[Multiplayer RTS] Agile Heroes

Hi fellow unity developers!

Today i would like to show you my latest project witch also is my first serious project made with unity3d (i used to be a flash developer but then i took a unity in the face ):

Agile Heroes, is a Multiplayer RTS project, with a warcraft/dota like gameplay.

Here is a small screenshot of the project:



For this early alpha version, you can create games, chat (in game and in the lobby), control units, select a group of units.

I will try to keep the thread updated and post a link when the game is playable.

If you have any questions, suggestions etc... please do no hesitate!

 

Looks very nice! Your interface looks well executed. Looking forward to seeing your progress. It would be very cool to have a toolset similar to the WC3 World Editor inside Unity!

 

looking really good!, exited to see the playable version

 

how did you do the healthbar? I did something similar, but the thing with my healthbar is that the length of the bar is the same, whether it si close to the camera or far away. I could handle this by calculating the distance to the camera and adjust the length but maybe you got a better solution?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20284799/working/WebPlayer.html

 

First of all i would like to thank you all for your support!

@MarkusB: The health bars do not change their length when the camera zooms in or out, the lenght is just different for the base and the minions.
Actually its not really a problem, but if you really wanted to do it, i suppose could do it the way you said, by making the bar's lengh relative to the distance between the GameObject and the Camera.

An other way to do this would be to add a GameObject for the bar itself, and make it look at the camera, but i doubt this is the best solution.

 

thank you for your advice
My healthbar is a gameobject with a guitexture and yours?

 

Its a C# script that uses Camera.WorldToScreenPoint to get the position of the GameObject in the 2D screen. Then i simply draw the bar using the GUI.DrawTexture method.

 

That looks really good!

I'm mostly interested in how you are doing the multiplayer part: Do you use Unity's networking or some other? How do you synchronize unit positons/health etc among players?

I'll follow this closely. I'm working on a RTS myself, with multiplayer as well. Haven't started a thread about it yet, though..

 

I am really happy to see that you find the project interesting!

For the multiplayer part, i develop the server side in java, with the help of SmartfoxServer's API.

For the synchronization of units position, these are sent as paths (arrays of points), calculated by the client's pathfinder for the units controlled by the player, and calculated by the server for the units controlled by the server. Of course the paths are checked to avoid any abuse. Also i use a homemade pathfinder.

If you have any other questions, do not hesitate.

 

So you are using a more or less authorative server that sends unit positions etc to all players?

 

Ah my healthbar is nearly the same as yours, except that I use guitexture. I will test guidraw and try to fix my "problem".
As you can see at my webplayer I am trying to create a RTS myself, but it is more like a training, to get to know unity, nothing really serious.
@Obatztara
I had some multyplayer attempts as well but the unity buit-in seams not that good. At least for me the NAT-punchtrough didn't worked. Right now I think for me is the best way to manage the single player part in a way that I later on just have to add the newtworkview and change very little things.

 

@MarkusB - Did you create that little web player or was it tutorial based? I'm trying to set the same thing up and was just wondering if I could find some help.

 

The most of it was my own work, the healthbar for example is from a tutorial. If you need something just ask
I can give you some code or tell you which tutorial I used for some parts.

 

@Obatztrara: Yes the server is sending everything to the clients, i know it is an expensive way of doing things, but i plan to setup a system that will allow players to host their own games.

Here is a small preview of the new features:


As you can see, minions can now attack enemies (ranged and melee attacks working fine.).
The system now handles the death of units.

 

Very nice, reminds me of Warcraft 3

 

Hi everyone!

Here are the latest news:

The minimap is now avaliable.
I finished the animations for a new Character that will be our first hero!

Since i have now access to my desktop computer here is a more detailed screenshot (with detailed textures, feelsgoodman.jpg)



And an other screenshot with 100 minions!



I hope you will enjoy these screen as much as i enjoyed making the game!

 

Wow, you're quite fast!

Minimap looks great! What kind of functionality does it have? Can you jump to places on the map? Hover around when holding mouse on the map?

 

Thank you

You can move the camera by clicking on the minimap, and view units details by moving the mouse over the small icon (the way they do it in league of legends if you are a player).

 

The project is starting to look like an RTS now =)

the new features:

- When selecting a unit, you can now see its detailed stats (dmg, armor etc...).
- Heroes can now gain experience when they kill enemies, and level up.

Here is a small screenshot to illustrate the new features:

 

I demand a video or the webplayer!

Kidding, just craving some moving images...

 

Very nice work and progression. I considered a RTS for my first project, but after some research I realized I should start smaller lol.

Do you recommend any tutorials for learning RTS style games?

 

Hey!

I will upload a video soon.

I cannot recommend a good tutorial since i learned most of the things i know from google.

I did use the examples provided by smartfox for the multiplayer part.

 

Time for some news!

Units may now have spells, that are displayed in the interface. I will upload a video when the first spell is completed.

 

Here is a new video of the project, sorry for the lag, it was taken with my laptop, the game was running smoothly though. I will upload a better video soon.

 

Very cool!

I couldn't quite tell from the video: Are you using your own pathfinding system? Also, does the multiplayer work?

The ingame UI looks really good, does it adapt to different screen resolutions?

 

this is really good work. And you did this all alone?

 

@Obatztrara: I made the pathfinding myself, actually, this is not my first RTS project, i used to develop multiplayer flash games, and most of the server-side programming and the UI graphics come from my previous projects.
The video you saw is using the multiplayer server. Its not public yet, you will be informed for the first alpha test.
The UI does adapt to any screen resolution bigger than 800x600.

@MarkusB: I did all of this alone indeed, i am very lucky to be able to do the graphics myself, finding a skilled graphist is really hard.

 

When did you start working on this?

I'm incredibly jealous of all the progress you've made. In 4 months I'm in about the same place with my rts minus all the multiplayer. Kudos!

 

I started the project in the end of december, so it took me 2 months and a few days.
This is going fast for the moment, its the funniest part of the project, building the core system etc... Soon i will have to add models and artworks in mass, also there will certainly be a huge load of bugs to fix until it is stable =) this could take 4 more months, unless i find a good graphist to join me.

 

Hey! The game has changed a bit, i decided to stick with the Dota like concept.

A new video is avaliable!

 

seems nice, keep it up.