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Technical forum / Is the Wintermute engine for me?
« on: August 12, 2010, 01:10:56 PM »
Hello,
I am currently planning my 6 month project for school and i decided that i would be 3d modelling something and to incorporate in a game would be wonderful. And there have always been one game series that always have impressed people when it comes to wonderful 3d envierments and that is of course Myst, and looking for a guide to make a adventure game i found the Wintermute engine. Looking through the Wintermute engine's features it seems like i have found a gold mine but there are still a few questions that needs answers so now i turn to you. Some of these questions may be fairly obvious but are still important to get confirmed
1. As said i was planning to build a game as Myst with pre-rendered pictures and clips and a 1st person interface. Is this possible?
2. I would like to incorporate interactive puzzles that interacts with the envierment. Is this possible?
3. Is it possible to play clips within the engine as once again seen in Myst when completing a puzzle or transporting yourself. Is this possible?
4. Just like Myst have the books you can read can this be done within the engine?
5. I would love dialog options that are seen in modern rpg's of today such as Dragon Age, Mass Effect so are these options anything that are possible in the engine?
6. I have very little knowledge when it comes to programming and this is probably a huge problem but i am willing to learn and there are probably some great tutorials out there that would help me. So is this going to be a problem and if so would the tutorials be enough to get me around?
7. Do you think that i would be able to finish in time which will be 6 months with a average 2h's a day so a total of ~365h
And any other words of wisdom and advice would be a very welcome. And if yo believe that i wont be a able to pull this of in the time table and the lack of knowledge please give me hints of what i could do with my project, bare in mind that i have only filled it under animation and 3d modelling so all the blanks are up to me.
And i apologize if my spelling and grammars are abit of, my English is not perfect. Yet
Thanks in Advance
Verzus.
I am currently planning my 6 month project for school and i decided that i would be 3d modelling something and to incorporate in a game would be wonderful. And there have always been one game series that always have impressed people when it comes to wonderful 3d envierments and that is of course Myst, and looking for a guide to make a adventure game i found the Wintermute engine. Looking through the Wintermute engine's features it seems like i have found a gold mine but there are still a few questions that needs answers so now i turn to you. Some of these questions may be fairly obvious but are still important to get confirmed
1. As said i was planning to build a game as Myst with pre-rendered pictures and clips and a 1st person interface. Is this possible?
2. I would like to incorporate interactive puzzles that interacts with the envierment. Is this possible?
3. Is it possible to play clips within the engine as once again seen in Myst when completing a puzzle or transporting yourself. Is this possible?
4. Just like Myst have the books you can read can this be done within the engine?
5. I would love dialog options that are seen in modern rpg's of today such as Dragon Age, Mass Effect so are these options anything that are possible in the engine?
6. I have very little knowledge when it comes to programming and this is probably a huge problem but i am willing to learn and there are probably some great tutorials out there that would help me. So is this going to be a problem and if so would the tutorials be enough to get me around?
7. Do you think that i would be able to finish in time which will be 6 months with a average 2h's a day so a total of ~365h
And any other words of wisdom and advice would be a very welcome. And if yo believe that i wont be a able to pull this of in the time table and the lack of knowledge please give me hints of what i could do with my project, bare in mind that i have only filled it under animation and 3d modelling so all the blanks are up to me.
And i apologize if my spelling and grammars are abit of, my English is not perfect. Yet
Thanks in Advance
Verzus.