Posts about FD can be found in the Finite Dreams category of the blog posts.
‘Finite Dreams‘ is mostly just the project name for the game right now. I came up with it a long time ago, and frankly, the name isn’t that important to me right now. I know, I know, I’m lame. I’m more interested in the programming aspect of this beast of a project. As of right now, I do everything: art, 3d modeling, music, coding, testing, eating of small snack foods, etc, etc. I do get some (fairly) regular feedback from a friend of mine, Derek. Bless that child. He’s the other half of my brain just about every time I can’t remember my trig.
Finite Dreams is currently at a version 0.1.25, which is practically nothing
Priority ordered by intensity of color (green meaning ‘completed’) here is the current TODO list:
- Ground height detection. Use the ground-handler, not the queue.
- Find the angle of the terrain you’re standing on, and influence the acceleration and top movement speed of the character accordingly.
- Jumping.
- Time of Day lighting.
- A good way to load map chucks seamlessly… I’ve been told by drwr of the panda3d forums that this is best done if I compile panda3d myself, with multithreading abilities.
- Fix the transparency of loaded models, like water. This was broken in 0.1.23 because of a design shift.
- The player is just a “model” right now, not an “Actor”. Fix this.
- In conjunction with the above (^^^^), get a nicer model in play.
Distant/Milestone Goals:
- Detect when a weight-supporting part of the character’s body is on significantly uneven ground. Tie in animations, etc.
Change log:
- Camera controls, linked to both mouse and keyboard
- Character movement via keyboard.
- Movements of character and camera have ease-in/out effects.
- Character faces direction of his/her current velocity. This is still a little woogedy, and needs to be tweaked, but it works at least.
0.1.23
 Basic camera view |
 Camera view overhead |
- Can variably (by mapID) load world objects from a database.
- Loaded objects have attributes attached to them in the database, so that they may be positioned, colored, recieve certain lighting nodes’ effects, and gain transparency.
