Zombie Game - School Project

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:33 pm

Your right, as long as it works

Yep. The new guy is pretty tall. Have to scale him even more

I know the thing about the girl looks stupid. Would be nice to get every animation to run at the speed, at which the characters move, but again, that could also end up looking stupid at places where they are almost not moving because of collision.

I have worked with IrrNewt, and had hoped I could get it implemented before the hand in, but I have some problems with it. Maybe after the exam, I will take a look at it. It would defiantly solve a lot of problems.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:17 pm

sorry, i was one of those 30 random people who didn't comment!
The only obvious bug I could find is I had difficulty getting down the tunnel, I got stuck at the top.
I love the models and the world, nice work

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:27 pm

Thanks for the comment

I know about the tunnel problem. Actually it has been redesigned 4 times to compensate for the collision. It's quite tricky to get the character to move correctly while still avoid collision on even the smallest obstacles. It's also quite hard to move up or down the sidewalks.

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:51 pm

i turned it off in the tunnel because it quickly went from like 20 something frames per sec. to about 0-3; Your really gonna want to get that fixed.

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:38 pm

What graphics card do you have?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:01 pm

Hi,
I saw a graphical error with the cross hair...

res 800x600 (ok):

res 1024x768 (wrong):

res 1280x800:
my monitor can't do that...

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:31 pm

Strange. I have tested it on two other computers, and both didn't have this problem. I always run in 1024x768. Could perhaps be an anti-aliasing problem?

This is the code for drawing the aim. I can't see that there should be anything wrin with it, and the res[] variables checks out.

Code: Select all

#include "irrlicht.h"
#include "CWeaponAim.h"

using namespace irr;

void CWeaponAim::addAim()
{
	aim = CGameMain::getDriver()->getTexture("./GameData/Weapons/Div/aim.bmp");
	CGameMain::getDriver()->makeColorKeyTexture(aim, position2d<s32>(0,0));
}

void CWeaponAim::drawAim()
{
	CGameMain::getDriver()->draw2DImage(aim, position2d<s32>((CPropLoader::res[0]/2)-16, (CPropLoader::res[1]/2)-16), rect<s32>(0, 0, 32, 32), 0, SColor(255,255,255,255), true); 
}

I just tried a test i opengl with all graphics settings turned to full, and for some reason some of the characters are missing bodies and/or textures. I would think this and the crosshair problem is irrlicht oriented?

Acki · Post by **Acki** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:34 pm

Well, I started it with fullscreen on and the res of 1024x768....
Now the cross hair is correct !!!
So this is an error because of windowed mode !!!
I think in windowed mode the resolution you choose is not the resolution Irrlicht uses so the intern (setted) resolution will be scaled to the window !?!?!

So no fault from your side !!!

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:16 am

I just checked, and I get no error in either fullscreen or window mode, but if it happens on some computers it must have something to do with the way irrlich uses its 2d coordinates in comparrison to the window dimensions?

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:35 am

im using an radeon x1400 and i can run most games well like fear, doom, and hl2, and i realize that irrlicht renders a bit slow, but so does 3d game studio, and i've run much higher graphical games on my machine with that software without problem, it has to be something to do with the collision.

sio2 · Post by **sio2** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:51 am

kohaar wrote:I know about the tunnel problem. Actually it has been redesigned 4 times to compensate for the collision. It's quite tricky to get the character to move correctly while still avoid collision on even the smallest obstacles. It's also quite hard to move up or down the sidewalks.

This week I've been updating my website with some of my Irrlicht demos. Yesterday I posted a Newton Physics demo. You may want to grab the demo and take a look - source code is included.

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:15 pm

I already downloaded it

I'll take a look at it after the exam.

Regarding performance. I know it's slow, but I get descent performance on a x600 which should be somewhat similar in performance.

None of the objects are that high poly, and I think the largest amount of polys being rendered in one scene are at most 30.000 polys. All the characters are animated, and if I turn them off, the framerate increases a lot, so it might have to do with animation being slow, or the collision-point function used for moving the characters.

The zombies are about 2000polys each and if I insert only 4 more in the desert, I notice a 10fps drop. Could have something to do with it.

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 4:57 pm

i dont think it has anything to do with the polys, as i can look at the whole landscape with all the zombies, and its fine, and somehow i dont think that hallway has anymore than 1000polys, it has to be something to do with the physics

kohaar · Post by **kohaar** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:04 pm

I'll try to turn off collision detection on every animated character. It will however first be after the 23. I will work on it. Have to write my presentation, and I'm far behind because there is so much good on the television right now.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:23 pm

i downloaded the game, but when starting it kindof loads for ever....so i can't play it