Great new 3D Engine for homebrew developers! For Free! |
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This just in! A small team called LTE studios, headed up by SiberianSTAR, have been working on a free 3D engine for the Sony PSP. And today's the big day! They've just released the first demo of their product, which they've been working very hard on.
So you might not be a developer, and you might be wondering what the big deal is... Well, for starters, this will encourage a lot of developers to venture into making games. Until now, if you wanted to make a proper homebrew game, you would need an engine to handle everything. In case of 2d beat 'em ups, it was pretty simple. But if you wanted to create a proper 3D game, you'd need to program everything to handle all the data/models/sounds using an engine. And trust me, making a game engine is one of the hardest programming challenges.
Apart from finding a way to load/handle all the stuff, you also need to program the physics and a lot of other really technical details, just so that the separate objects can interact just the way you want. If you want an example, how about I give you one about a racing game. Suppose you're one of the guys behind Need For Speed; apart from building the cars, tracks and other things, you'd need to build an engine to actually make it possible to implement all that art and beauty into a game. Another example would be the Source engine made by Valve, or the Doom3 engine made by iD Software.
By now, I'll assume that you know quite a bit about making games. Which brings us back to this great piece of news. These guys have been working for months, to bring us an engine which almost any C/C++ homebrew game developer can use to make a fully fledged game. The talk gets a little technical now...Don't worry if you don't understand all the mumbo jumbo. If I were you, I'd expect a lot of great homebrew games coming out in a few weeks.
For the programmers, here are a few technical details/features:
- 3D Engine
- Mixed 2D + 3D
- Powerful and customizable 2D GUI
- Character animation system
- Particle effects
- Billboards
- Dynamic Lights
- Powerful 2D with alpha, blend, etc..
- Six image formats supported
- Eight mesh formats supported
- Fonts support
- Collision and physics integrated
- Powerful terrain system
- and much more...
SiberianSTAR would like to thank Ky@ for his work on the editor, Jeremy Fitzhardinge for PSPGL, and PSMonkey. Oh, and by the way, thanks to PSMonkey for the heads-up too!
Download Link: [LTE 3D Engine Demo]
Via LTE Studios
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Comments [refresh]
cool
Watch really cool homebrew games come out now...
wow, it is impressive!!
good work lte!
maybe someone can make ff7-clone for the psp with this :-D
why when you could play the emulator when it comes out
our hb games will be as good or better than sony's crappy commercial game lineup
fps are a little low, but other than that it is really cool. cant wait for some nice 3d homebrew games to start showing up.
This is exactly what i was hoping is next for psp homebrew. You can all expect a halo clone from me. That is if it supports alot of things from the blender 3d modeler. God i hope so
Now this is news
P.S. I've been registered for ages, but I didnt know lolol1
damn i never get 1st post! :(
Isn't it a vit slow? It only works at 19 fps when there's 3d... When it's 2d it works at 59 fps...
Looks very nice, especially for the PSP.
cool i want homebrew gun 3d games now!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow jus imagine CS:source psp version
What, no screenshots? C'mon!
Oh, I fell thru the floor. 59fps tho xD
all ur screenshots are in the download lol
This is port of Irilichit...
Those aren't screenshots, those are textures.
And is it true this is an Irrlicht port? I seriously considering trying to use that on Windows. It's pretty full-featured.
SOMEONE PLEASE MAKE COUNTER STRIKE!!!!!!!!! !111111111111111111111111111111111
All right. This means good things for the homebrew scene. I can;t wait to see some quality Homebrew games made with the full version of this engine.
Yes this code is based on Irrlicht but it's not a direct port, I had to rewrite lot of classes and hard work. :)
Anyway in the official site
http://www.ltestudios.com/credits.html
there is written that is based on irrlicht
hopefully with this, we will see age of empires and or starcraft be created. lets all hope ^_^
looks very promising, demo reminded me alot of unreal tournament lol, same graphics.... someone wana make UT for me on psp?
This is really gonna help me with my new game. I was gonna have to do a sort of Mode7 type thing whereby my 2d graphics would look like 3D but now I can go the whole nine yards. Thanks Guys!
The graphics looked good, though the FPS was kind of slow... but it did reach the uppser fifties once I fell out of the level through a glitch in the floor.
FPS are slow because that map is not intended for PSP, it's a quake 3 map
With simpler map it can run at high fps.
Kind of low FPS when models on screen. I fell down beyond the view of everything and fps went up to 59 lol. Still very nice. Hope i can use this soon.
Everybody, go behind the portal that those black ninja ladies keep coming out of and keep walking forward to the wall! There's a crack in the floor there and you get stuck in an infinite fall.
And I can't go up the ladder.... ):
Very good 3D engine. But the FPS does get down at times. What can help that?
homebrew revolution is coming...
You can go up the ladder, just look with the camera up, i've made the sphere for the collision too little ^^
Thanks to all!
I just recently started work on a 2D homebrew game of my own, a sort of interactive graphic novel thing, and it looks like this might have some features that would make my work a bit easier. How well would you say this works for purely 2D games?
