Statistics: Posted by monkeyfrogstudio — 16 Nov 2018, 22:12
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Statistics: Posted by epsilonion — 16 Nov 2018, 11:21
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On another note, about the features mentioned.
Skyline had a great water (ocean) system in the 1st generation with costics etc that is to be brought back into the engine at some point, I think i remember them saying about a year ago that they where considering upgrading it to another middle ware.
They also have a river/lake editor planned in the original road map.
The weather system is easily made with lua and particles but there is a planned particle removal layer so you don't have to have the rain indoors. The volumetric clouds should be making a return soon (I hope) so that they can be some beautiful clouds again.
Day Night cycle is also already in and accessible via lua and the multipliers can be changed so night time is not as long.
I had a script about weather, seasons etc that I was making and I even planned to make the sun higher in summer and lower in winter etc but waiting for that to become available.
We are waiting for quite a few features to be made available to us even though there are quite a few that have started development and priorities changed meaning they are waiting to be completed but they will get there..
I am hoping that that within the next few months we see some real improvements on the features (GUI, Ocean, Clouds, PhysX Update and more), there are only two developers meaning that updates can be seen as slow at times but when they get there head into it the updates (posts to the forum and blog) come fast and the major features come quickly.
They are very approachable and may even consider options for features etc..
Hope this helps..
Statistics: Posted by epsilonion — 16 Nov 2018, 11:18
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The reason I bring up this engine is because it handles water, weather, and day/night cycles really well. It's easy to manipulate and change any of this and even animate things (the day/night cycle). Personally, I don't think the engine is as graphically nice as Skyline (and the UI is a bit of a mess in some ways), but these particular features are very nice, in my opinion.
Now, I have little experience with Skyline (waiting for the next release to purchase, to be frank, due to the GUI changes), so perhaps you have similar tools. If not, it might be worth taking a look.
Also, the S2Engine's FSM (Finite State Machine) form of visual programming is pretty interesting, too.
If this sort of post is not allowed, then please remove it. I am not bringing up a competing engine to say it's better. Quite the contrary. I simply wanted to point out a few features that I found interesting. I hope that's okay.
Thanks.
Statistics: Posted by monkeyfrogstudio — 16 Nov 2018, 00:17
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