Heya folks
Here is our newest work in progress, its about being an humble bee on a nice little island.

















what we have done so far:
- player-modell (without animations yet)
- basic level-design
- basic flight control
- basic camera-script
- multi-texture terrain-shader
- added plants

things left to do:
- add grass-shader
- add bloom-shader
- fur-shader for the humble-bumble-bee
- extend terrain to an whole island
- replace water-shader
- better skycube
- animations
- menu
- lens-flare
- Multiplayer LAN (deathmatch with bombs, missiles etc.)
- Missions (Fly trough bonus-gates, time attack etc.)

A demo will follow soon.
What do you think so far? Comments and critics are mostly welcome.

cheers and merry x-mas

Zwecklos & Sinnlos

very,very nice pictures!

is humble suppose to be a word joke or do you mean "bumble bee"?

but the screenshots are nice i can see you use your same rendering techniques like in the othe rporject (backed textures, etc)

Hope to see more soon

I especially like the house... very nice job!!
keep it up!
looking forward to that demo!!

Excellent Job on the terrain, you have some nice cuts in there. House model looks great. Would love to know what shader you use for the water. Looks like its well on its way to being a fun little game. GS out.

Looks good, but you should make your terrain texture mipmaps less blurry and use anisotrophic filtering. The rest looks really nice.

we are still thinking about the water shader issue.

why does the A6 Pro-mirror ability use so much performance?
is it maybe related to the high entity-count (ca. 600)?
is there a difference about two or three models with 50k polys or 200-300 models with 50k polys altogether?

we are planning to upgrade to 6.5 to use the built-in water shader. but not sure about that. anyone got experiences on that shader? does it use cubemaps as reflection or does it also reflect models?

or are there any other suggestions, we are really open to every idea.

cheers

Yes to both.

The water shader is slow because the scene is rendered twice, first from the waters point of view, then from the camera with the first render used as texture of the water surface.

The entity count also matters, more entities is slower, even if the total amount of polies in the scene is the same. Try batching the grass sprites and such.