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Well, after a lot of deliberation, I have decided to move my game, Centaur Force TCS, from the Irrlicht Engine to Ogre. Information about the game is available at www.geocities.com/centaurforce , and the release date will most likely be pushed back a week or so do to the engine switch. Anyway, now that thats done, please visit the site, and e-mail, aim, or pm me if you have any questions. Also, if anyone has some free time, and would like to do some skinning, it would be apreciated. Thanks.

-- The Robomaniac

I'm sure others are wondering:

What went into your decision to switch?

Well, this was basically my thoughts, and my answers to them

Ease of Use : Irrlicht --> Really Easy
Ogre --> A little harder, but nothing too hard

Portability : Irrlicht --> Windows, Linux
Ogre --> Windows, Linux, Mac

Features : Irrlicht --> Less than Ogre, nothing too special, nor that great looking
Ogre --> More Features, Better Looking, Shaders

Community : Irrlicht --> fairly large community, althought there are like 10 good developers, most are just quesitons like how do i make a game

Ogre --> huge community, great support (at least from what i've seen

Tutorials and Demos : Irrlicht --> 10 or so different Tutorials which are also demos, all run easily

Ogre --> 2 Tutorials, which i got running after a little bit of trouble, 15 or so demos which work flawlessly, and look great

All in all, Irrlicht was really good as a beginning engine as it is super easy to use, but it can only go so far as of now. Irrlicht will be a great engine i'm sure as soon as it ups the quality of most of its featues, but for now, Ogre is an all around better engine, once you've worked w/ an easier engine to use. (2d or Irrlicht). I'll definately keep looking @ Irrlicht as it grows, but for now, i'm sticking w/ Ogre.

[edit] here is a render of the same map from the same angle in both enigines

Irrlicht --> http://www.geocities.com/centaurforce/shotgun.JPG
Ogre --> http://www.geocities.com/centaurforce/screenshot_1.jpg

I couldn't view those shots (perhaps a Geocities thing, I tried copying and pasting them into a new window too), but obviously I'm inclined to believe you that Ogre looked better

On higher end cards, you can increase the visual quality even more by turning on trilinear or anisotropic filtering. The 0.13 demos allow you to do this by pressing 'T' to cycle through the various filtering options, and aniso filtering can be really noticeable on areas with large planar surfaces, like BSP levels.

Well, i reuploaded the shots, and they're on the shots page on the site.

Well, I'm now in the process of not doing anything graphical, and maybe reconsidering moving Centaur Force back to ogre, but not for at least a month. And, here's a website i whipped up yesterday, no more shitty geocities for me

http://centaurforce.sourceforge.net/b2e ... _force.php

Enjoy!

I have decided to eventually use ogre for the rendering engine, and will most likely also port some of Irrlicht's GUI (if i'm capable) into the engine model. Or, has CrazyEddie finished (or released) any of his GUI? Anyway, the website above is no longer valid. Here is the new one :

Centaurforce.sf.net --> simple, easy, and semi fast

Forums are centaurforce.sf.net/phpBB2 (very active of course )

Screens are also at the images button (top right), as is the forum (top middle). I also have a image (featuring the basic scripting) at www.geocities.com/centaurforce/screen4.gif (c+p, as i cannot access my sf ftp from school, will do sometime though (most likely 2 weekends from now)

Thanks for your time.

Well, I've been sticking with ogre and here's my progress so far.

Webpage : http://centaurforce.sf.net
Forums : http://centaurforce.sf.net/web/phpBB2/

First Screen of the new OGSF and Actor System :
http://centaurforce.sourceforge.net/web ... nShot1.gif

The mean ol' ogre is created via the actor code only, no direct ogre calls were needed (outside of the class) to set it up

Check the forums often for updates and weekly (maybe bi-daily) .plans

I don't wanna bog up these boards, so i've been making updates (lots of screens, .plan's, bugs, announcements, etc. on my forum. I suggest you check this often if your interested, b/c i am updating it almost daily (maybe more than once). Anyway, just wanted to let ppl know. I released my code as of yesterday on sf, so i'll post a link on the forums if you wanna mess with it. There is a win32 binary included b/c i forgot to break this one up into different sections

Lots of shit happening round here:

http://centaurforce.sf.net/web/Images/S ... Shot10.gif is my latest screenshot, it shows just some basic terrain + fog (need a gloomier sky) and i'm starting to plan out my basic test level. Look on the forums (http://centaurforce.sf.net/web/phpBB2/) for constant daily/bidaily screens/.plans/announcements. Look for a preliminary source release by tonight.

If you don't check my forums regularly already, i suggest that you do if you want to check up on progress. Well anyway, latest screen (new map for the new concept) features hacked in weapons, nature scene mgr (higher framerates), cubic water (need a better base textue), and a cool shiny brand spaning new skybox

Enjoy! Will post a .plan tonight or tomorrow idk which

http://centaurforce.sourceforge.net/web ... Shot13.gif

as always,
http://centaurforce.sf.net/web/phpBB2/ -> updated daily, if not more

The Robomaniac, CF 1337 |-|4><0R

You are getting there, Robo!

NEW WEBPAGE!

www.centaurforce.com !!!!!

I got a team too!!!!!!

Awesomely Awesome Gamecore v. 2 is running

View Screens at http://www.centaurforce.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=84 !

wow

been ages since i've been able to work on cf, school has taken all my time.

(well, not all, doom3, social life, and girls have taken some too )

I'm trying my hardest to get back running tonight or tomorrow thouhg

Some Weapons -- http://www.centaurforce.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=166

Its Not Dead -- http://www.centaurforce.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=163

CF Has actually made some progress today, i got some basic networking running, sending events is in, now I just need to make a server and I should be able to handle joins and quits over the network. After that, its onto further developing my gamecore and then adding ogre graphics once i get far enough.

0.1 has been reached.

Its mainly a code release, but you can download a small demo at

http://centaurforce.sf.net/releases/CF_01_Binaries.rar

You have to delete bin_release\device_settings.cfg before you run the app

Hope you enjoy it

WASD and mouse move ala fps

Auch, crashed when I hit escape. This is the log:

I don't think this is a crash. I think this is normal behaviour.

This is what the end should look like, but I have had reports of it crashing upon exit on some people's computers, but on the two computers i've tried it on, it hasn't shown up. I'm going to try to test it on some more comps, but I haven't seen it.

Seems like i should reimplement my minidumper

Hmm, after some testing I noticed that it doesn't crash, the renderwindow just freezes. When I select the console and hit "the any key" there it shut down as it should .

oh... bastards

Yeah, i forgot to take that out for release mode, i have it in during debug mode for well... debugging ;P

*adds it to his todo list*

The Shaders folder is missing....

I think i removed some of the folders from the data directory by accident *doh*

you can either just add them or remove them from the filesystem.cfg file

Theres nothing in them thats needed

*damn, i need to make a better release next time*

The Shaders folder was there for me.