Demo Project: Please come join us and make it fun! (Page 1 of 3)

Nice initiative !
I'll be glad to take part, my best domain : Music & sound effects
I guess you discuss all this into your freenode channel ? if so, i'll be lurking there tomorrow

Hi, that's very cool ! And nice theme !

You can count on my support and additional development. To start with, do you need a recent build ?

good, I will prepare builds for windows, mac and linux.
It will also be a good testing process and a way to point features that you miss.

That's great!

GameMaker (neighborlee on IRC) is busy doing some of the modeling preparation, so I think it would be best if you discussed with him about what would you can take care of.

If you can make it on IRC, there's quite often someone online now

I've shared set up a dropbox folder for preliminary work, so if anyone needs access to see and/or dump stuff in there, give me a shout and I can set you up. For the actual game development, I'm thinking that we can put it on either google code, or github or something. I'm currently working on a couple of framework things (extending what I did in the tutorial series for a little more flexibility) and that's in a personal git repository, so for me, github would be easiest, but if people have a preference, I can put it anywhere.

I have no idea how much more preparation I can do this week, as I think I'm going to be working late... What I already have is a character (penguin "borrowed" from a CC blend on blendswap) which technically moves around, although you can't really tell much as there are no points of reference. I also have a post processor which can be enabled/disabled (and does so automatically if it's not supported) which currently just does fogging to blue. I think that's about it. I've done a little extension to the GameClock, allowing timefactors, and an easier interface for multiple clocks (so you can trigger things off a UI clock which you can keep running constantly, then have a main clock which we can slow down maybe?) and a couple other little tweaks which "might come in handy"

What I still want to do with the stuff for the weekend is make a generic statemachine which we can use for game states (assuming someone fancies making a menu... maybe a 3D menu with penguin going through "gates"?) player state for character etc. I also want to dump a couple of random objects into the world and try and get a very basic swim-control system going.

This weekend, which has been scheduled for the dev jam, what I intend to do is create a shader for the water (ideally above and below, potentially different shaders, not sure yet) and a post processor for the underwater view (maybe a bloom shader which fades for a few seconds after you stick your head above water?) Create more extensive control mechanics. Maybe make an interaction system.

I think with those few things I'll already have my work cut out for me, but it's a decent goal. If we get more people volunteering for code work, we can maybe add some more features

Dropbox has the problem that you can't easily work on the same things, merging things isn't realistic, which is why I'd prefer to use svn, git, even cvs to dropbox But for initial brain dumps and sharing, it's definitely useful.

Thanks for the link, I've done a little GLSL on a previous project (doing water on the Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies iOS, as it happens... although it was removed as it was a little too slow for what we got...:( ) but as I'm more than a little rusty, any tutorials are helpful, in any language Thankfully I can just about understand enough French to mean that I can roughly work out what google translate fails at I've already got some very very basic fog, but it's definitely something that will be in the final shader. I want to add things like rippling water, maybe god rays... and a couple other things, depending on how adventurous I get We'll see

I'll add you to the shared folder after lunch
Edit: You should be added now

Last edited by Nistur (2012-07-31 13:10:20)

http://webchat.freenode.net/

Not saying you have to join us, but you can

GameMaker, I'll allow you to answer about what Arclord can help with

I've also just set up a google doc to split up the tasks. Should I add you to that with the same email address? (We haven't split anything yet, but it's there in order to do the task delegation)

@Anael, I was just doing some quick work and it actually took me a while to realise that Maratis hadn't actually frozen/crashed, but it was just loading for a REALLY long time.

This is due to the fact that it seems to be incredibly slow on Linux for me. I have no idea why this is, I'm getting 2fps on my netbook on an entirely empty scene running one core to the max. My initial thoughts were that as it was using the whole core, it was spinning crazily and locking up, but that wouldn't explain the 2fps... no idea why that is, but even on my PC I'm getting terrible performance. I think I'm going to try and get that profiler stuff working properly (it was outputting valid data before, it was just that I had to paste scope markers at the beginning of every single function that got tedious ) Any idea  what might be causing this performance? Both my machines are running Archlinux and I can get package versions if you think they might be relevant...
EDIT: I tried again on my PC and I'm getting a much more reasonable framerate, I don't think I changed anything... weird :S Still using all of one core though, but I guess that's just the idle spinning

Also, you mentioned at some point that you would put a callback for data loading... would it be possible to squeeze this into the build? As we have MFile wrappers, I think I could probably implement loading callbacks fairly quickish if you want...?

Last edited by Nistur (2012-08-01 07:01:32)

The file loading does seem to be an issue because I don't get any updates called until the scene is loaded, which takes a couple of minutes.

You're probably right about the 3D drivers though, my netbook has intel graphics (boo). Maratis comes up with saying that GL 1.4 is supported. Not sure if I can do any better than this with intel graphics then. Ah well, I guess I can code, compile and maybe even write unit tests on the tube, then make sure it works when I get home onto my PC

(This is basically my netbook setup)

I will have to check, I should have time either tonight or tomorrow to have a fiddle

EDIT: It seems I have mesa, libgl and intel-dri installed, but I can't find anywhere that I've set which dri to use, so I have the sneaky suspicion that it's using the software dri from libgl... I'll try and get that fixed, but I guess it's likely to be the problem

Last edited by Nistur (2012-08-01 20:10:51)

Hi Nistur,
wait, I don't understand, what is the final result you are seeking ?