Hey, guys. Been working on some Dark forces inspired game art! It's all simple diffuse maps with Beast lightmaps on top, running in unity.
I'm planning to have this be a quickie demo of a 3rd person retro shooter on mobile devices. I also got started on a custom Corellian Transport that'll be sitting in the Imperial hangar of the base - something that's taking a lot longer to finish than the hallway test did!
When that's done, I've got a plan to do a Sentinel Class landing craft in the same style, and then start piecing everything together into a playable level. I've got no grand plan for this - I just want to see how much cool stuff I can pack into one mobile shooter level. I do plan on releasing it for free when I'm done.
Enjoy!
Sweet stuff. I like how everything looks newer, but it still looks low-ish quality, like the games from the '90s. I love Dark Forces, it's one of the best SW games from the '90s, in my opinion. (though, there are a lot of great SW games from the '90s)
TALON_UK: Yeah, totally! I have some incredibly fond memories of this game - and I played through it not too long ago, and it's still really awesome.
evil_genius_180: Thanks! That's exactly what I'm going for.
Here's an update! Got the thing running on android. If anyone wants to give it a shot, PM me.
Enjoy!
I agree with you on the game, it's easily one of my top 10 FPS games. One of the things that I love about it is that it's all FPS, at no point does your character use a lightsaber, unlike the sequels. I think it was one of the first, if not the first, Star Wars games to not have any lightsaber or space ship combat. I have it on Steam. Unfortunately, their version isn't Linux compatible, though. (which is stupid because it's a DOS game) However, I can download it on Windows (or WINE) and copy it to my Linux drive and play it by using DOSBox to load it, without Steam. In fact, I may have to do that later. Talking about it is putting me in the mood to play.
I don't know how you do it, playing old games was like playing with lego, very blocky but you used your imagination to fill in the details, somehow you have improved it but retained that old feel so you still use your imagination, that transport in the first post is the perfect example of this
I loved the earlier Jedi Knight games, those were fun!
Then when you finish, you go back and put in cheat codes so you can dismember stormtroopers with your lightsaber....
Absolutely loved playing Dark Forces when it first came out (yes, I'm that old). Some people and I were all playing it to see who could get the farthest first. Spent many a lunch time playing it. Unfortunately, I can't play video games any more due to a vertical imbalance in my eyes and difficulty seeing through bi-focals, the game play makes me very nauseous. Miss the good old days of networking two computers together with a null cable and competing with my son, who even at that young age would whip my butt!
Wow, that's fantastic! I absolutely LOVED Dark Forces when it first came out - it was the first time that you could really run around in the Star Wars world and shoot stuff Funny, I just installed it again about a week ago. You're implementation looks perfect, the juxtaposition of the low-res textures and 2D character sprites with modern day reflections and light sources really works. :thumb:
The android version is straight out of the '90's, so great work there! control is a bit rough, i cant shoot anything and moving took a little to figure out. Nicely done!
Well, on my Android tablet, it tells me that it can only be installed on Android devices. :shiner:
The other link does nothing, all I get is a white box.
Oh, shiiiiiiiiit - so what's your tablet type? Is it very recent? Or very old? I will get an actual .apk link up so you can grab that.
The android version is straight out of the '90's, so great work there! control is a bit rough, i cant shoot anything and moving took a little to figure out. Nicely done!
Thanks! Still really working on the controls. Hopefully they'll be better soon.
Hey, that's really great so far. I finally got it working, after I downloaded it to my real computer and transferred it via the USB cable to my tablet. (remember, a tablet can replace your laptop :rolleyes:)
60 FPS. It ran pretty smoothly. Great job so far. :thumb:
By the way, I figured out my issue with downloading the .apk on my tablet wasn't limited to your link. I was trying to download something from another site last night and it didn't work there either. So, it must be an issue with the latest version of Firefox for Android, because it worked the last time I tried that before I upgraded. :rolleyes:
So! Some updates for you - I added a hangar, a Tie Fighter, and put the Rebel Corellian in the scene as well. It's now in Unity 5, and after much fiddling, I managed to get the lighting working like I'd like. It's still ages slower than the old Beast Lightmapper (This scene would take 5 min in that, it takes almost 45 in Enlighten), but at least the quality is there.
Here's an update - I've buttoned up the hangar, added front and back walls, reflections and a bunch of other good stuff. I also figured out how to get the Lightmap bake times in enlighten down to a reasonable number. in beast I was looking at 4-5 minutes tops... Enlighten was taking almost 4 hours. I've gotten that down to 25minutes - which is something I can live with.
And for those of you curious, here's how I did the reflections!
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evil_genius_180: Thanks! That's exactly what I'm going for.
Here's an update! Got the thing running on android. If anyone wants to give it a shot, PM me.
Enjoy!
I agree with you on the game, it's easily one of my top 10 FPS games. One of the things that I love about it is that it's all FPS, at no point does your character use a lightsaber, unlike the sequels. I think it was one of the first, if not the first, Star Wars games to not have any lightsaber or space ship combat. I have it on Steam. Unfortunately, their version isn't Linux compatible, though. (which is stupid because it's a DOS game) However, I can download it on Windows (or WINE) and copy it to my Linux drive and play it by using DOSBox to load it, without Steam. In fact, I may have to do that later. Talking about it is putting me in the mood to play.
http://www.hedfiles.net/DFMobile/DFMobile.html
I don't know how you do it, playing old games was like playing with lego, very blocky but you used your imagination to fill in the details, somehow you have improved it but retained that old feel so you still use your imagination, that transport in the first post is the perfect example of this
Then when you finish, you go back and put in cheat codes so you can dismember stormtroopers with your lightsaber....
Say- hope you do more star wars stuff- as everything you do turns out great.
https://build.cloud.unity3d.com/distro/install?id=byTfXZ5A2
Please let me know how it works for you.
Enjoy!
The other link does nothing, all I get is a white box.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, 2012 version. So no, not very recent. "Very old" depends on your point of view, I guess.
http://www.hedfiles.net/DFMobile.apk
And let me know if it works for you!
Thanks for taking the time to check it out!
By the way, I figured out my issue with downloading the .apk on my tablet wasn't limited to your link. I was trying to download something from another site last night and it didn't work there either. So, it must be an issue with the latest version of Firefox for Android, because it worked the last time I tried that before I upgraded. :rolleyes:
Anyhow, if you'd like to play the latest build, here are the links:
Android: https://build.cloud.unity3d.com/distro/install?id=b1eKEIdha
Webplayer: https://build.cloud.unity3d.com/distro/install?id=b1MP48_2p
Enjoy!
Thank you for your time and effort Howard Day.
And for those of you curious, here's how I did the reflections!
Enjoy!