Need advice from Game/Mod Developers

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2 total messages Started by Hugo Villeneuve Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:54

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Author: Hugo Villeneuve
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:54

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Hello, I need some advice for a project that I am working on.
I am an experienced programmer but a newbie in Game/Mod programming. 

I have a stand-alone application, reading some Hardware sensors from
an external port (Serial Por, MIDI port, USB). The value from theses
sensors is then translated into a simple floating-point value changing
from 0 to 1.

Now using this value I would like to interact with different kinds of
properties (like the size, the color or the position) of an object in
a 3D scene.

I would like to use a 3D engine to do that. I took a look at Quake and
Unreal because they are open platforms to develop and I would like to
take advantage of their rendering, scripting and map editing
capabilities.


Where should I start  ?
1-	Is Quake more simple then Unreal to program ?
2-	Should I write a MOD or can just Scripting do the Job ?
3-	How do I pass information from one application to a game system ? 
        3.A.  Can I use a socket to pass information from one process
to the another.
        3.B.  Can I directly read an external port inside the Game
environment or are there restriction ?

I realize that Game/MOD programming is very complexe, ANY  information
will be welcome.

Re: Need advice from Game/Mod Developers

#74914

Author: Matthew Vaughan
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:50

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"Hugo Villeneuve" <aerosteak@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a93284e4.0402221654.79d8af2b@posting.google.com...
> Hello, I need some advice for a project that I am working on.
> I am an experienced programmer but a newbie in Game/Mod programming.
>
> I have a stand-alone application, reading some Hardware sensors from
> an external port (Serial Por, MIDI port, USB). The value from theses
> sensors is then translated into a simple floating-point value changing
> from 0 to 1.
>
> Now using this value I would like to interact with different kinds of
> properties (like the size, the color or the position) of an object in
> a 3D scene.
>
> I would like to use a 3D engine to do that. I took a look at Quake and
> Unreal because they are open platforms to develop and I would like to
> take advantage of their rendering, scripting and map editing
> capabilities.
>
>
> Where should I start  ?
> 1- Is Quake more simple then Unreal to program ?
> 2- Should I write a MOD or can just Scripting do the Job ?
> 3- How do I pass information from one application to a game system ?
>         3.A. - Can I use a socket to pass information from one process
> to the another.
>         3.B. - Can I directly read an external port inside the Game
> environment or are there restriction ?
>
> I realize that Game/MOD programming is very complexe, ANY  information
> will be welcome.

Game mod creation isn't necessarily that difficult, but only if it is within
the confines of what the game is already capable of. For what you are doing,
it might be easier to look elsewhere than a gaming engine. There should be
any number of open-source 3d renderers that might be more suitable for your
project. I'm not really sure how one would do what you're thinking of in
Quake, for instance, at least without a LOT of effort. For less effort you
could create your own renderer using either Direct3D or OpenGL.

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