Update:

Finally finished the minimum spanning tree, got distracted by getting an android tablet and libgdx!

as Morgan Allen commented, the MST does ensure all rooms will be connected. Other connections will also be formed to add variation.
Next job, rastersizing the map, and then make the corridors, add lights, and raycast the lighting (hopefully with a new raycasting engine from my brother Regdon)





The images show the diverse room structure - which was lacking in my original idea. The rooms will vary in height and have stairs connecting them. Walls have not be generated at this stage.
I have also took this opportunity to change the class structure of my game tomake adding content to rooms easier.

@nate.  It's an amazing program. I looked at that page 2 days ago, neither method would work. But as soon as I use an older pc it will. It is probably me not understanding something.  But I have latest eclipse, latest nightly, everything, is as new as can be, yet it will not compile or run.

I've downloaded source, imported into eclipse, tried everything. Can't find main .method.

I have a feeling I need to use the 64bit lwjgl jar.  I  apologise if I am being a newb and doing something silly, but I spent 2 hours trying to get it to work. And I do recognise that it does obviously work, so I'm missing something!

Anyhow, it's very useful, and I would like to use it more!

Nice tutorial. I have been doing some particles in LIbgdx recently and have had problem after problem trying to run the Partical editor.

I think the problem is that there is no support for 64 bit java. I tried everything to get it to work. The only way it will work for me is to use an old computer.

Has anyone had this issue, or solved this issue?

Hi, this may or may not help, but a lots of topics where cover in my post as I got to grips with lwjgl. On page 3 there is a link to source code. It's not great code, but you can take bits, or compare bits, however you want to use it. I have use bitmap fonts in there, and vbo rendering.

http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/lwjgl-blockworld/28866/view.html

I agree with the motivation, when you are isolated from other programmers the forum provides access to a community of people who also want to code and develop ideas. People do seem friendly on here and offer help.

What you say Is true, there does not need to be a mission, and I think I chose that topic title poorly. Because really I just wanted to know what people thought about the community, especially as members where discussing the test needed to join.



Thank you for that it encapsulates everything!  

Yea, the forum is awesome, I have used it for info way before I ever joined.

Eclipse or Netbeans?

Hi, that looks really cool. Have you also seen voxeltron?  It also reminds me of those sandbox sand games.  3d rendered in 2d is interesting. FEZ explored that.  Will keep looking for your updates.

That is looking and working very well. It seems a shame to stop progress on it, but I guess you have an idea for another game now you have developed all the skills with this.

Or maybe you could do a UI and crafting?

I like your water, looks cool, your project has really developed so far!

Thats looking very good. Nice zombie. Would be interested to give this a play when its ready!

That sounds like a very cool idea. I think having controll over saving is good, and limmiting that even better as It createss tension and balance if done properly. Just being able to hit save at any oppertnity is very safe. Having limited save functionality makes you consider your actions more. The idea of exploring multiple futures is very interesting.

The only issues with save on quit is if the game crashes at anypoint, and also this can be exploited by just quiting and reloading whenever you want - you would not be able to acount for that.

I like your idea of giving the player psi points to spend. Then you are invoving them in that process of saving, and they have to use it as best they can rather than something to exploit.

I used 2 render passes for transparent water etc...

Wow never seen LOLCODE before.

Strangely it is quite readable, I guess it prints 1 to 10?

Amazing!

As a relatively new member and newbie cube world enthusiast, I was pondering how members of JGO view the community.

This is somewhat related to the post regarding the join-up process.

What would you say are the primary things the JGO offers...or what it wants to offer....

Education, Information, Socialisation, inspiration, or appreciation.. 

(There may be more I have not thought of)

As a new member I have received all of the above. What have you got from this and what do you feel the JGO should offer!

Thank you for that, will have a look thorugh that later and make some comparison with my code and hopefully and gain a few more insights.

Yes walkbias is from NEHE's tutorial.  I have scaled it down by 2.3 as the motion does not need to be as pronounced as the full bias of the character.

I looks like you are not translating and rotating it properly.

this is from a page on my blockworld page


you can also download my code, its on there somewhere. This part is halfway down the render method

@Kpars  Thank you for your positive comments


Thank you for that, originally It was only going to be first person, but after this comment I have considered the merrits of this and think I will include a 3rd person view. I could do more with that with regards to being able to select squares for movment that you couldnt see in 1st person. Also It would be more like a board game... so thanks for that.


