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[hyperduck]

Epic.

[andy wolff]

Hey this looks really awesome

[TheDustin]

[SophieH]

lol, thanks for the nice words and emotes guys :D

today's update: character hangs, game doesen't 


gonna take the weekend off for mini ludum dare if the 'theme' strikes me, but it might be hard to pull away from this project whilst I have such steam built up

[george]

Wow, I haven't checked out this thread for a while, and it's looking great! 

[gimymblert]

  that look so great, and the sense of scale is awesome

By the way i don't know if you have fix that camera problem seen in the first video. Can i suggest a little tip? Use a linepick from the back of character to the camera. THis part is obvious but what is less obvious is that instead of moving the camera, move the near plane to the point of contact. Generally NEVER EVER use collision on the camera position but on the near clip plane. Add some extra check to be sure the plane does not cut geometry (generally this is handle by a collision sphere or box that scale with the plane as it change distance from the camera). THEN depending on the distance of the character to the near clip, adjust camera position accordingly to have a correct shot, it give the player a feedback that the camera is "stuck" on a wall. Rules of thumb is to have the closest shot at american framing (we don't see the feet and the knee).

Most game just use collision on the camera position, and you end up having a camera too much close, or the camera stuck behind geometry, or visual clutter with semitransparent abomination. Many high level commercial mainstream game fail at this!

I'm curious to know how you did handles "hang"

Keep up with the good work, that look great so far!

[st33d]

Posting so I can follow this. Your games are generally pretty good, so I look forward to being able to have a go at this one.

Looks good so far, good luck with it. 

[Chromanoid]

great work  

reminds me of the old ps/pc game "dreams to reality" especially the video...

[BlueSweatshirt]

This game is beautiful. 

I don't know what it is, but it has a certain charm that pushes my buttons.

Neat level design, although I can imagine you don't plan on keeping such an abstract theme forever.

[One of the Beatles]

How did i not see this before? It looks great! The only thing I think should be different is the character's shadow, I think it should be harder.

[SophieH]

instead of moving the camera, move the near plane to the point of contact.

that is a brilliant idea! I'll be sure to play around with that once I have the time, thanks! :D

I'm curious to know how you did handles "hang"

well it just so happens I can draw diagrams, dont know if they are much help though:

hopefully you can decipher that, also I left it out but considerations need to be made for which side of the ledge the player is on, the local scale of the ledge and I think there were some rotation problems, but they were solved by measuring distance along the top of the ledge and not down the center of it.

once the player has grabbed of course shimmying along the ledge is simply a case of moving in the direction of the ledge's right by whatever the shimmy speed is.

I'll prolly add to this a bit so there is a check to see if theres a wall beneash the ledge so hyades can push her feet against it and shimmy faster too.

reminds me of the old ps/pc game "dreams to reality" especially the video...

ooh, I checked out a youtube video of that, I'll have to see if I cant get a play in sometime.

I can imagine you don't plan on keeping such an abstract theme forever.

well for the most part I didn't, *but* platforming in this level is much more fun than I thought, and my story allows me alot of licence to make the world how I want. so there will definitley be bits like this :D

The only thing I think should be different is the character's shadow, I think it should be harder.

yeah, that will likely change, even from area to area, and if I can sell enough pre-orders when the time comes to afford uinty pro (i'm prolly dreaming here) I'll have *proper* shadows

aaand because I dont like to make a post without a screenshot, here's a pic of a horrible 'burst wave thing' from doing an air dash that will likely change or get pulled:

I'd post something cooler but I havent added anything since last time since I was making a game for miniLD.

anyhoo, thanks for the comments and pointers guys, you're helping keep my motivation at 200% :D

[gimymblert]

hopefully you can decipher that, also I left it out but considerations need to be made for which side of the ledge the player is on, the local scale of the ledge and I think there were some rotation problems, but they were solved by measuring distance along the top of the ledge and not down the center of it.

Thanks for the reply   
I'm really looking for your game in the future!

So basically you tag the level with ledge object?

The reason i had asked I'm trying to gather all the neat trick about 3D platforming. Edge grab is largely undocumented on the web, but can't find a way to replicate 2 game with solid implementation: Mario 64 and zelda 64. They do not use Tag, just fed them with geometry and they work if appropriate.  I have yet to find something as solid as that! I will share any new discovery of any new trick.

[SophieH]

They do not use Tag, just fed them with geometry and they work if appropriate.  I have yet to find something as solid as that! I will share any new discovery of any new trick.

I think it's pretty much the same approach but you cant cheat by just getting local space and transforming stuff, if I were to try I'd say cast a ray at the level sheet, check the normal angle to see if its facing up, check surrounding triangles to make sure its a ledge, and treat the edge of the triangle closest to the player as the ledge itself, and the direction to move along too.

you'd have to do a bit more juggling to make sure you want to treat it as a ledge but I imagine the principle is the same, and if it runs slow theres no reason you couldnt run a script to lay out ledges like I am using when the level is loaded based on the geometry.

[Alec]

I use triggers and then raycasts, (with tags and stuff) not sure if it makes more sense or not though.

[gimymblert]

@ Alec
Basically you have space partition with edge list you go through and project them onto the character (or the contrary) to see if they match the condition?

@ GirlFlash
So basically you run a preprocess that tag the level for you?

edit :
I have update an old thread with result of research about edge grab:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=9571.msg344869#msg344869

[SophieH]

So basically you run a preprocess that tag the level for you?

I'm just saying that would be one way to do it if you didnt want to lay out the edges yourself and a whole level collision check was too expensive

I use triggers and then raycasts, (with tags and stuff) not sure if it makes more sense or not though.

I think it does, in unity trigger collisions are in most cases much cheaper than raycasts, when it comes optimising time I'll definitly be looking into doing trigger checks and before raycasts

anyhoo, in more hanging news, I have a different animation for overhangs and 'wall' hangs:

...well I say 'animation', what I mean is 'pose', I havent gotten round to making prototype animations for the hanging stuff yet ^_^;

[gimymblert]

Thank you for the precision.

That's great what you have done so far, it give me great hope for my own project.

[SophieH]

So recently I've been working on loading and unloading levels for when Hyades moves between different areas, and got bored so I made a portal type thing as the doorway graphic, of which there wont be anything of the like in the game lol, but meh, I guess I could squeeze some in if I feel like it later:


and also today I had a bash at coming up with idea concepts for the enemies:

(this is actually the second load of enemy concepts I've done, the first had enemies I think were 'too human'

if anyone cares, the crystals piercing the baddies are fragments of 'trouble', which is a plot device corrupting the world!

[Doktor_Q]

Pretty awesome looking stuff! I'm looking forward to trying this.

[george]

if anyone cares, the crystals piercing the baddies are fragments of 'trouble', which is a plot device corrupting the world!

sounds cool!