, but im not sure...

yes.. i only owns the A5 version, i have no money at the moment to update or buy another version, i´m waiting to get more money to buy a A7 Pro version, i´m looking foward to use postscreen shaders shadows and others effects don´t work in trial...

thks.. in few weeks i´ll put a demo here...

leandro pim

Ok cool, thanks for the info.

hi...i have problems with physics.. the problem is the dynamic objects (created with ent_create() ) the physics don´t work and in my project all objects are created in real-time...
can anyone help-me please?

This is because the engine does not support dynamics until commercial. You have to use newton or other 3rd party physics engine.

thks very much...

when i put the model in wed and build map...
physics work perfectly, but when a model is created using ent_create... physics doesnt work...

i tested newton but i have problems with terrain...
newton physics only works with MDL models and not with HMP...

correct me if i´m wrong...

hi everybody i have game updates...
is bugfix and new functions...

but you can see in the screenshots
fps increase... and now i´m working with AI...




See more photos updates in www.leandropim.blogspot.com

thks...
leandro pim

It's looking very cool, actually it surprises me a lot how similar it looks to XeXes latest Sylex3 editor screens back in the days of the Sunset Down project, pretty cool stuff!!

Cheers

Good to see that you got a more stable framerate

Cheers

Frazzle

hey, looks like you are making fast progress. may i ask how you did those shoreline?

i will try to explain it in english.. if you dont understand you ask me..

i create a target that follow the mouse pointer when i click create the point_dummy in the mouse position...
and i create 22 points.. the shore model has 22 vertices
i get the pos of these points_dummy and i create a shore and deform it...
after i save shore position in a database or a txt file...

see it...



function create_a_point()
{
you = ent_create("point.mdl", PosModel, point_dummy);
you.skill1 = cont_point; // save to deform vertex...
Save_Point(); // save in a temp vetor
}

function followpointer_shore() // create a target that follow mouse pointer
{
cont_point = 1; // vertex number
target_create = me;
var pos1;
var pos2;

while (cont_point <= 22) // shore has 22 vertices
{
pos1.x = mouse_pos.x;
pos1.y = mouse_pos.y;
pos1.z = 0;
vec_for_screen (pos1, camera);
pos2.x = mouse_pos.x;
pos2.y = mouse_pos.y;
pos2.z = 20000;
vec_for_screen (pos2, camera);
c_trace (pos1.x, pos2.x, ignore_me | ignore_passable | ignore_models);
vec_set (my.x, target.x);



if (mouse_right == 1)
{
PosModel.x = my.x; // create a point, get target position
PosModel.y = my.y;
PosModel.z = my.z;

create_a_point();

cont_point += 1;
wait(1);
}
wait (1);
}
ent_remove(me); // remove follow pointer

create_shore(); // create shore and deform vertices with point_dummys
}

function create_target_point()
{
ent_create("point.mdl",nullvector,followpointer_shore);
}


i hope you understand the comments...
bye...


leandro pim and maruska
spheresoft
www.leandropim.blogspot.com

Interesting project - keep up the good work!

thks...i´m working very hard... i´m converting my project from c-script to lite-c...so i have no updates... and terrain now is a MDL file, cause i want to try newton physics but it doesnt works with HMP models...

i forgot to say.. can anyone help me with mdl exporters.. idont want to save the terrain coords in file.txt i want to export to a new model.mdl deformed yet

like in ICEX

i see MDL SDK but i have no idea to start to build a plugin...

thks...