Scifi Rogue - top down / 3rd person shooter game

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:see_no_evil_monkey: :saluting_face: :rofl:

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@Symbitic Thanks for asking :slightly_smiling_face:
Unfortunately the license of some of the assets used wouldn’t allow open sourcing the full project. I’m happy to discuss the techniques used, also note that the ECS system is already open source. I am “extracting” some reusable code logic into a separate gamelib folder - maybe that could become a separate open source library.

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Doing some “Beta” test of the Kosh’s beam attack:

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PG: MagicRay | Babylon.js Playground

Finally a good “practical” use case for me to get my hands dirty with NME :smiley:

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I was trying to play again but for some reason 3rd person mode wouldn’t work just the top-down view.

With 3rd person I could see this error in the console:

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Thanks for reporting @AncientA :folded_hands:
Seems like a minor timing change after updating dependencies, and me not properly checking in the code - fixed now.

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Yep, all good now!

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them bois scary af comin’ at you, thank goodness for corners

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“The Kosh” is coming:

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He is big, but still without a brain :brain: - and can’t die :smiley:

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That works for me :smiley:

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Feels a bit like being a brain surgeon :brain::

export function setupBetakoshBrains(scene: Scene) {
  let frame = 0;
  scene.onBeforePhysicsObservable.add(() => {
    ++frame;
    const playerXform = queryXforms(['player'])[0];
    const playerPos = playerXform.xform.absolutePosition;
    playerPos.y = 0;
    const activeBetakoshes = queryXforms([betakoshBrainComp, animsComp]).filter(
      (bkosh) =>
        bkosh.xform.isEnabled(false) &&
        bkosh.betakoshBrain.health > 0 &&
        Vector3.Distance(bkosh.xform.absolutePosition, playerPos) < 20,
    );
    ...
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Hey!

Just wanted to mention that @labris and I have ported nearly all YukaJS examples to babylon.js, so it should be super easy to get started. Yuka’s a powerful JS library for game AI. It covers pretty much everything you’d need for bots, pathfinding, and behavior, etc.. Definitely worth a look!

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babylon.js examples:

Be sure to check out this showcase minigame as well!!

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Thanks @roland, think I actually came across this quite a while back - looks like it would be worth looking further into :robot: :brain:

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Amazing work, @pjoe !

Could I ask how you generated an image like this and if you need to prompt a certain way to have the 3 nice poses? Thank you :smile:

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I use a control net to steer the image generation to make the front/back/left. As input I give it a depth map, that I made from a standard character base mesh, rendered in Blender. I use ComfyUI to set this up with Flux Dev as the model. For prompt I include something like this in the negative prompt: variations, multiple choice Hope this helps :slight_smile:

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Latest update:

  • Full on BetaKosh Boss Fight (he’s a tough one)
  • Levels are now progressive, i.e. start small and get bigger and bigger
  • A number of bugfixes

Check it out at: https://demo.scifirogue.com

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Amazing! Thank you, @pjoe !

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Of course he is tough lol!!

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I’ve now added “auto-magic” quality setting:

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This uses the SceneOptimizer in improvement mode with a custom optimizer. This means it will start off in lowest quality and then as framerates allow progressively turn up the quality.

The custom optimizer currently has these “steps”:

  • Turn up the samples (on DefaultRenderingPipeline) (up to 9)
  • Enable the glow layer
  • Enable SSAO2RenderingPipeline
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Nice use of the SceneOptimizer! You rock mate!

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Awesome episode on Babylon Chronicles :smile:

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