[WIP] Katamari: The dark descent (Update 16/11)

[Mosnye]

This is currently a work in progress (as is the name)

The aim of this mod is again to totally push the scripting capabilities out of their comfort zone - though this time there were much harder problems to overcome than with Tetris, including a bug with the attach function!

I will be posting here about how certain things were achieved, starting with an overview of the contact point discovery method sometime over the next few days. This project is at least a couple of weeks away from completion (when the engine is fully functional levels should be fairly quick and easy to put together, but there is a lot of tweaking still to do). There are, sadly, some trade-offs that have been made, and it is still untested as to how well this will handle the biggest objects, so not out of the woods just yet!

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Development Screenshots
Attached Objects Test (31/07/2011)
Collision Point Detection (31/07/2011)

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Demo Video 1 (31/07/2011)
This video shows the engine at 3 different stages - first when contact point discovery was added, then when that was extended to allow attachments. The last clip shows where I am up to as of 31/07/2011 - the ball's collision mesh can resize indefinitely based on the radius of the ball with attachments, keeping all objects attached in the correct place!

Obviously, any ideas, comments, etc. are greatly appreciated. Am also looking for somebody kind enough to make a katamari model with textures .

.......I think ill stick with Tetris, sounds easier!