DayOfWar Scout ship test
by Bill Vee · 10/11/2009 (1:18 am) · 9 comments
I see it has been a while since I posted something about my progress for my game so I am going to try and post something new at least weekly.
There actually has been a lot of improvement in my spherical terrains system.
I have spent a lot of time working on a L3DT plugin to export a "AtlasSphere" terrain and I just have a couple of minor tweaks left to do to it before it is to my liking.
The video shows a terrain created with L3DT by loading the dessert mesas preset on a 8192 X 4096 hieghtmap and then calculating the attribute , normal ,lightmap texture and alpha maps then exporting it to a AtlasSphere with my plugin,
The whole process took about 25 minutes from.
I have also restarted my website and hope to keep it up to date on everything I do with this game.
www.dayofwar.net
Now for the video.
This is a recent test of the scout ship. I also took a ride on some vehicles for the heck of it. Manage to get around the whole moon/asteroid a couple of times. The terrain system is coming along well I think. There is still some terrain "popping" happening every now and then but it is a simple issue to fix. The terrains texture just need to be synced a little better.
There actually has been a lot of improvement in my spherical terrains system.
I have spent a lot of time working on a L3DT plugin to export a "AtlasSphere" terrain and I just have a couple of minor tweaks left to do to it before it is to my liking.
The video shows a terrain created with L3DT by loading the dessert mesas preset on a 8192 X 4096 hieghtmap and then calculating the attribute , normal ,lightmap texture and alpha maps then exporting it to a AtlasSphere with my plugin,
The whole process took about 25 minutes from.
I have also restarted my website and hope to keep it up to date on everything I do with this game.
www.dayofwar.net
Now for the video.
This is a recent test of the scout ship. I also took a ride on some vehicles for the heck of it. Manage to get around the whole moon/asteroid a couple of times. The terrain system is coming along well I think. There is still some terrain "popping" happening every now and then but it is a simple issue to fix. The terrains texture just need to be synced a little better.
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#2
10/11/2009 (8:47 am)
I agree, looks cool! Atlas definitely has some pretty cool features in TGEA. Great job with the sphere. Good luck with DoW! 
#3
10/11/2009 (2:53 pm)
...and in the game you can send missiles to find water in this moon? :D
#4
10/11/2009 (3:43 pm)
amazing, how many planets you can have in one mission? 
#5
10/11/2009 (4:06 pm)
I wonder How Fun this would be to implement in T3D now.... Awesome job so far, keep it up.
#6
Each AtlasSphere has 6 clipmaps , so the limit on the number of planets is limited to how much video memory you have.
Typically 10 to 16 clipmaps is the norm.
I have developed it on a card with 256MB of video memory and have been able to get 3 with no problem.
@Michael - I do plan on porting to T3D as soon as I can afford to get T3D.
10/11/2009 (4:41 pm)
@Javier - I was firing water seeking missile the whole time ... you just couldn't see the effect. :)Each AtlasSphere has 6 clipmaps , so the limit on the number of planets is limited to how much video memory you have.
Typically 10 to 16 clipmaps is the norm.
I have developed it on a card with 256MB of video memory and have been able to get 3 with no problem.
@Michael - I do plan on porting to T3D as soon as I can afford to get T3D.
#7
10/11/2009 (8:28 pm)
Looks awesome good job Bill! 
#8
10/14/2009 (12:39 pm)
Cool stuff! Glad to see you're still working on this Bill. 
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