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			<title><![CDATA[Re: My work so far on the Maratis engine]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks heartseed <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>The more important things that i miss right now is more shaders, like glass shader, water shader, a texture animation shader (i know about the blender workaround but is too much work for something that should be so simple),&nbsp; a robust and easy to use particle system this is one of the things that i really miss, shadows from all lights would also be good, but i can live without it,&nbsp; one also thing i missed when editing this engine was the ability to change textures/materials/sounds on the editor or by LUA coding. </p><p>About plugins i don&#039;t know anything about C++ to make plugins, is hard enough for me to try learning LUA, ;D .</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: My work so far on the Maratis engine]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>It s a nice start <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>WHat features are lacking, and do you think you can add them with plugins ?</p><p>NIce stuff <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>cheers<br />hs</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: My work so far on the Maratis engine]]></title>
			<link>http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?pid=4869#p4869</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>A update on what i was able to do with this engine, <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /> , unfortunately&nbsp; i will need to wait for the engine to mature further to be able to implement some other stuff i have in mind, so updates will not be so regular for now on. <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/sad.png" width="15" height="15" alt="sad" /></p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvV-Y5x53qg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvV-Y5x53qg</a></p><p>Hope you guys like it.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Argoon)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: My work so far on the Maratis engine]]></title>
			<link>http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?pid=4836#p4836</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Ok i will do that from now on cheers. <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Argoon)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: My work so far on the Maratis engine]]></title>
			<link>http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?pid=4834#p4834</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>I will be happy to do that, and I will always be objective as I always am. Just realize, instead of WARninG ME, that if I say something you don&#039;t like,,its not me be OFFENSive, its just me saying precisely what&#039;s on my mind in a way to help you possibly improve something.</p><p>cheers<br />hs</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: My work so far on the Maratis engine]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I was not trying to start a fight with you when i made that remark but only to pass a point across, so ok this conversation is over heartseed, and i ask that you please refrain yourself from continuing this discussion on this thread, you are welcome of course to critique my work if objectively of course.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 20:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>Argoon wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Thanks Crucio777 i will try to show more stuff when i feel they are worth showing. <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>heartseed&nbsp; I&#039;m not trying to start anything if i see you or anyone else pass the line of courtesy i will end the conversation with that person right there.</p><p>Now i&#039;m not sure if you comprehended my message, i&#039;m not pro violence but i&#039;m also not anti all violence that imo is a very skewed and unrealistic view of what we as humans and also part of nature are, for example you said you are a vegan, did you didn&#039;t realize that by eating plants you are being violent to that same plants? This takes us to what i also said, i said&nbsp; that violence is a very relative thing what i consider violence you could not consider and vice versa, for example you not seeing the super Mario jump on turtles and other fictional characters and also the Sonic way of killing the Doctor Eggman minions has violence. <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p></blockquote></div><p>Where was I not curtious I wonder ? I was nothing but completely objective in&nbsp; stating my opinions.</p><p>YOu on the other hand are crossing a line, by being ridiculous about &#039;eating plants&#039; causing harm to them, when in absolute FACT, plants have zero nervous system, and zero brain, vs killing innocent animals who aren&#039;t asking for it, in horrible slaughter houses, as if humans have NO choice whatsoever of what to eat. This would DEvolve into a conversation into veganism vs eating meat, but that most certainly is NOT for t his forum, and I would never&nbsp; do that.</p><p>I offered 2 solid links , by a scientist, and you had a problem with that why exactly ?</p><p>I offered objective scientific proof about a issues that is&nbsp; quite important, without passing judgement on anyone, so Im not the one to go after here, it should be the scientist who wrote that article. If you disagree with his findings, attack him, NOT me <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>Ignore me if you want , though again, I did nothing wrong for that to be necessary, and for you to say so, is a bit odd. All I did was give my opinion on the matter, the current stats on some game companies ( blizzard, afterall they are HUGE, so it mattered a lot to mention them!) who are going less violent, and objective studies done by a credible scientist about this very issue. I think I went out of m yway to offer credible&nbsp; information on the issue, and let you , and others, decide.</p><p>cheers<br />hs</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks anael but please don&#039;t be too expectant on this ;D , it was only a small play around on the engine i&#039;m still way ways away of making a game with this.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Argoon I like how you managed to build the ambiance,<br />I&#039;m curious to follow your work.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Crucio777 i will try to show more stuff when i feel they are worth showing. <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>heartseed&nbsp; I&#039;m not trying to start anything if i see you or anyone else pass the line of courtesy i will end the conversation with that person right there.</p><p>Now i&#039;m not sure if you comprehended my message, i&#039;m not pro violence but i&#039;m also not anti all violence that imo is a very skewed and unrealistic view of what we as humans and also part of nature are, for example you said you are a vegan, did you didn&#039;t realize that by eating plants you are being violent to that same plants? This takes us to what i also said, i said&nbsp; that violence is a very relative thing what i consider violence you could not consider and vice versa, for example you not seeing the super Mario jump on turtles and other fictional characters and also the Sonic way of killing the Doctor Eggman minions has violence. <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Yes, the haunted h ouse thing , I realize that <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /> ( that people like to be scared, etc.).