Dark Bit Factory & Gravity

GENERAL => Challenges & Competitions => Topic started by: Tetra on November 01, 2006

Title: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Tetra on November 01, 2006
Well I started this on the 29th! but I didnt manage to finish it in time.

That was the soonest I could get anything together :(

Anyhow, I'll enter what i've done so far. I decided to make it in Blitz3D. Its a little enviroment that has some sites to see. Unfortunately none of the sites are complete. The idea was that you would visit each site in turn, and hopefully something would happen to make you jump or scream mwahahaha. but I didnt get that far :D It has a heart rate monitor that would have beat faster as you got close to something scary, but it just beat normally, you can pretend it works and scroll the middle mouse button :D

What I have done is create a dark gloomy enviroment, with a bit of sound, with a few models and some lightning.

Just follow the path down the hill, if u get lost hold down the E key and jet pack up in the air and move about as normal. Theres not much to see, and the gave has an open end. but theres a few lightning triggers in there and a bell trigger for the church bell.

Controls:

   Move - Forward  W / Backward S
   Strife - Left A / Right D
   Look About - Mouse

Please read the readme for extra controls

It was going to be something out of the norm in that it would have been an interactive 3D enviroment demo, hope you can see the direction I was going with it.

CCC_Gloom.zip (http://www.tetrahedron.me.uk/CCC_Gloom.zip)
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Rbz on November 01, 2006
Very scary atmosphere !

Welldone Tetra  ;D
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Blitz Amateur on November 01, 2006
That's really nice.. I think you should really finish this, even if not for the compo =)
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: rdc on November 01, 2006
This was quite cool. I would love to see a finished version.
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Ghost^BHT on November 01, 2006
Too bad you didn't have time to complete this - it's very cool good job!

Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Jim on November 01, 2006
Lovely BIG landscape - I'd like to know how you designed/constructed it.  How does your culling work or is it just brute force?  Lots of potential.

Jim
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Clyde on November 01, 2006
Wow, thats terrifyingly terrific work Tetra, welldone dude. :)
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: benny! on November 01, 2006
Indeed. Good work. Try to finish it  ;)
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Tetra on November 01, 2006
Thanks for all your encouraging comments :)

I will definately try to finish this, but i'll spend more time getting it to look more like I wanted it to.

@Jim it was nothing complicated. just Blitz3D normal clipping, the camera range is short and the fog is enabled, The fog is a bit blue'ish to give a cotrast against the dark background. When the lightning flashes, the fog range is increased. The lighting in blitz is a bit dissapointing, I will try make my own.
I made the trees, cave, signpost, fence, church in 3ds max.Then the land is generated from a heightmap, the trees are placed via a bit-map and the heightmap, the vertex colors are also supplied by an image. The cave is a model, manually placed, via code, and the fences are manualy placed by using the camera. So placing and orientating a fence peice is but a click away. Then I save the data to a file.
So on the whole no complex coding has been used, just Blitz3D stuff :D
 
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: Shockwave on November 01, 2006
Definately worth finishing I'd say Tetra :)
Nice work so far!!! Thank for supporting the comp.
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: taj on November 01, 2006
Very cool indeed, nice atmosphere. If you did that in 1 day, Im giving up.
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: lilw4t3rdr0p on November 02, 2006
Very impressive. I like the heart beat and did pretend ;) . 1 day? Amazing!!
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Post by: ninogenio on November 04, 2006
looks like a scene from an n64 game i used to play really great stuff tetra cant wait to see what you might do with this!
Title: Re: CCC: Gloom
Post by: combatking0 on November 06, 2006
I keep getting a memory acces violation :(