Assault! - V0.79 - Multiplayer 4VS4 Shooter

Assault! is a Multiplayer 4VS4 Third Person Shooter. You will take place on the battlefield as a Marine Soldier or Resistance Soldier, your goal is to eliminate the other team.

http://www.indiedb.com/games/assault

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Download link V0.79 (2/24/2011)
http://www.mediafire.com/?woc8oudya0fhmf2
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20035811/Assault_079.zip

New Features in V0.79

-Added Admin controls to prevent ghost players and round crashes
-Now you get 1000$ if your team wins the round.
-Weapon panel bug fixed (again)

New Features in V0.78

-Crash bug fixed (I hope)
-Round Bug fixed
-Weapon panel bug fixed

New Features in V0.77

-Crash bug when joining game fixed
-Environment map shader added for blue car

New Features in V0.76

-Chat bug Fixed
-Jump bug fixed

New Features in V0.75

-Level lighting improved (crates now with lighmaps and cars brightness changed)
-Hide player when sniper
-Chat system redone and fixed
-Deaths panel fixed
-Bug zoomed mode sometimes got stuck fixed
-Jump Fixed
-Recoil added (intensity depends of weapon)
-Footsteps volume changed

New Features in V0.70

-Fixed A and D keys inversed in Spectator mode
-Movement improved (abs speed it's the same in all directions)
-Added Statistics panel between rounds
-Added mouses sensitivity option in settings
-Shooting system improved
-Added grenades (one per round) and more weapons (see screenshot)
-Added money system to buy weapons
-If you survived last round and you don't buy a new weapon, you will save your last weapon, if you died last round and you don't buy a new weapon you will appear with the uzi as default
-Added a info panel to show who killed whom and with what weapon
-Added bullet traces
-Now you don't have to enter server's ip always you want to play, instead I'm using an dyndns host (assault.dyndns.org) and the server id is saved in settings panel, which you can change to your friend's ip if you want to play a game in another server.

Screenshots (right click-open in new tab to see at full res)



[img]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2172/37241696.jpg[/img]

Does the link Work?

sorry i cant download! Sever not found...
NOW IT WORKS

I played demo and looks really good. Great work!

About bugs, camera sometimes go into walls and jump need some inprovements. Also when player jump and we hold space key, player moving but without animations, you must reset jump there and call again walk animations.

dowload link dosent seem to work !

Professionnal quality !
The level is a bit squarry, but it's A8

Some tip:
The red girl sprites, pop ups a lot compared to all level graphics ! perhaps make some scratches, paint degradation on some borders and parts ? or reduce is color brightness to match the level lightening !

Anyway great game, just hope to see some working download link

The camera penetrates walls if the wall is on the right of the player.

there was a decal problem with the graphity in the firdt picture

The link works for me, anyway, here's a mirror from filefront: http://www.gamefront.com/files/20019446/Assault.zip



I'll look into it

Ok i could dowload it with the new link

Well very very good. Very good use of 3DGS.
I presume the garage level is made of BSP ?
I think you could gain frame rate by usig models and lightmaps no ?

Well , i just give you design critics, my own ones !
I'm not some pro level maker

- Red girl sprite : it is too much visible it is a sprite seeing the straight cut on the bottom of the prite :
Use alpah and make some gradient to make it blend more naturally on the wall

- Outdoor, the cut sema between grass and gravel is too visible : put a line of stone or bricks to hide it !

-The HAlo car strange , even tires don't match

- Why not using some shader on cars , to make them better, their flat painting make them pop up from the level !
PErhaps just bring down their luminosity of their texture to match the level lightening ?

-Same thing for crates :
lower their brightness, and bake some shadows on their texture.

Well i know you don't use normal map shaders with spot lights that could solve all these lightening issues, but by using
smart textures and good brightness it can look great !

I have tested it on my Eepc : at HDMI resolution (yes my Eepc have an HDMI port) : 1680*1050
I have not put HDR , and the game runs really great !
Not smooth but great, even more for a game made with A8 !


You could make a longer garage level having depth like several
floors under the ground ? or longer ?
By using region detection code you can optimise the game also ! Or clever LOD on the cars !

Great game !
Keep it up !

Thanks for the mirror.
Screenshots look great, but can't connect to Server (No game found)
Played the "Alone Mode" and can say that it's very good.

thanks for your tips ratchet The level as the credits says is made by Rondidion, I just modified little things, but I will try to improve it a bit. My plan for the future is to add more levels for the game, such as an aircraft carrier, a small city, etc. If someone wants to join the development as level designer or modeler he will be welcome.

