Hay guys,
I thought I would as well post and talk about my entries. I hope you guys are OK with that. But if so, err to late /chuckles.....
This first one is my main Entry. I made it with the
TGE engine. Why? TGE you may ask? I know I did, err or would.
The reason is simple enough for now, I am very frustrated with the TSE engine at the moment because the
atlas terrain engine that is in TSE is buggy as hell.
I try and run across a mesa and fall through the paging that the atlas engine does, as well as other issues which I won't go into now. So I have been double and triple deving here with a number of engines to see what one I can get up and running with as few bugs as possible as fast as possible for now while I work on the KEWL engines that have shaders in them to really make these terrains/water pop out and look photorealistic as possible for me.
Lake ATOMIX
I just exported out a .PNG file at 257X257 for a height field from L3DT. Real simple and it worked Bang done deal. How sweet is that? and the world is still huge. But since there is no paging in TGE , I doubt I will get to far, but still I am having fun so that is the most important thing I think ATM for me anyway. anyway for now it is running at about what 36FPS? I think it shows in screens.
First Entry:
As you can see the water sucks, even with my own textures on it, the default was real lame and for some reason had no seamless tiles at all in the pack, go figure. TSE has great water though and am .looking forward to entering stuff in TSE when I get my chit together in it. A side note is after I post this I am uploading a bunch of Dev shots I did in TGE to my Dev page in case anyone wants to see more TGE shots of the new "Le Galleria TGE style" on this site.
Entry 2:
Number 2 is of Lake ATOMIX, an Estuary from my Development working up to taking it all into TGE/TSE/Ogre or any other engine for that matter. God I wish I could get the textures the way I see them in both Terragen and L3DT here soon into TGE. As it is I had to use the textures in L3DT I had made to paint on the terrain in TGE, fun but not what I have in mind for an end product. But I can share as I go along and it all gets to where I envision it to be.
Entry 3:
The final entry is mainly just for fun. The Island is all about Pirates and the Spanish main with Gold Dabloons and so forth, And wenches that we can have our way with, get my drift?? yarr matey? Arrr....../raises an eyebrow at the thought..
Well that is it from me for this month, I loved seeing Bryce used for entries, I love that old program and still use it for so much, and for some reason it always keeps surprising me, why I'm not sure, but am happy to see people use it, I still do also. Maybe next month I'll enter one from Bryce as well. Thanks for all your time guys and get some more entries in dudes.........
DT