QuickStart Engine

I had no idea where to put this, so I chose this sub-forum to post it Feel free to move it if you want.

I have made some additions to the current engine and wanted to show the results:

SkinnedModel and Skybox in QS .19


Water, Terrain and Skybox in QS .19



Water, Terrain, Skybox and 1000 "basic" models


As soon as I clean up the code, I will make a patch on codeplex.

Cheers,

Marius

Absolutely cool, I'll try to review it asap.

One thing I noticed an artifact on the third image, most likely a clip problem are you aware of it (There is something blue way back)?

You got that right

The blue artifacts are caused by the refraction map ( I thought blue would make a sweet color ).
I hope to get this online / patched this week.

Next week I hope to implement a basic particle system for usage in our upcoming tech demo.
I will be using this thread to update you guys on the progress.

Having a water plane with nothing behind it will give that artifact. If you border your map with terrain at all ends this won't occur. You'll notice artifacts like that even in professional games like Super Mario Galaxy.

If you do backface culling on the reflection map for terrain you'll also get artifacts at the water edges, that is why I turned off backface culling on terrain during water reflection in v0.182b.

could you say to us where is your patch ?

He never posted the patch for these changes unfortunately.

We've had people finish water, skys, object placement, and animation, but none of them can take 15 minutes to put in a patch for it.

oh nooooooo

it's not a good news..

however the feauter for management of "skinned model" is very important

when you release the rev with this feature ?

i've seen this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd_cC6AANes
that you indicate for feauters of ths engine,
could you send me a link for a tutorial of this video ?

The video you're seeing on youtube was an older version of the engine (v0.16). Any version before v0.19 was the old engine framework, it was completely re-written. The new framework is 100x better than the old stuff, however, as we concentrated on the framework mostly we haven't yet gotten around to most of the fun graphical stuff like water and skies.

Feel free to download v0.182b if you want (the last version of the old framework): http://www.codeplex.com/QuickStartEngin ... aseId=8818

Don't expect to get very far with it however. There is a tutorial for both the new and old framework here: http://www.codeplex.com/QuickStartEngin ... Title=Home