Herdelia

Slade992 · September 13, 2007, 11:46am

Hi,
I’ll start with : Sorry for my bad english i’m french ^^
What’s Herdelia : Herdelia is an amateur mmorpg in development
Who work on this project ?
Me(slade) programmer, project leader, game designer…
Skad programmer, webmaster, administrator SQL …
and Jamis 3d artist

Langage used: Python
3D engine: Panda3D
Features :
here a few ones :

no exp and levels
you can build and destroy house/castle etc…
The game take place in the 18th french century
complete skill system, physical ones, mental ones, magic ones…
Hierarchy and social classes
etc…
look at (french text) :
http://240plan.ovh.net/~wizardsp/herdelia/forum/viewforum.php?f=26&sid=6928f6fe204fd6f65648ad47416fed18

rdb · September 13, 2007, 3:46pm

It looks very kewl! Congratz!

One question: what did you use for the texture blending on the terrain?

BoZ · September 14, 2007, 1:21am

EXTREMELY good question since i’m having trouble with that when i’m creating my terrains.

Slade992 · September 14, 2007, 7:10am

We used , heightfield tesselator and multitexturing with shader, i dont know exactly, its our 3d artist who make that in place ^^

neighborlee · September 14, 2007, 3:45pm

Just curious, what app did you use to make terrain itself ?

cheers and thx
nl

Slade992 · September 16, 2007, 10:42am

earth sculptor ^^

Slade992 · October 15, 2007, 2:51pm

new 3d artist welcome to him ^^
his first work (work in progress)

ThomasEgi · October 15, 2007, 4:52pm

looks like a nice start. what about networking? how many players are supported , whats about traffic per player and security?

Slade992 · October 16, 2007, 9:04am

The amount of players depends of the pc who host the server, we hadn’t made test with lot of player because we are rewriting the networking code with the panda network. About the sÃ©curity the player made something (move etc…) the server verify if its true if not he send back the true result.

ThomasEgi · October 16, 2007, 1:33pm

are you using the distributed nodes stuff or just the pandas network interface to pack your data? … i mean handling huge amount of players is fairly tricky. could help you a little if you run into trouble with many players lemme know if you need me. best chance is the panda irc channel

Slade992 · October 16, 2007, 3:04pm

Thanks for your help, for now we’re documenting about the panda networking, it’s not yet implemented, but if we get in trouble i’ll probably go find help ^^

Slade992 · October 25, 2007, 9:33am

news !
3d artists work a lot ! :
logo :

Humain male :

flambrins female :

Flambrins male (high poly) :

First try of website design :
240plan.ovh.net/~wizardsp/herdel … .php?t=267"]ici

code :
skad work on a linux version.
i’m refactoring the code making it much optimized.[/img]

Slade992 · November 4, 2007, 1:09am

Some news !

BoZ · November 4, 2007, 8:00am

Hey Slade992 I love the flambrins, where did you learn how to model, rig and paint? Also what program do you use?

Slade992 · November 4, 2007, 10:10am

Thanks you that’s not me ^^
I’m not doing 3d, he use 3ds studio max.

jamis27 · November 4, 2007, 10:27am

thanks Boz

I’m the 3D artist, I have started practicing 3D 2 years ago, start to learn with 3ds studio included tutorials and different on line tutorials (like Joan of arc) .

about rigging I have learned how to make an efficient rig by watching lot of dvds on the subject, like the one on 3Dtotal called “eva wild” and on gnomonwork shop “ogre rigging”.

and for the texturing, humm well, no special learning… it has seams to me that the method I used could be the best way to get a good texture, but I am open to any advise

Manakel · November 26, 2007, 2:01pm

Hello,

Is this THE Herdelia project that had (some times ago ) a proposal for an innovative combat system where you had an “Attack/Defense” Slider that you move in “real time” to balance between your offense and defense capacities ?

darksmaster923 · November 28, 2007, 12:35am

if its not…
ADD IT NAO!

bigfoot29 · November 28, 2007, 8:51am

hehe… looking nice.

If you need some space on the projects place, you can always ask for / get some here: p3dp.com

If you don’t want to use the webspace itself, you could at least set a forwarder - your URL is somewhat longish

Regards, Bigfoot29

enn0x · November 28, 2007, 9:00am

Hmm… the start page says Panda3D Projects is still running in closed beta, and new users are not allowed. Any forecast possible when this phase will be over? I’m still interested.

enn0x