Platformer 3D concept(unnamed)

Schuster

Hello, .....this is the platformer concept I'm currently working on and I'm basically getting started with Godot 3.0.2....but not with the Godot overall...so this is my v.3 learning project but i also hope for a good game or at least a demo :)

P.S. - spatial material used - no probes!

MagicLord

It looks interesting, what kind of platformer ?

Zireael

How did you pull off that amount of glow without probes?

Schuster

Thanks @MagicLord ....the basic idea came from "throwing frogs on the water" so player mechanics like....permanent jump and move with stop and direction changes + walls bounces. ......design aesthetics (will be) inspired much by games like Mirror's Edge™ and Portal. I think....I would like to have a city there too....like the whole level. There will be obstacles such as lasers, antigravity traps, magnetic traps, gravity lifts, moving and timed platforms. @Zireael it's just WorldEnv. node glow and spatial material adjustment (developers did a great job....the glow is really glowing ... not like in the 2.x versions)......if you want , I can upload some screenshots from settings but it's really easy. p.s. I'm sorry for delayed answer and Thanks for interest.

Schuster

......working on the better jumping disc

Schuster

some works on the character control (disc)....maybe need to improve. I'm using RigidBody here...character mode. .....using sleep to stop disc,yet.....but I need the disc jumps but does not move forward, it will definitely look better. Also I use Interpolated camera node(the advantage is, that is not needed to write a control script for the camera )....I just added cam. target (3d position node ) and a second target for a camera a little shake/move when disc has a collision with a floor.....not very noticeable (can be adjustable by moving the second target ) Thanks for watching and interest :)

MagicLord

The design suggest It looks like a small Ufo or space ship, it should fly why does it need to jump on platforms ? I don't find the design and gameplay coherent.

Schuster

:) Yes,.....looks like a ufo space ship a bit....but the first idea was such a jumping disc and platformer....sci-fi theme with some traps,obstacles....and maybe some puzzles. So design not according to custom ("ufo" disk must fly convention) but in the games not everything must be according to customs and logic , it's not this way? .....besides, players do not care about logic (I mean disc = flying ), but fun and nice environment! ;) .....edited ????

MagicLord

@Schuster said: :) Yes,you're right...looks like a ufo space ship....but the first idea was such a jumping disc + platformer sci-fi theme with some traps,obstacles....and maybe some puzzles. So design not exactly logical (disk must to fly ?) but in the games not everything must be according to customs and logic , it's not this way? .....besides, players do not care about logic (I mean disc = flying ), but fun and nice environment! ;)

A Jump disc is strange, i rather see some creature jumping or a ball, or something very funny like some disc with cartoon eyes and shape, some ideas catches attention other not. Perhaps this could turn in something cool and you can do anything for fun indeed.

Schuster

Thanks for a response...unusual...strange...peculiarities are spices for games ;) .....maybe this concept will be a successful for a full game or demo.

Schuster

....some design concepts for platforms...trees in town...silhouettes of skyscrapers ...etc.

Schuster

....so I just started working on first level.....something like a giant canyon of concrete walls and debris :) ...disc starts here and will continue, to the deserted city guarded by drones and full of booby traps and obstacles.

MagicLord

A detail stone texture for those huge structures would do good and many modelers do angle based auto unwrapping.

Schuster

Yeah...Thanks...,for sure, I will use a some texture on these huge walls structures

MagicLord

The game looks good, some distant sky billboards will make it look even better ;) Is this a project testing or a game project ?

Schuster

Thanks,...yes,...this too empty background....it doesn't look good. I'm not sure yet...a low-poly another walls or something like city structures......another possibility is that, it's all in the sky....and we can't see the ground and put some low-poly city structures/walls into the air rather than billboards....also I set for this scene a low value blur far DOF. ....this project is mainly testing to meet new options/possibility in Godot v.3.0.2...but maybe it could be a demo.

MagicLord

Like that turned to low poly ?

Schuster

Yes...something like that but easier :) ....just a simple structures. ....maybe like this with more details in the foreground "walls" and perhaps...rocks (why not)

MagicLord

@Schuster said: Yes...something like that but easier :) ....just a simple structures. ....maybe like this with more details in the foreground "walls" and perhaps...rocks (why not)

With bevel ,a texture, few trees and some grass meshes this will be good cube islands :)