Marathon: Infested » Uncategorized http://infested.coldfusiongames.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Progress Report 10-18-09 http://infested.coldfusiongames.com/2009/10/18/progress-report-10-18-09/ http://infested.coldfusiongames.com/2009/10/18/progress-report-10-18-09/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:44:05 +0000 Alexander Smith http://infested.coldfusiongames.com/2009/10/18/progress-report-10-18-09/ Sorry folks, but there won’t be any update tonight. I’m crunching time as it is to get a college paper finished, plus stuff to use for a presentation. I’ll have cool stuff to show next week.

Thanks.

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I also screwed around with the number of pfhor on the map. No, you will not this many in-game, it’s too hardware intensive, but it does look cool for screenshots. Enjoy!

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I have finished the 5th survival map. That means, I have only 1 special survival map to go, and all the maps for infested are a done deal. My next focus will be 100% animations, sfx, and just general work on all monsters. The great news on that end is that the guy scripting my monster AI is still making great progress, so hopefully these monsters will be plenty of fun to fight, and also a real challenge.

What I’ll do in the next few weeks is keep adding more and more different monsters to survival. I’ll also be working on the survival maps themselves. I want to get them fully “nodified”, and have good lighting and sounds and all that jazz. I’ll take screenshots of the action when I can.

Cya next week!

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Actually, that’s part of the problem. I have to make the spawners only spawn up to a certain number of pfhor, and no more. Otherwise, there’d be major framerate issues.

Sorry I could have more to talk about. Cya next time.

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Boy am I excited today. A very great guy on the dim3 forum, who goes by the name “ccccc” or “c^5″, answered me request for a basic AI script. He made a really good one in about 2 days. The script is very thorough, and easy to use. It still needs work, but it functions amazingly well already. Once I get the AI solid, and the Survival maps finished, and polish things a bit, I will see about doing a trailer of some kind

Btw, I wanted to tell you people, my college classes start on the August 21, but I will be back home at about 1400, which means I have LOTS of time to work on Infested. I don’t do that much work in the morning anyway. So don’t worry, development won’t slow.

See you next time!

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I’ll see you next week.

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Also, I will end up having 6 survival maps in Infested. Hopefully that’s enough. These maps will not be regular multiplayer maps.

  • Created new Juggernaut rocket
  • New particles for Juggernaut
  • Created new Pfhor Trooper grenade
  • New animations for Pfhor Trooper
  • New concepts for survival maps

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Progress:

  • Juggernaut AI is nearly finished.
  • Drone AI improved.
  • New basic Hulk AI.
  • New animations for Drone/Hulk
  • Started work on new *CLASSIFIED*
  • Many bugs fixes and more…

Cya next week.

NOTE: From now on, I will have a forum link for every progress report. Eventually all comments will be handled in a forum thread for easy moderation and spam filtering. At that time I will upgrade to a news/report system I have designed, that will not have built in comments (too spammy).

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Progress:

  • Modeled/UV mapped/Textured Pfhor Trooper
  • Modeled/UV mapped/Textured Juggernaut
  • Started work on last weapon. (Very secret…)

Forum Thread: LINK

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