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Work in Progress / Zombie Hunter Open Source DBPro Project

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Lukas W
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 00:19 Edited at: 16th Oct 2005 19:49
** UPDATED 7.10.2005 **

Hello all,
Lately i've been working on improving my game 'Zombie Hunter'.
im trying to rewrite it into DBPro to gain a little more speed and some cool dx9 special effects



About
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Name: Zombie Hunter Open Source DBPro Project
Style: Horror FPS
Time in development: 1 month 20 days
Release date: November 2005 - first DEMO
Point of Game:
*You play as Carl, a human zombie hunter. your job is to destroy all zombies..
*in Survive Mode you score by how long you survive and how many kills you got when you were still alive.
*in Story Mode you get to play Carl from the moment he first saw his wife turn into a zombie to the end when eventually he too turns into a zombie.
*in Multiplayer Mode you get to play via LAN or TCP/IP Deathmatch and Capture the flag. i will see if i can add survive mode with multiplayer.

at the moment i'm concentrating on the Survive Mode, just to get the game engine up and running."




Demo Features
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* AI see, follow and attack you.
* Pistol, Shotgun, Uzi and Rocket Launcher
* Everything is controled by Physics, nothing is pre-rendered
* Ragdolls
* 1 house, you start in it and play in it.
* if i can get my new computer by the next 3 weeks, there will be dx9 shaders added to the game."




= Not Done
= Done / Fixed
= currently working on it


progress
Quote: "
Programming: 21%
...Engine: 30%
...AI: 5%
...Level Editor: 30%
Graphics: 25%
...shaders: 0%
...Textures: 50%
...Models: 25%"




Screenshots:
Quote: "
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What I need Help with:
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I need help with 3d Modelling and 2d Arts. (read 'what is done'..)
I also need help with Level Design for the Multiplayer levels."




what is done:
Quote: "
3d Modelling
Flashlight | created by: Peter_
Pistol | Ammo
Machinegun | Ammo
Shotgun | Ammo
Rocket Launcher | Ammo
Zombies
New Hands/Arms
Medkit
trash can
barrel
roof lamp
floor lamp
Table
Chair
Stool
Street Lamp
Houses | Interior | Exterior
teh Zity! "Edyville"

2d Art/Texturing
New HUD | NanoBrain has helped me out.
Weapons
Zombies
Wooden Texture
Metal Texture
Water Texture
Wall Textures
Normal Maps | i got a normal map code from Hoopkid ups
Sky Texture

Programming
Get it to run in DBPro
Improve the Game Menu
Add Newton Physics
Different Materials
Player Movement
Ragdoll effect
Improve particle effects | effects on: wooden material, default material, metal, water, zombie
dx9 shaders
rewrite AI
make the zombies smarter
Pick up stuff from the Ground and throw them (for use as weapon)
Fire Weapons
Fire effects and flameable objects!
Teleportation from Interior to Exterior
Sky Box
Rain

Shaders
Bump Mapping
Blur
Per Pixel Light
Shadows "




Teh Bugz
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when reloading program crashes
if your first bullet hits a moveable object the program crashes. after the first bullet this does not happen.
when reloading shotgun program crashes: sound does not exist.. uhh?? yes it does!
Zombies get throwned out in space.
the fire effect does not work
the Blur effect does not work
AI can not rotate"


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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 00:36 Edited at: 19th Aug 2005 00:37
Link the PRO and the DBC version please my browser blocked your site cause pop-ups

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Lukas W
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 11:15
mhm, i see.. well the dbpro version is not released yet.
when i finish it i will release the source.

but the dbc version is here: DBC version 1.7


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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 12:43
Quote: "Name: Zombie Hunter: They are alive!"


I thought they were dead...

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Lukas W
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 13:14
i know. they are dead, but still walking the ground. they are alive. sort of


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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 13:49
Cool, open source, I might be able to learn some things from this. thanks

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Lukas W
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 20:57
i was hoping this game will be usefull for someone.
i know when i first started with db i wished there was some cool open source games to learn from. i couldnt find any, and i said to my self: when i get better im going to write a full game and leave it open source for any one to play with. and well, this is the one. well actually its the dbc version.. but i want to make a dbpro version of it aswell

ps. added screenshot.


