Blender

[KnightsFan]

Have you gotten any other textures to work in GLSL?

Earlier you said,

however, the texture just doesn't show, it's simply the material I used for the ground. =/

Are you sure your texture is linked to the material? When in the Textures editor, you should see something like "object name" -> "material name" -> "texture name"

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Not personally; though the texture in the test file from that movement thing worked.

I need to check that; lemme look quickly... Yes, it is; though... Should I look into the 'world textures' tab? Even if it's there in the material textures tab?

[KnightsFan]

Have you tried a side-by-side comparison of the textured object that works and the one that doesn't?

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Not really, sicne they're in two separate files... =P

[KnightsFan]

I really don't know what to tell you. I would try creating a test file just to see if you can get textures working at all. If you can, then do the exact same thing with whatever it is that's not working. If it still doesn't work, you know it's some lighting or world setting, and not the object itself.

By the way, I've started using Blender's motion tracking features to put CGI on live action footage. Also, version 2.64 has a new masking tool, which is super helpful (since I forgot a greenscreen on my last shoot).

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I really need to download the new version too... If only it didn't need to effectively replace the old version. =P

But yeah, I'll hopefully try to test it eventually; it's just odd that it won't work. Maybe I'll compare, see if the brick texture on the movement test thing has any different settings or so.

[KnightsFan]

What version do you have? If it's 2.5 or 2.6, I think everything should work the same.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

2.63

Hence why I'm not upgrading until I get further into working with lightning. Because I want shadow-granting lightning, but I don't want to deal with the hassle of reinstalling Blender just for an updated version yet. =P

[KnightsFan]

Oh. I just went 2.62 to 2.64 to get the new masking and character physics. The character physics don't actually work very well, actually. However, polygonal faces are nice, especially for making buildings, and sun lamps casting shadows is a huge plus.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Well, my first version was 2.63, so that's why I have that. =P

That said; is there a way to have an object act more like a projectile, and go in a straight line through the air? Trying to make energy bullets ala Megaman, but it keeps curving into the ground. Which is great for rebound weapons, but I want plasma bullets. =P

[KnightsFan]

You could just add a constant upward force of 9.8*mass to the bullet. There are probably other ways, but that's what I used in the past.

Technically, projectiles (maybe not plasma...) do curve down, of course. You can lower the mass of the bullet in the physics tab.

[mtmerrick]

*nerdrant*

plasma weapons are not really that feasible, and if they did exist, they would be more pistol-like than any other type of weapon. a sci-fi style plasma bolt would not do much damage, but leave a large burn and maybe a bit of a dent. keep in mind, plasma is ionized and (typically) superheated gas.

plasma weapons DO exist today, in the form of flamethrowers and weaponized tesla coils (yes, people have made them - not very effective, but still, they do exist)

yes, fire and lightning are both forms of plasma.

keeping that in mind, what would happen if you fired a sci-fi-style bolt of plasma? well, it wouldn't curve down to the ground, that's for sure. as it travels through the air, it looses heat/ionization and dissipates into gas. most gases that are easily transmuted into plasma would actually float away.

the exception to this, of course, is if you have some SOURCE for the plasma - EG gas in a flamethrower, or electrical current from a tesla coil.

TLDR: plasma does not work like it works in the movies, kids. neither do lasers, but that's a topic for another day.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

a sci-fi style plasma bolt would not do much damage,

Hence the un-charged MegaBuster(Which technically is solar powered, but plasma shots sound cooler) doing only one unit of damage. Though that's still somehow enough to kill some things in one hit. =P

But yeah, this isn't exactly a realistic test thing I'm going with here. Though it's too bad, those could be cool. Ah well.

KF: I figured out a rough hack to fix it. Just hit the 'lock z movement' button on the physics tab for the sphere. =P I'll now likely have to add an empty to adjust the position of where the sphere appears, but for testing purposes, I now have a rough jump and shoot prototype that could actually play just like a normal Megaman game. =P

[KnightsFan]

mtm: Hence science "fiction"

Blade: That works too. It's always a good idea to use empties or invisible cubes for where stuff spawns. Have you thought about how you'll get between different levels at all?

[Flipz]

You know, it'd be really awesome to see a 3D version of Earthbound... and it'd be considerably easier to program than a platformer, since physics would hardly be involved at all...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

KF: I plan on using empties eventually, yes. I was just thinking last night about whether or not that's what I did for my FPS test(Which I plan to use ideas from both. =P

As for switching levels; I'm not sure. I kinda want it to be a menu at least for the testing, but I don't know how to put up new levels or so. =/

Flipz: That would be cool, though, then you have the problem of coding in the battles. Which isn't exactly as easy as one might think, thanks to the whole 'you don't die until the counter reaches zero' thing. Mother 1, maybe; but not 2 and 3, since the counter's dynamic. It might be possible, but would have to take longer.

I might try it if I ever get a chance to play Earthbound, though. =)

[KnightsFan]

Flipz: I've never played earthbound, but if you want me to try to make it 3D I will. Not saying I'll get anywhere, but it wouldn't be the first hopeless project I've undertaken with Blender.

Blade: I'd advise you to think about level switching early. It's a pain to try to completely rework characters after realizing you need multiple levels (I'm currently doing that...). Also, it's probably easiest on your computer to make each map/level in a different scene.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Ah, so just switch scenes, then? That would likely work. Though, I know from the start that I need multiple levels(Though I only have a test character right now, so completely reworking characters wouldn't be that huge a problem. =P). Because, well, it's a test Megaman Fangame, I'll definitely need at least 8 levels. =P (Though it might not get quite so far; but it'll give me experience I can put toward other stuff.)

[KnightsFan]

Yeah. You may need the character to be a group, though, because you can add a group instance to each scene easily.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Well that'd okay, because I may need multiple instances of the same character.(Since it'd be a fangame, then I need to have multiple weapons. Therefore, I'd need multiple 'skins' for Megaman, and a way to quickly change them up to reference the weapon in particular.)

Also, it is admittedly a case of 'what if Megaman 2 had the Charge and Slide' right now(Or rather, will be, once I figure out how to get a charged shot working. Sliding's kinda easier. =P). It'll probably evolve from that, but the main reason for it...

METAL BLADE ALL DAY EVERY DAY ALL THE TIME.