It's been a while since I posted, more than a month actually. I've been pretty busy but I've added a handful of new things to my game.
The first thing you might notice is the UI. I've changed the colours and the look a bit to make it less boring. I'm not a designer, so maybe you don't like the look of it... I'm not sure myself, so if anyone has some hints about how I can improve the look of the UI, just let me know and I'll be very happy to improve it further.
The mini map takes a bit less space and the contour is generated automatically so it's not some translucent rectangle anymore.
I've added some starting blocks for fun and a basic implementation of shadow mapping which works only for the trees right now. The resolution of the shadow map is pretty bad for now and all other objects are too small to be considered in the shadow calculation... but this will be improved in the future.
I've added collision detection to the trees and the distance blocks, as you can see in the video when the ball flies into the foliage of a tree. The ball is also affected by the kind of soil it lands on, be it fairway, grass or earth. The video also shows that.
You cannot see this in the video, but the terrain is loaded differently. Before it was a model that I built in a 3D modeling software. But not it's just a height map (I plan on having hills and everything later on) and a terrain map to define what is where... type of grass, tree, starting position...
Depending on how much time I have I will try to have a new post with more features soon :)
And like always, comments are appreciated :)
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ReplyDeleteWOW, it's looks very impressive Golf demo for me
ReplyDeleteIf you make it more development as advanced,i think it could be a golf Sim as good as Golf game that Games in service
first of all,Ball movement and physical reactions are looks really as good as the Golf simulation
Where are you thinking about goal of this golf game project ?
do you have in mind that close to golf game that Games in service ? such as Shot online, or WGT ?
if you have in mind like that I would like to provide 3d resources such as 3d golfer models, golf courses,
and Golf player's animations, 3d object ( Trees, Bridge,Club house etc..)
the why i would like this is, I've worked for making Golf Game as a 3d graphic artist before with a programer
me and he tried make a golf sim as Open source game, but project was suspended by busy situations of each
but i have kept 3d resouces that worked for Golf sim
If you have in mind to progress your golf game as good as the Golf simulation
i'd like to support 3d resources for your you
i think if you make it better like that it could be good one for portpolio of your project
Also, I hope you get a good job
GL