Comments on: BGE Updates + New YoFrankie Video! http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/ Fresh Blender News, Every Day Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:06:38 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bmud http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485249 Bmud Mon, 25 May 2009 04:27:22 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485249 This is such a wonderful time for real time graphics. This is such a wonderful time for real time graphics.

]]> By: panzi http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485076 panzi Fri, 22 May 2009 19:08:06 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485076 Because my internet connection sucks again I have no idea whether my last posting was successful and only awaits moderation therefore I post it again. Or the parts I can remember (gah!). "Strafe" isn't right for a jump and run either. That would be a FPS. Movement in jump and runs is like I said. Here I made illustrations to make it even more clear (images+description text): Tank like (current behaviour): http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Tank-Movement-123343297 FPS like (strafe): http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-FPS-Movement-123342967 Jump and Run like: http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Jump-and-Movement-123344363 Because my internet connection sucks again I have no idea whether my last posting was successful and only awaits moderation therefore I post it again. Or the parts I can remember (gah!).

"Strafe" isn't right for a jump and run either. That would be a FPS. Movement in jump and runs is like I said. Here I made illustrations to make it even more clear (images+description text):

Tank like (current behaviour):
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Tank-Movement-123343297

FPS like (strafe):
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-FPS-Movement-123342967

Jump and Run like:
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Jump-and-Movement-123344363

]]> By: panzi http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485074 panzi Fri, 22 May 2009 18:59:55 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485074 @Campbell Barton (ideasman42): Strafe is not what we (jump-n-run gamers) want either. Strafe-left/-right and turn-left/-right are both movement types you've got in FPS games. Yo Frankie is no FPS. You cannot play a 3-person jump and run with FPS controls. No 3D jump and run I ever tried did use such controls (and I played/tried others than Super Mario, e.g. Rayman). I made some illustrations to show you what I mean (images+descriptions). Current behaviour: http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Tank-Movement-123343297 Strafe (FPS like): http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-FPS-Movement-123342967 Jump and Run: http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Jump-and-Movement-123344363 @Campbell Barton (ideasman42):
Strafe is not what we (jump-n-run gamers) want either. Strafe-left/-right and turn-left/-right are both movement types you've got in FPS games. Yo Frankie is no FPS. You cannot play a 3-person jump and run with FPS controls. No 3D jump and run I ever tried did use such controls (and I played/tried others than Super Mario, e.g. Rayman). I made some illustrations to show you what I mean (images+descriptions).

Current behaviour:
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Tank-Movement-123343297

Strafe (FPS like):
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-FPS-Movement-123342967

Jump and Run:
http://panzi.deviantart.com/art/Yo-Frankie-Jump-and-Movement-123344363

]]> By: LOGAN http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485061 LOGAN Fri, 22 May 2009 14:36:50 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485061 regarding 'Yo Frankie', I did not pre-order it because the fact that it would not use Blender Game Engine. I felt sore when it turned out that the game did in the end use BGE. Meh. Good to see the BGE getting the attention it deserves as not that long ago even the regular Blender devs looked down on it. Now the only problem left is finally being able to produce protected blend files or non GPL game executables to finally get this engine used for real in the indie marked. regarding 'Yo Frankie', I did not pre-order it because the fact that it would not use Blender Game Engine. I felt sore when it turned out that the game did in the end use BGE. Meh.

Good to see the BGE getting the attention it deserves as not that long ago even the regular Blender devs looked down on it. Now the only problem left is finally being able to produce protected blend files or non GPL game executables to finally get this engine used for real in the indie marked.

]]> By: Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485038 Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) Fri, 22 May 2009 08:08:09 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485038 Blengine your comments on CS always make me laugh :) "It failed to be a game, but it was good enough as proof of concept for the game engine to help save it from the gallows and inspire a revolution. That's not a complete failure in my opinion, especially when the main goal of the project was blender development. So go suck a lemon. The one and only good thing about that crystal space travesty was how fantastic it made the bge look by contrast, though there's a lot to be said about an ability like that." Exactly, all good points. Yo Frankie was successful in more ways that most people realize, and started the BGE down a new path which I don't think anyone could have foreseen (we're only just seeing the start now). Good times ahead for the BGE! Blengine your comments on CS always make me laugh :)

"It failed to be a game, but it was good enough as proof of concept for the game engine to help save it from the gallows and inspire a revolution. That's not a complete failure in my opinion, especially when the main goal of the project was blender development. So go suck a lemon. The one and only good thing about that crystal space travesty was how fantastic it made the bge look by contrast, though there's a lot to be said about an ability like that."

