Category Archives: Codename ‘Colina Silenciosa’

This project hasn’t even hit Alpha and I’m already thinking that, after finishing it on Unity, I’m remaking it on UDK.

Reason:

Been watching too many UDK tutorials, it looks simple to use, better yet, it looks logical.

That and Lightmass looks way faster than Beast.

That is all…

So I finally started working on this project more often than once every two months.

And stuff is getting done, after ~1 week working every other day we already have a basic — yet good enough for now — inventory system. Not complete, only object pick up is working for now. With object thumbnails and all.

Now the bad side of things, thanks to Cruz, who finally erased his whiteboard a couple months ago and doing so erased the little work we had already done as far as names, we had the name of the game, the name of the town where the game takes place, couple other names I can’t recall and a little start on the game…hmmm, what should I call it?…mythology?

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Finally finished the simple model I was making with Blender.

It ended up looking nice enough (don’t worry, it looks far worse after importing into Unity), guess I’ll use blender from time to time on simple objects especially if I have time to waste, since what takes me 30 minutes on max takes over 2 hours on blender at least for me (this is due to not being used to blenders workflow, I’m not criticizing blender (must be the first time such thing happens…I feel dirty ))

Talking about Unity, I finally managed to make a tree on the ‘tree thingie’ a couple of days ago. Then I deleted the tree and never spoke of it again…

Finally got a terrain heightmap that I liked, still not perfect, but better than the previous one. Looks like I was finally able to use L3DT correctly, although it still lacks a bit of control.

As far as new 3D models, made a new bridge model (kind of…still being finished), next I’ll do some small props (a first aid kit, a toolbox, that kind of stuff)

Decided to finish the 30-day trial of Unity Pro and switch to free, reason: afraid of getting used to the pro features.

Talking about Unity, still trying to figure out how to use Beast.

Well, I decided to start posting my rants about ‘Colina Silenciosa’ on my website instead of the team site.

So, yeah, after being halted for some time, I decided to start working on it again.

Nice…so what am I doing now?

Scrapping the – few – models already made and remodelling everything. That includes the terrain in Unity.

Which brings me to L3DT – that I use to make the heightmap to import into Unity, Unitys terrain editor is a bit…crappy – which I can’t seem to work very well with, my biggest peeve with it is control, again, I love to control the measures on my 3D models and I wish I could do it on terrains too.

Another fun thing is that we are using a square 4 km by 4 km terrain, yet, for the storyline and other planned buildings we would need less than half of that (ie. 2 km by 2 km, which is in fact one fourth of the area, but you get the idea). Let’s call that ‘artificial gameplay extension’, we make the game look long due to you having to run around for hours between planned events (Hello Oblivion…and a few others of the same style).

All for now, will be back with more ranting some other day.