Yes, the hitzone system is already finished. Acknex has this feature, too, at least since A6, it's called c_updatehull and reloads the (invisible) collision mesh from a certain frame. As the function is, of course, pretty slow, you should avoid every call when possible and thus I've made some optimizations: All enemies are saved in a linked list. Before you c_trace, I iterate over all enemies and check if they are close to the ray. Then I sort those close entities by distance to the trace origin and update only the collision mesh of the first 3 (any value is possible) enemies.

ah. i missed this. i have several nodes that have "distance from entry" value most levels have about 6 values. once a character reaches a value, they choose a random next node of the next value up. this only allows seperate paths to have a 1 node depth before remerging onto a main path but as my maps are not big at all it shouldnt make a difference just have to do some creative level design

Yes, the hitzone system is already finished. Acknex has this feature, too, at least since A6, it's called c_updatehull and reloads the (invisible) collision mesh from a certain frame. As the function is, of course, pretty slow, you should avoid every call when possible and thus I've made some optimizations

@Sodoku :
strange how A6/A8 engine works, in others engines you just access the nearest triangles to the ray and perform some math
detection collision between rays end triangles.

The reconstruction of some Hull is typical to 3DGS, taht's why it's slow ! In some other engines you have the general character collision shape for the level, and with raycast you can check on any polygon when the character is animated directly

Well, this Hull system should be removed in A9 ! Just do like other engines , you create a capsule independant and just "attached to your character".
Any collision ray if hit a character bounding box would perform more accurate math collision detection :
Ray Vs List of triangles.


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Well i'm also very interested in your new solution

Your Hitbix ssystem was great also , caus we could check what limb was hit and perhaps make custom reactions or lacunh custom animation (the ennemy drop teh gin when hit on the hand or foreharm for example) !

Wow this forum inspires me to find more time to spend on my project so i can show it off! XD. I really like what everyone is working on and the i finally got zbrush and all autodesk software today! (thanks to my school). so I'm free to create without the limitations of free software. i'll post some of my project related creations soon.

@ Zusk :
No need for big expensive sofware , with Blender and sculptris that are free tools you can go very very far

Contextmenu added to a button with contextbuttons having tooltips.


(Btw, we are rendering everything by ourselves in directX and use RTT to show it on screen, it's faster and you can animate any 2D Object in 3D + It allows better rendering to 3D-Objects!)

Here is my current progress with my top-down splitscreen shooter:
Last Stand 2D v 0.2

This must be fun to play

Looks great!

@ratchet i got all the software free so it wasn't expensive