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Dark GDK / MelonCore Engine

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Zuka
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Posted: 4th Jan 2009 10:25
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My team and I have finally gotten organized. We've named the game engine, "MelonCore". Creative, huh?

It's using DarkGDK for rendering, and this is probably the biggest project that's ever used the DGDK, so I think it's only fair that I keep everyone here updated on its progress.

We're going to be incorporating RakNet, PhysX, and Lua. The rest will be our own. It is going to use my KaosScript for loading interior spaces, and saving the planets and stuff.

MelonCore is a galaxy-replicator engine. It generates the most basic data for an entire, fully detailed galaxy. It does not save ANY true visual data at all. It does use a texture-pack, but otherwise, the server sends the data to the client, and the client generates entire planets from the seed number, using several octaves of Perlin noise.

Planned Feature List:
nVidia PhysX
KaosScript
Lua
RakNet
Procedural planet generation
Highly detailed models
DarkGDK + commercial license

We'll accept any contributions.

Website: http://vsdweb.com/ (obviously, not done yet.)
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jezza
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Posted: 4th Jan 2009 14:50
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sounds good. meloncore... interesting name.
when you say contributions, do you mean monetary or code?
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Zuka
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 03:21
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Either. And media would be appreciated. We're willing to pay when possible (not until the first beta, probably.)
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jason p sage
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 03:30
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I like the random media generation - that's how "Fate" does it.

--Jason


http://www.jasonpetersage.com/?PAGE=ironinfantry&SECTION=ironinfantry
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Zuka
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 06:50 Edited at: 5th Jan 2009 06:50
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Here's a picture of our first ship. It's a joke ship by bear, one of the modelers. It's his own personal transportation (no one else can fly it.)

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jezza
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 08:54
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I'll help with the physX integration if you like.
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jason p sage
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 13:56
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@Jexxa - Directly to DarkGDK?


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jezza
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Posted: 5th Jan 2009 17:18
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yeah why not?
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jason p sage
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Oh - not knocking it... On the contrary - you peaked my interest - as I'm currently doing something similiar but not with PhysX... I'm actually impressed - and might have a question or two for you. Two Issues I'm having are quat to x,y,z (GDK style Degrees) and matrices to position/rotation - like word/transforms etc.

especially taking a transformation and applying it to a DarkGDK object... I don't know if I should be trying to do something with the WORLD MATRIX in darkgdk via a getWorldMatrix type function - or what.

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jezza
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yeah. i struggled with that for a bit
heres what i do
actor->getGlobalPose to get a matrix, use one the position vector to position the object and use one of GDKs hidden functions to rotate. example:


see this page i made about that function:
http://darkgdk.wikia.com/wiki/DbSetObjectWorldMatrix
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Xzeleous Software Imagineer
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This is beyond me O_O

Im a python loser and proud of it. But I am interested in this . Its interesting to see actually porfessional sounding projects actually have some of the resources neccesary to back up that its programmers know what they are doing.

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