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Posted: 11 Nov 2006 by Codehead
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The work on AMBERs game logic and teams system has turned up a little nugget of eye candy - Team colours.

Example Team Colours

Using dynamically generated textures, I’ve been able to keep a single base texture for each model, but modify it at run time to apply a team colour and a joint colour.

Some progress on the in-game model handling….

Skeletal Animation!

The previous in-game model format was MD3. The format uses snapshots of the mesh for each frame, creating huge model files which require the vertex normals for each frame to be calculated at startup. The normal calculations alone took 30-45 seconds per model. The files were over 1Mb each and had a huge memory footprint. It also made the workflow for modelling a nightmare and very much a one way process.