Xenogeddon (AKA "Space Hulk")

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Thanks!  :D  I was quite pleased with the "surprise" factor.

22

i really enjoyed this…

got some shock when my first tryant came out of the dark at me  :slight_smile:

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Just managed to finally make a video of the gameplay:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BZm2GbCKf8



It's a bit jerky but it's my first attempt.

24

Looks great  :smiley:

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Yeah, really awesome. Do you generate your lights via code? What settings do you use?

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Thanks!



The lighting is pretty basic.  I just use a PointLight attached to the players location, and give it the following values:-



this.setDiffuse( new ColorRGBA( 0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f ) );

this.setSpecular( new ColorRGBA( 0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f ) );

this.setAmbient( new ColorRGBA( 0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f, 0.7f ) );



The big problem with light is it all depends on what settings the user's monitor has - if they have their brightness down low, the game is virtually just a black screen.  I also added a "torch" effect, like L4D, but it doesn't look very good, so I turned it off by default in the config file.



I also use fog as well, with settings as follows:-



FogState fs = this.getDisplay().getRenderer().createFogState();

fs.setEnabled(true);

fs.setDensity(0.3f);

fs.setColor(new ColorRGBA(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f));

fs.setStart(5f);

fs.setEnd(10f);

fs.setDensityFunction(FogState.DensityFunction.Linear);

fs.setQuality(FogState.Quality.PerVertex);


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You don’t use any type of attenuation on your light?



The lights on the floor in this picture don’t seem like point lights at all?

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I've no idea what "attenuation" means.  The "lights" shining on the floor in that pic are just the texture that I've used.

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Oooh. Fair enough. Attenuation is how the light dies off as distance from the source increases.

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So it's a posh word for fog then?  :stuck_out_tongue:

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Err… no… not really…

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I think the point of Trussell is that attenuation is the effect of how a light decreases in intensity, based on its postion relative to the illuminated object (not the camera, as in the fog)… In other words, imagine a flashlight (kind of a point light) pointed at a wall, the farther away the flashlight is from the wall, the less illuminated it would be. Irrespective of your position.

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I see.  Sorry, I was just being a bit cheeky!