Joint effort

Well, I think Darrin and I will be doing both, I dont know about nat though.

However is to early in the project to start assigning this, be patient. we have to write a design document first, so we know what are our objectives.

Check the site to see the suggested gameplay, (game description) and please tell me what do you think.


Edited by - Azrael on 3/24/00 3:06:26 PM

Well .. I can do programming as well as a bit of Character Animation using Biped ( just getting into it)..
do u guys have any sites with free motion capture files ..

Thats great, I can do 3d models and you can animate them, I was thinking in creating our own character system, exlusive to the game, among other things to be able to take out limbs of soldiers and critters. Very messy! :-)

(I explain a bit, think of many md2 files one for each limb joined in a pr-hierarchy, then substract one from the hierarchy and place it (unanimated) bouncing off and set as a blood particle emitter, when it hits the ground, a blood stain texture object appears and begins to scale bigger, like spreading, very, very messy.)

I was also wondering if anyone has got any luck in animated textures. that will really help make things more interesting.

Excuse me about saying this, but exactly why, no one has answered or commented anything about he suggested gameplay?I feel like the invisible man here. If you disagree with my suggestion, please speak up, I mean we are in a pretty early stage of the project so anything can and posible have to be adjusted, but that is not going to happen if someone does something and everybody ignores him because they are doing something else, come on guys I can take "no" for an answer, say something!
Besides remember that the gameplay is incomplete it will only be complete when everybody had participated in it.
That goes for history and title too.

I agree with the game concept of making a multi-player .. a war between humans and aliens.

I am not good at story writing. Somebody has to write and design the levels on paper .. who''s going to do it?

cheers,
Nat

Hi Guys,
Azrael, I like the game play doc, just some additions if ok with everyone.
How about making the aliens start to colonise the outer planets. Make the wormhole just at the extents of our solar system, and they start colonising from Pluto heading towards earth. This allows us to have fights on all of the major planets, or their moons.
We could also start it off that we were they agressors and tried wiping them out of their system first, as we probably would.
This could ultimatly lead to a showdown on earth as the last mission.

Also have at least one queen per hive, which you have to destroy to complete the mission.

I have done some prelim sketches of the aliens. Will scan some in and post them up on the site next week. I have tended to make them very alien looking, sort of insectoid.
This would allow us to use segmented anims for the aliens, and we can have variety, ie the behemouth stands on his hind legs, whereas the soldier has 4 legs and also scurries using his arms when he wants to move fast. Because they are all the same race, they do not look hugely different, but you will have to wait and see. (BTW they are only B&W pencil sketches, but should give us something to go on.

Cheers
Darrin


Edited by - Darrin on 3/26/00 5:18:35 AM

Soory, busy at work a little!

YEah I say the gameplay ides sounds good to me!

OOps that was me, Azrael in the last post, something was wrong in my last post, and my name wasnt posted!

If I am not wrong ... it is not that the war is between aliens and humans. Aliens are undefined .. while humans are.. aliens can only be limited by imagination. So aliens
can have adaptations which will protect them from severe heat/ cold/ gravity etc. Therefore I don''t think it should be problem in putting aliens in pluto / mercury.

Btw I think we''ll must one open a chat room on (irc) and shoot ideas. Why don''t some one fix up a time. It would also be nice if we made our own chat room.. no prizes for guessing the room name #prjoint ..what du you''ll say.