robdude11
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 10:43 PM
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33 / 72
ES maybe wants to give the mod community more variables to work with, so that the scenarios created will be brilliant! if there are transitions in the scenario editor, then u could, say, change form night to day after a big fight. the point is, they maybe don't wanna take away from the campaigns or generated scenarios by adding night/day to RM or DM.
Kong_KK
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 10:48 PM
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35 / 72
Different skybox textures would have to be created. Regular ground textures wouldn't have to be changed but it wouldn't work the same way with the sky.
robdude11
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 11:07 PM
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46 / 72
<gives Kong_KK high five>
we should make a game. u can make the graphics, and i the programming code. hehe
Kong_KK
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 11:10 PM
EDT (US)
48 / 72
Eh, I suck at graphics and art and that stuff. I've tried my share of modelling, mapping, and skinning, and the only thing I was half way decent in was coding. I'm especially having fun with the Quake 2 engine source released awhile back. It's yummy.
Kong_KK
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 11:14 PM
EDT (US)
50 / 72
The timer part of it would be very simple. You just keep calling functions every min or so that make the environment get lighter or darker. The part that would be difficult would be making light blend properly and getting the right amounts of color in. Also I'm assuming shadows would be shut off during the night so the shaders for those would have to be slowly added onto the landscape.
Kong_KK
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 11:18 PM
EDT (US)
53 / 72
and it's a shame that some people don't have GeForce3's that are able to dynamically render lightmaps...
robdude11
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 11:21 PM
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56 / 72
the 3D engine doesn't have to check the time of the day if it is not needed, like in other rts wihtout day/night.
robdude11
Mortal
posted 29 January 2002 11:24 PM
EDT (US)
58 / 72
but that was a movie, and there were no other things bieng processed. all i can say is, AoM is gonna be a great game, and good night