Irrlicht Engine

Well, the competition is over, and what a "surprising" result :lol:

Onward and upwards onto Windows and Linux!

I spent some time over the weekend re-rendering the graphics at a higher resolution, and I've imported Box2D to handle the platform stuff so I can remove my bodgy platform code from the ...

It's back on again

The Gizmo guys addressed my issues, including resetting the polls and only registered users can vote now, so it's fair for all entrants.

Thanks guys

BlindSide wrote:It looks beautiful, my only complaint is that it's made by an Aussie

That's it, I'm taking your shrimp off the barbie!

Well actually, they're called prawns here...

Well, that's it. I've quit the competition. I've sent a message to those in charge and I'm just waiting for them to remove me from the list. The problem is that the contest is to be decided by a poll that is trivial to rig, leaving me with no choice but to withdraw.

I wish the Gizmo guys the best ...

Here's some more graphics, first up the title screen/backdrop screen. It still needs texturing, but you get the idea :D
http://blog.burlock.org/images/stories/2010/backdrop.jpg
And a bonus screen shot of the character in the Great Hall. This is from the blurry video I posted the other day, so I ...

Here's a nice blurry video after I replaced the placeholder graphics of the demo I submitted to Gizmo For You, on the Great Hall screen.

A nice blurry video

The character is rigged, but not animated yet so I just rendered a static image facing each direction. I've also split the scene up so that ...

I've rendered the first model, the Great Hall, and created the player's character. I've designed the game to be simple so that I don't have to create a lot of graphics, because the deadline is only five weeks away...
http://blog.burlock.org/images/stories/2010/greathallfinal.jpg
http://blog ...

I thought I'd enter the Gizmo For You Ares competition with a game titled "Keepers".

The game is set in a Transylvania style land, dotted with castles, each of which house a servant. All the masters are away, and the servants, out of fear of each other and their respective masters, begin to launch ...

Thanks Dorth.

Things are going a bit slower at the moment due to the Real World catching up with me. I'm still forging ahead though when I get the time...

Since the last installment, the sprite generator can now create sprites from b3d bone animations, these animated sprites can now be loaded into ...

It's been a few days since my last post.

The reason was traffic rage

To paraphrase my blog: every time I tweaked the car control to stop two cars colliding, it would cause two other cars to collide.

AAARRGGGHH!!

Thankfully, I got it working in the end.

Here's a short video to celebrate.

Cars ...

I've been busy.

First of all, I wasn't happy with the roads from the last video. Too narrow, so I doubled the road width and I can assure you, although it sounds easy, it was a challenge.

I've also added a new vehicle, a two door 4WD.

http://blog.burlock.org/images/stories/2010/4wd.jpg

I've ...

Pathfinding/following has been implemented using opensteer... mostly. It's still early days, and there are glitches to work out, but it's getting there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyDQo_aa5VQ

Thanks Adler1337. I'll do some more videos once I get the cars rolling on the roads, which isn't too far away.

I went back and fixed up the hatchback using the same method I used for the new car and it looks a lot better, so much better it makes the second car I did look worse! Guess I'll have to ...

I'm exhausted.

I just spent my spare time the last three days cramming pixel shaders...

I wanted to give my cars bump/normal mapping, but Irrlicht's materials weren't up to the task (don't support directional or ambient lighting on OpenGL).

I ended up having to write my own pixel shader... got it ...

Well, it's been a couple of days of pain.

I added in the ability to handle multiple cars and create them like sprites, causing the engine's frame rate drop alarmingly.

http://blog.burlock.org/images/stories/2010/cars.jpg

I've been able to work through it though, sprites have been merged into a ...