My own Simcity game framework,written in C# & XNA

[cnlazylu 21]

hello, pls forgive my poor english...i hope it's the correct forum to post it.

i've been longing to write my own Simcity game for all my life, and now it came true....partly...

i named the game UltraUrban, the project was started august last year, i used OGRE for rendering, and a visio designer for city planning.here are some screenshots of this version:

(the ui is in chinese)

as you can see, the buildings are not loaded meshes, instead, all buildings are "generated", players just need to draw the boundaries, and the game would pick up wall textures randomly and build the towers, this feature helps improving the building diversity in a city ,and also helps improving the rendering effiency (FPS doubles).

and after a year, i try to rewrite it with C# and XNA, now it's works. some features were implemented, a heightmap terrain, reflective water surfaces, sky with floating coulds .also, it's able to build some buildings.

Here's some screenshots of the new version, the black tower is the Tour Eiffel ... with some texture error

by now, the progress is quite good, and i'm planning to have some more features implemented:new building generation methods, road and bridges. i hope more people can have their ideas included in this game, therefore i'll make the game Opensourced. Any suggestiong ,ideas would be appreciated, my email is lazylu@gmail.com , and i wish i can hear any advice from Simtropolis, Thanks a lot!

[Jim14409 448]

If we ever have another great building game I'm sure it will come about because of people such as yourself who have the knowledge, talent, and are willing to devote the hours required to create such a game. It also takes a certain generosity and humility to make it open source as you suggest you will do. I commend you and wish you all the best even though I can't help write code. Being overly opinionated I can always give food for thought if needed.

I hope many join you and it becomes something like Firefox who came up against the giant of IE and now there are many browsers from many sources available.

Keep on keeping on and Best to you!

[Sandis_van_Great 346]

looks betther than SC5, keep up the good work

[simlink 1,098]

I'm can't provide any technical help, but something I see that II really like is water on multiple levels. Nice work and best of luck, I will be sure to come in and check how this is going.

[jacksunny 741]

It looks good so far!

[Ocram's Razr 964]

It looks like a good replacement to OpenCity, which has not seen any activity for years.

[cnlazylu 21]

thanks to all your supports. still working on it, some new features implemented:

1.Directional lighting and shadows. using shadows maps, to be improved (soft shadow)

2.Plants instancing. by using instancing technique, lots of plants can be drawn without significant fps loss.

3.Model placement. texture problems were solved, models can be displayed correctly now, with rotataions.

here're some new screenshots:

  Edited August 3, 2012 by cnlazylu  

[Ocram's Razr 964]

That is beautiful!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Very good. In fact, more than excellent. I particularly like the water reflections. I hope they are animated as they seem to be. You have a lot of talent, and I hope you are able to exploit it.

[Mark Waybill 242]

Excellent work. Great to see some progress being made. The best of luck with your project.

[cnlazylu 21]

thanks for all your replies! Contiune my update.

now the road sysytem is 30% completed:

PS:to #9:the water surface is of cource animated, ,i'll try to post some video capture next time, hope youi'll like it.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

You are doing well. When you get around to options, you should have one for road-side flora. Some of us live in the upper temperate zones, others in the tropics. Since it is just a matter of object selection, this should not be difficult.

  Edited August 8, 2012 by A Nonny Moose  

[cnlazylu 21]

You are doing well. When you get around to options, you should have one for road-side flora. Some of us live in the upper temperate zones, others in the tropics. Since it is just a matter of object selection, this should not be difficult.

Yes, it's easy. in fact, i've built a plant library in the game, which means that content contributors may add their plant models into the library and make it more diverse

[Patricius Maximus 236]

I like what I see here. As A Noony Moose said in another thread, some people just take the plunge and write code. While one person indicated that this is too unstable for a permanent game, this could be the beginnings of something good. Keep up the good work. You already have better looking buildings than Simcity 2013 features. Once the code is stable, the gameplay is created, more features put in, and the graphics upgraded, we would have a decent city-building game. The fact that it will be open-source only improves the confidence factor. Any deficiencies can be remedied by anyone with the right skills.

[cnlazylu 21]

so appreciated for all your replies~~

here's some most updated screenshots: the new road system,50%completed,roads are built by.....keyborad, haha~you just need to use the up,down,left,and right key to control the road building. also, the coorinate and length infomations will be displayed while building, so that it's extremly easy to build a round in the game:

and i'm planning to make the first release (both binary and codes) next week, hope you'll enjoy it!!!!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Better and better. I suggest you need some darker textures for your roads, or even some alternatives as options.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Wow nice it's starting to take shape. Good luck with finishing it....

[DmainEvent 195]

Looks great so far. I know you will be releasing the code soon, but I just wanted to ask what tools are you using for this? Also, could you describe your simulation engine? Maybe I could write that part for you?

[cnlazylu 21]

Looks great so far. I know you will be releasing the code soon, but I just wanted to ask what tools are you using for this? Also, could you describe your simulation engine? Maybe I could write that part for you?

thanks!!!it would be great to have more people involved in this project! in fact, i'm not going to implement any game logic or simulation logic in this project, instead, i'll expose some interface for further development. that means, someone who would like to play a "simcity rush hour" like game, may write his own codes focus on the simulation of traffics, and someone eles who's interested in economics, may make his economics system for the game.after that, there will be number of games base on the same engine.

here're some lastest progress, and as i promised, a video:

the video:

http://www.gprms.com/lazy/uu/120814/120814.avi

[cnlazylu 21]

more screenshots. with some new model contributed by some fans, now i can enjoy building a small town

  Edited August 15, 2012 by cnlazylu  

[cnlazylu 21]

lastest updates: water color and sky color improved, also replaced the ground texture

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[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Those are serious improvements. Where do you find the time to do all this?

[cnlazylu 21]

Those are serious improvements. Where do you find the time to do all this?

haha,i'm on my summer vocation....

[Jim14409 448]

Really looking great! Amazing in my opinion.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Those are serious improvements. Where do you find the time to do all this?

haha,i'm on my summer vocation....

Freudian slip?

[samima 92]

I can't wait for it to come out! You should make a website, kind of like simtropolis, that has forums and an exchange.

I really want to see the video that you posted, but my computer wont play it, so can you post it on youtube?

It's looking really great

Thanks

  Edited August 15, 2012 by samima  

[simlink 1,098]

This is simply amazing work, cnlazylu! The retaining wall from the road around the coast in your latest post is so cool - and the water textures look great!

[cnlazylu 21]

Those are serious improvements. Where do you find the time to do all this?

haha,i'm on my summer vocation....

Freudian slip?

oh~sorry~~~it shoule be "summer vacation", haha, just ask for your forgiveness for some chinese english~~~

i'll also be free after the new semester begins, so this game will continue making progress, as fast as in these days.

[cnlazylu 21]

I can't wait for it to come out! You should make a website, kind of like simtropolis, that has forums and an exchange.

I really want to see the video that you posted, but my computer wont play it, so can you post it on youtube?

It's looking really great

Thanks

hey~~~i managed to upload it to a flash video site:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDM5ODA3MTE2.html

i'm so sorry that because of some political issues....it's unable to access youtube in mainland, China. So what i can do is using some local service, that's why the video above has a chinese interface. just ignore the UI, press the play button, then you can see it. hope you enjoy it

[cnlazylu 21]

i've import lots of models from Google 3d model warehouse.