Aber Wespe ist nicht schlimm dass sieht "sportlicher" aus

"Wumble Wasp"...:P

I have no idea how I'd animate a wasp-bee's legs... good luck with that!

Wow, that's a lot of levels. Good job guys!

Wumble Wasp LOL nice idea...
To keep you guys horny we have updated the demo video.
The video includes the new bee with its animations and also some particle-effects, turbo, gates and shot (the shot-entity is still a place-holder).

HighRes version (79.5 MB)

LowRes version (16.3 MB, requires DivX 6.5 codec) Use the DivX player to get the best results or else dark areas will turn out black.

You may notice, that the game is still far away from final... but it shows the progress

cheers

sinni & zwecki

Very good. Realy many improvements and good ideas.

I don´t want to critize anything because I like what I see, but I think it would be better to see the a gate AND the next gate. Otherwise the gate race has too much to do with memorizing. To make it more difficult and exciting, you could place the gates closer together and making them form forms, like loopings.
I think it´s also cool to see all gates. I just don´t know about the frame rate then...

And the bee is currently flipping its angle. I think it´s better quality if the be is not flipped into the new direction but rotated. I mean you don´t have to change that movement. But instead of suddenly beeing into that direction the bee could rotate to it with a simple function.
I am using such a function for my AI. It's checking where the target is, then it´s calculating which rotation direction is the shorter way, and then it´s rotating into the direction of the target but never further. Pretty simple.
YOu could make it that way, that the bee is already moveable into the new direction, and just the model is still turning into that direction. I mean that´s better quality as just setting the angle to the desired direction.

i would suggest to add an arrow which directs to the next gate. or maybe the "antennae" of the bee is showing into this direction

It's of fine quality.
Could make a lot of fun to explore the island.
(maybe you can insert/hide some funny surprises)

C&C:
The bee could have a more "physical" flight (forces).
What happens if the bee crashes on a wall?
The camera movement is to stiff. A 3rd person camera should be smooth.
Maybe you can let the camera follow the bees path (always looking a the bee).
This way it looks like a following bee and you will not have problems with flying through small holes (hearts in doors/holes in windowes, ...)

good work so long... (nice artwork)

mercuryus

Perhaps you could add another types of animals and bugs also. Some of them could be a bee predators and would attack the bee when they become near.

Great work!!!

it might be nice to have wind in certain places of the map too, like lets say theres a race, you might need to fly through and area were it is a bit windy too.

Definately should keep the old bee , roundness is your friend when it comes to cartoony cutesy stuff , the new bee looks more realistic , but too serious as well , which doesnt fit good with that type of game , in fact , if i were you I would make the whole bee out of spheres , lol , for some reason fat animals are considered cute and adorable , this however only applies to pets and not humans : \ So go back to ur old style bee , with this type of game you have to think Mario , Kirby , that type of stuff , and try and stay away from realistic stuff as much as possible. Just my opinion.

The problem is, their environment has this level of realism, too cartoony isn't good either.

Cheers