Exactly, all good points. Yo Frankie was successful in more ways that most people realize, and started the BGE down a new path which I don't think anyone could have foreseen (we're only just seeing the start now).

Good times ahead for the BGE!

]]> By: blengine http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485035 blengine Fri, 22 May 2009 07:05:03 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485035 Deloince jp, I'm not a blender developer, just a consumer of software as well that meandered into a favorable position to apply some leverage towards bge development. The sculptors are a force for software marketing and its development. There's a lot of influence there. That's the point behind the open projects at the BI, to get artists in a room with a goal and subject the devs to their every whim. Tools making tools for tools. Panzi, I was speaking about both.. But either way, here's looking forward to another and more successful open game project... which doesn't seem completely ruled-out anymore. BGE from day one this time, no screwing around with B2CS and its pipsqueak dev. Deloince jp, I'm not a blender developer, just a consumer of software as well that meandered into a favorable position to apply some leverage towards bge development. The sculptors are a force for software marketing and its development. There's a lot of influence there. That's the point behind the open projects at the BI, to get artists in a room with a goal and subject the devs to their every whim. Tools making tools for tools.

Panzi, I was speaking about both.. But either way, here's looking forward to another and more successful open game project… which doesn't seem completely ruled-out anymore. BGE from day one this time, no screwing around with B2CS and its pipsqueak dev.

]]> By: Ubuntuist http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485034 Ubuntuist Fri, 22 May 2009 06:59:31 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485034 Great work! With LOD and other improvements GE gets more and more suitable for my purposes with virtual reality :) Only if it was possible to dynamically load models during execution, Blender would be an excellent tool for VR also. Are there any plans for this? Great work!
With LOD and other improvements GE gets more and more suitable for my purposes with virtual reality :)

Only if it was possible to dynamically load models during execution, Blender would be an excellent tool for VR also. Are there any plans for this?

]]> By: Campbell Barton (ideasman42) http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485028 Campbell Barton (ideasman42) Fri, 22 May 2009 05:04:58 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485028 "Frankie moves like a freaking car! " - lol, Ok some improvements to do for sure. Im still going to maintain it and add some features every so often. Some time I might rework the movement and add strafe though with a simple gamepad this is tricky. Something missed in this report is the huge number of BugFixes that have been done to the BGE since 2.48a. Even though users think in terms of Features mostly, keep in mind that developing a game should be a much less frustrating experience in 2.49. "Frankie moves like a freaking car! " – lol, Ok some improvements to do for sure. Im still going to maintain it and add some features every so often. Some time I might rework the movement and add strafe though with a simple gamepad this is tricky.

Something missed in this report is the huge number of BugFixes that have been done to the BGE since 2.48a. Even though users think in terms of Features mostly, keep in mind that developing a game should be a much less frustrating experience in 2.49.

]]> By: Deloince jp http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485014 Deloince jp Thu, 21 May 2009 23:47:38 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485014 Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge), MatrixNAN, Blengine, Guys, all these advances, I am unable to participate in these ambitious projects that will revolutionize every faith the Blender game engine, because I do not have any theoretical knowledge in programming, this limit my work to create real time 3D content. I am a consumer of software and not a creator. You are magicians without which, we sculptors from Worlds virtual, we would not ... And I have this question in my closet for the moment only the spots have brought shadows, you will soon have for the Lamp, Aera, Sun, Hemi, shadows in real time in Blender GE? Sincerely Deloince Jp http://deloincejp.cgsociety.org/gallery/ Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge),
MatrixNAN,
Blengine,

Guys, all these advances, I am unable to participate in these ambitious projects
that will revolutionize every faith the Blender game engine, because I do not have
any theoretical knowledge in programming, this limit my work to create real time
3D content.
I am a consumer of software and not a creator. You are magicians without which,
we sculptors from Worlds virtual, we would not … And I have this question in my
closet for the moment only the spots have brought shadows, you will soon have
for the Lamp, Aera, Sun, Hemi, shadows in real time in Blender GE?

Sincerely Deloince Jp
http://deloincejp.cgsociety.org/gallery/

]]> By: panzi http://www.blendernation.com/bge-updates-new-yofrankie-video/comment-page-1/#comment-485007 panzi Thu, 21 May 2009 22:38:14 +0000 http://www.blendernation.com/?p=8001#comment-485007 @blengine I'm not speaking about the BGE. I'm only speaking about Yo Frankie. However, I bought the DVD and I would do it again, just to sponsor blenders development. @blengine
I'm not speaking about the BGE. I'm only speaking about Yo Frankie. However, I bought the DVD and I would do it again, just to sponsor blenders development.

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