Why is no-one here talking about the molehill APIs? lol.... I've already been building my own engine since I've known about the Molehill APIs for a few months, but I'm not on the Molehill beta...
@cody112 That's correct! I was using an invisible plane as the geometry you speak of, but essentially a tri fully behind another could be removed and this is also occulusion culling. by using the...
Note that the draw triangles functionality includes winding based back faced culling only, this is not the only method of culling to consider, others are;
Must have missed that... this seems like a different and interesting approach for a flash engine to adopt, I see most of the flash engines adhering to perhaps a scenegraph approach...
I agree...now just pop everything into a nice octree and collide check against the tris in the vicinity of your dreamcast (nice choice of hero btw lol) :D
P.S. Considering, scale is difficult to understand what you mean since your comment is ambiguous. The vectors values should not change with scaling, the position of your objects should be scaled...
Thanks for your feedback, the game actually uses different scenes but there are no transitions between these as battles last only 10 minutes. Because of this limited time in an...
Oh, Alluvian... don't worry if you think that video is persisting the position of all stars and that would not be neccesary, we would simply add the particles to the screen one at a time and persist...
The game play is very arcade feeling, infact there are only 2 states when it comes to speed, a standard, shall we say cruising speed, and a boost speed which lasts a length of time...
Well, for the visuals to be compared to Eve... wow awesome, thanks. I'll definatly take that as a compliment :) Here is my finalized (famous last words) title screen :
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Yes, thats right, they are 10 minute manic dog fights where everyone just blows up everyone. If you die, your ship respawns and you get a death against your match rankings, if you bring down a ship,...
Hey, it's quite different from Eve online, the game doesn't persist your characters like Eve does and is not an MMORPG, it will persists your rankings data though. If I had to describe...
Anyway, back on topic. For those of you who are interested in the game. Nadir is a dog fighting game set in space. It is realtime multiplayer game and battles are timed. Players can enter a game at...
We are currently seeking beta testers for our latest game title 'Nadir'. The game is a fully 3D, mutliplayer space game and testing will start from 1st June 2010. For more information...
