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Vickie
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Playing with shaders~


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Very realistic, although you have some texture stretching on the walls

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If you're playing with shaders, I recommend adding a detail shader to the cave... any seamless texture that will make the cave look more realistic

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It isnt very realistic, it looks like someone went into a cave with a huge can of varnish and varnished all the walls! Good job anyway, you just need to get rid of the gloss or at least some of it.
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gloss is probably not the right word here, you need to think "Wet"

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@kaedroho
You obviously haven't been in many caves then
They are always shiny like that because of the wetness. I agree with Xenocythe, a detail texture would improve its look.

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Are all those surfaces flat? ie. is the appearance of depth (on the "varnished" walls) given entirely by the shaders? If so, it's very impressive.

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Quite good. You should increace the UV map size, so you get more repetitions of the textures per unit.

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wow great start

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I'm making a level I call "Deadworld", in this shot I used the
shine shader and added it to this ball. The ball rotates and gives
a really cool effect. I'll post more as I go along~

Next I'm going to try and get that plasma sky feature to work.
That would really add to the mood of this level.

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closeup~

More to come~

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Reminds me of Half-Life. And thats good thing

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Quote: "Reminds me of Half-Life."

Just what I was thinking!
Looking great man! Well... Girl.


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Thanks guys~

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Very cool stuff Vickie. Steve Vink mentioned you at the TGC convention!

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Quote: "Very cool stuff Vickie. Steve Vink mentioned you at the TGC convention!

Rick"

Wow! thats Cool! What did he say about me

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Construction continues;



I'm using the "scale object" command to reshape the models into
a more sinister look~

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Very nice Vickie! Keep it up.


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I suggested that people take advantage of your presence on the forums - modelling is often a secondary skill and we could benefit from some extra knowledge.

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That was really sweet of you Steve, I am honored you even mentioned
me. Thank you~

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Modelling skillz pl0x .

Seriously though, it's looking really nice. You should write a tutorial on how to model things at some point.

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wow

I think I will give up DBC...

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Thanks for your kind words Guys~ I hope to make something cool.

Hey Comet, whats DBC, LOL!

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Quote: "whats DBC, LOL!"

Dark Basic Classic.

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This screenshots all look very atmospheric. I'm wondering why you write this wave~ symbol~ behind every second word though.

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Hi Mr. Kohlenstoff,
I use "~" to add depth to my words so they are not so impersonal~ I want people to know it’s me they are talking too.

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Quote: "I use "~" to add depth to my words so they are not so impersonal~ I want people to know it’s me they are talking too."


-Just like i like to mention poo sandwitches every 5 mins lol

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things are moving along, its getting easier for me to load level
into DBpro from TS7.

more to come~

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Playing with lights;

more to come~

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Almost finished~

more to come,

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Very, very cool, vickie!

Quote: "Hey Comet, whats DBC, LOL!"


If you mean what I think you think that I should mean if I think that you think that I understand it, then, yes, it is very old... but I like DBC!

And if I think you thought what I think you think that I should mean if I think that you think that I understand it, then, it is Dark Basic Classic.

(some of my crooked humor...)

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Vickie,

I like the screenshots . If I may ask, what are you doing for fog? Are you just using the FOG ON command, or something else?

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Hi Sixty Squares,
here is the code I use to make the fog. I don't remember where I
got it from. I piece a lot of things together to get things to work

`------------------------------------------
`this sets the fog up
fog on:fog color 8:set ambient light 30
Fog Color RGB (10,100,130)
FOG DISTANCE 200,1200
`-------------------------------------------

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here is the floating islands with the temple;

if I had more time there would be so much I could do with this~

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Heres a close-up of the Temple;

I wish I knew how to use particles in DBpro,they would look great
pouring off the top of the monolith~

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Dont use dbpro particles, they suck literally
Just search for particles or particle and you get some workarounds

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@Vickie:

This is immeasurably impressive - there's a wide range of different techniques being used. I like the plasma backdrop, especially how it's been illuminated.

You certainly know how to use DBPro's graphics commands to their full potential. Very atmospheric!

I preferred the ball in Deadworld before it had been prolated. The shaders gave it a granite-like texture to it.

As an improvement, you could try making the lava in Deadworld more "active". It looks like it's cooled down slightly.

Quote: "I'm wondering why you write this wave~ symbol~"


For future reference it's called a tilde, or swung dash.

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Hi Vickie!

Quote: "I wish I knew how to use particles in DBpro,they would look great pouring off the top of the monolith~"


Have you checked out ExGen from The Game Creators?

http://exgen.thegamecreators.com/

I have it and have played around with it, although I haven't actually used it in a project, yet.

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These are all really impressive looking

Quote: " "I wish I knew how to use particles in DBpro,they would look great pouring off the top of the monolith~""


You could just write your own particle routines, it's not that difficult really.

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It's all looking great so far, I think half the forum will be keeping an eye on this to see how it turns out .

The built in particles are not ideal, good for some things but as Phosphoer says making your own is not difficult at all. You could have rolling mist and lighting halos amplifying the atmosphere you already have - plus any magic/portal/fire effect you can imagine.

Really it's just a case of making a load of plains and re-using them where you need a particle. I tend to use a typed array and have positions, angles, rotation speeds, life etc set when creating a new particle then update all the active particles depending on these values and rotate them towards the screen each loop. There's lots of examples around, Newsletter #67 has a particle engine tutorial that I made as part of a monthly feature. I think that if you added a particle system you'd really go to town with it, I mean Realm Crafter particles would not have a look in!.


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Hi Vickie,

I today looked a bit more into your images and i suggest you to blend two textures together.. Well more simply i just mean transications in example from ground texture to grass texture, in your pictures it just seems to transic without any blending, doing this will increase the visual quality, trust me

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Wow...these are great! I really want DBPro now..heh heh!

Keep it up!

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Thanks for the fog info Vickie . This is looking really nice by the way. Oh and DO NOT use the DBP particle system. It makes the fog always black and FOG COLOR not work (I learned this the hard way, lol)

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Quote: "Oh and DO NOT use the DBP particle system. It makes the fog always black and FOG COLOR not work (I learned this the hard way, lol)"

geez! you think this would be on the top of the list to be fixed.
Thanks for the Tip Sixty Squares

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Also, the dbpro standard particle system is tediously slow ive found.

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If your looking for a bump effect that does not look "wet" you should try the parralax mapping that comes with the ultimate shader pack.

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Ok, I think I have a look I am happy with. Here is the model inside
Truespace,


Here are the models inside Darkbasic:




Now I'll wrap it up, give it to Steve and call this project complete

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I think I'm going to try and add an Actor to this level, so I need
to setup collision and somehow come up with a way to control the
animation frames. So any advice you guys can give to help me
achieve this would be most welcome!

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Sparky's collision should do a good job, there's an example of sliding level collision - although it probably makes sense to use a separate low poly collision mesh for collision.

Handling animation depends on how smooth you want the transitions etc, and how you animate the character. For example I always make an idle pose and have transitions into walking and running loops, then out of them into idle frames again. Then I take a running loop frame and use that to transition into things like jump animations. You have to give each non-idle animation a start point that you can then spawn from - if you know that you can go from the running loop into a jump from a specific frame number, then you can make it really smooth and professional. It takes a bit of work to get it right but it's worth it. I've made lots of animation systems so if you need help just drop me an email.


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