^.^
gr8 time saver
shure
Yes,
LTE 3D Engine has a powerful 2D Graphic systems with effects and a fully customizable GUI with label, buttons, scrollbars, tabs, editbox, combos, listbox etc..
Looks very promissing
so when will the first public version be released?
you sir and an messed up in the head
i have a question, say i make a really cool homebrew game with this, how do i get it posted on qj, psp-hacks, and dcemu???????
I'm downloading this right now! I've been looking for an engine for my to run my full 3d version of Bonk's Adventure. I was never fully satisfied with Hudson's redux of the title. This may be the thing I've been looking for.
Edit: Damn I was hoping it'd be an actual demo of the engine not a demo running on the engine.
Nice, and if it supports .bsp fully, this will be a revolutionary homebrew app. It will be great to port some of my maps made in radient gtk to the PSP.
Goodwork.
The SDK will be released when i will finish the documentation ^^
it's so boring ... damn!
this engine sucks,i and my team are developing a 3d engine better than that...... good work
LTEstudios is a full ITALIAN team...
Italians do it better
cya
Both of you are acting like children.
Ricky: if you engine is better than my team's one, well, you are welcome, good work, but stop blaming.
simon:
your phrase is self-commenting. please grow up.
Keep up the good work ! :)
This is a great step in the right direction!! Good Job!
Cant wait to give this a try, nice work :)
This is an excellant engine, it would be cool to prt HL to this, even if the game is old.
what type of games are you considering for the engine?
Carmageddon If thats even possible:)
will it be possible to make a 3D MMORPG? just a basic one like runescape ( but funner than that crap ).
i was just thinking the same thing metal~
i wonder if an mmorpg could be made on this engine.
id help with the 3d graphics =)
i just started and im decent right now.
id make a low poly set of characters.
or maybe a 2d mmo?
somehwat like tibia~
but better system.
runescape is made in java and yes it sucks i used to play it. not only that but if it was made it would take like a HDD or more to have it on your psp(i believe one of those M's stands for MASSIVE)
As for starcraft or warcraft..... i think we all know by now that blizzard would be on top of it to shut it down almost immeadiately.
All we need now is for someone to use this, netlib, and some sort of 3d modeling program/app so we can have some UMD quality(or better) homebrew games.A 3d game i would like to see come out of this is:
1.A halo clone but not titled halo so it would be somewhat legal and slightly different sprites.
2.Or Mortal Kombat of course with another name and different chars so its somewhat legal.(i like to see updates to things is the only reason i say legal.if it was illegal then the company who makes the real game would shut it down.)
o and... HOORAY for the homebrew community!
This is really what the scene needs now, to move to 3D. I'm glad someone is working on a way to make 3D homebrew easier to create. Its amazing how far this scene has come.
Time to kick that 3-D Chrono Trigger remake back to life..
this is cool. i wish i could put it to use, but i cant figure out how to program in c past hello world...
As I have stated in the LTE forums, this is an awesome engine with very nice graphics for a homebrew. Indeed a good fps would come out of this engine. And the flames were tight too.
Runescape isnt that large, it downloads everything ont your computer before you can play it, and for that reason I completely disagree with the hdd comment but I suppose it could be larger than a 32 mb stick but the game does download quite fast...
Haha warrock for psp, wouldnt that be somethin, maybe some child prodigy will make something as great. I'm not too sure if the SDK can work in conjunction with netlib? either way, i'm lookin forward to seein some bad ass homebrew, and maybe makin some ;)
really cool...i think i will start programming for psp
kewlll!!
doesnt work with 2.x
About all this talk about an mmorpg on the psp, by means of homebrew, couldnt someone creat an iso homebrew game, because it will be just like a umd and have all the same graphical advantages,and i dont think it would be illegal
hi SiberianSTAR
i know i'm acting like a child...becouse I AM a child...i'm 8 years old...i think is the normal acting for me...isn't it?
however great job guys
cya
@66- . . . congratulations on being a brainless idiot
guys you know how on devhook the icon plays music when u put ur cursor on it? what song is that its tyt and i kinda want it. anybody know?
This is great for the homebrew community. Nice and bubbly!
be cool if they could bring back chronotrigger the remake or if somebody could make it,
what does everybody think?
Maybe they could fully port a Super Smash Bros. in 3-D...
you could boost FPS if it supported LODs, then again anyone know if that can be put in?
When do u think this will be released?
ps: great work SiberianSTAR
Could someone put somekind of video of the demo to Youtube.
So people who has 2.71 could see it.
does it run with firmware 1.0 ?
I tried to convert with Sei PSP tool 0.5 but the resulting eboot didn't work (error: The Game could not be started 80020148)...
LTE 3D engine SDK is now available on www.ltestudios.com whit the docs.
have fun ;)
from irrlicht's blog:
http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=348
change word 'irr' to 'engine' is hardly any work. anyone can use search and replace feature of their editor to do that. you should be a shame of yourself. you pirate!