[WIP] Custom Story: The First Stone

[C-zom]

Yeah going back to an engine like this is presenting both artistic and logistic limitations that otherwise were streamlined and easy to use in, for example, Cryengine2. Of significant note is the difference between something as simple as area boxes, in cryengine 2 you'd draw the box in the 3d plane and if you walked into it a trigger, also a 3d object you could program in-engine, was launched.

Example being that to set up even a tremendous amount of sounds, scripts, screen effects and so forth took merely a minute or two of your time with simple flowgraph nodes. Like enter -> Trigger Camera Shake -> Upon Completion, Trigger faint.

But in HPL I'm feeling the bite and sullen cool air of "real man's" coding, so to speak, of an older engine. Digging up syntax's and C++ varables and ironing out every little detail in notepad++ to do even the simplest things is stressful, at best.

On the other side of the coin is the fact that HPL is indeed one atmospheric engine and will no doubt provide me at least with a tour de force in grim story telling, without having to carve out a niche in anotherwise "happy" engine like Source or Cryengine2. HPL is made at least for this type of modding and thus has the tools, atmosphere, and props "out of the box" for it, whereas you had to create something of nothing in the aforementioned engines in order to turn ordinary korean huts, cool jungles, and bright sunny days into Lovecraft country.