MTD you couldn't join game because the server was offline, but now I will open server, if someone wants to play.

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Great game Online is Fun.
Found only one bug - Used the cheapest shotgun and "Shot You" - The places where did bullet hit Your player where dark squares.

aircraft carrier :
It gave me an idea : why not a sort of aircraft transporter flying on the air ? like some big train with wagons but an aerail version, flying through sky and clouds.
But it would me too much futurist perhaps ?

So the level is made of BSP ?

Yes, I guess is a problem of decals adapting to complex geometry, I will try to fix it.



Yes, it's made with level geometry, but not BSP because I don't own pro version, so it's ABT

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It always crashes for me after a few seconds.

Edit: Creating a new game works fine...

Good game!
+ I like way you've done the startup screen.
+ Player's body movement when moving the mouse is good
+ I didn't notice any lag.
+ Death animation looked good.
+ Blood and red screen worked well.
+ Crosshair gets less precise while you shoot.
+ No crashes here.

- There's multiple minor bugs that aren't horrible but stop it from being perfect: I once had the sound of someone elses weapon every time I shot, the kills aren't always displayed right.
- Please leave the chat messages visible. Don't delete them. I never had time to read them cause I was busy killin... and they were gone by the round was over.
- I really don't like how the player moves. I felt like I was hovering, the feet slide, the shadow's weird, the animation is too slow and the strides too long. Also, the footsteps sounded too loud and too much like there was an echo.
- I wanna be able to crouch to get more precision
- It doesn't pull back when I shoot. The crosshair gets less accurate, but there's no recoil.

Overall it was fun. Gameplay was good. Well done!

it was fun to play i like your game

@ratchet: Level is made by me and yes, it`s BSP in WED.

A new version of Assault is ready!

Download link V0.75 (2/20/2011)
http://www.mediafire.com/?47kb1chxn2o466j
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20023154/Assault_075.zip

New Features in V0.75

-Level lighting improved (crates now with lighmaps and cars brightness changed)
-Hide player when sniper
-Chat system redone and fixed
-Deaths panel fixed
-Bug zoomed mode sometimes got stuck fixed
-Jump Fixed
-Recoil added (intensity depends of weapon)
-Footsteps volume changed

Screenshots (right click-open in new tab to see at full res)

WAaa.... i like your game very much.

Can't find any server... are you going to host?

What means "BSP" ?

binary space partitioning

SERVER ONLINE now

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We have discovered some bugs on chat system and I will fix them and upload a hotfix

hope you can fix them
they're annoying!

but really nice game

OK, chat bug fixed, here is the link for the version V0.76

Download link V0.76 (2/20/2011)
http://www.mediafire.com/?wbu2xj2c282dwmv
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20024155/Assault_076.zip

New Features in V0.76

-Chat bug Fixed
-Jump bug fixed

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@Rondidon :
Great job !
i played the last version , the read car is now perfect, the crates also, all that matches perectly the level lightening.

Theres is just the BLue car (inside it it lacks textures on chairs etc ...)
The blue texture make it look non metallic where it is placed caus it is under lights : put it on shadows like red car or give it some simple environment shader
( I don't like the Halo car it looks out of place and time,
but well it's a game not reality)


Any way great work indeed !
Keep it up !

Thanks for your tips ratchet, I have added a environment mapping shader to that cobra car:



About the tank, I didn't know it was from Halo, as Rondidion put it there, but I can't find a decent free modern tank model to replace it (if someone knows about one please tell me).


And another great new! I have found the function which caused the crash when some people joined the game and fixed it, so now there shouldn't be any crash.

Here is the new fixed version (wow 3 updates in one day):

Download link V0.77 (2/20/2011)
http://www.mediafire.com/?3cxx9nga17w3fii
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20024867/Assault_077.zip

New Features in V0.77

-Crash bug when joining game fixed
-Environment map shader added for blue car

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let's check if this time there is no errors

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Sorry, but my PC keeps crashing, so I won't join again.
The weird thing is: these crashes only happen with 3DGS applications (like yours or Surive (the MP-Shooter of schokokeks). I can play other games fine without any crashes.

das spiel macht einen heiden spass weiter so
leider crasht es ab und an mal und wenn man länger spielt kann man keine waffen mehr kaufen, sonst top ;-)

well, I have shielded game code of all possible empty pointers, If It keeps crashing, I don't know what more I can do. I'm uploading now this fix

Download link V0.78 (2/21/2011)
http://www.mediafire.com/?27du860818z1e68
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20028757/Assault_078.zip

New Features in V0.78

-Crash bug fixed (I hope)
-Round Bug fixed
-Weapon panel bug fixed

Server is offline?

