After rewriting the tileengine again, I get this:


You can see a blue circle at the mouse pointer - that is an editor function:
you select 1 edge of the tile and change height or texture.
No more need to select from 100s of filters.

This version uses 4 texture units (nr 4 is reserved for fow, etc)
The horizontal lines are filtering errors. I must sacrife at least 4 of the src textures.
That means we have 28 textures in the atlas left.

 

Woot! 3D mapping is going to be fun.

depends smacky, if its going to be done in an editor? or ill things have a Z value? or will the map need to be done in blender and all npc's models object etc coded in manually - that would be the worst :/

//edit AWESOME gfx card getting 510 fps what would u get normally? 250+?
also very nice job on the engine, i cant wait to see what 3d models daimonin and its community are going to come out with

Yes, all will be done in an editor. As I mentioned before it will be very easy to create new worlds.
Just click on an edge of the tile (1 tile = 9 edges) and press 1 to increase the height or 2 to decrease the height,
Same with 3/4 for the texture. Its of course only a hack. the final editor will hande it much better.

Another benefit of the new format: Random maps are very easy to create.

well ist the only the second best lod, on my big machine with a 6600gt card. so dont wonder about the fps too much.

what about trees? or object wont be effected by the edges? because a tree with only 9 edges wont look very purty

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Its only the floor tiles that are being demonstrated here (as I understand it).  Then of course you have to add walls, flowers, fences, rocks, doors, windows, etc. and those WILL be full 3D objects.

Great job poly! It will be really easy to make mountainous areas now . Can't wait until we get to see a near-completed scene (with the things torch mentioned).

It would be nice to be able to use the maps that we've made in client3D in some way... maybe it can't be a total 100% conversion... but perhaps it could use the position of the objects in 2d and translate them to 3d, then we'd only have to manually mess with the floors...

Cheers,
Unislash

A demo can now be found on the sourceforge page.

[Update]
Here is a small overview for the "editor" function of the client3d.
It's not really an editor but a little helper for all that want to play arround with the tiles/shadows.

press 'g' to switch on the grid
press LMB on an edge of a tile (you see a light blue circle now => the marker)
by r, d, f,c you can move the marker
by 1,2 you change the height
by 3,4 you change the texture
by 5 you draw the last selected texture (done by 3,4) to the new marker position
by s,l  you can save/load the current map

I just checked out the demo release earlier today. And I have to say that you have done a tremendous amount of work and an excellent job well done at that! Greatly appreciated .

Cheers,
Anich

thx

If you compiled the client3d on linux and didn't see the grid:
there was a typo in -> tile_manager.cpp
search for Shadow_ and replace it by shadow_