Thanks, and I try my best to finish it

Just make some nice bundles in the next weeks, cause then the game will even look good

What bundles do you have in mind? If you need anything from Dexsoft just write me a message.

Regards

Do you guys know that you can try the Pro version of Unity also? Just send them an email asking for it and they will send you a link with a code that will only work for 30 days also.

Hiya.

I gotta say, the more I use the Unity Indie demo, the more impressed I get. I'm really diggin' it's workflow for artists. I've just emailed the unity guys to see if I can demo the Pro version (my next project will make heavy use of 'special effects'...glows, color-corrections, etc.).

I'd *LOVE* to be able to EASILY do the same in A7, but getting models with diffuse, normal, spec, bump and luminosity maps is...oh, wait, impossible without delving into custom shaders (I assume?). I have no clue how to program shaders, and my C++ is about 10 years out of date.

Maybe when A8 or the much touted, and still ethereal, "real-time editor" shows up things will change...but right now, Unity is looking pretty damn sweet from an artists standpoint.

Just played with the FPS tutorial : Amazing

A7 FPS is far far far from the Unity one in terms of showcase
Let's talk about amazing workflow !
And the very bad old assets of A7 that have more than 5 years could be reaplaced caus they don't make a good advertisment for it



-I added two spots lights to the scene , in the editor when you
adjust values you see in real time how it affects the scene (objects ,ennemies with shaders and level) : TOP NOTCH.
No CODE , no shader problem.
The lights affects ennemies shaders when they pass throught or your weapon , amazing cool !

I added another point light , when you adjust distance and intensity, that 's really two different parameters , not like in A7 where you just have distance !
And the light was so intense that you thought you were near a volcano. It affected level, ennemies with bump maps etc ...
AGAIN No code ...

-The precise collision on ennemies is far more advanced than the very simple collision of 3DGS, And ragdoll is cool.
The ragdoll system is already integrated in Unity !

-There are things i have to dig , like the waypoins :
in the editor that's represented by the letter "W" in 3D and big . There are some sort of portals you can place manually, to optimise frame rate.

Finally , i exported the game, what is cool is the opertaing system choices you have (Window,MAc, window browser ...) , it just works directly, and it automatically zip/pack all media and game. You just go to the folder and launch the .exe

Well, the interface is so sophisticated :
for each object or thing you access is properties(material,textures,shaders,script) in the right panel,and you see thumbnails of textures, normal map, mesh model.
And you can visually edit all that ! Just amazing workflow !

Well i begin to dig it,interface so beautifull ,smooth,clear ! I can't go back to A7, sorry !
Perhaps A8 will make ne return to 3dgs , for the moment
that's two different worlds

No!! Not you, Ratchet!!
At least stay working with A7, and Unity.

No worry, i've been working all day with Unity :
I've been following the 3rd person tutorial amazing.
What amazes me is the possibility to change particles properties, meshes or lights properties with the game playing :
And it can only give ideas for A7

But caus i'm not friendly with Unity script,it takes me a lot of patience , learning , time to integrate all these things.
So i have been back to A7 !

I've exported an animated character from Blender to MED.
I need to talk to Ventilator to improve the export plugin.
With it's great Blender plugin , you must specify manually each frame : But if yo have 79 frames: you must type the numbers from 1 to 79 : AWFULL !!
(even more i could reach the 46 number only in the input box , caus it was full)
I think it won't cost a lot to Ventilator to integrate intervals instead of all frames for the plugin !
Just type 1 and 79 to export all frames from 1 to 79.

Well i msut not forget this is an Unity thread !

ratchet, you can just skip numbers too, you could go 1 3 6 9 12 15 18 etc. since the engine will interpolate in between, you dont really want too many frames in an animation anyways, it will eat your memory up really bad.

It would be nice to have both in the exporter -- use commas to separate individual frames, and a colon ":" to indicate an interval (such as 1:79, if you really need that many -- is this for a cutscene or something?).

I would love to be on-topic, but I don't actually know much about Unity, nor am I particularly interested in it. I like programming, and A7 is a great environment for programmers (Lite-C is great, fast, it's easy to integrate shaders on a per-model or per view basis, etc).

And ventilator's blender exporter means I really don't care how bad MED is.

And I already have A7 :P

Jibb

@lostclimate :
So avoid the engine to interpolate is better. And i perfer to have my real animations, smooth and entire.

Let's talk Uniy: in the panels you can import directly any Blender model by (it is converted automatically by Unity in FBX format , and i've imported successfully an animated model and it's texture from Blender.)

For A7 : Yep Ventilator plugins is just great !
You import your model as it is with it's textures, what i don't like a lot is that this plugin don't like hard edges and you have to separate them.
Well specify the intervall instead of frames manually is just very needed
Blender 2.49 have already in it the plugin from Ventilator to export to A7 MDL.
I've not tried the level exporter from Blender with Ventilator plugin, perhaps tonight : caus exporting characters animated and levels directly from Blender : means LOT BETTER WORKFLOW , you directly go to WED or GED (no more MED) !!
But it's For Blender users only !!