Elysian Shadows

Radik782 wrote:Right now I'm working on a tile based level editor, I put up my first dev blog on YT, but I've had to split it into two parts.
The first part is a run down on why I'm replacing my old editor and the features of my new one, and the second part is a little look under the hood and some general advice to beginners which may or may not be terrible. :S





The editor is intended to create maps to be used in multiple games, and as such I have decided to not include any significant kind of game specific logic (collisions, etc). It's just about the rendering!
Individual game editors utilising these maps come next hopefully.

short wrote:Radik, your editor looks REALLY good! I'm down with the video as well

GroundUpEngine wrote:Liked, Favorited, Subscribed. An awesome Editor fo sheezy!

Radik782 wrote:
Thanks!
I'm going to spend a bit of time soon experimenting with the video editor I'm using (kdenlive), so hopefully future vids will be a little better made as well!

zeid wrote:So I have assignment work that's eating my time. That said at least it's good assignment work.
Here's a screenshot of the part I quickly put together last night. It reads in and generates a height map from a .bmp file. I still have to add a detail texture and standard texture and perhaps some optimising techniques for bonus marks.

All geometry is being stored in VBO's. This is amongst the simplest part of the assignment. The rest of the assignment is;
* Adding 3d sound using openAL (which I have done before so shouldn't be a problem).
* Using a geometry shader to adjust the level of detail of objects with displacement maps depending on their distance to the viewer.
* Loading Quake 3 level files and use a BSP (Binary space partition) tree to optimise rendering.
as well as some little extra's so that the tutor can easily see whats going on.
This is one of my favourite units I have had in uni so far seeing as we get to do a lot of fun 3d oriented things.

GroundUpEngine wrote:

zeid wrote:So I have assignment work that's eating my time. That said at least it's good assignment work.
Here's a screenshot of the part I quickly put together last night. It reads in and generates a height map from a .bmp file. I still have to add a detail texture and standard texture and perhaps some optimising techniques for bonus marks.

All geometry is being stored in VBO's. This is amongst the simplest part of the assignment. The rest of the assignment is;
* Adding 3d sound using openAL (which I have done before so shouldn't be a problem).
* Using a geometry shader to adjust the level of detail of objects with displacement maps depending on their distance to the viewer.
* Loading Quake 3 level files and use a BSP (Binary space partition) tree to optimise rendering.
as well as some little extra's so that the tutor can easily see whats going on.
This is one of my favourite units I have had in uni so far seeing as we get to do a lot of fun 3d oriented things.

Damn! That sounds awesome, very cool assignment!

eatcomics wrote:nice sig, but IDK if its okay on these forums... at least do some kind of spoiler and say NSFW, although at work those marked NSFW are the only emails I would look at :D

Scrye wrote:

eatcomics wrote:nice sig, but IDK if its okay on these forums... at least do some kind of spoiler and say NSFW, although at work those marked NSFW are the only emails I would look at :D

:\, Haven't gotten any complaints so far. If I do, I'll be sure to take em' down.

Scrye wrote:

eatcomics wrote:nice sig, but IDK if its okay on these forums... at least do some kind of spoiler and say NSFW, although at work those marked NSFW are the only emails I would look at :D

:\, Haven't gotten any complaints so far. If I do, I'll be sure to take em' down.

And so far I have a simple sprites loader and collision detection with a view 32x32 tiles, you sure you want that spoiler?
Or do you mean just talk about what I'm going to do, o.o.

[spoiler]stuff[/spoiler]

eatcomics wrote:

Scrye wrote:

eatcomics wrote:nice sig, but IDK if its okay on these forums... at least do some kind of spoiler and say NSFW, although at work those marked NSFW are the only emails I would look at :D

:\, Haven't gotten any complaints so far. If I do, I'll be sure to take em' down.

And so far I have a simple sprites loader and collision detection with a view 32x32 tiles, you sure you want that spoiler?
Or do you mean just talk about what I'm going to do, o.o.

LOL I meant poiler as in tags around the images, so users can only see the images if they click on the spoiler, but I don't think the forums have spoilers anymore, but IDK...

Click here to see the hidden message (It might contain spoilers)

lol

yep it does just need spoiler tags

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[spoiler]stuff[/spoiler]

Scrye wrote:

eatcomics wrote:

Scrye wrote:

eatcomics wrote:nice sig, but IDK if its okay on these forums... at least do some kind of spoiler and say NSFW, although at work those marked NSFW are the only emails I would look at :D

:\, Haven't gotten any complaints so far. If I do, I'll be sure to take em' down.

And so far I have a simple sprites loader and collision detection with a view 32x32 tiles, you sure you want that spoiler?
Or do you mean just talk about what I'm going to do, o.o.

LOL I meant poiler as in tags around the images, so users can only see the images if they click on the spoiler, but I don't think the forums have spoilers anymore, but IDK...

Click here to see the hidden message (It might contain spoilers)

lol

yep it does just need spoiler tags

Code: Select all

[spoiler]stuff[/spoiler]