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WIP Hex Engine – Video Walkthrough – [… now with even more gates and drawbridges!!!!] (19 posts)

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thetoucher350p said 4 months ago:

After just under a fortnights progress, I have finally got around to making a 720p video of my WIP Hex Engine, covering a few of the features that are in there right now…

Here are some screen grabs from the video for those who can’t be arsed watching

Simple building, nothing too fanacy here

Advanced multithreaded pathfinder

patherfinder debugging

Nifty panel used for debug toggling
+ loading and saving maps

Edges : attach to the sides of tiles
- ladder edges included in pathfinder

building a simple castle

one of the test levels

lighting the hex mesh
- recently added normal and parallax mapping support

AI

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normen1291p said 4 months ago:

Great look, fantastic work! When you add a screenshot option, let the user add a depth blur filter and they will be blowaway

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sbook263p said 4 months ago:

Beautiful work James! And the music even grew on me

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thetoucher350p said 4 months ago:

Cheers normen, good idea, the filters are hard coded in but wouldn’t take much to put some controls in Nifty.

Thanks Skye, the music in the video starts during one of the peaks in my mix… which was a bit dumb… I kinda just slapped it over the video… which reminds me: for anyone who cares enough, you can grab a copy of the full 30 min mix here.

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survivor106p said 4 months ago:

Really impressive!

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erlend_sh132p said 4 months ago:

Was watching it with some VFS classmates. Our jaws dropped when you removed the underlying piece to make the castle. I just assumed this system would have similar restrictions to a heightmap, so this was a very pleasant surprise.

Where are you going with it from here?

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nehon591p said 4 months ago:

I’m astonished!
This is one of the most amazing things i’ve seen made with JME3.
How many time did you take to make this?? i mean…you finished the cove like one month ago…
You could have won the contest with a game like that….. ho yeah….you won the contest…. but still.
The cove was amazing but this is waaay beyond it.

Congrats dude, great work!!

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snareoj28p said 4 months ago:

Really impressive.

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Dodikles54p said 4 months ago:

Great work, man. I am very impressed

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InShadow15p said 4 months ago:

This is purely awesome. I can just imagine Civilization clones spawning.

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thetoucher350p said 4 months ago:

thanks guys.

@erlend_sh said:
Where are you going with it from here?

The engine will form the base for the next game I’ll be working on, I plan to build that game as a mod for this engine… not sure if this will work yet but it has really helped to better structure my code i.e. keep game specific logic out of lower level systems.

@nehon said:
How many time did you take to make this??

I’ve been working on this for just under 2 weeks, full time, with a few days off for “research”

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shirkit20p said 4 months ago:

Well, it looks really good with that prebuilt AO.

I was designing a Hex Engine to handle the terrain of my game. Units wouldn’t be hex-based, only the terrain itself, maybe some decoration and buildings. And on the top of that, I could easily build a navigation mesh for the AI. But that’s all on design, charts, images and pseudo code yet =P

Sorry to ask, but do you plan releasing the engine?

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Momoko_Fan371p said 4 months ago:

So what kind of game will it be? RTS?

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thetoucher350p said 3 months, 4 weeks ago:

I don’t plan on releasing the source any time soon if that’s what your asking.

The game details are still being worked out, what I can tell you is it will be hex tile based, there will be building, and there will be some pathfinding

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atomix72p said 3 months, 4 weeks ago:

This is going to be a huge thing!!!!!! ;p

Currious: Is that path finding feature in you game -> a “Hex A* path finding” Algorithm ?? Look like the most advanced AI stuff I saw in the last few years, since Hero might and magic!

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