Build and Shoot

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You can now download the playable demo here: http://www.volumesoffun.com/downloads/C ... DTest3.zip

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Hi guys,

I've been lurking in the forums for a while and have played a bit of Build&Shoot, but I'm mostly a developer rather than a gamer. For a number of years I've been developing a voxel game engine and have recently started integrating it with Unity3D. Build&Shoot has proved to be a great source of maps for testing purposes, so I thought you might like this video of me demolishing Influx's Industry map :-)
Hope you like it, we're going to release a playable demo soon so then you can try it for yourselves :-)

Can you use any .vxl map then?

This looks very neat, great work! I look forward to being able to blow my map up in the demo.

jdrew wrote:

Can you use any .vxl map then?

Yes, though you have to convert it to our format first. As an example, here's is Ki11aWi11's Capitol map opened in Unity3D:



We used Influx's Industry map basically because it allowed more space for the tank to drive around.

David Williams wrote:

Build&Shoot has proved to be a great source of maps for testing purposes, so I thought you might like this video of me demolishing Influx's Industry map :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhV2dcM4IkE

Hey David, thanks for sharing that video here with us. It pumped me up for Cubiquity's future - I can't wait to see what you do next! I'm glad to know BuildAndShoot has been useful for you. I hope you continue to hang around here and keep us updated on Cubiquity's development.

Ohh wow, that is a neat video

Thanks guys, I'm glad you like it :-) I'll try and get a playable version out this week so you can give it a go yourselves.

Would love too!

Hey guys,

The downloadable demo is now available. You can get it here: http://www.volumesoffun.com/downloads/C ... DTest3.zip

Have fun blowing stuff up :-)

Awesome, this is going in the news

I made a video of it BTW. It shows some bugs you might want to look into, I like it though.

How to convert the .vxl file's?

Looks like you guys had some fun breaking it

Obviously the tank physics are rather buggy (real tanks don't usually fly!) but I'm not too concerned about that. I just drove very carefully when making the video as I mostly want to show the voxel rendering and real time destruction effects. I probably should have made the tank heavier though and provided a reset button.

I think the floating voxels are important but it's not trivial to fix. I basically need to scan the surrounding area whenever a change is made, to check for disconnected parts. This is definately on my todo list. Actually I saw a really cool video of how nice it can look, so I'll aim for something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCpTgfVmhcc

[HPC]sajt wrote:

How to convert the .vxl file's?

I wrote a converter tool (based on this file spec) to convert a .vxl map into my own format. I haven't exposed this functionality through as it was just for testing purposes.

Nice. thanks for teasing us.