BattleCommand (Indie Tanksim)

frinik · 02-02-10, 03:26 AM

Sung your landscapes remind me of those of the SIM T72 Balkans on fire!

Did you draft them yourself?

Sung · 02-02-10, 09:14 AM

Thanks frinik.

Somthing about the technique of the game (BattleCommand) .
The landscape is a mesh terrain generated from a painted heightmap with milkshape. I rendered the colormap with terragen. Over the colormap i took a layer from google-earth (ukraine satellite photo) to get more naturally colors. After that, the enviroment is placed with another map (1color pixel for each house, plant eg..) so its more easy to build up the landscape. The skybox is also rendered in terragen. The mountains are painted in the sky texture. We try to make it flexible for modding if someone wants to do that later. There is no leveleditor and we don't plan to write one.

We need round about 3 weeks for the map with all the enviroment without programming (i can only work 2h a day in the evening). The map is now 94.000 tris big. On my old PC 3 Ghz single core with a ATI XT1600 i have about 51 FPS (60 Frames limited) with 1280x1024 32bit. Nicdel had on his notebook without frame limitation 200 FPS. I plan for the game models not more than 2000 poly, so i hope that it will run fine on older machines.

What you can do acutally in the game? You can drive the tank (3rd person) and change to gunner position (first person). You can shoot and there is collision between the shoot and other tanks/ landscape. But you see only a dummy explosion. It is a really early version of a "game".

Sung

frinik · 02-02-10, 09:59 AM

Sung it sounds very promising and I think it might attract modders who will help you add new tanks, vehicles and missions too.Are you planning on something SP or MP or both?What would be nice guys would be to make or create an easy misison editor so we could all modify games and tailor them to our tastes and then share them with all.

In any event my hat´s off to you and your friend for this wonderful initiative.

AS Chucky said a new tank sim is always welcome!

Sung · 02-02-10, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by frinik

Sung it sounds very promising and I think it might attract modders who will help you add new tanks, vehicles and missions too.Are you planning on something SP or MP or both?What would be nice guys would be to make or create an easy misison editor so we could all modify games and tailor them to our tastes and then share them with all.

In any event my hat´s off to you and your friend for this wonderful initiative.

AS Chucky said a new tank sim is always welcome!

frinik i think a mission builder is not a big problem. Maybe it will be more textbased, because that is easier for us. First of all it will be Single Player. MP can be fun but if none plays the game because the MP is worse it will be boring. Actually we will go on with small steps.

Sledgehammer427 · 02-02-10, 04:40 PM

I'll be watching this closely, I like the idea Sung!

02-02-10, 03:26 AM	#1
frinik Grey Wolf Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 897 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Landscapes Sung your landscapes remind me of those of the SIM T72 Balkans on fire! Did you draft them yourself?

02-02-10, 09:14 AM	#2
Sung Developer Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 335 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Thanks frinik. Somthing about the technique of the game (BattleCommand) . The landscape is a mesh terrain generated from a painted heightmap with milkshape. I rendered the colormap with terragen. Over the colormap i took a layer from google-earth (ukraine satellite photo) to get more naturally colors. After that, the enviroment is placed with another map (1color pixel for each house, plant eg..) so its more easy to build up the landscape. The skybox is also rendered in terragen. The mountains are painted in the sky texture. We try to make it flexible for modding if someone wants to do that later. There is no leveleditor and we don't plan to write one. We need round about 3 weeks for the map with all the enviroment without programming (i can only work 2h a day in the evening). The map is now 94.000 tris big. On my old PC 3 Ghz single core with a ATI XT1600 i have about 51 FPS (60 Frames limited) with 1280x1024 32bit. Nicdel had on his notebook without frame limitation 200 FPS. I plan for the game models not more than 2000 poly, so i hope that it will run fine on older machines. What you can do acutally in the game? You can drive the tank (3rd person) and change to gunner position (first person). You can shoot and there is collision between the shoot and other tanks/ landscape. But you see only a dummy explosion. It is a really early version of a "game". Sung __________________ SILENT DEPTH the submarine simulation for your mobile device www.silentdepth.com https://www.facebook.com/silentdepth/ Silent Depth Manual

02-02-10, 09:59 AM	#3
frinik Grey Wolf Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 897 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	New Tank SIM Sung it sounds very promising and I think it might attract modders who will help you add new tanks, vehicles and missions too.Are you planning on something SP or MP or both?What would be nice guys would be to make or create an easy misison editor so we could all modify games and tailor them to our tastes and then share them with all. In any event my hat´s off to you and your friend for this wonderful initiative. AS Chucky said a new tank sim is always welcome!

02-02-10, 04:40 PM	#5
Sledgehammer427 PacWagon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Drinking coffee and staring at trees in Massachusetts Posts: 2,908 Downloads: 287 Uploads: 0	I'll be watching this closely, I like the idea Sung! __________________ Cold Waters Voice Crew - Fire Control Officer Cmdr O. Myers - C/O USS Nautilus (SS-168) 114,000 tons sunk - 4 Spec Ops completed V-boat Nutcase - Need supplies? Japanese garrison on a small island in the way? Just give us a call! D4C!

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