TD Levels (with downloads) (Page 1 of 2)

I have just about figured out blender enough to get some nice looking levels < Please elablorate on this one

What new feature is showing here, not in your other images ? I honestly can't tell, but it is possibly ( as noted in another post of yours) Baked Ambient Occlusion shadows ? It's a tad hard to tell but Im guessing that's it.

Thanks
hs

Only  reason I would use skethcup I guess for terrain is for getting maps in from google earth as now its the only way you can do it, but its a MASSIVE headache doing it. Just one of those things you have to get used to.  I wonder if the PRO version has a easier method.

Also I don't think sketchup make can be used for commercial work, as given maratis is mit and allows it , is going to create some problems for many people I suspect. It would be better overall then to divert them entirely to sculptris where possible  I think.

This is just a FYI, and is easily verifiable here:

http://www.sketchup.com/download

"  •SketchUp Make is not licensed for commercial work.  "

Trouble is though, WHERE is the average person who goes to their website, supposed to find 8 ?

http://www.sketchup.com/download , says nothing about Version 8. Hard to say how many people will be using 8 and not updating ( or NEW users), but I still think we need to address this.

Also affecting this, would be 'feature' list. Does 8 allow you to grab terrain ( looks like it does, as easy as n ew version no idea atm ) from google earth as I don't recall offhand when that came in, but there may be other features as well I wonder that would affect ones decision on which version to use,again making this a tricky issue based on license. I don't skethcup hardly at all anymore, except maybe to bring in google earth terrain, but it would seem that download.cnet.com is mainly where it can be obtained now, as other sites are clearly pushing you to the newer license model when clicking links , so here is the easier method:

http://download.cnet.com/SketchUp/3000- … 57337.html , and just make sure and click the LINK underneath the GREEN button, unless you want to deal with ads during install!

What do you mean precise elevations ? I just assumed you would zoom in as far as you can to a given area and then rectangle select and import into skethcup and go from there, so do you mean a different kind of precise ( maybe something Ive not tried yet) ? Ya, I am usually so busy with what I have I mind, that can't be obtained through warehouse ( I wish!) that I forget to check to be sure, so I'll do that later today, and ty for reminder

Added MONKEY IN DESERT. Comes with a skydome.

Modeled in Sketchup.
Ambient occlusion in Blender.
Exported from Blender into Maratis.

Last edited by Tutorial Doctor (2013-09-16 07:43:28)

Added a FUNLAND level:

The terrain was modeled in Scultpris and textured in Blender.
The tree was modeled in Wings3D and textured in Blender.

The models had an Emittance of .2 so they are not so dark when importing to Maratis.

This post is only for levels, which is a major accomplishment for me. I joined this site on August 7th after stumbling on it by chance, and up until then I have NEVER programmed a program, and NEVER created a 3d level with textures. Never worked on any project of the sort. Everything I have been posting has only been learned in the time I have been on the site (as far as game development is concerned). Watched 2hrs worth of lectures on gameplay mechanics. Watched a bunch of Blender tutorials. Watched several tutorials on level design etc. I have to watch those lectures again before making a game that is worth playing.

These are only levels for showing what looks are possible. Im sure there are people more qualified even, that will see this and think, ''hmm, that type of thing is possible? Let's see if I can do this....''

Making a game (and a good one, considering it has good game mechanics), takes more consideration. I feel I can make a game, but what game I would make, I don't know. Which mechanics would I use? But all of that is pointless if I can't get the technical stuff right. If I can't get the technical stuff right, all I have is a game idea. But if I can get the technical stuff going, a game is no sweat.

Last night I was able to make a game character in blender, and load it into maratis with realistic animation (used bvh). Now I have the terminal level with a character walking in it. Have a few more technical things to do before I would consider making a game though.

As soon as I saw mario-like game, I said THAT'S IT!

I edited the jules project with my terrain. Added an apple and a very basic collection function:

function Collect(object)
    if isCollisionBetween(Player,object) then
        deactivate(object)
        playSound(snd_collect)
    end
end

And I almost have something marketable. haha. An idea at least. Thanks Anael.

Last edited by Tutorial Doctor (2013-09-22 18:09:36)

Added a Jules level edit! It has a skydome, water, and collection system. It is only a test game. I am creating my own animated character to replace jules.

Tutorial Doctor, HI!
I have changed your lua script for Jules N' Funland. Used object oriented features, lua. I hope you enjoy it

Jules.lua

http://youtu.be/hTrSvHpLkME

Character Select! The cubes are place holders for any type of object you want to add. You can just parent them to the cubes and make the cubes invisible. Neat and easy way to add accessories to the model. These models can easily be switched out for cars as well (I need to figure out how to make a car material in Blender).

I wonder if someone is able to use rayhit to make the cubes clickable (don't know how to use it efficiently yet)?

Last edited by Tutorial Doctor (2013-10-11 04:37:50)