Self working Star Wars battle

Within the last 2 days I took some time to work with GS again (has been a long break).

Well but I wanted to do something that is completed fast, so it's nothing about Dragonrise or the MP stuff.


I made this Star Wars battle sceene that works totally automatical.
The ships hunt and destroy each other, search for targets and sometimes try to evade them.

ok I admin I didn't put too much time into effects programming, however it is nice to watch the battle going on!


Here's a screen of the "game" (show fits better).
To switch the ship you're watching just klick the left mouse button.

StarWars.exe - Self extracting WinRAR archive (~3.9 MB)

very very cool

I really liked it but why are those x-wings shooting at each other sometimes ^^ they should be killing those imperial bastards!!

great AI programming! may I use the models for my own project? I know they are intellectual property of george lucas, but couldn't i use it just for fun?

respect, for 2 days this is a nice demo. although the x-wing are a little bit kamikaze you even implented friendly fire, did you know?

i am looking at the laser beam code you have, iv`e been after such an effect for a while, can you tell me what YOUR._Groesse == 1 means? is it for a bounding box or something?

Thanks guys!


@jigalypuff

"Groesse" means "size", the Ties and X-Wings have "size" 1 and the mother-ships have "size" 2.
"Size" 1 ships get shot more accurate than "size" 2 ships (that's why the random range is different).


@SchokoKeks

The X-Wings are not really shooting each other, they just don't recognize if a friend is between them and their enemy...

The ship models are from "Yeda Kight II" and from somewhere else, thus they're not mine at all.


@ulf

Sometimes the ships just don't recognize each other, but there's a "physical" problem if a TieFighter and a X-Wing are flying and firing at each other:

The Ties Lasers pass the X-Wing through the open Wings and the X-Wings lasers pass the Ties all around, thus they can't hit each other and finally don't have enough space left to evade if they're too close.

In normal combat the evasion range is enough, but not if the targets are moving towards each other.

Indeed amazing work ShoreVietam, in just to days really nice work
I think some people can't even finish the models in two days ^^
But on the otherhand, you're a skilled 3dsg user, looking at the game it's quite obvious and even when the effets aren't that nice looking at a relative way it still looks great

Cheers

Frazzle

Hmmmm for some reason the star destroyers look really dark on my laptop. Cool demo btw

Awesome! but how do I make it my screensaver?

Man... exactly what I'm working on ... (AI for my game)
You're good. You're really good. Very nice work!!

How do you choose which ship to target next?
Just distance... or angles as well? (looks like the latter)

I could look at the code, I guess, but then i run the risk of taking some of your ideas on accident... and I don't really want to^^

My x-wings are flying straight into the star destroyer and *BOOM* no very clever imo...

Hey mk_1, use mouse_left to switch ship views.

@frazzle

Well the models are not my own, they're from Jeda Knight II and somewhere else, but I had to rework some.


@bstudio

The Star Destroyer and Nebulon ships have lowered ambient values so that they're not too bright.


@Nems

I didn't try to use it as screensaver, maybe change the "Star Wars.exe" to "Star Wars.scr"?


@Germanunkol

You're working on such a thing, too?
Then you'll maybe be glad to hear what conmes later.

The targeting is... way too simple, sure angle check and stuff would be possible, but I just take a random number and cycle through the entitys and count one down each time I find an enemy, if it reaches 0 the current pointer is returned. *shame on me* *lol*


@mk_1

Yes that's not really nice, the Star Destroyer is hard to handle because of his huge size, but I'm onto fixing it.




Now to new stuff

At the moment I'm working on some improvements.

I solved a quaternion bug which caused the battle to take part behind the star destroyer, now the battle takes part between the two starships, where it shall be.

I improved the movement code, now every rotation is accellerated corretly which makes the flight much smoother (and the targeting much more efficient as well as I noticed )

The kills of each figther are counted and shown now.

Destroyed ships fly controlless for a sec. while they fade out now.

The targeted enemy ship is marked with a crosshair now.


I didn't upload the latest version yet since I still want to improve it more until the next update

If you got some ideas on things to improve please let me know and I'll see what I can do!


