Finally I'm posting my first WIP here

This is a game I've been working for some time, and only now I decided to put it together. The concepts and aesthetics are pretty well developed by now, but you won't find them in this first demo: Instead, I had to start with the code.

I programmed it all from the start, including:

- Key assignments and labels in portuguese, english and spanish
- Configurations stored in files.
- Basic physics and animation for actors, including blending
- A simplified lipsync system for cutscenes
- gesture mouse reading for melee attack combos/special
- Directional mouse reading for melee directional swings (swing left, right, diagonal at any angle etc).

I haven't had time to create all the animations. I created quick animation placeholders instead.

What you will see in this demo:
- An ugly playground
- An ugly green model
- Some debug numbers and a red cross near the model. Ignore them
- Blending between different animations
- Crawling, walking, running and jumping
(Use Z for crawling, X for walking and C for running mode toggle.
Also, SHIFT turns Walking into Running. Use SPACE to jump)
- Climbing on ledges automatically (hold SPACE to hold on ledges)

Other notes:
- A temporary STAND animation is being used for jump and for fall animation, so it feels very stiff.
- If the player falls from a certain height, it will have a 'landing' animation. It was replaced by the 'crawl' animation temporarily
- The Ledge climb feature is a first shot. I'm working on it right now. You will be able to go left or right with your hands when finished.

After I finish with this part of the code I'll proceed to the content creation. I wished to open this thread as a Progress Log for this project.

Download the demo here

Regards,
|Emilio|

The speed the character is moving seems a bit faster than the animation, try speeding up the animation or slowing down the character's movement speed. I think the stairs may be a little too big for the character if your using a regular walk animation to go up them. Other than that, this project appears to be off to good start.

Thanks, Sharx!

This is the kind of feedback that is useful indeed.

I'm working on the ledge climb right now, and after that I'll fine-tune the animations. I'll take into account your opinions on the animation speed.

Next update will include some art, too: a new model and better animations, most probably.

wow, it's nice. The character movement and animation looks already pro although it's still a WIP.

looks very interesting... the climbing is a cool feature.
looking forward to see the next update.

Thanks!
I'm rewriting the climb code. It will work the same, only better.

The animations are too ugly. I promise next update will have better aesthetics

Emilio

Just a small update.

I am writing all code from zero, and also creating and painting the models, so progress is not very fast

http://www.moscafilms.com.br/mgame/demo2609.zip

Now we have a couple models.

The main purpose for this 'demo' was to test the impact of stencil shadows on frame rate. I would appreciate some feedback on system speeds and how frame rate gets down when the FIVE shadowed models in some part of the map get into view. I get some 75 fps normally, and some 30 fps when the models are in view.

I have to improve the climb movement yet.. and I'm working on ROPES. They are prototypes, and they stick to the player if you are close enough (did this to test if I could make a rope that swings and sticks to player's hands).

ONe more test: I will implement rope swinging (Tarzan style!). I made a pendulum code. To test this code: look at the green models hanging around the level. When pressing F1, they will 'fall' and behave as pendulums (as if they were tied with a rope).

With the ARROW KEYS, you can test balancing the green dudes to the four directions. They all balance the same, only depends on which direction they face. Next step is to include this code in the actor (player) movement, swinging by using the movement keys and also climbing up and down the rope.

is it gouraud shading or do you use any shader on models?

Great WIP eleroux !!
The update really had his effect
Keep posting more updates

Cheers

Frazzle

Thanks!

innovater: just gouraud shading. No sun, but several light emitting entities placed around (invisible).