Project AXSX (Sonic Xtreme and SONIC CD REMIX A 2.5D game)

Try rotating the camera with the mouse( drag the mouse to the left), also arrow keys move the level around,
Its quite lazily tossed together, therefore the grass isn't visible right off the bat.
Was never meant as a presentation piece >__< sorry guys.

Also its not a shader, actual geometry is used for the grass. a shader ( which will be used later) is more performance friendly than the geometry method.
just wanted to see if we could get the grass to work as a proof of concept.



Next demo will be our fisheye engine,

 

Hnmm yeah,,,,, I guess that I should probably redo the intro topic a bit,
Our engine is actually A multi purpous game engine which alows a few styles of sonic games to be built.
Sonic Xtreme PC sonic Xtreme Saturn, Sonic classic 2.5D


As for the grass post,,,its single component of the engine, I thought it was cool, so I shared it.


Edit: First topic reworked.

 

Hey What are the specs for the system your on? and reported FPS?
ya I know the grass runs pretty slow on some computers.
we will be using a shader instead of geometry, later on, just wanted to get a general idea of what it would look like.

Thx for letting me know about the 404 errors, maybe imagshack has some problems ??
I'll wait awhile to see what happens before re-uploading them.

 

Hnmm,,, thats not good, we will have to do a real grass shader (since this one was made with geometry and lots of huge texture maps and the poly-count its pretty up there,
It also uses transparencies on each level of geometry,,,which really eats away at performance. not to mention its made with Game maker.
Most everyone we gave the test to get an average of between 150 and 300 FPS.
I get a steady 999 fps over here, facing at the grass.^__^

Thanks...

 

Started on Palm tree panic zone a few days ago.,
While molding out the level's detail into 3D,,,,The 2D shapes that make up Palmtree panic are very awkward and don't quite make since when thinking about it as being 3D.
Probably the most challenging of any sonic zone I've encountered so far.
It is very difficult trying to keep all the contours for the walls, and retaining proper lighting lighting and shadowing the same between 3D and 2D views.
I've experimented around with it and it seems it is feasible,
although the final 3D result may look a bit out of place.

(WIP)


By tuxmask75 at 2010-03-03

 

hopefully all of them, but before that happens ,,
when we get a nice editor and engine ready enough.
than we may release that for people who want to do there own levels and mods,

 

Update to the Dev Diary,,,
I know this Ugly mess is not worth posting about,, but what the heck,,

The following pics = the Proof of concept, tech demo.
Which demonstrate real-time specular highlights, with specular Bloom, as well as real-time shadows)
The Level chunk (model) is repeated well over 800 times without a hit to the frame rate, (Man! You gata love the power C4 game engine offers)
Frame rate is capped off at a steady 60 FPS, at least on my rig..
Will have to upload some kind of benchmark Demo for you guys to measure performance, and report back.

Notes:
Model is very early and has not been properly UV Mapped yet, thus the starching.
Also the textures are only temporary, Notice the triangle pattern is not actually that found in Palm tree panic.
Palm tree panic's geometry isn't easy to model, lots of odd shapes and contours to work with,
This may take awhile >__<


By tuxmask75 at 2010-03-18


By tuxmask75 at 2010-03-18

 

An Updated model running in C4.... Cut back on alot of the extruded surface details.
Many more tweaks are in store for the model geometry,
So please, don't take this as the final result, especially for the textures since they have not been started yet. there is just so many ideas bursting,,,,
what do you guys think of the flattened out topography VS the above screens?

(still using the same temporary texture place holder, only frontal UV has been laid out correctly,)
Intended Graphical work-flow as follows,,,
Main level Geometry,
Grass and props,
UV Map unwrap,
Background model,
Texture Creation,
Shader creation,
Lighting setup.
There probably wont be any more screens till there is something worth posting.


Reference that was used to model


The 2 following screens showcase an Experimental process I'm working on using shaders,
The process will allow realtime aging of the textures, (Part of the time travel engine)
This will of course be taken much further, with Morphing level geometry, crumbling bricks, vines that grow, ect ect,