Then I would like to demand a complete procedural texture generation build into WED/GED, just because making textures is sooo hard. (Do you realize the irony?)

Making games is never easy.
If you want a "make game button", go for FPS creator.
If you want a lot of templates and included middleware, go for Unity.
If you want a solid, prooved and flexible engine, go for acknex.
If you want an AAA solution, go for UDK.

Take the engine that fits to your project or design your
project towards the engine.

But don´t buy a Smart and demand a whirlpool in the trunk / boot. Then you should look out for a stretched limousine.

In all these cases you´ll have to learn new things. Face it and love it, because that´s what game creation is. Learning. No fun. Hard work.
If it´s too hard for you, you should collect stamps.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_kinematics

only with an ik-system you can figure out how exactly the leg bones have to be rotated. so you would have to write an ik-solver. i don't think it's easy. but maybe you could also use the physics engine for the same task.

if i remember correctly you can look into the source code of the unity locomotion system. probably it's possible to learn from it.

Making textures and what does that tool give us are really different thing... but never mind. You are all right.

Yes, it´s different, but it´s the same as well.
Both are generating procedural data.

See: For me it´s incredible hard to get a consistent style, because I´m more a coder than an artist.

For textures it´s the same. I´m fiddling around with gimp,
stgpro, normalmap generators, ati´s compressionator...

I make nearly all my models in MED (!) because I don´t want handle blender or even wings.

So, a procedural texture tool would be a real helper for me.
Imagine endless terrains with procedural textures that fit automatically to the environment. (Which could be created from procedural functions as well).

But I won´t demand it, because it´s my fault. I don´t want to learn how to texture and model, so I have to live with that.
I will fiddle around with MED and Gimp if I need procedural textures, I´ll generate them via Lite-C and / or shaders.

If I need some impressive models (for you: read: non-trivial code) then I´ll have to pay for it.
Or I have to take the time for fiddling.
But then it won´t look impressive.


If you don´t want to learn coding, you´ll have to live with that as well. Aim the goal, not the problem!
A key for good design is to turn problems into features.
To make a virtue out of necessity.
It can be rather inspiring.

@fogman
LINK
i found this link on my external harddrive reading your question about such a program
Its a procedural texture generator for free

muffel

To be honest, ProFX would be way cooler and it does exactly what I mean.

But thanks for that link - I didn´t know that MapZone is free.
It will help me a lot!

Yes, I did watch the video before posting. It showed lots of cool details that give a better insight into how it might work.

I don't care if Unity has it built in. Unity has tonnes of stuff built-in. GS's visual editors (MED, WED, GED) are largely ignored by a lot of its users and it doesn't make sense to integrate such a system into any of them, IMHO. It might suit Unity's click-together design, but GS isn't click-together. It's far from it. That's why even "built-in" stuff like PSSM and animating on the GPU still require code.
I wouldn't use an ik-system. I'd have independent bones animations for each leg that simply go between extended and unextended, and the code would use those animations to extend the legs to the appropriate length. To me, ik is more important to editors (such as Blender) than to games.

Jibb

Wow, wait.
What happend here?!
Chill out allitlbit.
3Run only whats to say that peapol who are making (or trying) to make future or what ever for gamestudio (so for everbody), should get alittlebit help.
But that is something, that always have two opinions.
That meens it would tack forever to talk about this.
And it`s not the right topic for this.
But maby somebody has an opinion, how to make a locomotion system.
We became one, maby somebody out there has an idea.