Hi everyone, I've been playing SecondLife quite a while and I really like the idea of people building their own world to live and interact with. However there were also some stuff in SecondLife I found lacking, like interaction with the real world (Like websites) and also the cost was bothering me.
Since I want to get better into Irrlicht I've decided to take a stab at building my own SecondLife in small steps. I want to go back to the core of customisation.
Features
- Terrain editing with terrain splatting for private regions and automatic height based terrain coloring on open regions
- Customisable avatars
- Simple building using primitive modification, scaling and linking
- Advanced blender/maya's 3d max object editing (Vertex level access)
- Support for item transferring/selling and keep the capability of editing the objects you created, even if they have transferred to other people with no-modify flags.
- Allow importing of models in popular format (md2, .x etc.)
- Allow animation for any object in the world
- Allow clothing to be put on both the player's avatar and on other objects to make easy showcasing
- Scripting system that allows interaction with the web (Texture loading from a url for example) and interaction with the world
- Support for native system filetypes like .docx/.txt or even .pptx
- Allow an object to function as a webbrowser (Could be included in the scripting system)
Way too big
Well yes, it's a very ambitious plan, which is why I want to tackle it in features, my current roadmap is to start out with the terrain editor, of which I already have a demo. Implement the avatar and camera system together with a base gui so I can easily add to that. From there on start implementing the networking so two or more people can see eachother online.
Resources (Clickies)
- Planning your game
- The base of editable terrain I've improved a bit on this making vertex selection more accurate and I'll post the improvements when I've finished the terrain editing demo, for which I need some gui stuff for which I'm planning to make a little callback system so my eventreceiver checks for collisions/clicks of gui elements, I'll post this too.
- An explanation of passing a function as a pointer for my GUIEvent Callback System
- http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_T ... rraforming] An example of SL Terraforming, which in my opinion works great [/url]
- Some awesome demos for terrain LOD, water shading and cloud generation
Demo's
So far I've finished a little demo for the terrain editing, I hope to be able to release more as I implement more features.
Download link: http://www.xup.in/dl,10937421/ThirdLife.zip/
Controls:
Arrow keys - move around
Pg up/down - go up and down
Home/End - tilt camera up and down
Left/Right mouse button - Raise or lower land
Middle mouse button - Smooth land
Use the slider in the gui window to increase the size of your brush
Updates
3-5-2010
Rewrote this topic with some formatting, hopefully it's easier to read/skim and hopefully I get some more reply's/feedback
Thanks
Even though I'm nowhere near done I want to thank a few people so I don't forget them.
randomMesh, Tecan, Cobra171 for being in the chat and helping me.
Cloudef for seeming to be in the chat 24/7 and letting me look at his irrMaple (Check it out pretty nice project) source to help me structure my own project.
