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Work in Progress / Small Scale RPG - Growing in size

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Inverted
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Posted: 2nd May 2007 07:53 Edited at: 3rd May 2007 03:40
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Hello everyone,
Currently i am working on the mechanics of an RPG.
like creating mass amounts of buildings/npc's and other entites within a world. Right now i have 414 lines that include:

1) Full collision support for any object
2) NPC creation and placement using types (woohoo) - this is a great accomplishment for me because iv never used types before
3) Terrain collison
4) Full movement
5) Working jumping
6) An awesome system for showing NPC name plates above them and have them fade in distance and always face camera. - This part is really awesome.

And more!

Here are a screenie:
(Right now there are only boxes, this will change in a LONG time. I feel that i should complete the engine and mechanics before working on graphics)




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Well Inverted, I am glad to say you are off to a good start. It is nice to see someone who paces themselves as you do, acknowledging the amount of work and time it will take to take on something of this scale. Good work, lets see it grow

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Posted: 2nd May 2007 17:46
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Okay, thank you alquerian


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Posted: 3rd May 2007 03:39 Edited at: 3rd May 2007 03:40
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Okay i got images working...
so bump i guess


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Okay here is the exe, its almost nothing but it took me a while. Please give suggestions that you would like to see. Because im just starting this out.

-Inv


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Hey, looking good so far. When I tried to run the EXE it said couldn't find a DLL, oh and u should upload a ZIP version.
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Posted: 3rd May 2007 04:44 Edited at: 3rd May 2007 04:58
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Okay here is a re-download. zip format, should work, sorry for the confusion


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Okay here is a new screenie, GREAT PROGRESS! Woot.

Okay iv added:
- Selecing objects, click on a monster / npc / item and it will turn red (showing you selected it)
- Chatbox, yeah i added a sexy chat box
- Code cleanup, i clean up my code every weak, refining my code and changing stuff to make it faster and easier to work with <<- to all beginners, this is a great way to learn.

So here is the WIP screenshot:



Please comment,
-inverted


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thats how I developed DT mate, good work so far.
You should think about adding a limbed sphere to the top of complex models and for monsters as it will allow for a closer range of polygon amounts for testing.


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Looks like a good start! How did you make the text fade as you go farther away? Is the text a sprite?

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Looks like a great start, keep it up and you'll be well on you way to a 1337 rpg.

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Nah, It looks better than my rpg and i have worked on my rpg like 3-4 weeks!! Lol.. Nice! Keep it up!


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Wow thank you so much for the comments you guys.
Sixty Squares. to answer your questions:

1) It is a mix of using fog and transparency, pretty simple if you think about it

2) Basically when i setup the game i have a function that inputs text, creates an image and clears the screen. Then i have a function to place it over the specified entites head. It's fairly simple, thanks for being interested.

Thank you everyone,
-Tom


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Quote: "
- Code cleanup, i clean up my code every weak, refining my code and changing stuff to make it faster and easier to work with <<- to all beginners, this is a great way to learn.
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This is a very good tip. On my first game I never did this. After a few months I had to completly rewrite everything to increase fps and make the code workable again.

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Nah, It looks better than my rpg and i have worked on my rpg like 3-4 weeks!! Lol.. Nice! Keep it up!
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This looks better then my game I spent almost a year on.
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wow thanks you guys.

Creation has been put on hold cause i just got a 360 with guitar hero II and Gears of War, but I will be coding very soon again. So keep looking here for more updates in the near future


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Okay Iv been working on getting the main character into game.
This is psionics dwarf as main character, and he probably will stay main character:



Cheers,
-Tom


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No!!!!!!! Not the poor dwarf again!

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That dwarf has seen everything lol. I wonder if he has been used in an FPS before....


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lol


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I'm currently doing animation
It's turning out really hot.

Check back for updates.

-Inv


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I'm going to assassinate that dwarf in my game I'm going to have Psionic's spider creature eat him.

This is looking good for this stage of development. It is definitely a good idea to start with a small functional game and expand it when your engine is done. Otherwise you'll get lost. Good luck with it.


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Quote: "That dwarf has seen everything lol. I wonder if he has been used in an FPS before"


You have NO idea how fricken awesome that idea is. I think I will do this, only it won't be a true 'FPS' game because he will be chucking his axe at zombies, in fact that is a new game Genre. I am coining the acronym FPAT as First Person Axe Thrower.

The story will go something along the lines of:

You wake up one morning to find your Dwarven-wife dead. She was murdered! Zombies did it!

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Lol

BRAIIIIINNNNSSSSS

The stuff looks cool!!!

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lol. Awsome.

Cheers,

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