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Just spent a feverish 5 days on a game jam entry. and finally finished:
https://adamstrange.itch.io/geoswitch

Very nice!

Just Love Retro.

What Programming language did you use for this?

Kind Regards Baggey

Loving the colourful vector look.   

Thanks guys - I think it might be a bit too brutal. I'm thinking of softening the gameplay. but for 5 days not too shabby...

Just so you know - it's a 2d render system not a 3d one. So I am handling all the 3d stuff...

That's really cool for a few days work

QuoteI think it might be a bit too brutal. I'm thinking of softening the gameplay.

Good idea, it is brutal and I think the game just hates me

Nah there ware a couple of bugs that made it completely brutal... 
The've been squashed and fixed in V1.02 \o/

great adam, your becoming the 3D expert, i could be wrong but i think your one of the few is doing there own 3D engine,

yup, if audio is interesting 3d is just plain hard - not the 2s rendering but attempting to visualise stuff that is being sent to the 3d card with the shaders, etc....

If you want your 3d to look amazing and AAA then it's best to use some thing already existing like Unreal. Because you can never compete even in the slightest with them.

Soo... that means don't think like a AAA, think (at most ps1) more experimental and suddenly there is lots of scope to do things differently and just play around and have fun

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If you want your 3d to look amazing and AAA then it's best to use some thing already existing like Unreal. Because you can never compete even in the slightest with them.

Soo... that means don't think like a AAA, think (at most ps1) more experimental and suddenly there is lots of scope to do things differently and just play around and have fun

Yep, but nobody here has the staff required for a AAA game using Unreal, so why bother?  Use smaller engines more suited to retro style 3D and develop the gameplay instead.

Agreed.
Here's a sort of sideways thing I'm toying with...

Animation and bones is a pig - it's simple if you use a pre-made solution with blender and unreal, etc. but using on your own - the code is a pig. so I always avoided it.

But... I really like what can be done with it. is there another way to do it? Quake was the first app to use 3d animation skins. and it did it by using mesh blending (where a resulting mesh is created from other meshes - that need to be the same size)

So I thought "I have a pure render system, can I tweak it to take 2 meshes and produce a third by lerping between them?"


This is the current result - 2 meshes of the tail in 2 different positions. being rendered with a lerp between the 2.

It's being rendered flat color with no lighting, so gives a sort of 2d cell animation look. It's currently software based, but I have an idea how to take the concept and squirt it into opengl...

It would mean having different models for each pose - but they are very small - And it would sort of mean you could have a minimum set of poses and lerp between them.

Now lets look at a video with this sort of system being used... if I can get even half way to this standard - I've cracked something very special...

That video was fascinating.   

yep - it sort of expands your mind a bit... 
Here's my first steps using their concept:


Ignore the bounce - it's just the gif looping.
But this is just 2 models being lerped - I can see that there probable need to be 4 possibly 5?
but this suddenly has opened something - although this is a 3d model - it could be used for pure 2d flat animation too

It sort of reminds me of the Herbie hancock video for Rockit...

run... 
just think of Benny Hill music to go along with it...

its trully brilliant, its prob the most impressive I have seen you do

Ohh thanks for that one \o/

Now the box is well and truly open...

basic texturing is sorted - but I really need to get a way to get the models into the core 3d render system.

Who know where this might go... ?
I love the concept of reversing how people play games. instead of being the good wanting to rid the evil. I'd love a game where you are the evil thing and your job is to eat / convert / and generally cause mayhem...