Would you share that gold armor model with me? I am going to make it way better for you in my spare time. The only reason I need the model is so the size is already established. Note: my spare time is limited and even though it's just a simple model I can tell you right now it's not something I will finish lickety-split but, I will work on it for you and I will eventually have a finished version for you.

Unless you don't want me to help... It's all good either way.

Hi WizardMachine, Just to come back to you..
Before I reply let me just say that the following is currently more of a wish list of things I would like to develop and add rather than a defined statement of intent or promise to include.  To be clear, some, all, or even none of it may end up being done.

Hi MG,

Re: ".. Finish that map and compile something playable and I’ll move you to mods/projects. By “playable” I just mean we can walk around in it at least..."

It will probably crash and burn or not run at all but if you are at a loose end maybe give the demo from the following addy a try - https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqxgY7srs-bFpx2t2ZLrlgz3Vk4C .  If you are crazy enough to actuall try it :)  some points to note

1.  You will start at a tempory hub just added for dev and map testing. This will be changed for later releases

2. I have been testing a regenerative health feature over the weekend so when you go from the hub to the e1m67ish level you will start with around 10 health. As the health increases at around 1 unit per second the HUD will slowly clear as it goes through the 25%, 50%, 75% and 80% milestones. This will be changed for later releases

3. The e1m67ish level seems to take quite a while to load when selected in the hub. I'm guessing this may be down to file size but please be patient.

4. To exit, you [currently] have to press the q key.

5. Yes the "crazy-lights, bizarro-world" part of the map :D  is still there. I did turn the lighting down a little (probably not enough though) and added the lava walkway, activation button, and exit gateway section a seen in the image shot in the OP. I will probably take it down further and remove some of the flares to get that gloomy shadowy atmosphere.

6. ALL temporary lava textures will be replaced in the next few months

kind regards

Monty

First of all, glad to see you're using Unity3D, at first I thought all those images were produced with one of the Quake engines.

I tested the demo and here's a few points:

• I was a bit confused at the start and didn't really know in which direction to go
• Player controller feels a bit strange, as if it were not responsive enough (it has a tinsy delay before it finally stops or starts moving). Since I've also recently developed an FPS controller in Unity, here is how I'm moving my FPS controller:
  

  rigidbody.velocity = (GetComponentInChildren<Camera>().transform.forward * forwardInput * forwardVel) * _speed;

  I'm moving in whichever Vector the camera is facing at that particular moment, later I simply limit movement so that it doesn't fly around, but in general the responsiveness I get when using WASD through Input.GetAxis("Vertical/Horizontal") is much better than anything I got with other systems (Unity's CharacterController for example). In the end it's probably just a matter of tweaking some of the values you're using.

• The end: I think I reached the end of the level (big circly roundly mirrorish thingy in some sort of hidden well down below?) but I can't do anything beyond that point.

Also, I totally understand this is still under heavy development and the things I mentioned normally tend to be 'flattened out' later on during testing so don't take my feedback too seriously anyway. I can already feel the Quakeness when playing through it.

Time for a small update:

1. The Jumpgate at the end of the e1m7 tunnel has been activated and now should take you back to the hub.
2. A simple Pistol added.
3. A HUD element has been added to display the current ammo level based on the selected weapon
4. Reload function added
5. Bullet hole decals added for stone surfaces

By default the player will have a pistol and a melee weapon . The pistol is selected by pressing number 2 above your normal keys on the keyboard. The pistol is based on an M9 and has a clip of 15 bullets. The player can carry up to 50 bullets and the pistol can be reloaded by pressing the r key.

To do:

1. add surface type detection so that different impact decals can be displayed depending on the surface hit.
2. Add further impact effects for projectiles hitting water / wood / etc

If anyone has any trouble downloading or spots any issues please let me know.

Download link:  OOT demo

Kind regards

Monty.

Hi MG,

That's a good point concerning the download links but fortunately the download repo didn't act as expected and allowed me to replace the previous demo with the latest version apparently without changing the download link, so hopefully it should be downloadable (please let me know if not). I took your helpful suggesion on board and I've put additional D/L links in place in both the OP and the update posts.

Kind regards

Monty

I attempted to play this last night and made it past the start screen, not before I tried to jump into the water - only to be respawned back on the platform which was unacceptable to I jumped out into the water as far as I could directly towards an obvious broken seam in the water and found a secret place where you can fall forever!

After restarting the game I stopped fooling around and bug hunting and ran to the first portal (I really like the look of the portals btw). The game was running fine for about 3-4 minutes as I had continuous flashbacks of Quake as I ran around, then the game crashed.

Honestly I don't remember exactly where or what I was doing when it crashed but at that point I was already knee deep in 30+ open tabs, my own game project and roughly 3am+ in the morning so I decided its best to stop there for now. I'd like to see where this goes though!

The controls feel like MAYBE you might be doing the movement in "LateUpdate()"? Or you're using physics to move the player capsule? This would cause the latency in the movement which was quite disorienting.

The camera fov felt very weird, I believe the default is 60 for cameras?

I like the idea of seeing people's games in this fashion, just like "Hey here's what I've been wanting to work on and now I'm showing you people!". I believe that's how good things happen and born into existence!

Keep up the good work! Maybe someday we'll be working together! :)

Just a small update, I've been experimenting with adding a few Volumetric lights to a test scene (in the example below - e1m5ish) and trying to get the best "bang for my buck" in terms of lighting effects vs performance.  Given my limited experience of any modern games past Quake, Half Life 2,  Borderlands 2 and Dishonoured I wondered if these kind of effects were considered out of date or a bit corny and would appreciate any guidance from any "modern gamers".

