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Hej Ville,

Thanks No it's not a photograph, just a quick & basic 3d render done with Mental Ray ( fish-eye lens effect and some final gathering ). GLSL would have been more appropriate, but I was late already

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Happy New Year everybody ~



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Yo jph, Spirals seem to become a recurring theme in your visuals :wink: Digging the strobe effects combined with low velocity model / camera movement, gives it a nice tension range. Be sure to also check out SomaFM ( especially their "cliqhop idm" / "Space Station Soma" channels ...

Hmm, It's a good idea, but I guess you wouldn't be able to pass any arguments like you can with functions defined in a ZLibrary, right? The general structure I use now is a Condition Component that checks whether the Function variable > 0, and every loop it subtracts 1 off that value .. so you can c...

Hi Tischk, There are a couple of ways you can go about this. One is to put the Material Component in the Model's Definitions ( so each Clone has their own instance of the Material assigned ), another is to use a RenderSetColor Component after UseMaterial with some kind of Condition to pick out the d...

Hey jph, The main problem I ran into writing the Player part of a Tracker in ZGE is timing. You really need to be able to write to a sound-buffer ( the size of at least the length of one frame ) to make your sounds sync nicely together. When just running a track in FrameRateStyle:Free without much e...

Hi, How long is "a while"? I played for a number of minutes .. but did not notice any frame-drops. Also, the total number of Models stays around 27 ( when you're not shooting ) all through the game, so you're definitely not doing anything wrong when it comes to destroying instances. Try to...

Hey jph, Hasn't the ActiveX option been there from the start? It's not that difficult to create a browser plugin that would play encrypted zgeproj files. However, getting the ActiveX component approved / authorized .. is a whole different story. Plus you usually don't want to go there before you hav...

Better late then never .. SunVox Engine 1.1b Source-Code

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Hi guys,

A simple step-based ( opposed to morph-based ) LOD example build with 1.9.5b. Use key up & down to zoom and spacebar to toggle between flat and wireframe.

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8) Kick-ass! Now I won't have to copy over my Trunc-hacks every subversion update anymore :) Will it be possible to add a VariableType ( single / integer .. and hopefully string / double etc in the future ) drop-down to the DefineVariable Component? *By the way, I'm not too crazy about the headers y...

Hi jph, Drop.io is quite nice for video sharing as you can still download the original file, but it also generates a flash based version that you can stream as a preview. Downside is that there is a 100mb limit per free account ( although there is no limit on the amount of accounts you create :wink:...

Hi jph, LOD ( Level-Of-Detail ) type solutions as part of a Scene Graph can be quite useful / powerful. Thing is, you can already do this quite easily* yourself. I've used it in ZGE on several occasions. However, sorting the render order of Models from furthest away to closest to camera is currently...

Hi jph,

After playing some more, I found that picking up specific items can be a little difficult at times. Perhaps you could lower the control inertia slightly or increase pickup radius a little? Have a look at this video, you'll see ( 1:26 ) what ( 1:50 ) I mean ( 2:20 )

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Hey jph, Your best ZGE release so far ( in my book )! I really like the scale of the bullets and pick-ups, nice & small ( reminds me of Bangai-O somehow ). And the voice overs add allot to the overall experience, don't cut them because of a couple of kilobytes :wink: Personally I would use a lit...