Ashura: Dark Reign

Unreal Tournament 2004 mod | TBD

Save planet Mobius from impending doom from the nefarious Ashura and Dr. Eggman and thwart the plans of the Brotherhood of Metallix. This mod is based on a darker perspective of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. This isn't a shooter like UT2004, you will have to find objects to use, solve puzzles, and interact with a number of NPC characters to progress through the story. Experience Sonic Physics; run on walls, loops, corkscrews and on water!

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Suggestion: Use Darkplaces to be an independent game (Mods : Ashura: Dark Reign : Forum : General Discussion : Suggestion: Use Darkplaces to be an independent game) Locked
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archl
archl
Jul 26 2009, 4:43am Anchor

The Darkplaces engine (sorry, I can't insert the URL XD) is a heavily modified version of quake 1 engine. It's totally *free* and powerful. 
The only game used it was Nexuiz (same), neither the engine nor the game are well known.
Dislike ut2004 have its mission finished, the Darkplaces have constant updates.

Xaklse
Xaklse
Jul 26 2009, 2:08pm Anchor

We appreciate suggestions but it's simply too late to change of graphics engine; I don't think it's a good idea to delete almost 3 years of work.

archl
archl
Jul 26 2009, 10:02pm Anchor

Thanks for your quick reply.
I have no experince in programming, so don't know about the difficulty of switching engine.
I think the a MOD with a continuely updating game will last longer as the UT2004 was not supported for nearly 4 years and in the future. There is a huge ut2004 player-base, however, when the mod finished, the graphics may be out-of-date.

Xaklse
Xaklse
Jul 27 2009, 4:18am Anchor

Indeed, in fact the graphics are already out of date.
As a programmer, I can tell you that the whole code would need to be rewritten, which means A LOT of work (years).
No, a change of engines isn't an option.

archl
archl
Jul 27 2009, 5:39am Anchor

:rambo:
Awaiting for new release, its fun, that's enough.
I was surprised about the smooth movement in game. 

Thanks. Just hope UT2004 will get free engine upgrade to Unreal 2.5. ;)

Dekrayzis
Dekrayzis ADR Mod Leader
Jul 27 2009, 1:43pm Anchor

UT2004 is updated to Unreal Engine 2.5
The good thing about the Unreal Engine is we can go beyond the original engines capabilities by incorperating new functions into the game.
Unfortunately certain things like normal maps, can not be added as that would need to be hard coded into the engine and we dont have the money to buy the source code to do that. The game 'Pariah' also Unreal Engine 2.5 does support normal maps and video .bik files, but was created by another game development team that licensed the Unreal Engine. Shame Epicgames didnt incorperate it into Ut2004 in its last update.

Edited by: Dekrayzis
Blacklightning
Blacklightning
Aug 20 2009, 10:26pm Anchor

Just out of curiousity Dek... how much DOES the source code cost? I figure I can spare a donation towards it for the sake of making ADR a standalone game as long as there's no legal troubles involved - there are a LOT of people who want to play this (and I can't stress this enough, being your former PR guy and all), but can't on account of it being a TC of an existing game that's already getting somewhat difficult to find.

(yes I know I'm a month late to the punch, sue me)

Xaklse
Xaklse
Aug 21 2009, 4:16am Anchor

Heh, no legal troubles... To make ADR standalone we need to:
1. Purchase an Unreal Engine 2.5 license; "only" 350,000 USD.
2. Recode the game's base script code; ADR uses UT2004 code, the license doesn't allow you to copy code from an existing game.
3. Hope SEGA won't get angry with a fanmade free 3D Sonic game; impossible because of the cost of the license.

And if the question arises, the 'Unreal Engine 2 Runtime' software isn't enough for ADR.

archl
archl
Aug 21 2009, 8:30pm Anchor
Dekrayzis wrote:UT2004 is updated to Unreal Engine 2.5
The good thing about the Unreal Engine is we can go beyond the original engines capabilities by incorperating new functions into the game.
Unfortunately certain things like normal maps, can not be added as that would need to be hard coded into the engine and we dont have the money to buy the source code to do that. The game 'Pariah' also Unreal Engine 2.5 does support normal maps and video .bik files, but was created by another game development team that licensed the Unreal Engine. Shame Epicgames didnt incorperate it into Ut2004 in its last update.

With darkplaces and nexuiz, you get full source code(under GPL v2), active back support( heavily development, update everyday as I use their SVN version); better graphics.

Barriers to switch: old database; darkplaces use QuakeC; potential legal issue(with nexuiz it's same to a standalone game).

Then, looking forward next release/demo.

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