Order and Resistance - Official Blog

We won!

2010-07-29T06:17:00.001-03:00

Order and Resistance: Winner of the Irrlicht Best ScreenShot of Q2/2010!

Here are more screenshots of the game.

If you want to download a few models and textures of the game fell free to visit my personal page at http://pxxpx.blogspot.com And dont forget to take a look at the license of each artwork before using it. Its all free of charge.

Good News

2010-06-30T00:32:00.000-03:00

News News

2010-03-05T23:36:00.001-03:00

A new place to post news and screenshots.

Our brand new twitter, HERE.
And out tumblr page with some exclusive screenshots, HERE.

Enjoy, follow us...

New coder

2010-02-07T23:58:00.001-02:00

Say hello to our new team member: Andres Jesse Porfirio. He is a very experienced coder.
If you want to know more about him just visit his portifolio at andresjesse.com

Now with his help we'll be making more and more progress.
The team is growing up and the alpha release time is to come.

Bye all, have a good week.

Difficult Times

2010-02-05T13:18:00.000-02:00

We are in a bad time of the year and of the project to have bad news but we are paused for some weeks until we find another coder to help Isaque, that is full of NO TIME.
As we are game lovers and do this for passion, there are other priorities in our lifes.
Order and Resistance will be late a little but when he comes you guys will be proud of us.

Now we got a new modeler that joined to the team. His name is Pericles Terto.
Welcome Pericles, for sure you will help us a lot!

Good News

2009-11-29T02:43:00.002-02:00

So, i have some good news. Now we have a totally remade uvtexture to MP9 and KA41, our ak-47 personal remake. And I must say it looks amazing.
And a wallpaper for the waiters.

In less then a month our first Alpha will be done. And the screenshot of the first OR war will be posted here. Such as, probably, a video.
Thanks for who is following the news in OR Blog.
Cheers!

Network Class and Portability

2009-11-27T03:31:00.003-02:00

Hi everyone;
I think the Network module is done. Now I am just testing and making little changes. I am going to write some documentation soon on the wiki of the google code page.

One problem I got when developing the Network module was about the synchronization between the server and the clients. I am using C POSIX sockets and I had to know when my recv() should stop.
The idea was to send a little header before each message with its number of bytes. Another problem is portability. Unfortunately, different computeres can use different ways to represent a multibyte integer. So, if I use send() to send an integer from my Athlon 64 bits running ArchLinux to an Intel 32 bits running Windows, the number could be interpreted in a different way. To solve that, I am using network byte order. It is basically a common format of bytes. Each operational system should have functions to convert between network order to the system order.

For Linux and BSD you can use: (For Windows, you need to use another header, but the functions are the same)


#include <arpa/inet.h>
uint32_t htonl(uint32_t hostlong);
uint16_t htons(uint16_t hostshort);
uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t netlong);
uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t netshort);

And a nice way to remeber is:

htons() host to network short
htonl() host to network long
ntohs() network to host short
ntohl() network to host long

Now I am working on Core, which will manipulate the players. Borges is working on some nice models and a map to test. We hope to release an alpha version of the game soon.

Engine testing

2009-10-30T00:55:00.000-02:00

Some massive tests with engine makes me tired and I believe Isaque feels the same.
But good news comming up, AK-47 on the go, runing with the game already. First map running with the engine freelly with no stress, all we needed to start making our game really quickly.
Next Steps:
Import animated character to the engine.
Keep texturing the weapons.
Continuing the development of first map.
Phase 2 of the RadiAPI development.

RadiApi

2009-10-28T03:30:00.000-02:00

I started to work on an "api" to do the dirty job for the game, so we just need to call some functions and all the stuffs will be set up. I am trying to make the api as general as possible, so I can use it later again for many purposes;

For now, I am developing three classes:

Network -- controls network communication between server and players, can be used by the server as well by the client.
Thread -- a superclass with general thread functions. for instance, network needs a Thread subclass to accept new players.
Core -- this class will control the interations between the players and manipulate them.

I am sure the project will need much more later, but, they should be enough for now.

Current Weapon Models

2009-10-27T22:18:00.002-02:00

Here is our current weapon models. I hope you like them as much we, from RadiAnt, do.

Characters and Maps

2009-09-27T15:46:00.001-03:00

From a long time stopped we are getting back very slow but still working.
Now we have 2 Characters, one Order Soldier and a Resistance Warior.
And we have our first map ready for the game engine. Our client-server path needs some work and in this next month I hope we can post some great news.
While other projects run with a lot of helpers we are only 2 by now, what is really hard for a game with OR ambicion. But is not impossible, the hard is to find commited persons.
As me and Isaque still working on OR you can expect good jobs and in a few months our first closed beta and some nice screenshots.
Thank for reading, any questions please comment or send e-mail to us.

First Code

2009-06-24T01:49:00.013-03:00

Hi Everybody, They call me Isaque, I am a coder of the project and I have some news.

After some months stopped, We're back!!!! For while, I think just Borges and I are active in the project. I hope the whole team will be back soon.

I'm studying the irrlicht engine, and, it seems be really cool. They have useful tutorials, and, its documentation is awesome!

After reading some tutorials, and cracking my mind with their API, I got a moving stuff. By now, We have a quake3 map, with a FPS camera plus simple Collision and a model which I got from an example.

