A skeletal animation system is currently in development. It only handles transformations as of now, but soon it will be able to use model frames. I’ll use this for first-person animations and for attaching weapons & gear to the player (all player models will use frame animation).

As far as weapon customization options go, players will be able to purchase weapon upgrades for weapons they own using the points they earn in-game. In servers, hosts will be able to choose if these upgrades are usable and/or purchasable during games. In the upgrading menus, a pre-rendered weapon will be shown (unfortunately, a *.png must be made for each combination).

I’m currently working on/getting to:

1. Setting up two maps, “Waterfront” and “Ruins”.
2. Learning about the P3DC DLL (which I will use instead of Kingspace).
3. Setting up the shotgun and flash-bang models.
4. Full transform-list animation, with frame support.
5. Translating the weapon system into the engine playground (I’ll have to rewrite it with data structures instead of arrays).
6. Adding effects to the playground (HDR/Bloom, Volumetric Lighting?, Depth-of-field).
7. A runtime light ray generator (for those beams of light that come though trees, windows, etc).
8. Changing OMDTool to group models in frames; interface re-write.
9. Baking a layer of Ambient Occlusion over the lightmaps texture.
10. OMDTool model referencing (a lightmap will use the exact same geometry, but not the same UVs)

That seems to be it for now…
I promise that I’ll post some screenshots of the maps and new weapons soon. I just have to figure out how to get the Weebly preview on here.

Edit: I realized it ran at 20 fps because of a program I had running in the background. However, I would have to re-export the model anyway to add moving parts (like the bolt release).

It was not fun.

Second of all, I’ve been working on a sandbox/playground, a combination of all the engine components (I like to separate everything into different gmk files for some reason). Check the screens at the orbital studios website. I also added an ammunition counter to the hud, though for some reason I completely forgot to display the number of magazines left… I’ll work on it later.

I included some gray crates so you could see the blue and green lighting cast on them, not just the sunlight.

Also, some extra info: players will be able to switch to spectator mode when they are eliminated from play or when there are too many players in a game. Spawns will be chosen by the player – they will be able to choose at least 2 different spawning zones, each of which will contain spawn points. Also, there will be HDR in the next batch of screens… I’ve adapted Phantom107′s Glow engine to use lighting, and lightmaps will also be used shortly.

Edit: Okay, I lied… I’ve got more screens, but they don’t have HDR in ‘em – I’ve been too busy, and I need to redo the lightmap. What they do have, however, is a reticle, particles, and a screen of the editor.

The Depth Of Field Newly Discovered sent me is acting up… while trying to boost the fps, I found that the blur is very iffy. By resizing the capture view, the fps boosts to 60, but it definitely shows as pixelated… even the stuff not being blurred, which makes no sense. So I think I’ll render the view to another surface just to simplify it, then I can solve the problem (lol, I don’t want to ask for help again, we’ve already exchanged several pm’s and I don’t want to annoy him).