SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

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Having fun making idle animations, foot tapping, tantrum with headbanging, yawning and shooting gun in air. Will post some gifs when I'm done. 

Every game requires them.   

Definitely spend a bit of time getting the collisions right. I fucked them royally up in Damnation Alley and they were also pretty poor in my last game.

A wee gif of idle animations I've been playing around with.

Quote from: STEVIE G on February 17, 2021, 22:20:23
A wee gif of idle animations I've been playing around with.

Love it you definitely are top notch with animating pixels

Quote from: STEVIE G on February 17, 2021, 16:37:18
Show us the new car Qube?! 

Not quite finished yet though and will be adding tread to the tyres and bits to the wheel hubs so they can be seen steering and rotating.

This time I've kept every element of the model so it'll be much easier to adapt it for other vehicles \o/



** Forgot to add that the design was inspired by the look of Keeny's low poly cars but are half the poly count.

Oh oh oh, that looks nice... Dont you dare smooth it out mind, or I'll shake my fist in the general direction of Ireland!

Dabz

Quote from: Dabz on February 18, 2021, 06:02:29
Oh oh oh, that looks nice... Dont you dare smooth it out mind, or I'll shake my fist in the general direction of Ireland!

Northern Ireland! Northern Ireland! Northern Ireland! 

No smoothing for the low poly stuff or it just looks... wrong

not sure if I'll get something ready for this one. maybe use the recent car stuff and do a dirty 8bit mutant GTA? 

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Northern Ireland! Northern Ireland! Northern Ireland!

Aye, I know, lol, just me being idle!

Dabz

How I wish I had the time to enter this compo! I really like the theme. 

Quote from: BasicBoy on February 18, 2021, 16:22:49
How I wish I had the time to enter this compo! I really like the theme. 

Make the time then, mate. You still have two months.

Got me car all set up and have it moving with the wheels rotating and turning \o/

Physics of the car seems pretty ok and will do for more but will need tweaking. Wheel colliders are a right pain to get right and I've still to get it to turn and slide correctly depending on speed.

Good frustrating fun though. At least the way I'm doing it it'll be super easy to add to other cars for when I get around to the AI and multi wheel vehicles like trucks etc.

Hopefully I'll get all the issues sorted out and I'll post a little demo over the weekend.

Progress!  Cool.  What are you using for the 3D, AGK or Unity?

Quote from: Steve Elliott on February 19, 2021, 16:09:39
Progress!  Cool.  What are you using for the 3D, AGK or Unity?

I was going to use AGK but even getting a 3D model + textures into it isn't as straightforward as it should be. Unity on the other hand I can drop a model into the assets, couple of clicks to sort the materials out and that's it. No further messing required.

As I've not done much coding yet I might revisit the 3D side for AGK over the weekend but I don't want to fight with each model individually. Perhaps I can streamline the process.

This will take 3D .obj/.mtl files and generate a texture palette that you can SetObjectImage() to colour you model
It was designed to colourize Kenney models but it should work with any .obj format tha uses colours in a .mtl file
It is designed to process all files in a folder so for the input navigate to the folder and enter "x" in the filename

Quote from: blinkok on February 20, 2021, 00:31:33
This will take 3D .obj/.mtl files and generate a texture palette that you can SetObjectImage() to colour you model
It was designed to colourize Kenney models but it should work with any .obj format tha uses colours in a .mtl file
It is designed to process all files in a folder so for the input navigate to the folder and enter "x" in the filename

Thanks, will take a nosey over the weekend. Cheetah3D can export .obj with .mtl files. Not sure if I'll change over to AGK for this project as I'd need to write a 3D editor of some form which I doubt I'd have time to do. No way would I be coding a 3D play world line by line, that'd be torture

If the app makes the models I've made easier to get into AGK then I'll stick a 3D editor on my todo list for addition to my joy joy framework \o/