After loading the map and create the FPS camera, I made a simple array for 'awsd' keys, so, the fps camera moves with these keys. I think every FPS game uses those keys, and, I could not imagine myself playing a game with the keyboard arrows.

The Collision support of the irrlicht engine is really easy to make. Basically, the collision doesn't allow you to pass the walls and objects like a ghost.

Later, I made an event receptor to detect if a key is down, or if any mouse button was pressed. If yes, you can do whatever you want, like call a function. Just for test, when the left shift or the left mouse button is pressed, a red rectangle appears on the center of the screen.

I stayed working to set a model as the camera body. First, I just set the model position as the same as the camera position in every frame. Then, I had to set the rotation as the same too, plus some value. This value is just for align the model.
In fact, the camera inside the model is pretty ugly, but, I am still waiting for our model to work on it. I am also looking for a better way to do that, maybe the irrlicht engine already have a blind function. Well, It is going to be in my way untill I get a better one.

As you already know, We have A LOT of work to do, but I really have faith in the project;

Some screenshots:

By the way, I have just created a google code for the project. They offer svn and 1024 MB. You can visit the url http://code.google.com/p/suproject to check it.
I have already sent the code that we have by now. You can get it using the command "svn checkout http://suproject.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ suproject-read-only". If you wanna compile it, you will need the irrlicht lib and the includes.

2009-02-12T18:22:00.000-02:00

2009-02-11T10:01:00.001-02:00

We have a lot of good news about OR Project.
We allready have a lot of textures, sounds and weapons... and a few maps comming.
I'm sorry to say, anyway, that we will no longer use Barrett Rifles until a authorization. As we still looking for investiments we still loking too for more and more help.. If you are a Coder or a 3D modeler and get interested in helping this Open Source Project, please send me a email or comment at this post ;).

See you soon.

New members and Weapons

2008-12-30T11:07:00.001-02:00

Say hello to our new members, Marcus Reis, Moist and Mr. G. And so to our new weapon, the UMP45:

Weapons

2008-12-24T15:12:00.001-02:00

Hello Everybody, im very excited with our project.
Cão Brasil created a new weapon for us, a glock 17. More weapons are under construction.
Here is our weapons until now:

This is the Barrett REC7.

And this is the new Glock 17.

Great jobs by Cão Brasil.

Hope you enjoy.

And happy Xmass

Irrlicht

2008-12-24T15:06:00.000-02:00

So, last night (14/12/2008) me and other SU TEAM members discussed about the chosen engine (Quake 2) and about the Irrlicht engine. I got really excited with the physics idea for the game.
We know is gonna be a hard year with a lot of work to do but we are a great team, with great coders and designers. :)
I have faith on SU TEAM.
So, here is something about Irrlicht engine that let us very excited to work with.
Info from: irrlicht.sourceforge.net

The Irrlicht Engine is a cross-platform high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. It is a powerful high level API for creating complete 3D and 2D applications like games or scientific visualizations. It comes with an excellent documentation and integrates all the state-of-the-art features for visual representation like dynamic shadows, particle systems, character animation, indoor and outdoor technology, and collision detection. All this is accessible through a well designed C++ interface, which is extremely easy to use.

Its main features are: (Note that the engine is currently in development. Take a look at the development site to see the progress.)

High performance realtime 3D rendering using Direct3D and OpenGL [more]
Platform independent. Runs on Windows95, 98, NT, 2000, XP, Linux and MacOS.[more]
Huge built-in and extensible material library with vertex and pixel shader support [more].
Seamless indoor and outdoor mixing through highly customizeable scene mangagment. [more]
Character animation system with skeletal and morph target animation. [more]
Particle effects, billboards, light maps, environment mapping, stencil buffer shadows, and lots of other special effects. [more]
.NET language binding which makes the engine available to all .NET languages like C#, VisualBasic, and Delphi.NET.
Two platform and driver independent fast software renderers included. They have different properties (speed vs. quality) and feature everything needed: perspective correct texture mapping, bilinear filtering, sub pixel correctness, z-buffer, gouraud shading, alpha-blending and transparency, fast 2D drawing and more.
Powerful, customizeable and easy to use 2D GUI System with Buttons, Lists, Edit boxes, ..
2D drawing functions like alpha blending, color key based blitting, font drawing and mixing 3D with 2D graphics.
Clean, easy to understand and well documentated API with lots of examples and tutorials.
Written in pure C++ and totally object orientated.
Direct import of common mesh file formats: Maya (.obj), 3DStudio (.3ds), COLLADA (.dae), DeleD (.dmf), Milkshape (.ms3d), Quake 3 levels (.bsp), Quake2 models (.md2), Microsoft DirectX (.X)... [more]
Direct import of Textures: Windows Bitmap (.bmp), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg), Truevision Targa (.tga), ZSoft Painbrush (.pcx)... [more]
Fast and easy collision detection and response.
Optimized fast 3D math and container template libraries.
Directly reading from (compressed) archives. (.zip)
Integrated fast XML parser.
Unicode support for easy localisation.
Works with Microsofts VisualStudio6.0™, VisualStudio.NET 7.0-8.0™, Metrowerks Codewarrior, and Bloodshed Dev-C++ with g++3.2-4.0.
The engine is open source and totally free. You can debug it, fix bugs and even change things you do not like. And you do not have to publish your changes: The engine is licensed under the zlib licence, not the GPL or the LGPL.

Got Interested?

Download Physiscs Collision Demo here.
Download Irrlicht here.

See you later, guys.