[resle]

Hi, probably you won't remember about this little home-made rpg which I began coding a year and a half ago. The engine was almost finished, yet I couldn't get anyone to make some models/textures, so I lost interest and the project died. Lately, two circumstances brought me back on track: I've been ill and forced home - and in the last year I learned some (crappy) modeling. So I rewrote everything from scratch, helped myself with a few models of my own and textures created by photoshopping Ultima 7 graphics. Here's the current status of things.

The engine, in full 3d (powered by OpenGL), currently supports

- A huge, seamless world



- Virtually unlimited models/textures

- Dynamic shadows and lights




- Scriptable events

- Weather [rain, thunders, snow, fog, wind - sound effects]



- Day/Night cycle



- Npc schedules (Npcs go to sleep, do chores, wander around and so on)

Plus three major features which I'll keep secret since they are the real core of
the game, the three big little things which I think will make this rpg quite unique (although all are ideas recycled from other game genres). Finally I've also arranged an editor I can fruitfully use to build some scenes and begin assemble some "patterns" (houses, roofs, groups of trees and so on).




So what do I need? Useless to say: graphics. You can judge it by yourself: the lousy graphics I am using (except for that black knight, which I took from polycount.com) was all done by myself, and - simply - I can't "draw" - or at least I can't properly create/texture 3d models. I am looking for someone who can make fully textured low poly 3d models. I think this game has some potential, and I will hold my grip now that I've broken the barrier of 100,000 lines of original code... So, here am I, asking again for help.
Someone?
Thanks in advance,

- a.
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[Locrian]

I was wondering what happened to this game. Good to see its not dead. I wish I could model, but alas it is still on the things to learn list.

[resle]

Many progresses here: npc schedule, dialogue system, item interaction, "sound shaders", new 3d models, and an upcoming tech demo. More details at our recently-revamped site



Btw: we're now looking for a portrait artist :)
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[Verious]

Its looking good; seems like the project has come quite a long way since some of the early screenshots.

[janus]

I can't say I like the look of the shadingless lighting model you're using. It looks particularly strange since you're doing shadowing.

[resle]

[Adam]

Link no worko. That site does not allow external linking.
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[janus]

[resle]

Hm, you're right. That's a VERY old screenshot though, check the new ones on the site ;)

It's a very puzzling core opengl glitch which seems to appear only on certain cards. Fog is applied correctly but it won't effect zones where I wrote to the stencil buffer. Mostly happens with Ati cards.
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[Bjorn]

About the shading, just compare the barrels in the Lightbringer screenshots you linked to to your own. I think yours could look better with similar shading. All in all impressive screenshots, really looks like a lot of good work is going into this.

[Mandrake]

Acutally, I like the art. It looks like Ultima 7 gone 3d.
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[resle]

We advanced some more. Two "pre-tech-demo" are already running in thands of a selected audience (selected here means "people who knows they can't expect much and will patiently suffer horrible bugs). ShadowMoses and I are working tightly with our little spare time to put in the last items/code we want to show in the demo. In particular I am really rushing to include a playable beta of the combat system in it, to please who asked to see some gameplay elements and not just eye candy ;)

Anyway in the meantime here are some misc screenshots, displaying among the others the book/scroll/signs/etc. system (which is coming along quite nicely, it's almost HTML 1.0 reinvented ;) ), the dialogue system, etc. All in all what you're able to do in pre-tech demo so far is moving around this little island which takes aproximately 1/600 of the whole world. There's a small wood, a couple npcs living their lives, some roaming deers and boars, a little cemetary. You can talk to the npcs, visit a house, read some books and eat some food.




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[janus]

The dialogue font is really blurry and indistinct, I think you should use a sharper version of it.

[js71]

[Adam]

It looks like the jpeg compression is bluring it up.
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