Hello Everyone,
Its been a long time since I have posted an article. I have had a lot of work to do which has mean't UGEN Sandbox was not being developed. But now I am back to development which means I can share my ideas with you.
Firstly, when I stopped development I had set up a test area for player animations which was left and not used for ages. I decided to add the code in that area to the main sandbox to allow players to be spawned and to walk around under player control. I also coded an animation because the mdl models didn't work with Unity Mecanim. Below is a video of my basic walking animation working.
It looks good so far but I know it needs some work and I need to create more animations.
I have also been working on getting UGEN Sandbox more user friendly by adding more visual elements. I have also added a settings menu to get the textures, models and maps directory instead of there only being one default location. This makes it much easier for me and the players.
I have added a console which can spawn objects from mdl files in-game. I now want to add some better physics tools and I want to add logic to objects to make them move or behave in a certain way. I also want to add game modes such as prop hunt or other ideas I come up with.
I hope you like what you see in this article. I am working hard to develop UGEN now. I hope to update you regularly.
It does all look very promising. Just the walking animation is terrible, know you said it needed some more work and that indeed it does. The arms gets stretched and the feet are set wrong. All in all it really looks very stiff. Other then that, great work!
Leon