Diode is a project I have been working on during my free time and weekends so updates are a bit slow. Trying to tackle each functionality feature one by one before I actually start building any legit content for it. I’m using Super Grid from the marketplace to get some rough shapes that when combined make cool silhouettes. The first phase is concentrated on player movement and function. Next on deck is AI.
That looks stellar. The camera lag makes the movement “feel” much better. Ive been working on a responsive but good looking locomotion system, that you might want to check out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i7FoT-SYA - Heres a link to my video I made a while back. I think that style of movement would work well with what you are trying to achieve but idk.
That locomotion stuff is awesome KingTumTum101! I think a big part of the free roam 3rd person cam is to make the cam slowly go back to behind the player after a second or two of input. So if you press left for the player to go left technically the would have to use the camera stick to get behind the player again to get their bearings on the new direction they are going. Often games will slowly have the camera go behind the player again once it looks like that’s where they want to go. Dig your work on it …I’ll be keeping an eye out for it
Im working on making a third person / true first person system at the moment. So far its working out well. My main goal is to give the player as much control as possible with high responsiveness, while maintaining visual quality. A major problem with third person shooters is that they often lack the level of control of standard first person shooters. Many of them use a lot of root-motion animations and other animations that break gameplay, or at least add a layer between the user input and the character movement. So Im trying to eliminate all of that, but I still want it to look good.
Starting to layout the town using SuperGrid. A couple objects that are grouped refuse to bake…they will get nuked soon. Experimenting with spacing and back tracking also general line of sight in regards to draw calls and performance. I think I have a good base for a playable open space that’s going to be relatively easy to keep in check…once it gets meshed out.
Keeping the learning train going. I got anims hooked up, trying to learn about state machines…half of it was knowledge retained, the other half was pure luck that I actually hooked up the right stuff. There was definitely a lot more learning going on for this iteration round. Still fighting the urge to make some cool art, but I want to nail down base mechanics first.
I updated this thread to show the latest videos on the first post. Let me know what you guys think.
I’ve started doing some shape exploration for the first fodder type enemy called “Quad Octs”. Just a quick one hour doodle in Max. I’m digging where it’s going, so I think I’m going to follow the rabbit hole in and make it.
