WIP: SpringCombat

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#21

I see what you mean :). Thanks for pointing that out.

#22

A first go at procedural ship hulls:

http://www.springworldgames.com/springcombat/gameimages/procedural_ship_hulls.png

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#23

Nice! I love games that has procedural elements. It keeps it from getting boring and same-y, if it’s done correctly :slight_smile:
I think the ones that are only composed of (2 - 3) big ellipses are ugly… They need more shape than boring ellipses :stuck_out_tongue:

#24

Yes, some are ugly :slight_smile:

It is really interesting to see what can be done with different shapes. I want the friendly ships to be recognized by the shape grammar they use, for example more soft shapes or something else.

A future more tricky issue is to transform them to masses and springs while keeping them stable. Tesselation alone isn’t enough :slight_smile:

#25

This is a very interesting project, I like your experimentation with the procedural ships, looks super cool!

#26

Thanks!

Here are two videos that show some of the procedurally generated ships in action:


The second one also demonstrates the generative music module.

#27

Pretty cool!! Did you use the generative and reactive music module thing? I remember seeing a thread a while back where someone showcased this amazing tool to procedurally create music.

#28

I used my own music module, but I have also showcased it on JGO so I could be that someone :slight_smile:
Anyways, the following is a demo of the latest music module. It sounds a lot better now, but I am not satisfied yet:

The coolest parts are when the threat and intensity goes up and happyness down :slight_smile:

#29

Oh it was you!
Found it: http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php/topic,23674.0.html

Very impressive! I loved playing around with it. I’ll most probably use it when I make a game that needs generic background music!

#30

Here is a new video when I use my procedural ship hull tester:

The idea is that the player can evolve his/her ship and place weapons, rocket engines etc to be able to complete the levels. The interface will not be ugly like this though :slight_smile:

#31

Use Nimbus Look and Feel :smiley:


UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel");
#32

I tried that once and it looks a lot better :slight_smile:
I also remember that I had some crashes back then and I blamed Nimbus for it and switched back :wink:

Nimbus is very good for Java and Swing unless select is broken.

#33

What’s awesome is that they are finally bringing Nimbus in the javax.swing.plaf package for Java 7. What sucks is, even though there was a debate about it, they are not making it the default LF :frowning:

#34

I have made a nice little Ramming Test Video :slight_smile:

#35

That is pretty amazing!! Good job and good luck! :slight_smile:

#36

Ha, looks very cool! I want to play this game now. :slight_smile:

#37

Thanks for the encouragement :slight_smile:

Next step is to generate textures for the ships.

#38

Added another video about ship hull textures
ra4king: I used Nimbus this time :wink:

Here is also a video that demonstrates how the basic texture is made procedurally. I am using my own node system for this but it can be made with any procedural texture system (Blender, Genetica, POV-Ray etc).

#39

Added some fire particles that make the ship hull and rocket engines burn when damaged :slight_smile:

Short demo video:

#40

Added some better backgrounds and dirt particles. Here are some screenshots:

http://www.springworldgames.com/springcombat/gameimages/screenshot_1.jpg

http://www.springworldgames.com/springcombat/gameimages/screenshot_2.jpg

http://www.springworldgames.com/springcombat/gameimages/screenshot_3.jpg