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Hi,
for cell shading, you can do it using a glsl shader that you link using blender and custom material,
like example named "cartoon t-pot". Look in "Example/Demos/shaders/" for glsl simple cartoon example.

For outlines, it depend on the technique you want to use,
but it will generally be a post process effect comparing pixels depth and/or normals.

Post process is not implemented as a one clic feature yet,
it can only be done manually using c++ and game plugin,
I'm working on a example for this, I hope to finish it soon.

If you are not programming, there is a "cheap" technique to do outlines,
it's not very evolved but it can give good results and doesn't need shaders.
Using blender, you duplicate your mesh, scale it a little bit and reverse the normals,
you then apply to this copy a black material. The copy will create an outilne thanks to z-buffer,
it is not a pretty technique, but it has been used in lots of commercial games.
(in blender, make sure to disable "double sided" for both meshs)

Hi there,
it will be a great feature to consider, im personally not having the knowledge to do it,
but it will be kept in mind, maybe someone with experience on this level will be interested to help.

thanks

Hi, is it possible you opened the example from a previous release with the new release ?
as it use a dll or a dylib, it need to be rebuild for each new release.

Hi,
great links about unreal, it will be nice to have videos and tutorials for Maratis you right,
it is time consuming but I'm doing my best. Next month will see the first step of it.

For this open-tutorial idea, it is too soon that's right, and maybe not relevant,
just an idea for the future I wanted to discuss.

I'm planning to make a tutorial explaining how to redo one of the example packed
with Maratis for beginning of March. Next will be more detailed documentation.

Thanks

Hi,

for HUD, there is a basic topic about it (with only script, you can link HUD to camera) :
http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?id=17

For special effect and texture animation :
- Some of this can be animated in blender (export material anim and texture anim)
- And from code, it can be done using c++ SDK (using a game plugin, like WaterGameDemo)

Using c++ can look complicated, but once you get the basic understanding, it's not more complex than using the lua scripting language as you can also access simple functions.

To publish your game as a standalone, here is a topic explaining it (second post) :
http://forum.maratis3d.com/viewtopic.php?id=22

Example and new release are ready !
http://www.maratis3d.org/?page_id=13

I'll describe soon how to reproduce this example in a tutorial.

Cheers !
Anaël.

Hi, I'm not sure I understand but if you are saying you are not able to unpack the downloaded zip file, I tried just now and it looked all right, but it's maybe an issue from google-code, try downloading it later :

http://www.maratis3d.org/?page_id=57

Hi !

Idea is to create quality examples and short open games licensed under creative commons, like The Blender foundation can do with his open-projects, but more focused on education/tutorials.

Making a "pure" open-game is also one idea, but maybe education is the first step, that's a taught.

Why funded and sponsored ? Because producing content need support and time, and open-source people are also eating !

This topic is about a taught, I'm waiting some responses/comments,
let me know what is your opinion about it.

Thanks,
Anaël.

There is something already on the Maratis google account, but I never used it :

http://code.google.com/p/maratis/issues/list

Do you know if it's good ?

Hi,
thanks for the links.
Of course native terrain will be a great support, for now, the way is to create terrain as a mesh,
and as it is not making a so bad result, native terrain support is not on top of the list.

To help improving, the first thing I would like is to see people playing with Maratis and sharing the result in the forum,
to show what is possible and share experience.

Then, what will help is to contribute in the development :

- A Linux port will be very appreciated by users, it can be fast to do for an experimented Linux developer.
Only one class need to be ported, MGuiWindow (window init, input events etc) and maybe a #define/include will need to be added in MGLContext and MALContext.

- The other thing will be for an iOS and Android developer to share some code to link Maratis-Engine into a iOS or Android context. A simpler imageLoader and soundLoader will maybe need to be added for iOS, as it is not compatible LGPL (for DevIL and libsndfile).

- Helping doing a "one clic" project publishing : converting xml to binary, automatically copying project files + MaratisPlayer. And if iOS and Android port is done, automatically compiling app.

Another thing about using and playing with Maratis, the way the game plugin works, you have full access to the SDK (engine) in c++, you can use render to texture, draw triangles manually etc. If you really need a special feature, like LOD or adaptive terrain, if you have a developer in your team or if you are developer yourself, you can render terrain with your own code (using virtual MGame::draw()). So your game is having the feature you need, and you can then decide to share this code, to be included by default in the engine. that's why I'm saying the first thing to help is to try playing with it and doing game or demos.

I will try to make more examples to show how to use custom code inside a game plugin.

Thank you,
Anaël.