Non-photorealistic BZFlag

Sax · Post by **Sax** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:35 am

This Christmas holiday I spent some time playing with the BZFlag source. Here's what I've come up with so far:

BZFlag has some excellent special effects and artwork, but the geometry is, for gameplay reasons I presume, a little basic. And no matter how well you texture a box or a plane, it's still a box or a plane. So I decided to dumb everything down a little bit and give it more of a "comic book" feel.

It's rather ugly and unclean (it could really use some anti-aliasing and better stenciling), but I find it fun to look at for a change. What do you guys think?

loophole · Post by **loophole** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:46 am

neato

ducatiwannabe · Post by **ducatiwannabe** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:13 am

Wow. That's unique.

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:16 am

I like that, strangely. especially the bullets.

what did you do? just change stuff in the data folder, or mod the source?

Sax · Post by **Sax** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:58 am

Hannibal wrote:what did you do? just change stuff in the data folder, or mod the source?

Yeah, I modded the source. Everything is drawn with no textures, twice. Once for the filled polygons and again for lines. It was a pretty simple hack, with a few exceptions. It took me a while to get it to draw the back-facing box walls. The bullets are also proving difficult, because I want them to do fake "comic book" lighting on the walls and ground. The ground lighting works, but that is a bit easier than the walls.

Saturos · Post by **Saturos** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:56 am

Yay! Cel-Shading!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:40 pm

Nice work, Sax.

Winny · Post by **Winny** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:22 pm

cool!

The Knights Who Say Ni · Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:45 pm

Thats realy cool but does it take more memory, CPU, or Video Memory?

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:01 pm

That's really neat. Sure it needs some cleaning up, but it's unique.

-Tanner

Discovery · Post by **Discovery** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:00 pm

Wow thats cool. ns wrk!

Harry The Newb · Post by **Harry The Newb** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:22 am

Nice Job!

Its very saxy .......er.... never mind...

Matt? · Post by **Matt?** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:47 am

it is different but i like good ol bzflag as it is

dango · Post by **dango** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:59 pm

ooooooo, interesting...

Discovery · Post by **Discovery** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:06 pm

How did you do that anyway...??...

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:56 pm

lol, thats cool.

benplaut · Post by **benplaut** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:53 am

very nice concept... a bit of graphics work on it, and that could be a total graphics remake!

this must be possible somewhere in just the texture images... i'll have to check

Grumbler · Post by **Grumbler** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:10 pm

a worthwhile mod IMHO

jwk · Post by **jwk** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:53 pm

post the source changes please

(Dvn) · Post by **(Dvn)** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:04 am

cool, i do like it. especially that third one with the GM smoke behind it...

fa3der · Post by **fa3der** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:18 pm

cool but it huts my eyes lol

A Meteorite · Post by **A Meteorite** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:04 am

I like it a lot. It does need some anti-aliasing, but other than that I like it!

/me nods head for the source

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:19 am

Neat, nice work and screenshots Mr. Sax

lddw · Post by **lddw** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:48 am

How can we recompile that?

We take the source and a C++ compiler?

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:22 am

you may have to ask him(Sax) for the code. I believe he did that on 2.0.2, so unless you are willing to put that on your machine, he would have to do it again.

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