Yes, I can't open now until tomorrow.

Important: For those who already have downloaded latest V0.78, I'm sorry there was a bad file in the game and you will have to download it again, I've just updated download link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?27du860818z1e68
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20028757/Assault_078.zip

@offtopic
and how works "binary space partitioning"? And what is it?

http://tinyurl.com/4kfn9fe <= The Shooter

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Let's try if the last V0.78 finally has no bugs

That was some fun, and no crashes for me this time. Nice work painkiller!

edit:
Some remarks:
- Movement still feels not very smooth (maybe I just have to play with the mouse sensitivity)
- Sometimes the player model is in the way, so you cannot see where you are aiming (maybe make it transparent (locally) when the camera is very near?)
- sometimes the kill is not displayed correctly (only who killed somebody or nothing at all)

Its a nice small game.
For me there were some crashes.
But a thing you have to fix is that the player is removed from the server list if he has crashed

muffel

I will send two times the player name of the kill panel to be sure it arrives its target. Also I'm adding some admin controls to kick players (to delete crashed players) and a control to manually end the round (just in case that round bug appears again) About making player transparent, I can't do that because he is using a shader so i can't make him translucent.

New version ready:

Download link V0.79 (2/24/2011)
http://www.mediafire.com/?woc8oudya0fhmf2
mirror http://www.gamefront.com/files/20035811/Assault_079.zip

New Features in V0.79

-Added Admin controls to prevent ghost players and round crashes
-Now you get 1000$ if your team wins the round.
-Weapon panel bug fixed (again)

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Server online for about half an hour

PD: Assault! is now on IndieDB!: http://www.indiedb.com/games/assault

cool game, it makes a lot of fun
but the level could be larger and more ways, you always know how the opponent is running.

Great improvements, it's getting along well.

Shotgun reloading: If I reload while there's still bullets in there it used to reload 8 bullets no matter what (dunno if that's still the case).
Also, if I have 4 bullets reloaded, I should be able to shoot, but it keeps reloading until 8 (but by that time I'm dead)...

Level's great.
But I can see the car tires through the transparent window of the car...

I've started to work on another level, so the game will have more than one level which you will be able to choose when creating game



That's because the reload animation reloads always 8 bullets, I'll try to find a workaround.

About seeing tires, that's because that car model has no interior.

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Here is a first screenshot of the new Boat level I'm working on

wow!
really nice!
i think it's much better than the old one, because you have more space to play

oh yeah, the new level looks cool
how many levels are planned?

new map reminds me of CoD4, there was a similar map at a ship at night.

I liked the old level as well. For larger teams, the maps must be bigger, but with the ~4 players we played, the size was good. And I disagree, I think there were lots of ways you could go...

@painkiller :
Great level, you're becoming a great level designer also !

Your level is great, now my personnal taste :

- the boat texture i think is just test ? caus it's too much
dark for metal, even more on a sunnny day !
- good textures with some rust, but
everything is metal or painting that emit specularity also !
So you would just need some specularity, even baked specularity will work great !
Well perhaps specularity is for the last touches


Keep it up !

Thanks for your kind words people



I don't know, I will add more levels from time to time while I'm motivated with it



ahh I remember that map in CoD, but that one was much bigger



-The ship floor texture is the same metal texture as the one in DM_garages, I wanted the boat to have a rusty look, that's why I used it.
-I tried to use normal and parallax specular mapping for containers and floor, but it ate all my fps, maybe I will try another way.

AS_Ship level is ready, here are some in-game shots (Open in new tab to see at full-size):








It runs perfectly smooth at 60 fps on my pc at fullscreen. The level will come with new Assault version.

The level looks really good! Love the shading and the texture work on the crates!
Still, the ground is a bit to dark as other users pointed out, but its acceptable.

Really looking forward to try the level ingame!

Assault! OFFICIAL SERVER IS ONLINE

If you want to play or test online this entry for the contest, now you can play with other people, just join game.

@painkiller :
Seeing your new pictures, the game looks very good !
The zoom shows that all textures and brighness are
uniform in the same tone : so good , change nothing

Any new level idea planned ?

thanks, maybe next level will be a city, but i'm not sure yet.

