Traevaine Entertainment - PROJECT PANTHERA

[Manuel L.]

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Traevaine Entertainment - Panthera Game Project
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2010 Blender Summer Game Competition Winner (Best Graphics)

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Basic Information
Project Title : Panthera Game Project
Game Title : Panthera
Type : 1st-/3rd-Person Roleplaying Game (Singleplayer)
Development : begin 2009 | end -
Website: http://www.traevaine.com
Prizes, etc.: 2010 Blender Summer Game Competition "BEST GRAPHICS"


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Development Status [Alpha]
Progress [||||||||||||||............................][19.6%]
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Downloads:
www.traevaine.com/files
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Message:

Hello Blenderartists,

some of you may have heard of us.

We are the development-team of 'Traevaine Entertainment' and we would like to present our game here in the forums.
Our team has a variating amount of members; 8-10 at the moment, all at
the age of 14 to 40.
Our members come from all over the world, but the core development is in Germany.
We are an experienced team of blender-users with a lot of motivation and lots of ideas.
Our team members perfectly match to each other and each one has his own skills.

Currently we are working on the 'Panthera Game Project',
a 3rd-person/1st-person singleplayer role playing game
(3rd-prs/1st-prs - RPG).

We aim to get as much as possible out of the BGE.
Team members and several WIP-Shots are listed below.
(Blender 2.49b)

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Important note:
For recent updates, please look at the latest entries in this topic.
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Team-members:

www.traevaine.com/members



NOTE:
1. DAILY UPDATES ON THE YOUTUBE CHANNELS - Subscribe to stay informed
2. No hints on story or gameplay yet(!), you can guess much out of the YouTube videos so watch them attentive.
3. YOU can send an apply to us! No payment. For further details visit www.traevaine.com and apply at www.traevaine.com/contact


The Logotype 'Traevaine Entertainment', as well as the names 'Traevaine Entertainment' and 'Panthera Game Project' are protected by copyright.
©2010-2011 Traevaine Entertainment

[Zarnik]

Interface looks awesome...character looks decent. He doesn't look like someone you would like to play with...

[Manuel L.]

Please recognize:
PRE-ALPHA status
The character will look more friendly once hes done

Greetings from Germany

[Zarnik]

Oh ok, well give him a more natural looking face and some cooler hair. Looks like he is about to get bald

[Manuel L.]

Updates can be found DAILY on the YouTubeChannels linked above.

Trævaine Entertainment

[Manuel L.]

Feedback please
We still need feedback guys so visite the channels linked in the first post.

[AncientGreek]

http://www.youtube.com/user/DennisH2.../0/q1OEdhzDZKw
dragon looks great
http://www.youtube.com/user/DennisH2.../2/y_N0elNIy9w
enviroment and props too, what else can i say? XD

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tomoffelful
LOL

[JESUSFRK14]

All I can say is incredible!

[blending user]

Good to see you finally made a thread on here... Its looking good though keep it up.

[DennisH2010]

new image



http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_ann...&v=U2EisafHjis

http://www.youtube.com/user/DennisH2010?feature=mhum

http://dennish2010.deviantart.com/

[endi]

good to see you build with modules

[DennisH2010]

That is the home for the player where the story begins.

Video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLOQHN7OJEk


Video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DennisH2010?feature=mhum

[DennisH2010]

The Steam Nail Gun

YouTube Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHsUmgGkc4

[DennisH2010]

Video on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch

[bbm]

Nice, and promising work, well done

[Smoking_mirror]

Looks really good. Do you have an enemy ai yet?
It can be a stumbling block... good to focus on that early.
I use (smart) waypoints rather than A* as it is a good solution for the Blender game engine.
Here is a very good article on the reasons for using waypoints:
http://aigamedev.com/open/reviews/al...rm-node-graph/

Though it doesn't really describe how to implement them.
The basic idea is that each waypoint collects information about its neighbours and stores that information as properties. AI agents can then access that information and find the entry which is most useful to them (for example the nearest neighbour which is nearst to the agent's navigation goal).

it works well because there is just a short period of collecting information at runtime, and then the info is available throughout the game. It uses very little processing power.

Anyway, you guys get 5 stars from me. Team development is much more difficult than solo.

[DennisH2010]

thank you I'm going to show it our programmer Tomoffelful

http://www.youtube.com/user/Tomoffelful

[DennisH2010]

Home for the Player Window update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxzwPzKrj8g

Home for the Player Oven update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BueH0NHEw

Next, I make an AO map for the interior of the house

[Smoking_mirror]

I've just finished making a script for generating waypoints...
I will be working on it more to add a way of navigating them for the player and enemies, but for now I thought your programmer may find it a useful starting point.

Each way point will store a list of several neighbours as game objects.

You should have your ai players track to the nearest waypoint and when they hit it they can get it's "near_list" property (by using the hitObjectList fuction in blender) and use the "close_node_search function" to choose the node from the list which is nearest their guide target. Their guide target will vary depending on thier current ai behaviour pattern, but would usially be the player as enemy.

However, you could write other other behaviour patterns for the ai, such as one which would find the nearest "cover" position, or nearest other enemy, if you want them to team up before a battle, or nearest patrol point if you want them on patrol.

This can be a very flexible system, which is 100 times faster than A*... maybe ^^
I will post a template later with some sample ai behaviour patterns. But I thought you may want to take a look at it before then.
I really want to see more quality blender game engine games around on the web, so if I can help other designers I always want to try. ~ though I am kind of busy with my own project too.

[Tomoffel]

wow thanks! =)

i will go into it when i have finished the HUD scripts im working on at the moment and start with the ai