Did alot with the “town street” scene today.
I had to add a bunch of new features to verto to keep up. Namely “merge doubles” and “duplicate instance” to allow for instancing lots of tiny little meshes. I spent most of today on the theatre area.
It’s starting to look like an actual game scene.
Tiny bit of work today. Got the second building going and finally put in some powerlines via turbosquid. I’m not thrilled about the loss of smooth shading on the poles though. I’ll have to code a quick feature for verto to auto-weld doubled vertices this weekend to fix that.
The framerate within the editor is also starting to drop to 30 fps territory. Nothing too scary yet, since everything is still quads. I’ll probably save rendering optimization for the very end. I hope it won’t be too bad as the scene grows in complexity.
More modeling work was done recently. I temporarily diverted attention this weekend in a blaze of coding fury to put together a new mac app which I submitted to apple this weekend. With any luck, this app will hopefully raise more funds to help with this game.
I’ve received some initial renderings and concept art from my character designer. It’s looking pretty sweet sofar.
Modeling progress of the street below:
So, for the first time in awhile, I’m really using my own modeling tool quite a bit, and I must say I’m pretty happy with it sofar (especially not crashing on me and losing my work). I’ve only had to pop over to xcode and add two new features that I forgot to bring over from the iPad version (toggle object hidden, and send-to-back for manual transparency render sorting)
Anyways, the city street is coming together nicely, and I hope to keep this momentum up as I build it out. I’ve also been relying on old-faithful, turbosquid, to help with certain smaller assets that I want to use to fill up the street such as trashcans and mailboxes.
I’ve also hired a character artist, Tyler Hurdle, to put together and animate the character model for me. I’ll post more on that as progress emerges.
Modeling progress shots below:
Okay! I got it! My “grand plan”. Looks as if it was sketched by a 5 year old, and that’s why I love it.
This is my game idea. It’s magical
I’m diving in and not looking back. I haven’t felt this excited about a dumb quick game idea in awhile.
There’s a few things I’m going to do while dev’ing this game to keep things fresh.
That’s it! I’ve already put a full days work into it and I’ve gotten collada animations loading into my graphics system. The XCode project is groomed and all ready to go.
It works!
all systems ahead!