</p><p>But you must admit, that non violent games are on the rise, I&#039;ve seen it, and I&#039;ve seen people on other forums ASK for it, but if you haven&#039;t seen that, then I can see that you might think otherwise.</p><p>I am a vegan, so its SUPER EASY for&nbsp; me to want to avoid violence , and&nbsp; vegan/vegetarianism IS on the rise as well, and that will eventually lend itself to non-violence in games too, and as I noted, its PROOF of this already starting, given you already see blizzards removing at least some aspects of killing animals in starter zones.</p><p>Killing fictional &#039;monsters&#039; as you say prob. doesn&#039;t do much harm per se (&nbsp; although plenty of studies may prove otherwise , if one BING&quot;s for information on that, and make sure one is being &#039;objective&#039; in that search)</p><p>Many people see games like CXOD and Crysis3 as totally b rainDEAD games, as all they do is GLORIFY violence, and I might even go as far to say, that it makes the militiaries jOB so much easier if young people , etc.,&nbsp; think its &#039;kewl&#039; to kill. Super Mario has very little violence in it, and I have super Mario for wii and off hand I don&#039;t recall much violence there at all, so I think that&#039;s a HUGE stretch to say that LOL. LInks ?</p><p>If violence is the only way you can think of to &#039;attract&#039; people, then Im not sure you are giving as much thought to design, as you are to &#039;coding&#039; <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>I thought this was going to be a &#039;simple&#039; objective thread, but you are turning it kind of ugly, and you can expect me to fire right back at you in defense of what I see as a changing paradigm, eventually, in publics thinking on violence. Violence is , as it does, and I see no redeeming value to it moving forward as a society.</p><p>Opinions on the issue are mixed, but it certainly doesn&#039;t hurt to be AWARE of our surroundings and subsequent things we do that can influence others:</p><p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/tech/gaming-gadgets/controversial-violent-video-games/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/tech/gami &#133; index.html</a></p><p>From bottom of article:</p><p>&quot;&nbsp; To be sure, &quot;Bulletstorm&quot; revels in a stream of nonstop profanity and rewards grisly &quot;skill kills&quot; that include impaling opponents on a cactus and chopping them in half. But the worst game in the world?</p><p>&quot;I think of it as a teenage shooter game that tries to get attention by being gross, obscene and sexually charged,&quot; CNN.com video-game contributor Larry Frum wrote when it was released. &quot;It is funny at first, but after a while, it becomes tired.&quot;<br />&quot;</p><p>SOme of those things really make my blood boil ( makes me sick too!), and make me wonder, really?, what is the point in doing such things if not to make profit off of VIOLENCE ? Is that responsible I wonder ? HM.....</p><p> Makes me think as a society, all we care about sometimes is egging on the WORST parts of who we are instead of making strides in improving ourselves.&nbsp; </p><p>Make the game you want obviously, that&#039;s entirely up to you, but all I did was put forth a opinion based on what I see as &#039;responsibility&#039; , and some of the comments from that article would suggest we do just that <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>FOr more objectivity from a scientist, I offer th is:</p><p><a href="http://ithp.org/articles/violentvideogames.html">http://ithp.org/articles/violentvideogames.html</a></p><p>Objectivity matters.&nbsp; &nbsp;IM all about it. Fair is fair <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?pid=4813#p4813</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Nice work there ,the&nbsp; fog looks quite good <br />Keep sharing your work&nbsp; <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" />.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Crucio777)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m afraid in can&#039;t concur with you, violence in games is and always will be something that attracts people, i&#039;m not saying gratuitous violence mind you like killing innocents and stuff but forms of violence like fighting imaginary monsters etc, this will never stop being fun, also people like to be afraid that is why simple games like Slender Man has so success. For example Frictional Games has become a successful game company because of their horror games, if people would all be shifting for non violent videogames (and violence is relative even Super Mario and Sonic have violence in them) i would be seeing that on the market, right now games Like Crysis 3, BF3 and other COD like games are having immense success, i&#039;m not seeing violence be frown upon anywhere else but here, also violence is not only a easy way to attract people, violence is a tool in the game developer arsenal (pun intended ;D ) but if badly used it can arm the game more then help, violence should be used to support the game story and not as a means in it self. Btw violence is a part of life and it will always be present. </p><p>I&#039;m sure you are talking about physical violence like killing or beating, but theres also psychological and verbal violence and the border of what is considered violence of what is not considered violence is very fussy and very dependent of the viewer point of view of his or her culture and morals.</p><p>p.s - Sorry for my grammar English is not my mother tongue</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Yes of course indeed <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /> SHows how busy Ive been lately, little time for maratis editor..as I really did KNOW that ;)heh</p><p>I&#039;m going for ALL non violent game content, and Im seeing now, today, where a lot of people on other forums are HAPPY about it, as they are tired of old fashioned violent games. You do as you wish I totally understand, but just be aware that the tide seems to be shifting and you might do well to follow it. Violent games have just been a &#039;easy&#039; way to&nbsp; draw people in, but people seem to be a bit tired of it now and want more &#039;engaging&#039; thoughtful gameplay. You can BING, and see for yourself <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>NO offense, it&#039;s just what I seem to be seeing, and in no way has ANY expectation for how anyone makes their games. IMHO its just a sign of the times, and though other game companies aren&#039;t quite &#039;there yet&#039;, its clear that SOME at least are, as seen in the Pandaria expansion by WoW ( blizzard mmo) where they no longer force players to start out killing animals ( start zones). I stopped playing just because of that, so its a nice shift in design for me at least <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><br /><p>About time <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p><p>cu <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /><br />hs</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Thanks heartseed the fog is a toggle option on the Maratis Editor for the camera, you need to tweak the fog values of course to make it look like that, yes the flashlight is just s light attached to the camera, but making it turn off and on and even look like a flashlight was not easy for me <img src="http://forum.maratis3d.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /> . </p><p>Yes adventure style games is what i like the most, but violence could be part of it i&#039;m afraid, for example my idea was to try and make a game in the style of Amnesia the Dark Descent or even Penumbra. </p><p>And thanks for the invite for the IRC channel i will see about putting some time away for that.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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