Start of a project of scene with some terrain mesh

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 1:17 am

This project is going to be a game where you slay bad dragons, and use the good ones to fly around with. So far I have monkey meshed out the intro gate house using the X format, and some terrain. The guy in the scene will not be the actor, he is just a prop until I can finish up the hero of the game. You can check out some of the story line here:
T'Qaui the Dragon Slayer Link

Any way, here is the first decent shot I have gotten:

niko · Post by **niko** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:57 am

Wow, that's very cool. Would you like it to get a shot of the month?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:08 pm

sure

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:16 pm

Thats all right with me

I keep forgeting to log in since I disable scripting and cookies. That was my post above and you can delete it.

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:02 pm

actually could you post this one as it has my game character that is nearly done in it now:

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:13 pm

btw, is there a setting for how dark the shadow that is cast by the engine, e.g. the shadow from the dragon slayer as I wish for it to show light cast off by a torch that will eventually be in th scene to see around the gatehouse area. Right now I am having to set the scenes only light really high in the radius setting.

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:13 am

I know this has been discussed a number of times, but if anyone has found a particular FOV, near, far and aspect setting that is good looking, could you share it with me? I am just now trying to fool with using events to increase/decrease these settings to get a fairly decent look to the game. Right now I am not liking the settings. You may notice that the doors look to short and to wide and they are not.

soconne · Post by **soconne** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:30 pm

I had the same problem trying to figure out a good setting for the camera, and I found these settings work really well, for 3rd person AND 1st person

camera->setFOV(70);
camera->setFarValue(1000);
camera->setNearValue(1.4);

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:30 am

That seems fairly reasonable. It still seems to streatch at the edges of the screen though, but I like how it shows the skybox grapohics fairly clear.

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:45 am

New screen shot

getting very excited about this now! My next workwill be on the other items to be used in game and starting to fashion the Inn building.

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 9:20 pm

just replaced the last image with a new screen shot that has the landscape mesh texture changed to look a little more pleasing.

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 4:01 pm

new screen shot of newly added special effects of the dragon model and a hand weapon for 3rd person

PadrinatoR · Post by **PadrinatoR** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:42 pm

Cool

Rat · Post by **Rat** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 3:38 am

No new screens as of yet, I am working on getting a way to pick up items for use. I am getting kind of stuck with this.

I may have to rethink how I have been trying to do it. Made up a niffty small logo though

Niko: you can use this for a link and for the game being developed if you like

bal · Post by **bal** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:49 pm

Is this project dead? Because it seams quite nice