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very nice work !

Very impressive.
I am always ready to give you my hands.

Regards

Thanks all for your comments

For now i prefer not asking for help, cause i'm learning alot of new things everyday by searching/trying
things on my own,  but at some point i might ask

I'm making giant steps on the vertical shooter for now, will release it as example as soon it is more complete

Next step will be the platformer, making some traps/mechanisms (well, platformer stuff ),
replacing all current objects and give him a "HD" look before i put it online too

@Anael, the thing i miss for now is a shadeless custom shader but there's no hurry,
             as it will only have a very small visual impact

(note, by error one time i got a perfect shadeless object when i applied
a bad normal map on a model but i cant reproduce it ><)

By the way Arclord how's going your FPS project ?

Even though I don't like sf survival horrors, for what it's worth, that survival horror screenshots have very nice and atmospheric light design.

Hi and welcome

About scripting, i'm afraid you can't avoid it, however LUA is so fast & easy that even an highly allergic to programming like me can get results and even find it fun, that certainly means something

If it can give you an idea, here's an old video of a platformer test i made after a few days using maratis without almost any skills in 3d/scripting : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19970067/Marati … -06-77.avi

If you can wait a bit i'm gonna make a concrete platformer example
(should have done it long time ago, thanks for reminding me ><)

Alternatively, you can check my site (under Maratis -> YoFrankie) to see (very basically) how scripting works.

Thank you!

Since i do not know how to compile source,i could use something that can be modded,like
replacing the characters,modifying existing scripts,attributes.
I would script of course,with the help of forums.

edit

I mean,Great,i hope no experience is needed to use your demos,like-place the game folders and hit open project.

Last edited by Veleran (2012-08-15 20:31:47)

I should really update these, things have changed alot since that
But yeah, there's alot of freedom with the horror genre, it's definately one of my (why so many.....) favorite project

I don't see much horror here, but OK ;p,,whatever you say () though you wont break my heart o nthat note, as I absolutely hate gore ( though horror can  take on many forms, most mean it to include gore though , at least these days, unlike the classy act Hitchcock was!),,so unnecessary as if that is the ONLY thing you rely on in a game,,you aren't likely to go anywhere, nor should you.

imho, and I deserve my own don't we all, someday we all have to grow up and own society for our own contributions.

But anyway I definitely like some of these, but my question to you, is what is the status of these ? Are any finished or half way or what ?

I like bottom left one the most, so is that just lighting from Maratis or some shader combo thereof maybe baked ambient lighting?

Man, I sure wish you still had these projects and would have released the project files. That would have been a backup and a good help on how to use Maratis to make a full game. We have yet to see a full length game with polish using Maratis.

I am new to making games and programming, but I know it is possible to use Maratis to do such a thing.

I might have to use some 1980s tricks of the trade to do stuff (shadows and whatnot) but I can make a game with polish with Maratis. Just downloaded Tomb Raider 1 on my iPad and realized you really don't have to use expensive graphics and things to make a full and interesting game.

Haha seriously you can be thankful i didn't posted these files.
Ultra messed up script (timers up-side-down // dofiles at every corner), boxes everywhere and broken animations,
Anyone with minimal common sense would have run away

But i'm improving

there is no game made on a Maratis, because the engine is not enough basic things (in lua)... many times I started the game on Maratis, but everytime i had to leave to another engine.

Im trying to figure out how to add more polish to the 3rd person demo I posted (one with the soldier in St. Petersburg.) I can get nice ambient occlusion, but when it comes to texturing I too am almost at the giving up point. My main issue with texturing is that it is easy to get lost in Blender. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't, and all because of some remote button you have to do 1,000 forum searches and 300 video tutorial searches to find out about.

I did get a good example in my "Blender Work" post. It is textured, but not accurately. I just applied a repeating texture. I guess the UV unwrapping thing is what is still a mystery to me. I could paint directly on the model (In blender that gets a little confusing as well) in Sculptris, but it is not ideal for large scale models like buildings. I tried to do it in Sketchup, but when modifying the materials sketch up imports into Blender, things get confusing again.

I think my issues are mainly because Blender's UI is so illogical. And just the way most things are set up are illogical. You find yourself hopping to and fro to do simple tasks. So I am using six different programs to do my game, and the data is spread across them (makes things a bit more tedious).

I know I can get a game with polish done in marts (the FunLand Demo is the best proof I have so far) but fighting with Blender is getting annoying. Blender is so capable, but they need to fix the UI and the layout of the operations.