What are you working on :

[YouGroove]

I'm trying a small LE3 game that will use simple AI, non realistic graphics because i'm already full buzzy as 3D artist. So i choose a style that allows me to create quickly characters in some minutes with Magica Voxels too, and rig them as fast.So i can concentrate on gameplay and features instead

workflow test : Magica Voxels -> Blender rig -> LE3

[gamecreator]

Nice. How do you animate your characters, YouGroove?

[YouGroove]

In Blender import the Obj model and the texture lookup.

1) Quick armature in Mirror mode

2) Auto Weight

3) Correct vertex weights if needed

Then make the animations.

[gamecreator]

Appreciate it! I was actually concerned with doing the animations themselves, after you rig it. Do you just drag things around to create the animations yourself or do you have animations you've downloaded/paid for that you can apply and modify?

[YouGroove]

For such simple characters and simple armature structure, its is nothing realistic, very simple armature, the best way is to make animations yourself , because it will be simple animations like in the game Cube World.

 

Animating is just rotating one or two bones, save keyframe, rotate some bones save keyframe and that's it

If you have animated already in Blender or other software, animating such simple armature take only some minutes to make a move is more fun then a pain.

(Because you won't mimick reality with prefect walk and attack moves).

 

Some example of free offset armature :

I deleted a bone to have the possibility to move upper freely while keeping lower not moving, for moves like idle for example.

[YouGroove]

to delete

[YouGroove]

Trying to find suited post effects style for the game.

[Dan22]

fxaa contrast toon is the only one that doesnt hurt my eyes

[nick.ace]

Personally, I really like the bloom, fxaa, contrast combination! I don't like when there is thresholding for blocky surfaces because that cuts up the color flow, and the outlines are too dominant in the toon screenshot. I love the voxel-based art though. Keep up the good work! (Also, how do you do the cool emoticon? lol)

[YouGroove]

fxaa contrast toon is the only one that doesnt hurt my eyes

Contrast should be an option you can turn on and off to suite your eyes

I don't know if it is possible to have some luminosity option in LE3 to adjust by code for some option menu ?

 

Also, how do you do the cool emoticon? lol

You mean that one ?

[nick.ace]

Yes! The sunglasses one! What keyboard code do you use?

 

You can change shader values in real time with the commands here, so you could adjust the contrast or bloom effects (I think the .lua that accompany some of them also allow for this). Shadmar does a great job at writing the shader values at the top of each shader (so does everyone else, but I believe Shadmar wrote the bloom shader ) so that they are easy to edit, but if you pass a value in as a uniform, then you don't need to recompile (not sure how much you know about shaders):

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/shader/

[YouGroove]

Yes! The sunglasses one! What keyboard code do you use?

Do you use a PC or a phone when your browse LE3 forums ?

 

To have the icons list you just need to click on the smiley on top and it will display the smileys list.

We could ask some new LE3 tutorial about smileys if you need it

[gamecreator]

Or you can also type B ) without the space after the B.

[nick.ace]

Lol don't know how I missed that, it's been a long week...

[reepblue]

 

To Do:

- Particles

- Fixing of Visual bugs

- A slight adjustment on visuals. Ceiling looks too flat, and I need more light sources.

- Sounds and ambiance

- Improvements to some gameplay scripts.

- Get ready for Demo Release, should have it out no later then the 29th.

[YouGroove]

To delete

[shadmar]

An earth like planet far away :

[reepblue]

Definitely Next Week! I wish I can release sooner, but I'm waiting on sounds and there are still a little bit more tweaks I wish to do.

 

[gamecreator]

I know a lot of the credit goes to Josh and Leadwerks but the lighting and shadows look sweet. Looking forward to trying this out.

[reepblue]

Yeah, and the best part is that the shadows are all static so they are not expensive! Also, a big shout out goes to Shadmar for the bloom and fog shaders. It really gives the maps the atmosphere I want.

[gamecreator]

That too. Can't forget those amazing shaders from him.

[BES]

Working on a side project ... making an assortment of small objects to sell on TurboSquid..it will be probably around 30 items... a scifi pack ..for starters.

 

This is one of them...figured I would show it, not textured yet:

[YouGroove]

Adding some action

[reepblue]

So far, C++ application that has a settings system, and a MenuUI that can easily work on any LE game. Menu, loading screen and other things can be edited outside of Visual Studio. It also has a background map system too.

 

[reepblue]

 

Yes, it's functional.