xplozyph wrote:I really like your visual style, it's great though only using 'simple color materials' (?!), never have thought such a good visual style could be achieved using a so 'simple' technique ...
Glad you like it. And Ogre is really overkill if youre looking at the graphics side of it. No shaders, low poly count, no LOD, no animation(!) etc. Still feels good to know you have all things should you need it later on!
xplozyph wrote:By the way, as I am working on a relatively 'similar' project (understand: also a 3D platformer/adventure game) and also using Blender as my 3D art/world design centerpiece, I would have liked to know what kind of SceneManager do you use and also what kind of collision/physics do you use?
Im using the ST_GENERIC scenemanager that defaults to the Octree SceneManager if I remember correctly. I havent had any issue with performance related to the scenemanager so havent been thinking about using anything else really. Something that does affect performance is the stencil shadows though. But cant find any other solution that gives the kind of shadows that I want...
Im using ODE for physics and collision (OPCODE). First I used it the way you should (apply forces and such) but it turned out to be a very boring experience to have Mulver move around that realistically. Now I set the velocities directly instead and doing all kinds of things you shouldnt with the physics. Was a pain to tune the rules and Im still not happy with everything. I might have to refactor this part. Only the avatar is an ODE body, everthing else is static geoms. I just attach Mulver to different scenenodes when it collides with those.
xplozyph wrote:How do you achieve that 'wonderful' (for me, lol) moving red square?
I create waypoints in Blender that each have a few properties in the game logic part. I think you can see a few in the first Blender screenshot, looks like little flags with poles. The properties are:
- Path Id
- Index
- Velocity
- Pause time
A path contains a number of these waypoints. Each waypoint having a unique index. In Lua I have functions that let an actor move between those waypoints by passing actor messages to the game enigine and that is how the red platform is moving back and forth.
xplozyph wrote:Stick on with your work, it is definately cool. I also much like your music and it effectively reminds me of the Mario Bros theme (though I only have played Super Mario Bros on a Nintendo/Famicom
).
Yeah I like it too! I bought a commercial license from
productiontrax so that I can distribute it later on.
DieHard wrote:How do you get those nice shade of shadows onto the level in Ogre? I'm trying to guide my art team and getting the level's shadows are hard for us to implement in Ogre. Please provide us with some information and direction?
Nothing advanced, I just use stencil shadows.
Here is the relevant light and shadow setup in Ogre:
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sceneMgr = ogre->createSceneManager(ST_GENERIC, "Generic");
sceneMgr->setAmbientLight( ColourValue(0.5, 0.5, 0.5) );
sceneMgr->setShadowTechnique(ShadowTechnique::SHADOWTYPE_STENCIL_MODULATIVE);
sceneMgr->setShadowColour( ColourValue(0.2, 0.15, 0.0) );
sceneMgr->setShadowIndexBufferSize(51000*10);
sceneMgr->setShadowFarDistance(50.0);
Vector3 sundir = Vector3(0.5, -0.7, -0.41);
sundir.normalise();
// Simple directional light
Light *light = sceneMgr->createLight("sun");
light->setType(Ogre::Light::LT_DIRECTIONAL);
light->setDirection(sundir);
light->setDiffuseColour(0.7, 0.7, 0.5);
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