Ethanon 2D Game Engine entities and scene editors

[TheMorfeus2]

awesome



[Xrenegoznaet]

Wow, really awesome.

[darkalemanbr]

Excelente :)

[ForgottenElements]

Wow, this is really amazing!

I want to use this engine for my 2D Action MMORPG "Forgotten Elements"!

I wonder if it would be possible to use your work in combination with a JAVA game, feel free to contact me if you see a chance in this symbiosis!

[jshprsn000]

I was looking for a good 2d game engine but couldn't find anything in my price range (zero), so I was watching a tutorial an making games in visual basic when I decided to type in "2d game engine"

O.o

[rafanavega]

Those real-time shadows totally kick ass.

[awsomeaustin316]

is this finished, looks fucking awsome, makes me wanna create a final fantasy rip off.

[DasAntiNaziBroetchen]

wow! im impressed!

really nice job on the illumination of the objects!

[TherealFizz]

I am making my own mmo right now and i was wandering if i could use your engine?

[vindieu]

totally. now just you should provide the tool to generate the normal maps because if the artist has three times the work as a more classical engine, its a pita that can have the consequence to chose another engine.

but i love it, its so neat it makes me urge to to an RPG with it...

[AndreSan87]

Thanks, I'll consider your suggestion. Maybe not to include a normal map generator with the SDK, but to provide the tool that may be downloaded separately and also a tutorial on how to use it.

[eGax]

@AndreSan87 OR you could just write a short tutorial on how to use the easy, free and good Normalmap plugin that's been available for years for Gimp which is also free and multi-platform. ;-)

[AndreSan87]

@eGax I already made it, its link is on the FAQ :) asantee.net/ethanon/normalmap_­tutorial/creating_normalmaps.p­df

[eGax]

@AndreSan87 You did a good job with it too.

[Netius]

Very impressive.

So it's all 2D ?

Could you make an example with isometric view ?

[AndreSan87]

Yes, it's still 2D, it's all based on sprite bitmaps. But the normalmaps and the positioning system have three axis.

I don't have any isometric example yet because I don't have the artwork, but I'll try to show you something soon.

[Netius]

Thx for reply !

And I wonder how do you have the normal map images. Is it an automatic render with a software ?

[AndreSan87]

Some of them are made with a regular "heightmap to normalmap" tool with a little help from Paint Shop Pro and some were rendered from 3ds max.

[blodyavenger]

that looks awesome, well done