Project Ninja Star Reusable modules

devsh · Post by **devsh** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:05 am

Well basically for the benefit of people who want to make games without reinventing the wheel in some areas I will submit reusable modules that anyone can use in their games. They will be providded under no license at all, so basically you wont need to mention my name anywhere in your credits. Unless they are licensed before by other people i.e. elvman's RealisticWaterSceneNode, its still his even though i have completely rewritten the shader so it takes up 10 lines instead of 30 and removed some unnecessaary code. Right now I can provide code snippets for:

-Setting up a playlist of songs to play as game music in Irrklang
-Setting up save mechanisms (for example to save which song was played last)
-getting things like reflective floor and water to work in multiple viewports (if I manage to do that myself)
-Networking (lobby, but I'm not doing that... hondadirt biker is and i have to ask him for concent)
-PLayer class concept

A little explanation about my player class, in most examples you have seen the camera being global and key responses being global. This time its a bit different, the camera is private in the player class. The player class also manages it's own networking in a thread, I'm also planning for it to manage key responses.

P.S. Don't exepct ready made modules because working on ninja star is my top priority, so i will do the reusable modules in my spare time.

DeM0nFiRe · Post by **DeM0nFiRe** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:11 pm

Well, that is certainly generous of you. I would certainly like to take a look at some of those.

Wouldn't it have made more sense to post this, though, when you had some snippets to share already?

devsh · Post by **devsh** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:38 pm

Here i present a bit enhanced elvman water scene node!!

http://code.google.com/p/project-ninja- ... p&can=2&q=

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:44 pm

Why do u call OnRegisterSceneNode when u call render yourself????
that will render the scenenode once on ISceneManager::drawAll and on your on render call.

DeM0nFiRe · Post by **DeM0nFiRe** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:53 pm

Well, I haven't looked at this, but with a lot of advanced graphics techniques, an object in the scene may be rendered as many as 3 times. Perhaps it was for a similar purpose.

devsh · Post by **devsh** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:30 pm

well i made an improved version of this class (well basically i doesn't create a camera! so less memory gone to waste)

BUT THE BIG NEWS IS DEPTH OF FIELD (Z-BUFFER BASED)!!

I will release as soon as ready!

devsh · Post by **devsh** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 10:54 am

almost done wiht depth of field, but its somehow nothing more than XEffects.

I will update the reusableWaterNode so it has options like
Reflective Water
Faked reflection water
non reflective Water
Water wihtout the shader (poop water)

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:53 pm

Oh yeah there is a bug in XEffects when using the depth buffer you have to stick "driver->setRenderTarget(0, false, false);" right after "effect->update();".

Cheers

devsh · Post by **devsh** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:37 am

well I guess its nothing new, cause it has been done with Xeffects.

But in one way yes, cause it works for split screen!!!

I'm talking ofcourse about DepthOfField!¬!

unfortunately i cannot be bothered to make some kind of module that would be 3 include files and a HOWTO.

so instead my full source

http://project-ninja-star.googlecode.co ... 0field.rar