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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 21:20
im thinking about helping with some models and i was wondering...is that 1000 polys with the zombies ingame?

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Lukas W
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Posted: 19th Aug 2005 22:25 Edited at: 19th Aug 2005 22:26
no, currently there are no zombies in this scene.
im going to add them and write some ai when im finished with the hud and fix bullet collision to materials and add some particles.

i would love to get help with the modelling part.
i really cant model anything. just take a look at that "flashlight"

the zombie i use (the one i made) is for use with dbc.
its really low poly, and i want to have higher model detail in the dbpro version. to add some realism to the game




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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 01:18 Edited at: 20th Aug 2005 01:45
a new image is added; now player can shoot wooden crates until they explode and leave their pieces behind.

however there is a bug: when box is killed, 6 plains are created. that is easy, but: newton makes it really slow. it has to go through alot of newton code to make this possible. it dropped from 63 to 9 when all the wooden boxes was killed. that is horrible. but ill come back to this later.

edit,
i found the bug: when box is destroyed, 6 planes are created right? so, each of these six planes will also make 6 planes each when the right amount of life is removed from them.. aka 2 pistol shots.
that is why it is so slow. i made a flag that makes sure if box is destroyed once, the remains of that box cannot be destroyed so i fixed it

oh, and i also made it possible to, if you fall/jump from a high place, destroy boxes when you land on them


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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 10:53 Edited at: 27th Sep 2005 14:54
Ok. Ive played the DBC version and I must say respect.
Mail me if you need textures

here are some mini textures.
But if you want i can give you the
textures in 512x512
EDIT: pic removed
And here is one of my textures

Edit:

Quote: "main things i need are:
new zombie models..."

Use the "Dark Matter" zombies

[href][/href]

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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 12:21
Oh No your website has exceeded its Bandwidth!! Can't se any of the new pics now

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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 12:45 Edited at: 20th Aug 2005 12:47
Hm.. here is the pic

EDIT: Oh. I thought you speak with me

[href][/href]

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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 12:52
doh now a whole month must pass before i get 250 new mb
i need to change host

Jack,
those texture look awesome and i would really like some new wall textures. could you send me some?
and i rather not use the darkmatter models. i think it would be better to use my own in that case

Updates,
Particle effects i would like to show you but my website has exceeded its bandwith


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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 14:24 Edited at: 20th Aug 2005 14:24
Here you are
[href]http://www.onlineartsgames.de/Lukas W.zip[/href]
and can you send me the particle effect image? I'll upload it.

[href][/href]
Lukas W
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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 15:01 Edited at: 20th Aug 2005 16:08
thanks for the textures
i just remembered i have an old account on another host
ill upload the images there.

update,
now there are lamps in the game.
shoot them and the light will move aswell. with shadow turned on this is really pretty but slow, i have a geforce 2mx i have added support for people with SM1 ++ so people who dont want to use their processor calculating the shadows can render them via their gpu

edit,
i dont get it... the images aren't showing

edit2,
ahh now i remember; that was the reason i changed host

edit3,
the images are up again

anyone know what i must to make the shadows darker then they are?
its kind of weird when you look at them.. shadows are darker than the ground


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Posted: 20th Aug 2005 21:59
yet another thing added to the game: Explosions


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Posted: 21st Aug 2005 12:46
Update:
i finally figured out how to make realistic explosions! see picture at top.
hmm, so what is next on the list.. AI.
this will take time

after that, maybe i have enough to release a demo


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 07:48
Here is a basic shotgun in x format, if your looking for some models.......

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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 07:51
here is a pic of shotgun....

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Lukas W
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 11:54 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2005 11:58
thanks, finally i can change that low poly crap into something better

anyone have a hand model?

edit,
omg i cant believe i forgot about the zombie model JonnyRee gave to me
i will be using that. hopefully he will get it finished soon.

meaning this one:
http://wyrdlife.com/3d/zombieHeadRender.jpg
http://www.wyrdlife.com/3d/textureTest07.jpg


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 12:27
Lukas W,

That Jonny Ree has great skills in art, 2D and 3D. I am not a 3D artist, however, I figured it useful to model you a medkit for your game. It is not the best, but it was good practice anyhow.