PD: server offline

i played your game agin at the end i had 55000$ and ca.60-67 kills! it was so much fun! i hope that we'll can play in the new level when you relese the next vesion!
sorry for my english!
xxxxxxx

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Just a little idea:

MAybe link a picture into your mainpost which says "Online" or "Offline".
Store the pic on a webspace and exchange it(there a 2 versions with the same name but dofferent text), so you dont have to rewrite it over and over again^^.


Greets
Rackscha

oh great idea, thanks, i will do it.

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I've found a little bug:



Crazy xD

mfG TheShooter

lol where are you in the photo?

I'm on the roof. The windows are passable.

thanks, I've fixed it

no problem

One question. Is the map "dm_garages" from rondidonX open source or what? xD

I'm not sure, you should ask him about that. I simply asked him for permission to use it in Assault! and he agreed.

Painkiller, I've found this bullethole on the internet. But I've noticed, that you use the same in your Game. Here the link:

Klick mich xD

Can I use it?

mfG TheShooter

I think it's not the same as mine. I use a bullet hole free pack from TurboSquid: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/473116

But you can use the ones I have in Assault if you want

It seamed to be the same one as in assault Ok, thank you

In next version you will be able to see player's shadows:

Should be nice. I hope this dont kill fps too much

Will u use stencil shadow with blur?

These are the results I get on my PC at 1680x1050 (fullscreen) with anisotropy and antialiasing:

With Shadows:
In DM_Garages: 30 FPS without HDR, 20 FPS with HDR
In AS_Ship: 30 FPS without HDR, 12 FPS with HDR
Without Shadows:
In DM_Garages: 60 FPS without HDR, 30 FPS with HDR
In AS_Ship: 60 FPS without HDR, 30 FPS with HDR

Results with anisotropy but no antialiasing:

With Shadows:
In DM_Garages: 60 FPS without HDR, 39 FPS with HDR
In AS_Ship: 60 FPS without HDR, 48 FPS with HDR
Without Shadows:
In DM_Garages: 60 FPS without HDR, 40 FPS with HDR
In AS_Ship: 60 FPS without HDR, 60 FPS with HDR

I have to say that antialiasing is a FPS killer for my graphics card.

Of course I will add a button in settings to enable or disable them.



They are currently Z-Fail Stencil Shadows. The problem of blurring them is that doesn't work with FSAA Plugin, so, or you have blurred stencil shadows and no AA, or normal stencil shadows with antialiasing.

This will become a problem for low end pc. Can you add a box where can you disable the shadows? like with hdr and antialising. I mean in the start up box. Would be nice to improve performance

best regards

TheShooter

Yes, I already said that in the other post

oh, sorry, didnt noticed that.

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Great for shadows !
Have you an option to use simple simple rounded blob shadow ?
Cool thing now characters will not be like floating on levels !

you mean decal shadows? if yes, they are already, if not what do you mean exactly?

My client can't find any game.

Cant join

oh maybe ip has changed, wait a sec

EDIT: Done, you can join now

Very smooth code. Here some points to improve:

- it's very hard to difference between team members and enemies. Team members should have the player name or a sign above the head
- Also a team chat would be cool
- A countdown when the game starts

If more than 4 Players on the Server, the game starts to lag. maybe the connection from the host isnt so good, or... dont know xD

server is now OFFLINE. Thanks all for playing and I take note of your suggests. About lag, my Line Upload rate isn't very good i think.

seconed. as soon as I stopped team killing you, painkiller, you started team killing me

When will you release the version with the cargo map??

When Contest Poll will have ended. I don't want to be unfair with other users updating my entry.

you should look at this WIP game in the same style
and see all features it have, perhaps discuss with people
that made it
It includes at least 12 palyers !

Third Person multiplayer WIP

Thanks for the link ratchet!

That level looks really cool, they are really good modelers, but when you shoot it feels very unnatural. I will follow it.

When is the entry closed?

Contest poll ends on 3/18 (in six days)

I'm now working in showing player's name above his head and I want to ask for your opinion. You can see always your teammates names above his head, but about enemies, do you prefer not to show their name (so if they are hidden in a dark place you won't see them) or show their name when they are visible in camera?

Better if u make that like in COD:MW, hide all names, and make them visible only if player (or enemy) is visible.

You can show team names always and enemy names not at all. It's the way the new crysis demo does it, and I think it works.

Yeah, right.

@Offtopic: Crysis <3

Thanks, finally I've made it like Germanunkol said.

I've posted an new in IndieDB explaining the new features for next version, which will be available at the end of this week. It's very long, so I'm not going to post it here. You can see it here http://www.indiedb.com/games/assault