Thank you for your answers.
Yes, I discovered it's quite a beast to ride, but the graphics look good. For the rest - we are busy little beavers and may pull it off within the given time. We can adress Source via C++, intending to use it for handling dialogue choices and effects. We are looking into interconnecting VCDs to actually represent the dialogue. Perhaps this sounds even wilder to you than to me since I have just begun to explore this thing.
If we won't pull it off, we can at least showcase the artwork.
@Tetsu: Goldsource? Is that the old HL1-engine? I don't think this would be up to at least fairly recent graphical standards. Our presentation would then... disappoint some people...
Thomas
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Good morning,
I joined the board and open this topic because we are in bit of a pinch; we have to showcase our project in its current state to investors within four weeks and the engine core of our stuff is not yet ready and won't be in time. Though we can easily explain it, all sides would feel better having something to watch and play.
So I try to whip it up by way of a Mod with an established engine. Artwork, sounds, levels, actors and models are ready in various compatible formats for Source, so we can showcase that "in action" in HL2. But I'd also like to add some bells and whistles, e.g. parts of our intricate and higly flexible story (which hitherto has been our main selling point), so here are my questions:
Are complex, multiple choice, branching conversations (PC-NPC) conversations possible?
Is it possible to influence long-term NPC behaviour by the course a conversation takes?
Is map-branching possible, i.e. if you killed Lord High'n'Mighty during the Mission "Castle of Some-Weird-Fantasy-Name-Or-Other" you get to a different mission than you would hadn't you killed him?
If this is not possible, can anyone point me to a fairly recent game which can?
Thanks in advance.
I joined the board and open this topic because we are in bit of a pinch; we have to showcase our project in its current state to investors within four weeks and the engine core of our stuff is not yet ready and won't be in time. Though we can easily explain it, all sides would feel better having something to watch and play.
So I try to whip it up by way of a Mod with an established engine. Artwork, sounds, levels, actors and models are ready in various compatible formats for Source, so we can showcase that "in action" in HL2. But I'd also like to add some bells and whistles, e.g. parts of our intricate and higly flexible story (which hitherto has been our main selling point), so here are my questions:
Are complex, multiple choice, branching conversations (PC-NPC) conversations possible?
Is it possible to influence long-term NPC behaviour by the course a conversation takes?
Is map-branching possible, i.e. if you killed Lord High'n'Mighty during the Mission "Castle of Some-Weird-Fantasy-Name-Or-Other" you get to a different mission than you would hadn't you killed him?
If this is not possible, can anyone point me to a fairly recent game which can?
Thanks in advance.