This is going to be a small demo of sorts that will have all the features of a final fantasy game or a jrpg. We’re modeling the kit after Final Fantasy 10, we’ll post our progress in this thread. When we complete it, if we complete it we will release it to the blender game making community to study, or use to create your own games with. If you want to help us you’re free to join. Everything that is posted in this thread is work in progress.
This is a rough level layout, you’ll start at the end of a cave, a shopkeeper will be standing next to you. From him you’ll be able to buy items that might benefit you on your journey ahead. Then you’ll travel through the map towards the castle at the end, you’ll be fighting random battles with monsters that are yet to be created. Inside the castle you’ll have a small walk up some stairs perhaps and there you’ll fight a big bad boss battle. http://i.imgur.com/89YwUUo.gif
There has been a change of plans and the guy above might be one of two guards standing outside the castle in black armor.
Features:
•Advanced battle system with animated cameras, customizable menus etc.
•Levels and stats system.
•Menu from which to look at your stats, use items or change equipment.
•Animated camera tracking the player in the overworld.
•Shopkeeper that you’ll be able to buy items from.
with instancing trim kit pieces under 128 vertex and using the same uv atlas for all buildings we can achieve high fidelity with a high framerate and good drawdistance.
think shapes you use to build all buildings, used in several ways per trim, using alt d and making dupli groups of the clusters of trims that add up to a tile.
Two towers done, before I start on the other castle pieces I’ll see if I can bake some metalness into the diffuse of the knight’s armor. Blender is bad at metal. Lostscience if you have any good ideas for monsters to appear in the underworld let us know, we also need a protagonist to play as.
EDIT: No bake just had to modify the materials and textures a bit. Still some visible seams around the feet, we’ll push this further at some later point.
How about a monsters that shoots poison procuppine quills.It was on a old cartoon.Is that bad idea or good idea.I don’t know.Plants that shoot flesh eating virus from there flowers that turns people into zombies.
I wasn’t wondering how to remove seams only if you would want to be my bitch and do it since you said you couldn’t model. xD Anyway we’ve decided on the main protagonist, a nude female angel. Five reasons:
•A good backstory, she falls from heaven into the underworld and has to confront some demon in his castle.
•Because she is nude she won’t take that long to create, not 15 models to unwrap and texture, only 1.
•It would look good in my portfolio.
•If she can hover above the ground and flap her wings while moving around it would make animation easier.
•The underworld is dark and she would be very bright and could emit a light wherever she goes, it would look great. http://www.mamut.net/bird/angel4.jpg
Unfortunately this project has to be abandoned, I lost my programmer or maybe I never had him to begin with. We couldn’t agree on the course of the project and there are several issues with the game engine itself, it’s not intuitive, maybe people will be improving upon the engine in the future and then one might feel it deserves the attention.
This post by sdfgeoff sums it up quite well:
Game making is fun when it’s a ceaseless creative process like painting, sculpting or composing but when every few days you’ve got to try bypass some retarded obstacle, that is really just a design error on part of some game engine programmer it’s starting to feel like unecessary work. One can either engage in effortless work that is fulfilling and appreciated or wrestle with blender’s cloth simulations that don’t detect the collisions of moving legs, and play with nodes to be able to paint the earth with materials.
Also blender’s game engine renders models terribly so whatever you spend hours creating, blender can’t do it justice. If anyone wants to use the knight model or the castle set let me know and I’ll upload them. Sorry for the rant, just such a waste of time. -_-
and John the tower was sculpted then normals were baked from it.
