Update 3/13 news - 3D Bridge Engineer Game

Two things coming up sometimes when i show this game are: "why is there no shooting in the game?" as well as "and isn´t it to complex for the masses?"

Ok, its a bit simple minded to think every game needs guns. The other thing is the ovious complexity of 3DBE and the difficulty to use the brain for something creative.
I spent a lot of time on 3DBe to make the handling and 3D constructioning accessable for everyone, but on the other hand i understand that someone who is coming from a hard working day with a need to relax, possibly can´t invent a new kind of a walking robot. (Maybe thats more a thing to do for the weekend)

Fortunately the game is very flexible.
Means this question can be answered by the leveldesign by offering a wide range of different levels.
In the way that you can clearly choose between more simple levels giving more the play effect in learning and the more serious levels where you can find solutions for the future technologies.

- so what i do on the leveldesign is to add a menu where you chose from different campaigns.
these campaigns will be short with 3 levels for the easier tasks and sometimes longer for more technical subjects. So the campaings can have very different subjects in the difficulty, in what kind of things you build, or there could whole stories be told in a various range of levels.

this screen shows a menu where you can chose the level to play inside a campaign.

Technical updates, mostly belonging the games performance.

- the shadows system has changed to a more flexible solution, also with softer shadow, where i can use more lights and still have a better performance because of a faster calculation. It can also partly be precalculated.

- a much better performance was reached with a kind of grouping for the leveleditormade elements, so that the behaviours for each elements are calculated more effective now.

- another thing i already wanted to do for a long time was the reduction of active operations in the constructions engine. And there is some more to do.

away from the performance i worked on:

- the shading of the leveleditormade triangles, as it was still wrong. Its a flat shading now, but gives more atmosphere to the scenes.

the difference with (right picture) and without a shading (left picture)

- the missionbuilding and setting the goals in the leveleditor. And to make the mission playable in the game.