Touhou Kart!

[zferolie]

Ah, that's unfortunate, as I'm unable to do it also. Unfortunately, thanks to Unity's broken cloth engine, I do need bones in certain areas of clothing such as sleeves and ribbons.

In Cinema 4D, which I made my Yuka in, I had to add bones to her hair to get it to flow right :x

SOunds like Unity is not what you want to be using for this... but it sounds like you have no choice. What program would you want to use for the rigging of the skeleton and cloth systems?

[Hoeloe]

In Cinema 4D, which I made my Yuka in, I had to add bones to her hair to get it to flow right :x

SOunds like Unity is not what you want to be using for this... but it sounds like you have no choice. What program would you want to use for the rigging of the skeleton and cloth systems?

Well, skeleton rigging has to be done in a separate modelling program, but the problem is that for cloth to work, it has to be done within Unity, as it needs to react to the surroundings within the game engine (Unity is the development software I'm using to make the game), so cloth is not possible, sadly.

[Hoeloe]

Having not posted anything in a while now, have a sneak preview of what I've been working on:

[zferolie]

Having not posted anything in a while now, have a sneak preview of what I've been working on:

Ah that looks really nice! Is this reimu's stage? or Sanae's?

[Hoeloe]

This is Reimu's stage. The Hakurei Shrine will be right behind where the camera is!

[zferolie]

This is Reimu's stage. The Hakurei Shrine will be right behind where the camera is!

Cool. Now, what happens if you destroy Reimu's Donation box :p

[Hoeloe]

Cool. Now, what happens if you destroy Reimu's Donation box :p

That hopefully will be possible to do, and will have a purpose behind it.

[Hoeloe]

Well, I'm about to head off to bed. I just thought I'd share these previews with you first...

[Monkeypro257]

Wow there is so much space on the landscape. Either way, awesome work you have there.

[FamilyTeam]

Erm, Hoeloe, how is the project going? You haven't posted in this thread in two months! The site says you're not inactive...

[Monkeypro257]

Erm, Hoeloe, how is the project going? You haven't posted in this thread in two months! The site says you're not inactive...

Don't worry, he's probably still working on it as we speak. It doesn't look like a project Hoeloe will give up on.

[FamilyTeam]

But damn, not even a small update in months...

[Imosa]

Yeah this is nothing. I still have faith that somewhere out there, is the guy working on his touhou - rockband cross over. I'd link the thread but I couldn't find it.

[Hoeloe]

Sorry guys! I'm still going ahead with this project, but I've been working on this in my spare time, and once I got back to university, I found I didn't have very much of that. Rest assured I fully intend to keep going once I get more time, which should be in about a week! I've been periodically checking the forum posts and such, but I haven't had much time to really work on the project itself.

[dawnbomb]

Not quite - each of those images is demonstrating a different Spell Card, the vanished kart being one of them. Thanks!

remove the wheels, just have it as a shadow

[Hoeloe]

remove the wheels, just have it as a shadow

That would serve no purpose but to make things more confusing for the player. While the shadow displays a rough location of the kart, it's not accurate enough to control the kart well, and also only works if you're on the ground (so if you make a large jump, you're literally driving blind). The point of the "invisibility" item, or "Red Eyes", is not to stop you from being seen by other players, but it allows you to "phase" through items, the wheels are there so that the player can always see where they're going.

[Hoeloe]

Bang! New screenshots!

[Kimidori]

Forest of Magic? beautiful design there. 

[FamilyTeam]

Looks bloody beautiful, mate! Good to know this thing is still going.

[Luizsan]

Looking good, but I recommend the use of normal maps on textures, the models looks too much "flat".

[Hoeloe]

Looking good, but I recommend the use of normal maps on textures, the models looks too much "flat".

They are using normal maps. There are resolution issues, that I can't get around, and Unity's normal map implementation creates artefacts if the mapping is too steep, so I'm having to keep it quite subtle. It's much more noticeable in motion, though.

[Helepolis]

Slick work there Hoeloe, you should definitely promote this on Niconico, the asian touhou people will go nuts.

[Hoeloe]

Slick work there Hoeloe, you should definitely promote this on Niconico, the asian touhou people will go nuts.

Thank you! I've looked into Niconico, and I did post up one of the earlier videos (which went more or less unnoticed). I might try again when I get another video out.

[Helepolis]

Thank you! I've looked into Niconico, and I did post up one of the earlier videos (which went more or less unnoticed). I might try again when I get another video out.

Any link of this niconico video?

[Hoeloe]

Any link of this niconico video?

Sure: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21394790

[Fuyuumi]

This game truly needs some manly announcer - Rinnosuke.

Also he could have few quotes for a spellcard used by it's character, like when Reimu uses Fantasy Seal Rinnosuke would say "Gensokyo is safe again with Reimu sealing her opponents away!" or with Cirno's spellcard he would whisper "Baka, baka~" in the tone of Cirno's perfect math class...

[Hoeloe]

This game truly needs some manly announcer - Rinnosuke.

Also he could have few quotes for a spellcard used by it's character, like when Reimu uses Fantasy Seal Rinnosuke would say "Gensokyo is safe again with Reimu sealing her opponents away!" or with Cirno's spellcard he would whisper "Baka, baka~" in the tone of Cirno's perfect math class...

The plan at the moment is to have Alice be the announcer. I have a couple of reasons for using her over others, not least so I can fit in more IOSYS references

[「WolverZon」]

The plan at the moment is to have Alice be the announcer. I have a couple of reasons for using her over others, not least so I can fit in more IOSYS references

Well, at least my favorite character is still in the game somehow or another.  :derp:

Really excited to see the project finished. I miss playing kart games .

[Monkeypro257]

We all solute you Hoeloe for the incredible game you're developing for us. Keep up the good work. Do you know how many stages in total your making for the game yet? (or is it going to be like a Mario kart type of choice?)

[Hoeloe]

We all solute you Hoeloe for the incredible game you're developing for us. Keep up the good work. Do you know how many stages in total your making for the game yet? (or is it going to be like a Mario kart type of choice?)

I think I had 15 stages planned. Currently 2 are done, with a third in progress. You'll get to see that one when it's a little further along...