I'm just playing to get to grips with the tools again.
I have owned Virtools for a few years and let my knowledge slip badly - with shaders now being a feature and 3D becoming more generally accepted I want to be able to offer small web games in 3D which have fab effects and small downloads. I mean the second example with media is about the same as the standard Blitz 3d executable minus media! :) Mind you - you do have to have the plugin in, but hey just like Flash and Shockwave.
I agree the cameras are pooh in the second one, but they could be static like the first one, with just changes to many different cameras as the character progresses. Good 3D game cameras are hard to 'get right' and I have only spent a couple of hours (literally) on the game environment.
The water is an animated bump map effect - and uses shaders and cube mapping too.
IPete2.
I have owned Virtools for a few years and let my knowledge slip badly - with shaders now being a feature and 3D becoming more generally accepted I want to be able to offer small web games in 3D which have fab effects and small downloads. I mean the second example with media is about the same as the standard Blitz 3d executable minus media! :) Mind you - you do have to have the plugin in, but hey just like Flash and Shockwave.
I agree the cameras are pooh in the second one, but they could be static like the first one, with just changes to many different cameras as the character progresses. Good 3D game cameras are hard to 'get right' and I have only spent a couple of hours (literally) on the game environment.
The water is an animated bump map effect - and uses shaders and cube mapping too.
IPete2.