Final Fantasy Tactics type game

#1 1. You'd need to set up the camera for orthographic projection. There's a topic on the private forums on this, and making use the advanced camera resource would be extremely beneficial. You would need a source license. You can set your terrain size and snap to it. When creating things in Quark/Constructor, you'd make sure that the grid size was the same and snap there as well.

2. Tweening is such an animation and game specific request that it would be nearly impossible to add to the engine in such a way to make everyone happy. But, you can swap shapes easily, and using the bone modification resource, you could animate your bones enoguh to appear to change. Combining these two techniques, you could create a "tweening" effect. This is of course, if you're looking at moving between two shapes (as in a werewolf transformation). If you simply meant "tweening" in the traditional animation sense, then you can blend animations for the same model together. With work, you could blend animations and swap datablocks and then blend more animations to create a rather impressive change sequence in something like a werewolf transformation. It would take a LOT of work, though.

#2 "You can set your terrain size and snap to it"

Thanks. That's actually all I needed to know. I don't think I'll need Ortho projection, but I'll take a look at the resource also. I'll hopefully have the torque source in my hands by tomorrow. Just pay and download right?

1. To add to the mapping question... Is there a way to do sharp cliffs? Maybe even in adjusting the source... I assume anything is possible. Right now when doing a cliff, it basically stretches the geometry. Is it possible to adjust it so that it extrudes it out rather than pulling it?

2. I should have been more specific. Actually what I was needing is blend shape, or morph target technology. As in vertex level animation. What I wanted was to set up a few morphs... like let's say a fat guy, and a skinny guy, and the user could morph in between to set the appearance of his character. I know this can be done with bones, but morphs would extend it out alot more. Especially on the face, as you'd need many bones to hit all the different facial features.


Thanks for the answers though. That really covers alot.

#3 Cliffs have been implemented in terrain, but I've found it easier to do as DIF's.

You would have to massage the code to allow for vertex-level manipulation of DTS objects. There are several threads on it, but I don't remember seeing a definitive resource for it. If you work your bones correctly, then the resource should let you have a big head, small body, etc. But that's as I see the resource. You don't have to have a done-per-vertex unless you want them to be able to make their noses long or their ears huge and malformed. For shaping body parts, the bone resource should be fine (at least from the looks of it).

#4 Thanks David. That answers it... hopefully torque by tomorrow (pay day)