3D world discussion

I'm still here, just been staying at my girlfriend's place this weekend, so haven't been here for a few days.
I've re-written some of my code (which is still quite different from ahab's) and I need to check to see if it's better now (performance) I've also almost finished the intro/storyline of my game, which is just nice to explain some things, and draw the player into the game. When I've finished that I'll start adding several levels, with new baddies and such.
Good luck with your 3d games everyone!

Olorin

Naked inc.,
yes I know it can be done with the mouse but it is still different from how it should be done for maximum performance. When you go to that file and move your mouse to the left a little the entire rotates continuously depending on how far the mouse is from the center right? Well that would be extremely difficult to navigate a 3d world in a game. Have you ever played anything like Unreal Tournament or any first person shooter? You move your mouse to the left a little and the world rotates...you stop moving the mouse and the world stops rotating. You can move your mouse over to the left as far as you want and the world will keep rotating...when you stop the world stops. But in Flash the mouse quits going when it gets to the edge of the screen limiting you to the amount of rotating.

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Originally posted by Olorin
which is still quite different from ahab's

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Haha...I find it funny that you keep bringing this up...why exactly?

I just don't know Ahab. Did I really bring it up so many times ?

Olorin

Hmmm...(good strategy). A few times...just wondering. I was merely commenting on the fact that you are the only one to discuss discrepancies between such things. I could care less. I know my code is no good because I am not good at programming. But it just seems to have come out of nowhere for some reason. More like a light hearted attempt at...well, I'm not sure.

Supra,
oh yeah and I forgot something in my last post. If you have pictures of the wolf you are going to use in your game from different camera angles do you want to send them to me and I'll try to make that thing I talked about? It would work best if it was side, front, and back shots.

I know my code is worse, cause I'm a bad programmer too :D And I still haven't been able to get swapdepths working correctly :(

Olorin

Guys, just to continue this discussion, as I was surfing the web for new flash games, I came across a amazing game called 'Volcano Racer'

It's a 3d world, and It uses a new state-of-the-art plugin called 'Virtools Webplayer'. I'm pretty sure that it still uses Flash, but this Plugin really stretches the capabilities of a 3d world. Volcano Racer is a futuristic driving game. X is to accelerate, and Y is to slow down.
It's in http://www.sporeproductions.com

You've gotta check it out :)

That's a very cool game indeed, but the plugin is pretty big and I don't think many people have it yet. Could be very interesting in the future when it is more widespread...

Olorin

I dont think there is any Flash in that game. It was impressive though...really impressive actually. Who made that game?

I agree with ahab - no flash in that game - its nice but why use a new plugin when the shockwave/director plugin can do that - see 3dgroove.com

also Raycasting

Ive played some more
see it at http://www.artifactinteractive.com.au/dev/raycast.html

Now this works at a tolerable speed in the development enviroment and as an exe but is really slow in the browser??? Any ideas why?

Also changin the quality to low doesnt speed anything up - suggesting that the 'slow bit' is the maths not the rendering??

dd

David,
looks much better and awesome work. Any more tricks up your sleeve on optimizing it?...I don't really know what you could do to make it faster.

Oh wait a second...I just saw this link: http://www.artifactinteractive.com.au/dev/ray8b.html . That one looks much better. Is there anyway to walk around yet?

Talk to you later.

Here's another.

It also has a nice sound function to pan and set volume according to where you are in relation to the objects.

http://www.unspoilt.org/oldsites/the....711.final.php

ahab, Olorin and supra; what type of positioning did you use in your 3d worlds? I have made 2 types of worlds, one in which the player's (or camera's) posistion is dynamic and another in which the player's position is static. The static has to calculate the rotation for everything in the map everytime you turn, but the dynamic simply leaves them alone and changes the viewing angles because all objects in the world are not relative to the player. I wouldn't think revealing this little bit of information would practicly give away your code since its only a small part of a larger concept, of which I already know =).

And what about the multi-player option guys?

I am pretty good with php, especially with communicating between Flash and a MySQL database using php.

Just tell me what I should do.

-Jeroen