This isn’t tank game like the first game, and third person cam requires collision and behavior coding, which currently isn’t within the scope of the game. That being said, I will keep it in mind, but not promising anything.
The ink shader has proven to be difficult. Nevertheless, it’s improving. It’s not quite there yet, but glsl guru, who is helping me with it, figured out a way to achieve what I am after (which will take some engine modifications down the road).
For now, we got renderer to ink terrain properly and ink edges of the geometry where they are suppose to be inked.
AI is in works too (which is a royal p.i.t.a. in a way already due to framegroups based animations). So once the renderer is displaying what I need and AI is working, the rest of work is in tweaks and content creation (level design will consume a major chunk of the dev cycle).
Plasma Flintlock is officially almost done! Just need to add sounds and color hands that holding it :)
Got reloading done. Still need to add muzzleflash, ejecting plasma cartridge and do some small tune-ups mixing idling anims.
Got character’s hands in. Next time I am hoping to show off all that animated, including the reloading.
What we have here is a manga-like shading / inking GLSL shader for Steel Storm 2.
Basically I am trying to go for a look inspired by Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, The Codehunters and the art of this guy: http://artgerm.deviantart.com/gallery/
NOTE: Never mind the creature, it’s a Imp from Doom 3 and it won’t be in the game. It’s just a placeholder.
