My TremHD/1.2/1.3 wish list, with features ordered from most to least important:
(links to follow SOON)
* AMP support for interactive maps
* An Alternate-Map-Layout voting system
* Better options for network settings
* Bump mapping / parallax mapping support
* A nice tutorial / introduction / demo for play (.dm)
* A new intro video showing game play action (preferably .OGV)
* HUD elements & keybinds for team vsays w/ offensive and defensive commands
* New music for the main title screen
* IQM Model format support
* Level of detail (LOD) shader(?) support
* Vector font rendering
* HDR / Bloom support
* Dynamic / soft shadows
* (More advanced) Anisotropic filtering options
* FSAA options
* Special effects like motion blur and film grain
* A better UI and background for the main game menus
* A new and improved UI for admin commands
* A sexier voting system
* Map overview in HUD showing teammate positions
* Segmented alien models
* New player model(s) for humans and skin choices (different faces?)
* Options to load different HUDs
* An in-game name editor with color selector
* HTML color code support (for text and maybe other things)
* Sexier / more informative map loading screens
I believe that everything above is totally doable, and will continue to believe this until explicitly told not to. Many of these are features that have already been created, and just need implementation in an all-in-one package.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Body Movin'
Crawl
The player presses a button to lay flat on the ground, crawling on their hands, elbows, and knees. This improves weapon accuracy, but leaves the player vulnerable to attack.
Crouch
The player bends and the knees, lowering their body. This helps them avoid damage from projectiles, minimizes knock-back, and, while stopped; improves weapon accuracy.
Jump
Player can jump up a short distance under normal gravity. In low gravity areas, the height of the jump is increased.
Lean
The player can press one of two keys to lean left or right, which is used to look around corners without exposing too much of the players body to danger.
Pull-up
When the player is near a ledge, they can jump up and then hold a button to grab onto the ledge and pull themselves up.
Run
This is the default speed of the player, which moves them along at a good speed, and doesn't drain stamina. Stamina rechanges slowly while running.
Slide
When the player is running at full speed for a short distance, they can slide feet first to go under objects (instead of crouching down or crawling). A small amount of knockback is dealt to enemies by sliding into them, but the player comes to a stop quickly, and then must then stand up to be able to continue running, and cannot perform the move again until reaching their top speed again.
Strafe Jump
The player can jump slightly farther while running and strafing left or right.
Walk
The player can press a button to slow down, to improve their weapon accuracy slightly, and regain stamina more quickly.
Wall Walk
Some areas with low gravity will have special equipment allowing the player to walk on walls.
The player presses a button to lay flat on the ground, crawling on their hands, elbows, and knees. This improves weapon accuracy, but leaves the player vulnerable to attack.
Crouch
The player bends and the knees, lowering their body. This helps them avoid damage from projectiles, minimizes knock-back, and, while stopped; improves weapon accuracy.
Jump
Player can jump up a short distance under normal gravity. In low gravity areas, the height of the jump is increased.
Lean
The player can press one of two keys to lean left or right, which is used to look around corners without exposing too much of the players body to danger.
Pull-up
When the player is near a ledge, they can jump up and then hold a button to grab onto the ledge and pull themselves up.
Run
This is the default speed of the player, which moves them along at a good speed, and doesn't drain stamina. Stamina rechanges slowly while running.
Slide
When the player is running at full speed for a short distance, they can slide feet first to go under objects (instead of crouching down or crawling). A small amount of knockback is dealt to enemies by sliding into them, but the player comes to a stop quickly, and then must then stand up to be able to continue running, and cannot perform the move again until reaching their top speed again.
Strafe Jump
The player can jump slightly farther while running and strafing left or right.
Walk
The player can press a button to slow down, to improve their weapon accuracy slightly, and regain stamina more quickly.
Wall Walk
Some areas with low gravity will have special equipment allowing the player to walk on walls.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Blender Sites
DeathSkull and I put together a nice little list of Blender related stuff. Here's round one:
BlenderArt.org Magazine
BlenderArtists.org Forums
BlenderCookie.com
BlenderGuru.com
FilmMakerIQ.com Blender Tutorials
Tutorialized.com Blender Tutorials
TutsPlus.com Blender Tutorials
BlenderArt.org Magazine
BlenderArtists.org Forums
BlenderCookie.com
BlenderGuru.com
FilmMakerIQ.com Blender Tutorials
Tutorialized.com Blender Tutorials
TutsPlus.com Blender Tutorials
Art and Development Communities to Join
Here's a list of communities to join. Click each one and sign up!
CGChannel.com
CGHub.com
CGSociety.org
ConceptArt.org
DeviantArt.com
GamaSutra.com
PolyCount
CGChannel.com
CGHub.com
CGSociety.org
ConceptArt.org
DeviantArt.com
GamaSutra.com
PolyCount
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Required Viewing - Part 1
Deathskull and I got on the topic of good sci-fi movies, so I thought I'd throw together a list of some of my favorites:
2001: A Space Odyssey - A beautiful film. The ending is about death (it's complicated).
Akira - Scientists trigger the amazing powers inside of a young man, turning him into a monster.
Alien and Aliens - Ridley Scott and James Cameron's films define an era in creature horror.
The Andromeda Strain - A race to contain a killer virus. Great production on this.
The Black Hole - One of Disney's more successful attempts at sci-fi. This movie is pure fun, and the Maximilian robot will give you nightmares.
Blade Runner - A cop dives into the seedy underworld of a neon metropolis to solve a murder. Oh yeah, and half of the people are replicants.
