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Discussion in 'Works In Progress - Archive' started by Cominu, Jan 17, 2011.

  1. Cominu

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    Hi everyone, looks like the 2011 will be the year when my "big evil plan of world domination" will see the light :)

    Long story short: I'm going to create a single player rpg within a short development timeframe and keep everyone informed with regular blog post filled with news, tutorials and solutions to common problems encountered during this journey.

    Read more details here:
    http://www.subvertgames.com/

    Ciao
     
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  2. PolyMad

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    Nice, now you only need somebody to help with graphics and audio :D
     
  3. Sollthar

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    Keep the news coming then. I'll follow. :D
     
  4. Cominu

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  5. Schlumpfsack

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    off topic:

    Hannoi rockt :) Südsstadt und Maschsee = mein Reich :D
     
  6. fallingbrickwork

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    Looking forward to seeing how this develops... keep us posted.

    Regards,
    Matt.
     
  7. blind4

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    nice, keep up the good work
     
  8. Cominu

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    Week 2 is approaching and I needed a character to walk inside the levels so...meet Adam, my placeholder man character for the prototype phase



    Read more at: http://www.subvertgames.com/blog/4

    Ciao
     
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  9. xAdix

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    looking good so far
     
  10. Cominu

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  11. PhYc1aTr1st

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    wow, thats look great. but i agree with megmaltese that you should get someone to help with the graphics
     
  12. Cominu

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  13. Cominu

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    I know the current graphics are poor, but I'm forcing myself to not add real graphics until the prototype phase is over. A prototype is all about gameplay, or not?
     
  14. seon

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    Yeah, forget the art... stick to what you are doing... designing gameplay doesn't require nice art... it's just a distraction. Your doing great! What's next?
     
  15. Cominu

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    Right now I'm working on many things:
    - a custom character lighting
    - moving between different levels.
    - 3DConnexion SpaceNavigator support inside editor mode

    Also, I started the development of a node-based dialogue editor inside unity:
    $DialogueEditor.jpg

    ..yes, I'm loving unity :D
     
  16. Cominu

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    Another one! This week I worked on:
    • Minimap
    • footsteps detection and sound
    • custom reverb (parameters tweaked at runtime based on room size)
    $week4.jpg



    Read more at: http://www.subvertgames.com/blog/7
     
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  17. PrimeDerektive

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    You should write a tutorial on how to make a minimap like that, thats pretty sick! Especially the fact that the texture is generated in the Unity editor.
     
  18. Larsa334

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    Very nice work! :)

    The node based dialogue-editor also makes me want to check in here on a regular basis to follow your work.
     
  19. blind4

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    nice progress, keep up the good work
     
  20. Cominu

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    Week 6 changes:
    • blob shadow for characters
    • updated character shader to work on older SM2 cards
    • procedural head turn
    • project updated to unity 3.2



    Read more info here: Custom character lighting
     
  21. macspeedee

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    Nice job, looks very slickly done.
     
  22. Thomas-Pasieka

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    Good job there Cominu! I will be following your progress :)

    Thomas
     
  23. Frank Oz

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    Just giving the thread some love, this looks really interesting, and the characters appearance totally grew on me, please never change that style :D
     
  24. PrimeDerektive

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    Haha, I doubt his plan all along was to make an RPG about crash test dummies in grid-tiled worlds :)
     
  25. Cominu

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    Character proportions will be almost the same, I love the "slim" character style too :D
    ...now you made me think that I still have to model "Eve", the female character prototype...
     
  26. CharlieSamways

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    Great work, i love it, will definatly keep watching! If you ever need any model help? Id be honored. Cant wait to see this finished!
     
  27. Frank Oz

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    But you gotta admit, it has a really unique style to it already. It certainly stands out, and all the best stuff is often from happy accidents that were never originally intended. :D
     
  28. PrimeDerektive

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    Like crapping your pants in a fit of laughter!
     
  29. Cominu

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    Hey guys, Adam got friends! This time I worked on party management and movement: leader switch, party formation, party status HUD and more..



    Read more info here: "Party"

    Comments and critics are always welcome
     
  30. Frank Oz

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    LMAO!

    Can't believe I missed that reply until now! Haha.
     
  31. Cominu

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    This week I worked on "pausing" the game and fighting with my ignorance about the fact that with "Time.timescale = 0" the method FixedUpdate is not going to be called :confused:


    Read the full post here: Pausing the game





    ...right now there's not much to do in the game and everything is not polished yet but...I was thinking about making a public alpha for you to test and comment..are you interested?
     
  33. impheris

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    look nice but, this will be a toturial or something like that? or will be a game?
     
  34. Cominu

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    Is going to be a full game.
     
  35. Cominu

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    Hey guys, this week I worked hard to create something playable in the webplayer and guess what? Here's the first playable alpha of the game.

    Nothing too big, just 2 maps and you're free to walk around and test the basic party behaviour.

    Here's the full post: Week 10 - Alpha #1
    ane the direct webplayer url: http://subvertgames.com/play

    Ciao
     
  36. Disaster

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    I really enjoyed reading through your blog, it's great to see you using plenty of optimisation techniques and not just resorting to dynamic lighting. One thing I was really interested in was the method you used to figure out the walkable area of the maps in order to create a mini map snapshot. Any chance you can share how you did that? I'd love to know how to create a 'walkable' zone in my levels for use with pathfinding etc.
     
  37. Cominu

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    Short story:
    1) I'm shooting many rays from the sky and keeping the height in a 2dimensional array.
    2) starting from a walkable known point (it's taken from the player spawn point) I take the height of this point and compare it to near points. If the difference in height is less than 0.5 meters I'll mark this point as walkable, otherwise is marked as obstacle.

    Once the algorithm is working you can improve it taking in account the normal of the raycasts hits to detect if a slope is too steep and mark these points are obstacle from the start.

    My next milestone is to create a little pathfinding solution for enemies and party members, I'll try to include a better explanation of how I created the walkable zone too.
     
  38. Cominu

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    Another week, another update! This time I focus on Item containers, gui and some shader talk.


    Read the full post here: Item containers (part I)




     
  39. coin-god

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    Looking awesome man. Can't wait for Alpha 2!
     
  40. xenbiosis

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    Looks good! Can't wait to try it.
     
  41. d2king10

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    I might be able to lend you a hand with the graphics if you want, you can see some of my stuff here: www.jasongordy.com
     
  42. Patyrn

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    Really cool series of posts. I only wish you went into the nitty gritty a bit more about how you accomplished things.

    Your stuff's awesome.
     
  43. Cominu

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    I'm planning to do some extra posts with explanations and tutorial. What kind of topic you want to be more detailed?
     
  44. Schlumpfsack

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    nearly everything?? ;)
    Your work is just plain awesome.
     
  45. PrimeDerektive

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    I would love to see a tutorial on the radar.
     
  46. Cominu

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    So far, here the asked tutorials:
    - automatic walkmap creation
    - minimap (radar)
    - how to create modular levels and pieces

    Any other? My main goal is still to create the game so all these tutorials will be made in the spare time, so "everything" is not an acceptable request :D
     
  47. Schlumpfsack

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    awwww...in that case...the daylight/shadow system seems interesting.
    i got that right that you don't use any real time shadows and i love the transition between "sun" and "indoor" parts :)
     
  48. Cominu

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    Jason, check your private messages
     
  49. d2king10

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    Replied :)
     
  50. TonyNowak

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    I really like the style as it is now, unique.