Frankie Taylor: jfk,
Once again. Amazing work. Classic FPS Game Play. I'm not sure if you plan to build
more levels, but, it would be nice to see the plot unfold.
eni: First of all, I have to say this is an amazing accomplishment. It shows both how
capable you are, and how capable blitz is. I certainly respect this work.
(Oh, and Wow! Decals on the people...err...corpses. Am I seeing things??)
The water effect is beautiful.
The style and textures give the map such depth.
The doors are done well.
The crates look great.
And so many other things...but you know that already.
Dave: this thing SERIOUSLY rocks. I was always impressed by the first stuff you release
jfk, but this new stuff is really good.
The CSP Game Engine is a first person perspective game engine for Win32 and DirectX.
This project was started a few years ago by a small number of PC games programming
enthusiasts. Over time more and more features were added.
Due to third party requests we have made the tools available, based on a Engine License
product. We are desperately trying to put a full game together. The level design takes
a lot of time, noless we have released a few maps in the past.
We are still looking for team members, especially character and map designers, as well
as GUI specialists.
Newer news
A grass engine was added. The editor allows to define grass zones.
Primitives are used to cover areas where grass should grow. Density, range, contingent of quads and more of the
grass can be defined in a cfg file. The approximate color and brightness of every quads underlying
piece of ground is sampled and used to pseudo- lightmap the grass quads individually.
The result is a breathtaking atmosphere of shadow and light. The grass quads are
animated, using offset sinus rotation. Wind speed and force are defined in the cfg
file as well.
It is a simple system and it isn't perfect. But if you actually play a game and
don't just stare at the grass all the time then it surely adds some realism to the
look and feel of outdoor scenes.
I have to confess, again I made a big mistake when I designed this demo level. This map is
looking like a volcano crater. The player can often look from one end to the other end of
the map. So I had to set the camera range up to about 550. So basicly the whole map is rendered
and processed all the time. Therefor on an older card like eg. the radeon 9200 the
framerate will drop down to a number that feels more like a slideshow.
Nonetheless it's perfect
possible to create fast maps, including dense grass. Just design them with a low
camera range in mind. For outdoor areas this would be canyons that are obstructing
the players sight.
Plans
Over the years the engine has been edited again and again and unfortunately now there is some
inconsistence in the way things are used. This is confusing people
and makes it harder to learn how use the engine.
But the good news is this problem can be solved with relative ease. Every
configuration whatsoever can easily be made with a simple GUI tool. So the plan is
to write a graphical user interface that "wraps" all settings, config files etc. of the engine and
allows to run the several editors in additional windows or to test an edited
level with the game engine.
If this is once done then I want to add something like conditional dialogs and
dialog based storylines. I wish I could start with this now, but the GUI thing must
be finished first. :o/
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