Since you already need part of it for the actor browser, would you be willing to make a separate model viewer once you have everything up and running? Perhaps with viewable animations and the ability to add accompanying models (weapons, helmets), if it's not too much to ask?

(let's just lob more things to do at stinkee)

But seriously, I'm incredibly excited by all of this. Thank you for your work!

Do you mean just for the animated models or for any model in the game?

I'm not sure yet where the actor accessories come in, I mean whether they're added through the game's code or defined in the files. If they are defined in the files then I will write the code that will give them their accessories in the viewer. Otherwise I can make it a manual process in a separate model viewer. I know that the accessory attachment points are defined in the actor files along with some skeleton and animation information. So animation viewing is definitely possible and I plan to implement it in the future. That will come after the next revision.

I like when people suggest things. It makes me feel like what I'm doing isn't a waste of time. I'm excited as well, mostly to see what people do with it but also because I love this game and I want to get just a little more life out of it if I can. The PC version is a less quality product than the PS2 version. I think that with a tool like this we could improve it enough that it actually becomes worth playing for me.

It would be a dream come true if I could somehow enable online multiplayer. Unfortunately I think the best we could possibly get would be "multiplayer" with a constant flow of enemies from enemy generators placed around the maps. Even that might be a stretch depending on how much is hard coded into the game.

I've been taking a break for a few days by the way, I haven't made much progress since my last screenshots.

I Noticed it said "Clubpickup" in one of the pictures. Thats very odd seeing how you never pick up the club ingame. You start with it instead.

It gets more odd as you go through. I've seen some clown heads and rubber ducks, and this weird little cartoonish character called "JINX"

The new content that is posted in this thread every time I view it never ceases to amaze me. What started as a viewer is already now close to adding new things to existing maps. Do you have plans to give the ability to create entirely new maps with this program in the future?

I'm not sure how long things like this usually take, It does seem to be moving along pretty quickly with the exception of the week or two where I was doing nothing. And I do plan to add that functionality in the future. I'm not sure how it will work with the actual game though, new levels might have to go in place of an existing levels.

Another thing I plan to do is see what I can do about enabling the multiplayer capabilities. I imagine that it might be a data driven thing, meaning I can change the menus up to get it to load a multiplayer level with a game mode even without a second or third or fourth player. That's as far as I expect it to go though, the rest is probably in the game's code unfortunately. So we would only be able to get to fight AI in multiplayer mode and they'd probably never actually play the games. Just try to kill you.

If that's not a viable option, there must be some .ATR data in the menu files that means "Load this level when selected". If that's the case, then we might be able to get a main menu option for loading user created levels, which would be cool.

I Dont wanna sound weird but could you possibly do a test of the maximum actor limit in a level by placing a HUGE amount of monkeys in the level and firing it up later?

That'll make for a great screenshot. Though, recent discoveries lead me to believe that there is no limit on the number of actors other than available RAM. I do want to do that now just because, once I implement the ability to add/duplicate actors.

Also, here are some screenshots of the UI I've been working on:






The values you see are not yet editable, but they provide some neat insights to how the game works.
In the future these values will be easily changeable by clicking on them and just entering a new value. They will also be saved to the level to be tested with the game.

After that, a better move/scale/rotate tool, and the ability to add/delete actors I think it would be accurate to say that the project is more than half way completed.

From what I know things are moving great here instead of just viewing it, you can interact and trust me just looking at models is a big tease I know. Interacting is a great sign. I really look forward to the stuff you are implementing. Thanks because I really would make some levels for sure keep it up. But the project has been very interesting to follow so far

Did you post them yourself there? These guys are funny here

I placed them there just for fun. Also, I think I now have the ability to actually add other actors to a level. My next updates will be to the UI. I plan to add a nice scrollable view of every actor in the game. Something like this:


That could be used to select actors to add to a level. This is fine for editing existing levels, but it won't get REALLY interesting until I find a way to import meshes from 3D editors to make new objects and new levels.