The Road to PyWeek - Practice with Panda3D

Akake on 2010/08/09 18:50 of Gloryhound Rising

I've finally decided that I am going to work with Panda3D this time around.

To practice, I've decided to resurrect an old idea of mine: An Alien Breed clone.

Thus far, I've got a model of a space marine with an armature and a bit of skinning. (For those not familiar, skinning is the process of assigning each part of a model to a bone in the armature) (For anyone who knows better than me: I'm very new to 3D, so if I'm wrong, please correct me)

So far, though, it's looking like it might be more fun to have the camera follow the player from behind than to have a top-down view, so I think that's what I'll do. This project has gone through several language/library changes, but I think I can stick with Panda3D.

I've got it up on SourceForge, as well. I'd post a link, but because the name change hasn't taken place yet, a link right now would break some time in the next couple of days. (Not to mention that all I have is the model of the space marine and a window that doesn't do anything) I'll post a link once I've got something working. ("Working" meaning that I have a player character, some kind of level, and some kind of

Because I'm using Rect-based collisions, no ODE woes await me. (Rect-based collisions are more plausible for a character on foot, whereas I'd want some kind of physics for a vehicle)

I'm using a cartoony art style with a less-than-serious theme and a look and feel that is less-than-realistic. (For example, my space marine model as about 3 heads tall, which means that her body is only about twice as tall as her head)

I haven't decided what the baddies will look like beside the fact that they will be aliens. I've not yet decided any weapons other than a rifle and a pistol. I'm noting it because I have a habit of designing a whole game and then not making anything. (Mind you, I may sketch out some ideas for things, but I'm trying not to set things in stone right now)

I'm really going to try to make this one happen. I'm not giving myself a strict deadline just yet, either. I just want to get this done.

        --- Akake

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ikanreed on 2010/08/09 23:11:

Here's Panda3d's website.  I assume since I looked it up, others might want the link too.