Hiya. This is an early tech demo of a first person shooter engine I've been working on using Blitz3D. It also makes use of Itmbin's Newton physics wrapper as well as Particle Candy for the particle system, and Ruz's Redbron model for the test avatar. I've still got a long way to go with it, but the character controller is almost nailed down, along with the spawn system and a few other things.
To use it just download and unzip the file below (1.7 Megabytes) and run 'start.exe'. Instuctions are on the screen.
http://files.pmnova.com/stuff/FPS-Engine-29-nov-2012.zip
This has a couple of known bugs. Sometimes impact damage doesn't register when falling onto the ground. This seems to be a problem with my code - possibly relating to the groundspeed restrictor routines interfering with collision forces.
The other bug seems to be caused by dodgy raycasting in Itmbin's Newton physics wrapper. You can see it in action when you fire up the thrusters and fly over the Redbron test character under the nearby structure (push him out where you can get at him). The character's ground-test raycast that should extend from slightly above his feet to a bit below them actually catches the user's physics volume flying above him, which then causes him to think that the player above him is a moving platform that he is standing on. Since I localize the characters velocity relative to any platform they are standing on when doing groundspeed restriction, this causes Redbron to be influenced by the player's velocity and basically hooks onto him and pulls him along. You can even pull him up into the air and drop him. On the plus side this gave me an idea for a force-whip weapon I'll be adding to my game.
I've confirmed in a separate test program that this issue is a bug with the Newton wrapper's raycasts, so I'm not sure what to do about that. I'll probably contact Itmbin and see if he has a fixed version.
I actually wrote a much more comprehensive FPS engine a few years ago which worked fairly well, but the codebase was a mess and the physics didn't work all that well. I started this new version to clean things up and get proper physics into the engine. I've got some good code I can use in this codebase once I get it cleaned up, including some basic AI.
Last edited 2012
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