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[pturecki]

@tanis: If the question is to me: yes, engine which is used by Archaica is Windows only (for now). PS. Rest of the reply in your game thread...

/edit: is this your game: Down to the Core ?
PS. @venumspyder - sorry for offtop

[venumspyder]

My engine is both for iOS and Windows, but could run on anything. But portability would add more code I should think. For example I do not use naked OpenGL\DirectX calls in my code. I have that all wrapped up in interfaces so the engine does not know what is under the hood. Of course all that needs to be abstracted which leads to additional code.

[tanis]

@tanis: If the question is to me: yes, engine which is used by Archaica is Windows only (for now). PS. Rest of the reply in your game thread...

/edit: is this your game: Down to the Core ?
PS. @venumspyder - sorry for offtop

Yes, that's one of my games even though that one isn't using my C++ engine

But please jump in and let's talk about engines. I'd really love to discuss what build tools you're using when you need to make a new project that uses your engine.

[tanis]

My engine is both for iOS and Windows, but could run on anything. But portability would add more code I should think. For example I do not use naked OpenGL\DirectX calls in my code. I have that all wrapped up in interfaces so the engine does not know what is under the hood. Of course all that needs to be abstracted which leads to additional code.

Windows + iOS is a weird combo. But definitely easier than supporting Android.
I chose to go the OpenGL ES way instead of abstracting that out in a wrapper as it's the common minimum denominator.
I reckon I could hit a wall if I ever decide to support consoles.

[thomf00]

I've written a few ECS's but all of them in Haxe or AS3. I'm interested to learn how your ECS is setup, and maybe what a factory looks like for generating a character or other interactive object!

[venumspyder]

Here I show a demo of how to integrate the AngelScript scripting language with the Entity Component System design pattern.

[thomf00]

Wow! It's come a long way. 

Some questions!

Why have a CGameEntity at all? Why extend the entity base class? Is the business logic in the component, entity, or somewhere else?

For things like...

Code:

int theVarName VS_GENERATE_STRING("someString");

Do you reference it by theVarName or "someString"?

[venumspyder]

I reference by varName......

For CGameEntity you are correct it is absolutely not necessary. I put that class in there thinking I "might" have some use for it a while ago. That "use" never came. So I should just get rid of it.

Actually, this video allowed me to see some things I could clean up in my code so in a way it was helpful even for me.

[venumspyder]

A video showing the Metal shading language vertex shader I use to curve the world in my game.

[venumspyder]

Dark Over Lord Boss

[venumspyder]

Preliminary exploding mesh testing. I will use both a combination of CPU\GPU based instancing to
pull this off on iOS. Perhaps also LOD for distant explosions.

[venumspyder]

Here is a video turn around of the over lord mesh I posted earlier. I also show the scale with playable characters.

[venumspyder]

Finished Skeleton enemy 3D Mesh. Mesh comes in at 2300 triangles.

[venumspyder]

Here is a video showing the 3D mesh of the skeleton warrior I showed earlier.

[venumspyder]

Here I show the textured exploding mesh. This is without final particle effects.

[venumspyder]

Finished Red Knight 3D Mesh. Exploded Mesh Is Also Shown.



Original Concept

http://venumspyder.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Knight-Concept-Art-552359193

[venumspyder]

In this video I show the engine running in wire frame mode. I did this to try and track down a Maya animation playback glitch. Thankfully the problem is only found in Maya and not in the engine.

[venumspyder]

This is a preliminary town level chunk 3D concept design.

[venumspyder]

Preliminary jungle\swamp level....

[venumspyder]

Some very basic chasing\following A.I. is shown in this video.