GLGE WebGL Library/Framework » new release http://www.glge.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 WebGL – A Platform Game in GLGE v0.5 http://www.glge.org/webgl-a-platform-game-in-glge-v0-5/ http://www.glge.org/webgl-a-platform-game-in-glge-v0-5/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:53:27 +0000 Paul Brunt http://www.glge.org/?p=169 I’ve finally got round to pulling stuff together for a well overdue release. Since this one is so late I’ve skipped a couple of versions as an indication of how much has been done since v0.2.

Some of the new features:

  • Environment Mapping
  • Bounding Volumes
  • Render to Texture, with built in oblique near-plane clipping, for reflections and refractions
  • Collada Animation support
  • Completely re-done skeletal animation; there is no longer a limit on the number of bones.
  • A new particle system
  • There is also experimental soft shadow support.

You may have noticed that the original GLGE animated man disapeared a little while ago. Unfortunately he doesn’t work in the new system and I seem to have lost the original blend file, so I don’t think I’ll be able to bring him back :-( ; I have however done a completely new test man with animations. As always I’ve had to rush the modeling and animation to get it done – one of these days I’ll spend some proper time on the arty side of things ;-)

Anyway I’ve used the new man in a simple platform game. It’s still very buggy as I’ve not sorted out proper physics yet but it shows off v0.5 quite well:

Play Live Demo

Video:

If you’re intrested I’ve made the blend files for this one available with the export script, which still needs a little manual intevention, but it’s getting there slowly. Download:

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  • shadow
  • collada support
  • gpu picking
  • fog
  • text rendering
  • parrallax mapping
  • and many optimizations
I’ve put together a little demo showing off some of the new features; it’s quite large so may take awhile to load on slower connections. I wanted to do something a little more involved but I think that will have to wait for the next release:
The Video
Features in the works, that will be coming in the coming weeks/months:
  • Some better documention and tutorials
  • software picking
  • particle system
  • cube mapping
  • reflections
  • refractions
  • physics
  • and much much more
On a slight side note, something that is definitely worth a look, katalabs have release a very impressive demo of webgl:
http://www.katalabs.com/blog/
A few credits for the models used in the GLGE demo above, if I’ve missed someone off shout:
entertainment cabinet – trigram_QWQ
http://www.jintudesigns.com/free-3d-models.html
table and chairs –  © Google CEO at Google Warehouse
sofa – © resources.blogscopia
http://www.3dvia.com/mgbaron/models/B6335AACBE90A2B4
coffee table – © Alexandre BRETHEAU
http://www.3dvia.com/Le_Faya/models/1AAC3E1022340618
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