Lugaru 2 mod-ability

[Instant]

To what extend will Lugaru 2 be moddable?

Content modding is nothing difficult -BUT- if for instance no experience system is implemented in the main game, will it be possible to write experience-based mods without of course messing around with the source-code?

And will there be some sort of scripting language for the engine?

[rudel_ic]

To what extend will Lugaru 2 be moddable?

Content modding is nothing difficult -BUT- if for instance no experience system is implemented in the main game, will it be possible to write experience-based mods without of course messing around with the source-code?

And will there be some sort of scripting language for the engine?

How about a Lua API?

Honestly, developing community tools enlarges the developing process.
I'd be satisfied if the "mistakes" that were made in the map editor of Lugaru would have been "corrected" and custom meshes and textures could be imported into the levels.

Although I'd highly appreciate a modding environment with power similar to, let's say Operation Flashpoint.

A man can dream..

[GreenAlge]

Honestly, developing community tools enlarges the developing process.

But if you develop said tools for your own use, you can speed the development process, and later tweak and release them for fans

_Nik

[Jeff]

You will have access to the same tools that David used to make the game, and this time he is going to keep backups, so modding should be possible.

[levbot]

perfect. are you gonna still use .solids?

[Crill3]

Me guesses no.
Me don't mind if yes.

To be honest im starting to get a little tired of all big boxes and stuff.
I need forests, mountains, water etc.

[zip]

Me guesses no.
Me don't mind if yes.

To be honest im starting to get a little tired of all big boxes and stuff.
I need forests, mountains, water etc.

.solid != big boxes.

[edit typo fixed]

[Crill3]

What?

[Fournine]

"!=" is used in programming to mean "not equal to"

[Crill3]

Uuh..um..yeah.. well.. I knew what ! = means... just testing you..


I didn't mean that .solid was equal to big boxes, of course.
The rabbits and wolves and weapons aren't big boxes, are they?

[Silb]

L1 had lots of big boxes probably because Turner can't handle more complex volumes (the guy can casually wall-jump, flip and backflip, but not climb a stair )

Since L2 has physic-based animation cubic rocks will likely disappear

[Instant]

Having access to Davids tools is great, but that doesn't answer the question to what extend the engine (game engine, not the 3D engine) will be moddable.

I suppose the combat system will be hardcoded and more difficule to change than 3D models or simply textures.

A scripting system would therefore resolve thet issue, but is not necessarily provided by having access to Davids tools.

Oh, and are the tools cross-platform (or will they be?) or are they going to be Windows-only.

[Crill3]

If not crossplatform then MacOS
else Me die.

[rudel_ic]

I suppose the combat system will be hardcoded and more difficule to change than 3D models or simply textures.

I say: Wait and see.
It could be that the combat system will be collision-based only and produce ragdoll effects directly when hits happen and that would be more flexible than the previous one (and more difficult to handle).
I mean, as I understand it, in Lugaru, we roughly are actually just triggering animations and these produce a hit if there is something in the way of the animation and a hit triggers another animation and then ragdoll occurs eventually, but that doesn't mean that there's no other way to simulate combat.

Ah whatever, I don't know. Yay, one more post.

[zip]

I suppose the combat system will be hardcoded and more difficule to change than 3D models or simply textures.

I say: Wait and see.
It could be that the combat system will be collision-based only and produce ragdoll effects directly when hits happen and that would be more flexible than the previous one (and more difficult to handle).
I mean, as I understand it, in Lugaru, we roughly are actually just triggering animations and these produce a hit if there is something in the way of the animation and a hit triggers another animation and then ragdoll occurs eventually, but that doesn't mean that there's no other way to simulate combat.

Ah whatever, I don't know. Yay, one more post.

There's always a Die By The Sword IK weapon combat system, that would pwn ^_^