Sonic: Ascension Development Thread

Thanks for the info, I'll get that fixed in a patch update I'll release soon. As for the fix, I'm glad that works, I'll make a little registry key adder for those who doesn't have another UDK product.

EDIT: Here's the fix! All you need to do is open the file from anywhere, and click 'yes'. After that the game is good to go. Mediafire

 

I'm uploading the first patch tomorrow, and I'm working on a new Dusty Desert inspired stage, I'll also take some screenshots for that. And for those who haven't noticed and thought that music in the launcher was random, it's actually one of Crush 40's songs that isn't well known (before their Sonic-era I think). It's called Fire Woman.

 

Sorry it's been so long, life dramas and such kept me from progressing. But now I'm back in full motion />/>/>

There's some more soundtracks from the game I just uploaded on YouTube. Amy's Theme Lonely Listener Warm Night

And heres a screenshot from the boss in the New Empire City zone.

 

UPDATE: Right now I'm working on a couple of open-world(ish) areas for the game. I got some screen shots below, now I need a couple of characters to be animated (Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Dr. Eggman, Princess Elise and Sally Acorn) the only thing is, is that I have models and imported them into UDK successfully, but I am horrible at animating, and I cant find any animated models for the characters. And when I mean horrible, I don't even know how to move an arm. So any help or volunteers would be amazingly appreciated /> They would only need simple animations, including a simple talking animation, walking, running and a few facial expressions, since it has a dialogue system similar to whats seen in Final Fantasy and Animal Crossing. Everyone in a while you will end up in one of these open-world places where you do some missions/quests to help others in need and such, these areas are around 1km^2, and have to be very detailed so it is taking a while.

Anyway, here are some screenshots!

 

I'm uploading a 4 minute gameplay video of Calypso Bay. Things have been revamped since those screenshots, this includes a new day and night cycle similar to the one found in MineCraft, much better skies have been implemented throughout the game, and in Calypso Bay, it has a nice, crisp clean sky. I haven't shown any night time scenes yet since I'm still not happy with the transition to night, the day and night cycle features full dynamic shadows moving with the direction of the sun etc. Lens flare has been temporarily disabled in favor of this since I need to come up with a convenient measure to have the lens flare source move with the sun as the sun is being rendered as a material on a sky-sphere. The sky itself is non-textured so the light around the sun is slightly brighter than the rest, and the horizon color changes a bit as its all procedural generated. I have made some optimizations to the foliage tool by coming up with a method to switch them to static meshes in the scene when I have finished placing them, thus allowing much greater performance boost and collision. This method has also been used in the boss fight in New Empire City, with buildings locked to 90 degree rotations since the map is 10^2km. As for Calypso Bay, which I'm now considering to rename it Calypso Island for an obvious reason, is getting about 30fps average and 15fps in forests, so right now you probably need a GTX Titan to get a playable FPS until I make some more optimizations, including more LODs and shorter shadow render distances where foliage is dense.

I'll be uploading gameplay of this tomorrow morning, so for the people who thought I wasn't speaking English before, you'll see what I mean in the video :v:

 

Here it is! You can obviously tell its nowhere near finished...

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGiQM2Pnqs[/media]

 

It's from Sonic Colours, and I think the person who ripped the model did the animations themselves since I've compared it to the games, the animation is terrible and I want them changed but since I'm not proficient at animating, that makes it tough.

 

I am thinking of reducing the shadow distance dynamically, since there isn't much foliage around the village, the shadow render distance can be at its setting its at now, but when the player moves into foliage dense areas, I can just set a matinee to reduce the shadow distance. Since running the game in unlit mode gives 60fps with v-sync and shadows off, its definitely rendering the huge amount of shadows dynamically (due to moving light source) from all the foliage.

 

Okay, so I'm slowly adding all the soundtracks in my game onto YouTube, remember these are original compositions so some of them may be improved in the future, mainly Bonzamego. I'll be adding a list on the first post so you guys can see the full list there. So far I 7 on Youtube, and I'm adding them over time to keep subscribers interested rather than spamming everything I have in one shot and then no reason for them to keep subscribed.

So check out the first post and listen to a bunch I just added :v:

 

Well, Bonzamego is just a made up word that is just the name of a stage set in a Mexican setting. Get it, Bonza and Amego, Spanish words. It must be a mere coincidence and I actually watched Evangelion 3.0 last night and that was a dissapointment.