I am using a fixed pipline, no shaders. All lighting is pre-calculated. At the moment it uses simlple raycasting, but I might increase the resolution of this. The main idea for this is I wanted to use lots of lights, with shadows.

Update:

I have restarted the generator after bing inspired by:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dlwc4/procedural_dungeon_generation_algorithm_explained/

I have made a partitial implimention of this. Working on the rest of it. I have also took this opertunity to change my room data structure to better develop the 3d element of the dungeon.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/VLyIIPT92Yw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/VLyIIPT92Yw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>

One the generator is complete I will post a working version of it online

Before making my current project in LWJGL I did use JMonkey. With JMonkey it was easier and faster to code, also my game looked better. But....

I just did't feel I quite had control or understood how it was working. I wanted to explore graphics from the ground up and solve the problems and understand how my own code worked.

Maybe I should have got a grounding first before Jmonkey, but now I have a little Idea about what I'm doing I wouldn't want to go back to it!

JUst looked at this, and Thought it to be an appropriate link to procedurally generated dungeons.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dlwc4/procedural_dungeon_generation_algorithm_explained/


I've also upload a video of GUI implementation for this project, but the videos a bit dark and all over the place! The GUI map now works!
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/spVIs6A0xQ0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/spVIs6A0xQ0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;start=</a>


I'm going to overhaul the visuals next.

That looks very smooth, will be interesting to see what you do with it.

I thought it was interesting before, but the switch to sci-fi is unprecedented on the excitement scale. That just looks so good!

The slopes leading to door have a very severe gradient tho. It might make for some interesting sliding mechanic?

 I hope it will be like space crusade! Makes me want to switch to sci-fi now!

Thank you for that.

Update:

Not had time to do much, but implimented raycast lighting, added pillers, and water.







Still fixing some generation bugs in them map, and started working on GUI
Need to refine the lighting shadow alitte to remove a few aberations.

I could not resist having a quick look at what shadows may look like. Please forgive me for defacing your exellent artwork. It really is superb.
I still like the clean fresh look you have made. But here is the results of my shading in! Used 2 overlay layers in paint.net.
One for shadow colour, one for illumination colour. I was just curious as to how it would look.

Yes programming can be so much fun.

Do a google search for quake 2 textures - lots of inspiration there! Amazing array of art to draw inspiration from.

Also the weapon balance in a game like quake 2 - every weapon can be as good as every other weapon - like you say depending on situation....oh..and skill with it!

Maybe you could buy armour, regeneration, as well...or bullets?

Looking cool!


This helped me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izKAvSV3qk0

This is great for vbo's

http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=24272.0

And I used this:



http://www.lwjgl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Using_Vertex_Buffer_Objects_(VBO)

good luck, tho I'm sure you will get that sorted.

Initially used triangles and found little difference with VBO's from quads. Though I believe quads are converted to triangles, so it makes sense to use triangles!

Wow that's fantastic! I love how that's all working.


I'm sure you will find a way to solve that. When I did the water on my map I stored the water In another array, this was partly because I used a second render pass to draw it semi -transparent. But it also solved the problem of it not being bound to chunks.

I'm not suggesting you do that, but a temporary list of moving water may help get around that. Or some good methods that deal with chunk boundaries.  Looks great!

Looks promising, love the light, and I can imagine the sort of mood you are aiming for.

Graphically the grey person has a very similar tonal value to the wall. This does not help the figure to stand out, but I also realise you may be wanting your walker to blend in and walk unseen?

Will keep coming back to see how it's going.

Looks good and I bet that will be a fun project to work on.

Your game should have a good feel to it. How come you have the floor/ceiling and wall textures at different resolutions? It's interesting but a little confusing. Perhaps you have placeholder graphics.

The other thing that is odd is your gun placement - how it does not point at the cross-hair. Maybe it does when You fire?

Not intending any critical thoughts, just curious as I like the look of it and am quite intrigued.
I love the gun graphic, and the colours, It looks like it will be atmospheric. Nice job of that.