So thanks for all your comments!
Greetings, Shore

One remark I must add to your last post, I see you like to use ' '
Srr for being off-topic ^^

Cheers

Frazzle

Spectator cam please, that would be great so that you can zoom in and out, follow ships of choice or jump to the ship being targeted to watch incoming shots.

Loose debri too from both the action and passing meteors or such with interactive results?

@frazzle

lol yes, now as you mention it.. (!)


In addition to the previous mentioned improvements I added a new camera system.
Now there are 4 camera-modes which can be accessed by the following keys:
1 - standart 3rd figther (person) view
2 - target view, looks towards the targeted enemy
3 - specator view, looks from the targeted enemy to the targeting ship
4 - cockpit view
5 - automatically cycle through the 4 previous views

StarWars.exe - Self extracting WinRAR archive (~3.9 MB)

nice.. sehr geil gemacht...
dass erinnert mich an das Ur-Raumschiffschlachtenspiel von Star wars
Star Wars. X-wing

Looks better and better... nice lasers, explo effects, sounds... everything is nice Bravo to You.

What I like about your games ShoreVietam is that you keep on updating it to the full capacity of its use which I appriciate alot
Again, nice update

Cheers

Frazzle

i like it too
good luck with it

@ shorevietam:
i love this demo, it's like really cool to watch...the only thing that annoys me is that the x-wings and tie-fighters keep colliding
apart from that: thumbs up!

One thing that you should change:

set the camera.arc=90; (or 80 or so)
This is especially important to have enough oversight in a 3-dimensional battle,
as the standard of 60 of the arc is always to low for first person views in games.

Shorevietam you should make a screensaver out of it, would be perfect. (The colliding is okey, happens in the movie too sometimes actually..)

Cheers

Does anyone know how to set up a 3dgs Program, so that it will start
as a screensaver?

@derOmega

Hab' ich zwar nie egspielt, aber vieleicht erinnert dich die neue version ja noch ein wenig merh daran..


@tompo

I improved the sound atmosphere a bit by not creating far away sounds, what causes the engine and explosion sounds to stay alive until they are finished.


@frazzle

It's a matter of fun, I decide carefully what game I start making and normally it turns out as expected what makes a lot of fun and gives motivation in further improvements.


@Tempelbauer

Good luck for what?
It's only a just for fun "demo", well but maybe contiec wants to use it (with own starship models and sounds) as a techdemo, who knows.


@RJDL

If fixed a lot of the collision problems, but more in the new features section.


@Damocles

I just read your posting about the camera angle, I tried it, but my cockpit model does not fit the view angle any more.


@PHeMoX

Well... do you know how to make it a screensaver?



It is now possible to take over X-Wings!

A new system heavily reduced the collision rate!

Full command list:

• - Switch to another X-Wing: Mouse left in watch-mode
  
• - Fire Blaster: Mouse left in battle-mode
  
• - Switch to battle-mode (take over the current X-Wing): Mouse right in watch-mode
  
• - Control X-Wing: WASD in battle-mode
  
• - Accellerate X-Wing: left-shift in battle-mode
  
• - Slow down X-Wing: left-ctrl in battle-mode
  
• - Switch camera-mode: 1, 2, 3, 4 in watch-mode
  
• - (De-)activate automatic camera-mode: 5 in watch-mode
  

StarWars.rar - WinRAR archive (~3.9 MB)


Hunting a Tie Fighter in battle-mode.

Nice update as always, 'the take over control options' is nice but it doens't fit the style of this game due to the fact that it was supposed to be a selfworking battle ^^ Anyway, nice effort

Cheers

Frazzle

Hi Shore, nur eine Kleinigkeit, aber die Texturierung der Weltallkugel ist Dir sehr gelungen. Mir ist gleich die unheimlich hohe Dichte der Sterne aufgefallen und die Schärfe der Darstellung. Jedes einzelne Polygon auf eine Fläche zu setzten und dadurch einen Kacheleffekt zu erzielen, das ist sehr vorteilhaft.

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Does anyone know how to set up a 3dgs Program, so that it will start
as a screensaver?

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Shouldn't you only change the end of the name from .exe to .scr?
Thought I had read this on this forums years ago.
Don't know wether it still works and wether I remember it right.