Learn how to create characters with FUSE, upload them to Mixamo to get rigged automatically, choose animations from a sizeable library, import the files into ShiVa and combine all animations into a single AnimBank.
With every larger game that cannot be completed in one sitting, there comes a point when you should offer your users to save their progress and come back later to continue their playthrough. There are several methods you could use, like managed cloud saves, XML, JSON, or an online database of your own design, however
Cars are among the most complex physics objects you can create in your game. Although you only need 4 joints, the number of variations on suspension, engine power, friction, and so on are nearly endless. Before you can experiment with your car to find the perfect balance, you first need to understand how to set
Developing cross platform games confronts you with a large number of operating systems, processor architectures, graphics APIs and input methods. But don’t forget about all the different screen sizes, orientations and aspect ratios, which you need to take into account for FOV and HUD design!
Ever since the iPhone revolutionized the smartphone world, multitouch has been a staple technology that allows users to interface with their mobile devices through simple taps and swiping gestures. Multitouch support has also been a part of ShiVa ever since version 1.6 many, many years ago. However, the behaviour of the touch handlers might surprise
Changing a level scene is just one line away with application.setCurrentUserScene. But can you do it the elegant way?
Masking bits and categories were introduced in ShiVa 1.9.1, but very few developers know how to use them effectively. This tutorial video shows you the basics to get you started.
Here is a very easy to use sample of script to get an xml. Instead of using states, I recommend using handlers…
Asked thousand of time, this question has no clear answer. Here is an interesting listing of polycount from famous games like Quake, Unreal, MGS Half-life, etc.
This document is a making-of / tutorial for our latest technical demo called The
Hunt.
The purpose of this demo is to present the capabilities of the ShiVa engine in terms of
rendering, features and performance.