2013-06-29, 05:11 PM
No worries , I like sharing pieces, especially ones I made for friends:-) modeling for me is so much fun.
All game engines have limits, even high dollar ones such as unity, unreal ect. Som is no different, just that som was made over 13 years ago, so it it has a few more..... However, som has come a real long way over the last few years... Thanks in part to HwitVlf, he made some really good tools to make importing new items faster. Holy diver has made HUGE IMPROVMENTS to the engine using his SomEx package.... Thanks to him we can now make custom enemies, and animated objects..... Also he has made an awesome translator built in so that folks who download our games anywhere in the world can play them with out jumping through hoops...Ex has vast potential to over come someof the limits..... It can be difficult to set up but verdite uses it and will gladly assist you with it as well...
Don't let the limits scare you away, let them by obstacles that you overcome.... And most CAN be overcome with clever programming... Som has features that are still used today by more expensive engines.... So for an entry level builder som is perfect to build a first person RPG. And don't be afraid to ask for help... Most here will gladly offer it, including myself verdite hgouls DMP hwitvlf, and many others.....
I will gladly give you modeling lessons, verdite is the texture master. That guy can do stuff in gimp that amazes me. And he is a super strong modeler his self. Hgoulsis a music guy, I mean professionally .... And has 2 som games under his belt... And a new mobile game that he built with som . DMP will give great advice when he can, he is pro game designer now.... The list goes on...
The major limits som has are ..... Textures limited to 256x256... Not too bad
Non stackable tiles... Can be overcome with clever modeling....
Square tiles..... Slight inconvenience
No reverse rotation.... Can be overcome by clever modeling
Map pieces limited to 1024... Holy Diver is working to fix this .
And a limited polygon count.... Sorry nothing can be done about that.
But like I said don't let that scare you..... Look at verdite's demo of rathmore, then you will see that even limited, son can build pretty impressive games............. Happy moddleing and building Havok ............ML
All game engines have limits, even high dollar ones such as unity, unreal ect. Som is no different, just that som was made over 13 years ago, so it it has a few more..... However, som has come a real long way over the last few years... Thanks in part to HwitVlf, he made some really good tools to make importing new items faster. Holy diver has made HUGE IMPROVMENTS to the engine using his SomEx package.... Thanks to him we can now make custom enemies, and animated objects..... Also he has made an awesome translator built in so that folks who download our games anywhere in the world can play them with out jumping through hoops...Ex has vast potential to over come someof the limits..... It can be difficult to set up but verdite uses it and will gladly assist you with it as well...
Don't let the limits scare you away, let them by obstacles that you overcome.... And most CAN be overcome with clever programming... Som has features that are still used today by more expensive engines.... So for an entry level builder som is perfect to build a first person RPG. And don't be afraid to ask for help... Most here will gladly offer it, including myself verdite hgouls DMP hwitvlf, and many others.....
I will gladly give you modeling lessons, verdite is the texture master. That guy can do stuff in gimp that amazes me. And he is a super strong modeler his self. Hgoulsis a music guy, I mean professionally .... And has 2 som games under his belt... And a new mobile game that he built with som . DMP will give great advice when he can, he is pro game designer now.... The list goes on...
The major limits som has are ..... Textures limited to 256x256... Not too bad
Non stackable tiles... Can be overcome with clever modeling....
Square tiles..... Slight inconvenience
No reverse rotation.... Can be overcome by clever modeling
Map pieces limited to 1024... Holy Diver is working to fix this .
And a limited polygon count.... Sorry nothing can be done about that.
But like I said don't let that scare you..... Look at verdite's demo of rathmore, then you will see that even limited, son can build pretty impressive games............. Happy moddleing and building Havok ............ML