So after loosing about 50% of everything I finally got everything back and some completely re-coded for simplicity. This is a list of all changes that will be part of the release of the engine thus far.

Features -- Details

Database Driven:

The main part of an RPG is the housing of mass data to be used for the game. In the Engine I use SQLite 3 as the database housing. The database will be created as am empty shell. There will be a screma of the database added to the release files.

RPG Editor Elements:

The RPG Editor will feature the following Tabs:

Events:

Used to create NPC and Monster AI objects. Not All Events will be supported on the inital release.

Classes:

Used to make a foundation status setting that will be addapted by a hero to be used as the base of the heros calculated level growth.

Hero / Heroin Editor

Used to Create and modify the base start values of a hero/heroin. The only feature that will not be operation is the 3D View of your character on load and the Animation Views

Item Editor:

Used to create items for Healing/Dammaging/Learning. Learning Spells, Specials, and Summons will not be in the inital release.

Weapons Editor:

Here you can create weapons and customize them for your player. Note: Depending on time this may not be in the inital release.

Armor Editor:

Here you can create armor for various slots. Slots are configuable from the database.

Spell Editor:

This will create a like from a spell in the database with details of the power for the spell to the spells create in the system directory. Since there are tons of way to do spells I will only have one spell in the release.

Specials Editor:

Here we create the dammage attribute for specials. Specials in the case of the engine will be attached to a massive AOE spell. Not exactly a special that most would think of but the sky is the limit.

Summon Editor:

Here you can create a summon creature that you can summon in battle. How the summon will react is based on the Battle system attached to the RPG Engine. The one I will be releaseing will be a ATB Attive Battle System.

Monster Editor:

In the monster editor you can create monsters to spawn to the field, defeat and be awarded with treats. A monster can be equipped with a special that can be triggered by various conditions. The 3D View window will not be in operational in the release.

Monster Groups Editor:

This is only used for the CBS - Classic Battle System. I decided to not release this engine add on as many requested a ATB - Active Battle System.

Maps:

This is only used for the CBS to control map selection for auto encounters.

NPC Generator:

This is something that will be the last to be worked on but will make me excited if i can get it working again. This will allow you to create random NPC characters premapped and preconfigured for a rig. The idea behind this is rapid character population for maps.
The characters used will be from my old character pack. I had this working until a few months ago when 1.2 came out. After that then it stopped working.

Engine Side Changes:

Base Engine Changes:

The changes made to the base engine is very limited these were only needed to accomidate for the FPS code that affected the RPG elements that I needed to work.

Camera: Currently the camera colides with the water as if it is a solid substance. I had to remove the water object from the mask for this to work.
Triggers: Initally the trigger max was expanded to acdcomedate for the melee system triggers needed but was changed after finding a better way to handle them. May be reverted back.

The remaining changes are pretty much a drop of the 2 new folders for the RPG Engine and the sqlite3 folder. I tried to make this a simple way to intergrate these features into the engine without affecting the inital engine design.

The RPGPlayer is a addaptation of the player class. One major thing changed in this call was to make the update move in to a modular system of function calls. This will make it alot easier to create custom changes to the player system. Current player is a long list of if statements and comments. With this everything should be easier to read.

As seen below this is alot easier to read.

void RPGPlayer::RPG_MoveTick(const Move* move){
	RPG_contactNormal.set(0,0,0);
	RPG_jumpSurface = false;
	RPG_runSurface = false;
	RPG_desiredPose = mPose;
	delta.move = *move;
	RPG_moveType=MV_GROUND;
   
	checkSwimmingState();

	updateOrientationOfCam(move);
	
	applyRotationChanges();
	
	if(!inAttactingState){
		applyGroundMovementSpeed(move);

		if (!mSwimming)
		{
			applyGravity();
			calculateGroundContact();
			applySteepIncline();
		}

