RetroTank3D (WIP)

garrittg · Post by **garrittg** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:42 pm

here are some early screenshots of my game project RetroTank3D. Its a retro toon-style 3D remake of the tank portion of Atari Combat! written with BlitzMax and Irrlicht.

Monochrome · Post by **Monochrome** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:10 pm

Cant see anything

garrittg · Post by **garrittg** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:40 pm

sorry. my web service hotlink protection was kicking in. should be good now.

Monochrome · Post by **Monochrome** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:54 pm

This looks great! i love the cell shading! keep up the good work.

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:57 am

you might want to look into some type of cell shading that adds some cell shadows on the objects, something like these:

they were made for 3dgamestudio, but its and example of something that might look nice

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Thu May 03, 2007 6:18 am

Yeah it would be nice if this was put to good use.

sio2 · Post by **sio2** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:00 am

BlindSide wrote:Yeah it would be nice if this was put to good use.

Do you know if the filtering issue we had was resolved for 1.3?

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:44 am

in that last one posted, why did no-one ever add another extruded pass with the inverted faces for the ink outlines?

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Thu May 03, 2007 9:36 am

sio2 wrote:
BlindSide wrote:Yeah it would be nice if this was put to good use.
Do you know if the filtering issue we had was resolved for 1.3?

Oh damn I just realised that when I read it. Probably not, though it appears the textures he is using are simple enough that he can just set the entire mesh to point-filtered and get away with it. Im not fully sure how to do this though

Wasnt the material structure fully revamped in 1.3? Ive yet to test it..

sio2 · Post by **sio2** » Thu May 03, 2007 10:06 am

lostclimategames wrote:in that last one posted, why did no-one ever add another extruded pass with the inverted faces for the ink outlines?

Why haven't you added it yourself and posted the code?

garrittg · Post by **garrittg** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:26 pm

thank you for the comments

i did have the shading in there as well in the begginning but i found that shading and lighting didnt match the visual goal i was going for. i want it to feel as if you just "stepped" right into the original 2D game. pretty much full on retro in 3D. i kept the outlines as they were a must in order to make the 3D world definable. it makes for very simple graphics but its exactly the effect im trying for

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Thu May 03, 2007 4:56 pm

well the only reason i have added yet is because i am not quite fully commited to irrlicht yet, i only start messing with it when i get both brave and bored, i use 3d games studio instead, but if you wanted you could give me the input syntax for an hlsl shader and i could do it probably.

omaremad · Post by **omaremad** » Thu May 03, 2007 7:02 pm

Because its the artist's job to add the expanded model with inverted normals in his app.

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:09 pm

well you can do it so easy in a shader anyways tho.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:44 pm

lostclimategames wrote:in that last one posted, why did no-one ever add another extruded pass with the inverted faces for the ink outlines?

Actually you can do this easily with my shader by changing "csd.png". I chose not to add it on purpose because at the time I disliked the outlined look and wanted something clean. To add black shading just add a few black pixels to the side of the image. If you do this it will look better than crappy inverted models btw, more like proper comic shading...