Many thanks

Monty

Thanks for taking to the time to respond MG, I certainly learned something as I didn't know about the lighting method. I did a little testing when I got in from work this evening and captured the following using a diffferent method...

I've got a feeling that it could be partly due to the fact that the map is still being textured and consequently hasn't been baked and had the static lighting generated yet, and also due to that fact that in the interests of expediency I was using the Windows "Snip" tool to capture what was within the Unity Inspector (Work area) window.

I always intended to add a screenshot feature so I thought now is as good a time as any. The above image is taken in the same room using the new feature. This looks a little clearer on my screens but if you still think it needs work please let me know

For anyone wishing to add the same feature, there's probably a much better way to do it but here is an early example what worked for me:

1. Edit --> Project  settings --> Input
2. Ensure that you create an entry point for the f11 key (or whatever key you prefer)
3. Create a c# script and attach it to the player
4. In the Update() section add the following and then save and press play

if (Input.GetKeyDown("f11"))
{
string strSnapshotFilename;

strSnapshotFilename = "MGsCoolSnapshot.png";
ScreenCapture.CaptureScreenshot(strSnapshotFilename);
}

By default it will overwrite the previous file with the same name but you could easily add in a time stamp element to the strSnapshotFilename to ensure a new png is created for each capture. For example...

strSnapshotFilename = "OOT_" + System.DateTime.Now.ToString("MM-dd-yy_hh-mm-ss") + ".png";

I hope this helps

Kind regards

Monty

Just a small update:

I always liked Quake Engines like Qrack especially all the groovy effects Rook was incorporating in to it, not least the cool under water effect which seemed so much better than Quake's original. I wondered how I could do it with my little project and I tried a few things, and although I'm sure there is probably a much better way of doing it, what worked for me at this point was to create a trigger on the map that would change settings within the players view screen when the player enters that environment and activates it and then return those settings back to normal when the trigger was exitted.

This is the current view under water without without any water effects...

In case it helps others who may be interested in doing the same thing here is what I did...

I added a 3d Cube gameobject in to the level and positioned it below the water. I turned of the mesh renderer so that it would be invisible to the player, and ensured that it had a box collider (seen in green below) which was set as a trigger. That simply means that when it comes in to contact with something, such as the player, it will register the event and allow you to script something to happen.

With the trigger in place we need a script to handle the trigger activation event (when the player touches it) and tell the game what to do when that happens. As I want to use this script for all sorts of environments the player may be in I created a script called scrPlayerEnvironmentalEffects.cs.   I added the code below to be executed if the environment the script is attached to is a body of water (or in this case a water trigger).

public string EnvironmentType;                                // Allow the designer to specify the type of environment
// triggering the script (e.g. "Water", "Lava", "Acid", "Gas", etc)

private void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
{
if (EnvironmentType == "Water")
{
GameObject.Find("FPSController").GetComponent<scrPlayerStatus>().bolPlayerInWater = true;
GameObject.Find("FPSController").GetComponent<scrPlayerStatus>().PlayerEnvironmentCurrent = "In Water";
}
}

private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
{
GameObject.Find("FPSController").GetComponent<scrPlayerStatus>().bolPlayerInWater = false;
GameObject.Find("FPSController").GetComponent<scrPlayerStatus>().PlayerEnvironmentCurrent = "On Land";
}
}

What does it do? Well, my player object on this map is called "FPSController" and already has a script attached to it called scrPlayerStatus.cs to handle player health, inventory, etc.  When the player touches the trigger in the water it will change 2 variables (bolPlayerInWater = true, and PlayerEnvironmentCurrent = "In Water"  )  in the PlayerStatus script. When the player exits the trigger, i.e, leaves the water, the 2nd section of the script fires to restore those variables in the PlayerStatus script back to normal.

The PlayerStatus script has a section called update() which runs constantly and I'm using it to detect any changes to the player such as when they move in to different environments like water, acid, slime, etc.

private Color UnderWaterColour = new Color (0f, 0.175f, 0.25f, 0.125f);       // Under water colour
private bool defaultFog;                                                                                   // Default Fog on.off setting
private Color defaultFogColour;                                                                       // Default Fog Colour
private float defaultFogDensity;                                                                        // Default Fog Density

void Update() {

if (bolPlayerInWater == true)
{
RenderSettings.fog=true;                                           // As it is a single player game turn on global fog
// RenderSettings.fogColor=Color(0, 0.4, 0.7, 0.6);
RenderSettings.fogColor = UnderWaterColour;         // Change the colour of the fog to the blue underwater color.
RenderSettings.fogDensity=0.05f;                              // Set the density
}

if (PlayerEnvironmentCurrent == "On Land") {
RenderSettings.fog=defaultFog;                                      // Return the fog to the default setting before entering the env
RenderSettings.fogColor=defaultFogColour;                  // Restore the fog colour to the default setting
RenderSettings.fogDensity=defaultFogDensity;             // Restore the fog density to the default setting
}

}

As you can see above when the variables in the PlayerStatus script are changed to suggest that the player has entered a water environment, as a result of the trigger being fired, it changes a number of global fog settings. It also reverses them when the trigger is exited and hence the variables reversed/reset.

Results:

View from above the water in e1m5ish...

Partially submerged in the water...

Submerged obstructed view...

Submerged longer view.

I hope to add to further things to the under water view, 1. water caustics, and 2. something very similar to Seven's "scuba mask" anim when you exit the water. I've just got to figure it out ;) In any event I hope this may be of use to somebody trying to do the same thing and there will be more updates soon

Kind regards

Monty