Screenshot:

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The model is attached to this post.


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 13:11
wow, thanks alot that looks really good.
and yes, it will be useful


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 15:13
I'll take care of the flashlight...
should have it done sometime later today

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Lukas W
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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 16:01
thats great, thanks man


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 17:56 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2005 18:05
hey.

if anyone is curious about what the game is when playing it, i made this movie just for you.
at the time all you can do is walk around and shoot wooden boxes.
im having some serious trouble with the AI, the thing is: i load the object and apply collision, but it keeps on going straight through the floors....

Gameplay movie 1
it is very low res, because if not it will be a 20mb file...

if anyone want to see my "original" zombie hunter, click here.
i wrote that some time in 2003.. and its my 3rd game i ever made.

edit, fixed download link


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Posted: 22nd Aug 2005 21:53 Edited at: 22nd Aug 2005 22:02
GREAT work, Lukas
I played the small game.. it is really cool..
This one is gonna be even better, I know it is gonna be

.:edit:.
oh.. and that gameplay video is amazing
.:edit:.

good luck..

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2005 11:17 Edited at: 23rd Aug 2005 12:55
thanks Louiz
I hope this is going to turn out well aswell, hopefully it will be alot more scarier than the previous two zh games.


Kjelle (at walabers forum) think he might now the solution to why the zombies keep falling through the floors, so ill look into that before i do anything else now

edit,
problem fixed. now onto the ai.


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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 00:58
I've finished modeling the flashlight (ok so that didn't take very long ) and i'll texture it tomorrow...i'm roughly modeling it after the "SureFire" flashlight (NavySeals, Nasa...ect)

just wanted you to know i didn't forget about it

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oh, right i though you forgot about it thanks for the help man. i really suck at modelling/2d arts and there is nothing i can do

ok im learning Blender, i can now switch camera view and split windows


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Quote: "ok im learning Blender"

yikes, never could wrap my head around that program

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i know, blender seems to be really advanced, but its free and powerfull. do i have a choise??


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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 21:56
hey i though id give some updates on the ai im working on atm.
its doing great, the zombie walks around the room its positioned in (randomly ofcorse..). if it sees the player it will walk towards it and when its close enough it will hit you. still no animations, since Jonny Ree Hasn't boned the model yet, and im using convexhull for collision which will eventualy become Ragdoll collision, but first i need it boned

however there is one bug im struggeling with: when the player collides with the zombie the zombie is thrown out in space and outside the newton world, where it gets deleted and the game ends
im still trying to fix this.. but does anyone here who is fairly familiar to newton know what is going on??

when this bug is fixed i can continue and give the zombie som health so i can kill it and eventually blast it away with the rocket launcher when the model is boned and 'ragdolled' it will be most awesome
then ill add the healthpack provided by nanobrain and finish the level with better textures and stuff and eventually there will be a first demo release

note that the source does not come with the demos, it will come with the full game. (maybe not the Story mode part since that might take ages to do)

what do you guys say if i add some multiplayer deathmatch to the game eh? then ill have to learn multiplayer coding, which im learning at the moment aswell.


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Posted: 24th Aug 2005 23:15 Edited at: 24th Aug 2005 23:16
sounds like you are making progress!

here's the flashlight(in DBPro)...but i think it looks horrendous...

you can use it if you want though... (at least as a new placeholder...)

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 14:29
thanks that is looking great
if i just fix the UV mapping and add some detail mapping to it it will be even better i think

still struggeling with the strange problem i have.. i have no clue what i must do but hopefully i have fixed it until the end of this day


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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 19:11
The only thing I can add to this forum is congratulations, this game looks cool.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 20:15
thank you

i added a new screenshot of the new flashlight Peter_ made. it looks great


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Posted: 25th Aug 2005 20:33
thanks!

i think the flashlight might look better if you used "set object smoothing FlashLightObjNum, 100" for it...

Looks like it's coming along though!

