Tech/LxEngine/Content

From Athile

Note: this page is not currently appropriately named as it contains a collection of information on several topics. It should likely be renamed to Content Development.

Contents 1 LxEngine Content 2 Tools 3 Building New Content 3.1 Feature & Plug-ins 3.2 Graphics & Game Engines 3.3 Pixel Art 3.4 3D Models 3.5 Level Design

LxEngine Content

Still working out the process.

Content:

• goes under the "media" folder
• under "media" should be 1-3 levels of nesting based on the type of asset: e.g. model, audio, music, sound effect, concept art, writing, etc.
• at the leaf level, each asset gets its own folder^†
• the folder contains the "long name" of the asset

† for small, simple assets the asset can be placed directly in the parent folder without a sub-folder of it's own. A Creative Commons Public Domain license is implied on all such assets without separate licensing files.

The long name:

• "theme"-"category"-"asset name"

Within the folder, there should be at least:

• "asset name".license.json, which is a common JSON file with licensing information for that asset
• "asset name"-<### revision>.ext, revisions can be kept as separate files for media when deemed valuable to do so

Within CMake:

• A macro needs to be written that takes a path + asset name
• It will open the license.json for the asset
• add that to a global asset credits file for the project
• add the latest version of the asset to a media/subdirs/asset.ext file under the binary directory

Tools

In an effort to ensure that "things just work", LxEngine uses a set of supported tools. This does not mean that other tools cannot be used for content development; but rather that, instead of trying to seamlessly support all tools, one tool for each major category is deemed the primary tool for that area.

Content Tools

• Blender
• GIMP
• FocusWriter - writing application, useful for fiction

Web Tools

• phpBB
• MediaWiki
• Wordpress

Building New Content

Feature & Plug-ins

• http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/
• http://imrannazar.com/GameBoy-Emulation-in-JavaScript:-The-CPU

Graphics & Game Engines

For inspiration and/or integration into LxEngine...

• http://www.horde3d.org/ - Horde3D
• http://www.neoaxisgroup.com/ - NeoAxis Game Engine
• http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/
• http://g3d.sourceforge.net/

Pixel Art

• http://wl.widelands.org/ - have many contributions on opengameart.org

3D Models

• http://www.blendswap.com - blender models with open licenses

Level Design

• 11 Day Level Design Process Overview - 9 minute YouTube on level design process