Res making Franky on water.
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Venom showing his piranha level he made.
Download the OGG Video (22 meg)
Dariusz giving a short demo of Apricot powered by Crystal Space, coming soon!
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A random day in the studio
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Apricot Press, Blogroll, Crystal Space, Production | 
07 4th, 2008
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very nice work on the water shader, the implementation looks well done
The download links are broken. You put the -Tag into the -Tag, …
wfg,
Jonny
Wow! that video demonstrations looks good 🙂
There is an error in jour ogg links, the at the end should be removed
the -tag
The breakline tag. 🙂
maybe it is not filtered when using html entities…
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Wow..! I’ve just seen both videos, the piranha level looks so fun to play! well done Venom! 😉
And Res, that shader test looks very very good! :O nice features, congrats 😉
I like the water effects, realtime reflections have been something I have wished to have in the past.
the water is really, really nice.
Looks cool… does the constant flying up and down get annoying as the flying doesn’t seem very smooth?
What monitors are you using?
@lumpycow: not at all! actually that’s the fun part of it, it is tricky to get to control well, once you master the gliding the world is all yours! 🙂 you feel like the level is small, and it is! that’s why you have to make your own levels, it’s open source ! 😀
@Theq, i’m using x2 24″ Eizo FlexScan S2431W, and i think Frank is using one 24″ and one 20″
The flying looks awesome fun! It so reminds me of the tail in Super Mario Brothers 3.
It was a bit of a tease though telling us this is “The Pirhana Level” and then not showing any pirhana’s, or did I miss something?
I saw some 2D piranha’s 😛
Gliding is not supposed to be so much like flying, but the artists like this to move about the levels.
Must limited duration, and never get higher then when you started, since their not testing the levels properly. Maybe we’ll keep it as a cheat 😉
I think his flying looks super fun.
And for those of you who think his flying should be changed, hope for a patch, oh wait a minute, no, this is open source. You dont’ have to wait on a patch you can just change it yourself =)
this game looks wicked fun to play and develop :). More random days please!!
I have a question about the first video. I’m assuming that the first video is using cs to display, I noticed that the fuzzy outline effect you see in the Blender game engine vids is not present in the CS level. This is no the first time I’ve seen this in the vids showacasing the cs engine. I rather like the facing ration affect I think it makes everything look nice and cartoony like Super Mario Galaxy, I think you guys should definitely think about putting this effect in the cs version of the game as well. If anything it makes everything look a little more pleasing, imo, not that things don’t look great so far.
will there be a simple portal occluding system for cs and bge to allow bigger levels?
a simple system would be enough. when a – mannualy placed – portal object is in view an area with all it’s objects is loaded/drawn, otherwise not
this or some kind of occluders
keep up the great work!
oh, and where are the particle effects, this screams for particles! 🙂
I agree, particles would be a nice feature, but after all the most important is the performance, I would preffer a nice performance over all the nice features.
Dude i love “inside the studio” reports! Hurray!!! For the happy Blender Institute!!!
Hey I download the video of the demo but there is no sound..
To Cyberdigitus: Crystal Space has had a portal occlusion system since it was created 11 years ago.
what the hell: there is no value wathing this video as there is nothing to see – until 3:00. then finally there is some action. also the interview style sucks: showing a programmer talk, instead filming the screen having him comment is bad. the whole idea behind an interview is to compress information and make it understandable. and what about the mumbling programmer, please let him alone! he is not a talker, and his developing standards are the “i just started and then it like was there” method. very bad. the finale is great: a nice cutoff on the end.
ray: While I think that your post is slightly black-and-white, I must say that I had the same feeling about the programmer – he really fits the “programming guy” stereotype really well 🙂
But hey, I fit the “unpredictable maniac” stereotype, so that’s probably worse 🙂
Great update, and very cool demonstrations! You guys are doing great work — I can’t wait for the DVD! 🙂
The water looks a little bit white right now, but overall it looks very cool.
please, we need this actuator:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1157923
Looks great, but i thought of one thing! shouldn’t the water slow franky’s movement down a little bit?
Excelent!!!
de verdad que me sorprende la capacidad que tiene el motor de juegos de blender, no tengo palabras!… esto nos entusiama muchisimo y se que vendran grandes avances para el game engine.
Perdon por el mal ingles::
really surprises me the ability of the engine blender games, I have no words! … This much enthusiasm and we will come great strides for the game engine.
To William: what you are seeing here is not the blender game engine but Crystal Space.
to jorrit: first video is CS, second video is me playing in BGE. 🙂
hey frankie, how did you get realtime reflection in blender?