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 am still really unhappy with the frame rate, I constantly pester Stinkee about it. so you guys probably won't see much from me in the way of visual improvements, I'll be busy investigating and possibly re-doing our back end rendering for a while until I'm satisfied that there isn't some core problem eating up frame time.

Progress update:
I've updated part of the loading/saving code to make it even more forward-compatible with still unknown data block types.
I've also started working on both the object manipulators and the garry's mod style object loader. Here are some screenshots:








As you can see, it's still quite messy. I'm still working on it, when it's done the objects will be centered and viewed from an angle that makes them more easy to see. They also won't be upside down.

The list on the right is a list of actor types (named ACTOR_CODE in the .ATR files), and when you click on them the grid on the left displays all of the objects in the game with the same actor type. This was the easiest and most sensible way for me to sort the large amount of objects and make them easier to find. Interestingly, there are exactly 100 types of actors. The range of types is wide and gives me hope that the levels that can be made with this tool will be at least as immersive and intense as the actual game levels.

Here's the state of the object manipulator

It is very exciting seeing the dinosaurs and weapons in this format Stinkee!

But the clown was the best part about Evolution. :V



Jinx was the original name for Acclaim's Vexx. Why a couple of Vexx models got packed in with Evolution is a mystery (probably the same reason for all of the random test models: nobody bothered to delete them ).