Hacking [RELEASE] RayCast3D Engine - 3D Game Engine for lpp-vita

[Rinnegatamante]

RayCast3D is a 3D Game Engine for Nintendo 3DS / PSVITA which runs under Lua Player Plus.
It uses Ray-Casting algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting) to generate a 3D world starting from a 2D map allowing to create basic 3D games without any knowledge of how 3D rendering works.
On PSVITA it runs good with accuracy values >= 3.
In the download package you'll find also a little sample app.

At the moment these are the Features RayCast3D offers:

• Different tile size maps
• Automated camera and player position management
• Support for huge maps (pratically there aren't limitations)
• Support for sky rendering and floor rendering
• Automated minimap renderer with player position
• Textured walls support
• Wall Collisions check
• Shading support
• Bullet system (Ray casting with returning values)

What this engine needs to be finished is listed in this TODO List:

• Player collisions with walls
• Sprites support for animations
• Bullets physic
• Editable FOV
• Support to textures for walls, sky, floors

Video of a sample app


Credits:

• @Rinnegatamante: Author
• @gnmmarechal: Video footage
• Special thanks to fpermadi for this really cool tutorial i used as base about RayCasting algorithm: http://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting-tutorial-table-of-contents/

Repository:
https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/Lua-RayCast3D/tree/master

Download:
Here you can download the first alpha version (v.0.1) with a sample tech demo and a short documentation for the available functions: https://rinnegatamante.it​

 

[memomo]

Awesome

Thanks a lot, can't wait to see some amazing homebrews with this engine.

 

[Dav_Dabz]

Impressive

 

[MajinCubyan]

Rinne, you are machine. Just pumpin life into the vita. Thanks man, can't wait to install this.

 

[Rinnegatamante]

Rinne, you are machine. Just pumpin life into the vita. Thanks man, can't wait to install this.

You should thanks the bad weather not allowing me to go to the beach and the fact that i have made lots of projects for 3DS that are relatively easy to port to PSVITA for me

 

[gnmmarechal]

You should thanks the bad weather not allowing me to go to the beach and the fact that i have made lots of projects for 3DS that are relatively easy to port to PSVITA for me

huh, here I have good weather, live near the shore, and barely went to the beach this year x.x

 

[SYNYST3R1]

I'm very excited to see this engine because I've been looking for something like it on pc for awhile now. I'm new with LUA and a pretty amateur programmer in general so these may be dumb questions... Is there a way to make the 2D image draw in the first layer instead of disappearing? Or will that come with the sprite animation support? Is there any way to test the game in Windows?

 

[Rinnegatamante]

I'm very excited to see this engine because I've been looking for something like it on pc for awhile now. I'm new with LUA and a pretty amateur programmer in general so these may be dumb questions... Is there a way to make the 2D image draw in the first layer instead of disappearing? Or will that come with the sprite animation support? Is there any way to test the game in Windows?

What do you mean by "make the 3d image draw in the first layer instead of disappearing?"

Anyway, atm there's no lpp-vita debugger for PC. There's one for lpp-3ds (where RayCast3D exists too) but it's still in early stage and doesn't support RayCast3D at all.

 

[SYNYST3R1]

What do you mean by "make the 3d image draw in the first layer instead of disappearing?"

Anyway, atm there's no lpp-vita debugger for PC. There's one for lpp-3ds (where RayCast3D exists too) but it's still in early stage and doesn't support RayCast3D at all.

It hides the 2D image behind the walls. Is there a way to do a UI that always draws in front of everything else

 

[Rinnegatamante]

It hides the 2D image behind the walls. Is there a way to do a UI that always draws in front of everything else

Just print your stuffs after RayCast3D.renderScene...