Brainstorming Discussion

[JSoftware]

My current plan is to make a top down arena shooter. In 3d. The asset are already somewhat finished, but now I just need a 3d model loader with animation support(and an exporter from some 3d program..)

[Traveler]

Good luck with that. I've searched a lot for that in the past couple of days and there really isn't much available.

[Legolas]

I'm just thinking about making something out of competition. I have a lot of small code snippets and examples I wrote for my nds programming book, and it should be funny to recombine them in a small "one key" casual game. My idea is: you control the wings' flap of a bat, that needs to avoid obstacles and, at the same time, to eat bugs/flies to increase energy. The goal is to get the highest score as possible

[chronozphere]

My current plan is to make a top down arena shooter. In 3d. The asset are already somewhat finished, but now I just need a 3d model loader with animation support(and an exporter from some 3d program..)

DeleD supports animations and a way to export it. I believe Paul Nicholls was working on that so you'd better ask him.

I do have a great game idea, but I still have to find time. Today, I will try to find a suitable library for me to use (with accel. 2D graphics, particles, sound and basic input). I will have more time next weekend and the week thereafter so things will run a bit slow for me in the beginning. Hope to see some good screenshots from other competitors soon.

[paul_nicholls]

My current plan is to make a top down arena shooter. In 3d. The asset are already somewhat finished, but now I just need a 3d model loader with animation support(and an exporter from some 3d program..)

I had made a ms3d model exporter plugin for DeleD if you are interested:
http://www.delgine.com/plugins/viewP...s&contentid=32

It was slightly buggy, but I have since loaded the source code up to a server, and I think someone else has improved it slightly (don't know if they have uploaded it though)

Here are the projects for DeleD and some of it's plugins, including my MS3D one:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/deled/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/deled-plugins/

PS. it looks like some of my MS3D code was updated 7 weeks ago...

there is a unit_MS3D.pas that you can use to load MS3D models into Delphi

I don't know how to get the actual animation going in Delphi, etc, you would have to look that up on some MS3D site...

cheers,
Paul