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

[Apjjm]

Small update, new video:
Youtube

In a nutshell - i made a tool which lets me load in amnesia entities (specifically, folders of entities) and render them to an icon (128x128) with transparency. This involves reading the .ent & .mat files as well as rendering the models - which in turn involves reading the resources file and loading in the resources.

Sadly, there were some bugs when i enabled alpha transparancy with textures - which is probably down to my rather primitive (hah) knowledge of OpenGL - so i've settled for disabling transparency for now (this makes the desk clock and plants look bad but i can always create these icons in a second pass with transparency later).

If you fancy taking a look at all the entities you can currently pick up in katamari:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/64805489/icons.zip

This tool will be distributed with a "development pack" for the mod so users can add custom entities to "custom stories" in katamari (just run the tool and paste in the script it generates). This version will also include a base script which can be pasted into any map (given a script area and the right entities) to play katamari in.

Note that the names of entities in the icons folder are different as the mod uses a tonne of "fixed" entities (i.e. entities that are all rotated and positioned in a certain manner), and some fixed models for entities with missing faces - and entities of static objects.

The plan for this tool is to use the icons on a HUD to show you what stuff you've just picked up - huge thanks to palistov for inspiring this idea as i was struggling on how i could convey this.