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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 21:51 Edited at: 28th Aug 2005 21:59
yes, you are right thanks for the tip

anyway, i thought id give the latest news about this project:

ai is going realy slow, im having serious trouble with that part where the zombie gets thrown out in space for no reason at all.. but i think it might be something about the command 'NDB_BodyAddForceGlobal' command.. ill try and see if i can recreate the DBC version of the ai, whitout using newton, and take one step at the time from there.

i also got a musician he has made me some songs to come with the game, that is really cool and the tunes are great i also have some ambient sounds but i havent added them yet

NanoBrain,
that model of yours, the MedKit one.. i have a problem with that..
not even Lithunwrap could read the .x file.. but all turned out well when i downloaded a tool called 'quick3d'. i could then re-save it as an .x file, open it in lithunwrap and re-texture it and re-save it. now it works.


oh.. and i also made me a new sig

edit, dont forget: i changed host now, so i have 500mb bandwidth instead of 250mb the im uploading the DBC version to this new host as we speak! be ready.. 16min left

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Lukas W,

I wish I knew the problem with the model. However, I am glad you found an alternative method to use it.


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Posted: 28th Aug 2005 22:18
yes, im not sure what was wrong with it either. have you tried loading it in dbp? it doesnt work..

ps. it looks like my new host wont accept files at 12mb size

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ouch...if you can't get it uploaded e-mail it to me at peterhellmuth@gmail.com and i could upload it to my site...

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thanks but i got it uploaded now

download the DBC version here: Zombie Hunter v1.7


DBPro version *news*
the AI is about 80% finished, i need to get the zombie boned and animated.
also there is this bug where the zombie suddenly stops reacting and when you collide with it/shoot it, it gets tossed out in space.

im working on a level editor where i can place the starting points for the zombies, weapon positions, ammo, medkits, change material on objects etc. etc. its about 5% finished.

i need to finish the Srvive Mode level and texture it.

there is a bug when reloading that needs to be fixed.
thre is another bug if your first bullet hits a zombie/move able object the program crashes. after the first bullet this does not happen.

i need to get new weapon models, ammo models and textures

now i cant think of anything else that needs to be done before the demo

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just posting to let you guys know that this project has not died.

im struggeling with the AI error and noone seems to know what to do.
i cant believe that noone else hasn't written any kind of AI in Newton. thats unbelievable
so im kind of stuck there.

instead im working on a level editor. it is great (not).

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Lukas W,

Yay. Glad to see that this project has not died. I was worried for it, up until now. Keep up the good work, Lukas.



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Need more textures?

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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 09:04 Edited at: 15th Sep 2005 13:25
NanoBrain,
thanks im glad someone likes the project. not many people post, so i feel like i do this for nothing it's encouraging me

Jack,
yeah i need some textures. (see first page)
but i thought id post the list here:
Quote: "2d Art/Texturing
Weapons
Zombies
Metal Texture
Water Texture"


also feel free to add whatever you think might fit in a horror game, i will see if i can put it to good use

edit,
about the zombie.. i have the original texture and it would be nice if i could get the texture in different variations. like someone has only one eye, someone have blood all over them, they have different clothes etc. etc. i can send the texture i have so [enter person who will do it here] can change it however he want. remember: the original zombie texture is created by Johnny Ree. i think i must ask him first if people are allowed to edit his texture

edit,
ive removed some textures from the above list that has allready been made

[href]lukashangout.tk[/href] Zombie Hunter This is a map editor
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Lukas W,

If Johnny Ree okays editing of the texture, I would love to take a swing at it. If anything, it would teach me things, in its end maybe turning out a good variation or two.



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Posted: 15th Sep 2005 13:29 Edited at: 15th Sep 2005 13:30
great! that is lovely. unfortunatley i forgot to ask him when he was online.. 10mins ago but ill ask the next time i see him.

i tried to make a zombie with only one eye, and some blood on the clothes.. but i ended up ruining the pretty texture i suck.. i really suck, and its not fun anymore (i still have a copy of the original, dont worry)

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Quote: "remember: the original zombie texture is created by Johnny Ree. i think i must ask him first if people are allowed to edit his texture "


Go ahead, go crazy with the thing

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