{Alpha Demo} The Garden - A barebones RPG

CaptainAndrew · August 20, 2013, 4:52am

Aloha! I want to thank everyone who has supported this project over the last 2 years. With your help, we were able to release our alpha demo exactly 2 years from the opening of this project. There is so much more to do and I am looking forward to working with all of you. Onward to beta!

With the release of our alpha demo, we are looking for testers to play and report the game performance on your machine.

The Garden alpha demo <— click here for access to the executables (178+ MB compressed)
The Garden development files <— click here for access to the development files

Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows or Linux (32 or 64 bit)
CPU: 2.66 GHz or better processor
GPU: 1GB dedicated memory (only tested with NVIDIA)
RAM: 3GB DDR2
HDD: 700MB available space

The Garden is a simple point and click planet exploration game. You play as a lone “human” on the ocean planet Kai Nui. The object is for the player to travel the planet and discover everything for the first time to create the Encyclopedia’s of Elements, Flora, and Fauna. The main game play is a free roaming scavenger hunt to complete the encyclopedias, with travel abilities gained from element discoveries. There is no exp, combat, weapons, items, or quests.

Control Scheme
The Garden uses a standard WASD control scheme with mouse look for the main game play and menu navigation.
W: move forward
A: move left
S: move backward
D: move right
F: enter/exit flight mode (walk)
Space: jump (walk), ascend (fly, swim)
Left Shift: descend (fly, swim)
Left Control: toggle run in walk mode, toggle swim fast in swim mode, toggle fly fast in flight mode
Mouse: mouselook/rotate, right click to toggle between 1st and 3rd person

CaptainAndrew · August 20, 2013, 4:55am

reserved!!

CaptainAndrew · August 26, 2013, 4:37am

reserved!!

CaptainAndrew · August 26, 2013, 4:07pm

I have updated the video and .blend file, which now has only 1 semi textured island to explore. The other islands are under construction and will be added as I complete them.

CaptainAndrew · August 26, 2013, 6:20pm

I have updated the .blend to include a simple buoyancy mechanic for swimming across the ocean to the other islands.

CaptainAndrew · December 20, 2013, 1:59pm

I have completed the terrain modeling am now working on a streaming terrain technique.

esoneson · December 20, 2013, 4:21pm

don’t know if it is me that are just slow, or if it is missing from your description. so as I’m to lazy and tiered to go trough it all agen i’ll better ask you about it, So I noticed that you are having an rly big map/area, but weren’t able to se if you are using any kind of LOD on it? bco your project looks nice, but if you aren’t using any LOD i think you will get trouble when filling the terrain up whit items

CaptainAndrew · December 20, 2013, 10:43pm

Please remember that this thread is to share the progress of this project. If you have questions about it or want to discuss it, please post them in the thread over in the Team Projects forum.

CaptainAndrew · February 18, 2014, 3:58am

completely revamped the LOD and dynamic terrain system, posted screens showing progress.

CaptainAndrew · February 19, 2014, 12:03am

Here are a few more screens showing some progress on the terrain texturing. I am using a node set up to texture according to RGB vertex colors.

node set up

RGB vertex colors

texture splatting result

CaptainAndrew · February 21, 2014, 10:34am

Added a short video of the game engine running with a textured island.

CaptainAndrew · February 23, 2014, 10:37am

Blend file updated

CaptainAndrew · February 26, 2014, 9:14am

blend file and demo video updated

CaptainAndrew · February 28, 2014, 8:30pm

updated video and demo file

CaptainAndrew · March 14, 2014, 10:34am

updated demo video and .blend file

LFDA_Studio · March 14, 2014, 11:41am

Very nice work!
How do you make the character outline? With duplicated meshes?

CaptainAndrew · March 21, 2014, 12:12am

Thank you for the support, the outline is created with a 2d filter via a python controller.

LFDA_Studio · March 21, 2014, 7:49am

Can you show to me this script? I tried with one, but it works bad.

CaptainAndrew · March 21, 2014, 11:52am

Sure, here is the script that I use;

 
uniform sampler2D bgl_RenderedTexture;
    uniform sampler2D bgl_DepthTexture;


    void main()
    {
       float depth = texture2D( bgl_DepthTexture, gl_TexCoord[0].xy).r;
       float depth2 = texture2D( bgl_DepthTexture, gl_TexCoord[0].xy + vec2(0,0.002)).r;
       float depth3 = texture2D( bgl_DepthTexture, gl_TexCoord[0].xy + vec2(0.002,0)).r;
       
       float fac = abs(depth-depth2) + abs(depth-depth3);
       
       float intensity = 1000;


       vec4 sub = vec4(fac*intensity,fac*intensity,fac*intensity,0);
       
       gl_FragColor = texture2D( bgl_RenderedTexture, gl_TexCoord[0].xy ) - sub;
    }

This screen shows how you connect it to the camera;

And here is the .blend;
ToonCamera1.blend (292 KB)

LFDA_Studio · March 21, 2014, 12:32pm

But, with this script, when I am near to the character, the faces becomes flat!
Is possible to avoid this horrible effect?