		//modifyGravity();

		if (RPG_runSurface && !mSwimming) {
			applyAccelerationBasedOnMovement(move);
		}
		else if (!mSwimming && mDataBlock->airControl > 0.0f)
		{
			applyAccelerationBasedOnFalling();
		}
		else if (mSwimming)
		{
			applyAccelerationBasedOnSwiming(move,false);
		}else{
			mContactTimer++; 
		}
		if (!mSwimming)
		{
			applyJumpCheck(move);
			applyJettingCheck(move);
			applyPZoneAcceleration();
		}
		//Overrides Swim to Diving if triggered
		applyRPGSinkAndSwimAlgorithm(move);
	
		applyRPG360Movement(move);
	}else{
		applyRPG360Movement(move);
	}
	applyAllCalulatedAcceleration();
	applyWindResistance();
	applyBuoyancy();
	applyDrag();
	clampSmallVelocity();
	detectFallingStatus();
	dismountVehicalCallbackCheck(move);
	enterWaterCheck();
	applyPoseBasedOnAction(move);
	setPose( RPG_desiredPose );
	
    if(inAttactingState){
		mVelocity = Point3F::Zero;
	}

}

Engine Added files:

Custom Tweaks:

I have added several custom changes to the new RPGPlayer class to help the class operate as needed these include the following:

1. Adding onAnimationTrigger support to the RPGPlayer class to allow triggers to be triggered by the player and not just static shapes.
2. Added a bipCOM control to the player to enhance my old 360 movement resource. This makes it easier to control the characters orintation with out caring weither there is animation on bip01 node.
3. Added a tweak to control the placing offset needed for the players feet to make the player no longer floatable above the terrain.
4. Added the ability to swim on the water surface as well as dive and surface.
5. Added Lock on feature to the player class.

Script Structure:

I have tried to limit the changes to the main system to add the RPG Engine lib folders to a empty project and get right into using the features.

The structures seen below gives an idea of the structures and what you will get on the script level.

Demo Island:

I initally wanted to use the Island shown in a previous post as the island that will be populated with the assets in the release as a tech demo of the features but I have been inspired by the Fancy App and will now be recreating this island for the demo.
Come on this island is sexy!

Free Assets:

The assets that will be included in the system will be the following:

1. Hell Doll
2. Hell Doll Master
3. Generated NPCS
4. All RPG Character Pack assets.
5. Free Royalty Music found on a free music site. There will be information in the release disclosing the site information as the orgin of the files.
6. My Free Custom Music The 12CatBlack Splash Theme and the Game over Music, Maybe more.

This is all of the information I could think of about the release if there are any questions please leave them below.

Please remember that nothing I have in the engine is a "Must be done this way" the main reason for this is to give those that don't know scripting or do not know where to start a stepping stone into their dreams. The second reason is people everywhere saying that T3D could never be used for making RPGs. To them I laugh!

Pricing:

I've thought about it for a while and I will have the product on sale at first for $150 for about 1 to 2 weeks and then it up for its final price.


For now here is a video of my latest testing with the ATB Battle system. One thing I added that I really like to enhance the system is when inside the "Quick Bar Menu" time is slowed but not stopped to force the player to think quick about item usage and live battly tatic changes.

Demo of the Battle System:



Notes about the video:

Bugs:

1. There are some glitches shows that will be fixed in the release. Mainly getting stuck at the end or a button mashing combo.
2. And the spell Cosmic Storm gets stuck if you kill the monster mid casting.

Battle Info

1. The Monsters are placed to the stage by event markers. Each monster is a different event object.
2. When using the Quick Bar the time is slowed down to keep the battle going but allow the player to get a quick healing item off before dying.
3. The Monsters are all B level monster in every class attribute. Starting stats were all 5's.
4. The boss is a A level monster in every class attribute except for Attack. Its attack was set to SS.
5. The monsters special triggers at 50% life. The boss Triggers every 30 seconds.
6. While attacking all movement other than character rotation has been stopped, allowing the player to perform attacks in a 360 degree radius.
7. The on screen tracker tracks monsters and NPCs as different colors Current radius is 90 game meters.

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Thanks,
Kevin Mitchell