Better?

Amazing !!
Works really well ...

getting another error, sure I will figure it out, probably got some media in the wrong places.
[update-ignore, I figured out what I did wrong oh dear ]

works very well, well done for achieving this
The only thing I noticed is his legs still animate when I jump, no big deal. Just gotta get used to controlling the Lunar. I broke it upon landing and tried to run to the ship on the other side and it flew off......charming ha......

Drop ship take off sequence.

Latest version for you lot to play with.

This version contains a simple mission plus I have polished (you can polish a ...) the sprite handling, i.e. it should work in any screen mode.

As this version contains at least one example of all the main elements I planned to include it is already suitable as a demo, if you make a standalone the sprites need to be copied over by hand, not sure why probably something to do with the directory they are in or something.

The only things missing are the cut scenes I plan to add and a few extra missions.

To get the zip file small enough I reduced the size of the textures on the Habitat model but the model itself is improved a lot, it is still in two parts but they are now scaled and oriented correctly.

Very cool AmenMoses,I will play with this soon.driving myselfe mad with a inside level at the moment.

Dave

If you haven't got the drop_ship model there is a link to it in a previous post, make sure to put it in the Sci Fi pack directory.

Subtle but cool addition to the take off sequence.

Working on a second mini mission, added the solar panels and storage tanks to the map display.

Has anyone tried this out on lesser hardware yet?

Awesome! I wish I could try it. I only have the mission to Mars pack. I can't wait to play your Demo.

wow great work.

will give this a try shortly before work.... good job so far on this

gettin lua error at moment with latest update. It most likely me and will have a look into it further when I get more time.

Make sure to delete the old moonlander directory before copying the new one from the zip file and make sure any new models are in the right places. This error is probably due to the new model in entitybank/user, I think if GG can't find the model it doesn't run the associated lua script for it.

Also, make sure you've copied over the .fpm file.

Video time, the first draft of the game briefing.

(btw I'm rapidly running out of animations on the basic characters!)

@Blacknyt46, what's the Mission to Mars pack? I'm using entities from the Sci Fi pack plus a few of my own (well downloaded from NASA at least), Belidos's drop ship and a few from the Mega packs and Classics which everyone should have.

New video (I apologise for the low resolution but I had to go down to 1360x768 to make the video small enough to up[load to vimeo!), showing the initial cutscene plus mission briefing etc.



As always, comments & suggestions welcome.

This is coming together amazingly !!
I need to get up to date with this but I'm so busy at the moment I haven't had time

Uhmn... that sound interisting. LOL

Hey, this is going better each day. I can see you get the letters appearing progresively.

I don't own "Sci Fi pack ", any problem to try your map, because this? (well, apart of the obviuos ones)
I've readed you want feedbacks about less resources pc, my laptop is no too old one, but the card is a crappy one.

3com

Firstly, I did not even know GameGuru could hide the main third person character and fly around in a spaceship, which is a little scary considering I'm the guy writing the game engine Amazing work on show here, especially the slowly building narrative and the different activities for the player to do. Was almost sad when the video ended as I wanted to know what Katherine had in store for the player? It was suggested that it could be included in GameGuru, but it looks like you would need the Scifi Pack DLC to make it work, so it might be better distributing it as a standalone game as an example of what can be done. Also good to see a game that does not involve shooting everyone in sight, and suggests that the third person system (when complete) could be a great driver for games with more narrative than direct combat.

Mega packs are purchase packs, so not everyone will have them.

This is amazing!

Yes the Mega packs are DLC's so you cannot give any of those assets away

good stuff, coming along nicely

Hmm, the decals are mainly from the Mega pack 2 as the base decals are a bit limited, some of the entities are from the classic stuff which was recently released so they are ok, the rest is from the Sci Fi pack, what I downloaded from NASA and of course the Belidos drop ship thingy.

All the scripts and sprites were created by me so they are ok.

Maybe this could be free DLC but only show up for download for people who already have the paid DLC? Don't really know how all that stuff works.

@Lee, hiding the third person is the easy part, getting the characters created in GG to work as third person is the hard part, I still need to turn off jumping and running but even then the animations do not fit with the 'lunar' theme. Having said that it doesn't detract too much from the experience, the important part is that the story is engaging and moves along fluidly.

What I would really like is proper lunar terrain textures, the asteroid ones (that probably comes form the Sci Fi pack come to think of it) are too dark and look far too regular. Tried to make my own but couldn't figure it out.

The text box thingy is something I'm quite proud of and is relatively general purpose, if you like fiddling around with gimp it is relatively easy to customise as well, just make sprites for al the individual letters, numbers and symbols in whatever font you want (the sprites should all be the same size) and create a background sprite. The script does all the rest.

The terrain map is also something I think could have many uses.

Anyone trying it out remember that it is important to set vsync ON in the GG setup file as that ensures everything moves smoothly, for some reason probably only Lee could fathom if you turn it off all sorts of strangeness occurs.

I think it would just make a great Game included in the core if I'm honest ..... Wonder if that could be sorted ?

Ahh just realised .... The Scifi pack is DLC as well ....I don't think it could in that case

I just read that Gene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the Moon, just passed away. I think it's sad that nobody has gone back there. I guess the disappointment of finding out that it's not really made of cheese was unbearable! For now though, we have endeavors such as yours!

LOL

3com

Latest version, just the scriptbank stuff and the fpm (which I may have omitted last time, oops) the other stuff is all available in earlier posts (i.e the skybank, entitybank and setup.ini).

This version includes everything seen in the last video plus a few more polishings, this turd will shine ).

I still have to finish off the 'kate' mission and add a few more missions I have already planned out.

I've also tried out Prebens new shaders with this and the terrain looks much better with them.

I just can't leave that drop_ship alone!

For anyone who is interested here is the script that does this:

looks great, it's the little details I like.....impressive stufff so far...

That's great ,i like the little angle changes as it is taking of.very cool .

Dave

It's the little dust puffs that are new here, attach the script to some small entities and scatter them under the ship then when the ship takes off you get little random puffs of dust.

The script uses a global variable that defines the ships x,y,z position and a flag that tells it the ship is taking off, you could change those and use this with a helicopter or even a ground vehicle.

Liked the dust puffs so much I extended them to the LEM.



Had to add the EBE in there as well, this will be the underground construction site eventually.

Great work.
But cheap sprites animations looks so cheap and bad, fortunatley particles system should come in GG.

More cool work nice one

Dave

Nice! I've been rethinking my previous aversion to doing space based games after seeing what you've done. A million stories could be told!

Ok, so the bad news first, I'm going to wait for 1.14 release before I go any further with this as there are some fixes in it that I need plus I am going to use the EBE for a couple of underground things. The good news is that in a few days I will put a new version up on here which includes the dust puffs and the completed 'kate' mission (complete with an update to the terrain map thingy to show mission objectives).

One thing I have realised is that the particle emitter, albeit limited, is actually quite cool and doesn't seem to affect the performance much, I'm using 18 of them for the dust puffs! I reckon that if Lee can add some more Lua commands to control them as part of the 'core' improvements it would make a massive difference to the apparent 'quality' of games.