Brazil - Oppressive government got you down? Call up your friendly local HVAC Specialist/Freedom fighter.
Dune - A boy becomes a man, becomes a king, becomes a demigod- all on a god-forsaken desert planet, and he kicks some serious ass.
Event Horizon - There's trouble brewing on board a space ship. Don't mess with black holes!
The Fifth Element - It's easy to love Milla Jovovich and everything else about this movie.
Ghost in the Shell - This anime is so good it's scary good. A robotic woman kicks ass, but is she more than just a sexy killing machine?
Mad Max - Set in post-apocalyptic Australia, a renegade cop seeks revenge for the death of his family.
Moon - The lone inhabitant of a lunar facility has a guest. Who is he?
Minority Report - A cop uses 'Procogs' with psychic abilities to spot crimes before they happen. But what happens when they point the finger at him?
Logan's Run - A man is determined to escape from his underground city, avoiding certain death after being selected for 'Carousel'.
Outland - Sean Connery does some hard time in a prison in space.
Paprika - Exciting and colorful story of a young woman who helps people in their dreams.
Pitch Black - Survivors of a crash landing on a remote planet are about to find out why the rest of the planet is dead.
Robocop - After being almost shot to death, a Detroit police officer is reassembled into the ultimate cyborg, but does he still have his humanity?
A Scanner Darkly - Drugs are bad, mmmkay.
Serenity -Joss Whedon blah blah blah + Summer Glau blah blah blah = AWESOME FLICK.
Silent Running - Going against the wishes of his superiors, a man sets out to save what he loves most: life, and destroys his own in the process.
Starship Troopers - A war between man and 'the bugs'. The action sequences inspired many video games.
THX-1138 - Tired of being controlled, THX-1138 leaves the city, but not without opposition from some robot biker cops.
Total Recall - A man wins a virtual vacation package to be implanted in his memories, but then finds that he's stuck inside of that world.
I feel that all of these are incredible movies, and that you can't go wrong with any of them. Feel free to ask me questions about any of these, and pick out some that you haven't seen and watch them!
---
Update - FrameShifter has some recommendations too:
DennÅ Coil - The latest technological marvel are glasses that enable one to see an alternate virtual reality. Some school kids get a bit too deep into the tech.
Planetes - Humans are starting to explore space, this story is told about a team of debris collectors near Earth.
WALL-E - Earth is an abandoned trash heap with only compactor robots like wall-e to clean it up. His 'life' changes when a stranger arrives.
2001: A Space Odyssey - A beautiful film. The ending is about death (it's complicated).
Akira - Scientists trigger the amazing powers inside of a young man, turning him into a monster.
Alien and Aliens - Ridley Scott and James Cameron's films define an era in creature horror.
The Andromeda Strain - A race to contain a killer virus. Great production on this.
The Black Hole - One of Disney's more successful attempts at sci-fi. This movie is pure fun, and the Maximilian robot will give you nightmares.
Blade Runner - A cop dives into the seedy underworld of a neon metropolis to solve a murder. Oh yeah, and half of the people are replicants.
Brazil - Oppressive government got you down? Call up your friendly local HVAC Specialist/Freedom fighter.
Dune - A boy becomes a man, becomes a king, becomes a demigod- all on a god-forsaken desert planet, and he kicks some serious ass.
Event Horizon - There's trouble brewing on board a space ship. Don't mess with black holes!
The Fifth Element - It's easy to love Milla Jovovich and everything else about this movie.
Ghost in the Shell - This anime is so good it's scary good. A robotic woman kicks ass, but is she more than just a sexy killing machine?
Mad Max - Set in post-apocalyptic Australia, a renegade cop seeks revenge for the death of his family.
Moon - The lone inhabitant of a lunar facility has a guest. Who is he?
Minority Report - A cop uses 'Procogs' with psychic abilities to spot crimes before they happen. But what happens when they point the finger at him?
Logan's Run - A man is determined to escape from his underground city, avoiding certain death after being selected for 'Carousel'.
Outland - Sean Connery does some hard time in a prison in space.
Paprika - Exciting and colorful story of a young woman who helps people in their dreams.
Pitch Black - Survivors of a crash landing on a remote planet are about to find out why the rest of the planet is dead.
Robocop - After being almost shot to death, a Detroit police officer is reassembled into the ultimate cyborg, but does he still have his humanity?
A Scanner Darkly - Drugs are bad, mmmkay.
Serenity -Joss Whedon blah blah blah + Summer Glau blah blah blah = AWESOME FLICK.
Silent Running - Going against the wishes of his superiors, a man sets out to save what he loves most: life, and destroys his own in the process.
Starship Troopers - A war between man and 'the bugs'. The action sequences inspired many video games.
THX-1138 - Tired of being controlled, THX-1138 leaves the city, but not without opposition from some robot biker cops.
Total Recall - A man wins a virtual vacation package to be implanted in his memories, but then finds that he's stuck inside of that world.
I feel that all of these are incredible movies, and that you can't go wrong with any of them. Feel free to ask me questions about any of these, and pick out some that you haven't seen and watch them!
---
Update - FrameShifter has some recommendations too:
DennÅ Coil - The latest technological marvel are glasses that enable one to see an alternate virtual reality. Some school kids get a bit too deep into the tech.
Planetes - Humans are starting to explore space, this story is told about a team of debris collectors near Earth.
WALL-E - Earth is an abandoned trash heap with only compactor robots like wall-e to clean it up. His 'life' changes when a stranger arrives.
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