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Submitted by , posted on 21 October 2003
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These are some shots of a game project I’ve been working on for about 6 months
in the bit of spare time I’ve had. The top left image is a shot of the built in
animation tool that I designed for the game, a functional tool for doing
animations using the built in skeletal animation system. The skeletal system is
a straightforward 24 joint quaternion based system. The animation tool allows
for output straight to a game readable format to make adding animation quick and
easy.
The top right image is of the inventory and stats system in-game. The game is a
level based RPG combined with a combat system similar to Jedi Knight 2. Levels
and experience will determine stats and stats have an effect on the combat,
however actual combat is played as a 3rd person shooter. The combat action that
a character is doing is based on the direction that the character is moving,
thus a different motion for moving right as opposed to moving forward. The
actions are settable in game by the player by pressing a direction of movement
and the insert key the player is brought to a screen that allows you to set up a
custom movement for that combat action based on a bunch of pre-built actions
that can be strung together in anyway you like. This is possible due to a
morpher built into the skeletal system.
The bottom right image is a shot of the demo map looking from one of the high
points. The terrain engine is LOD optimized using what I refer to as 4
teselation levels. Basically the terrain is generated in strips at different
levels of detail being 1, 1/4, 1/8, and 1/16, these strips are rendered based on
the position of the main character. The current demo map is a distance of
30,0000 but I’ve tested the terrain engine for distances of as much as 500,000
without a problem.
The bottom left image is a shot in a forest just to show the current tree
engine, all trees are procedurally generated form a set of parameters and the
tree engine will billboard anything outside of a settable range for
optimization.
Other things of interest, the combat system has 24 hit zones, and the armor
system has 7 possible pieces that can be worn, each of which will protect
respective zones and can only be broken through by a character of sufficient
strength. I’d like to think of myself as a better programmer than an artist so
naturally the artwork isn’t so good. The full demo is available at
http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~jrm29/TenKingdoms/TenKingdoms.htm , any feedback you
have would be appreciated, please mail me at TenKingdomsProject@hotmail.com .
~Jim
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