Can't you translate the geometry into a static mesh? With a converter, like a3toWmp.exe or with a WED plugin?

This is quite some extra work which I'll maybe do later - if the whole thing turns out to be usable one day.

Could you try to implement the ssao shader from Heelx?

All the fancy stuff will be done once I have all the import stuff correct. And there's still some way to go.

Palettes are auto generated now, but A8 needs them before the scripts are compiled, so I have no chance doing the whole thing with one engine call.

Later I'll have to divide the project into a converter and a level loader.
The level loader ideally can be included into any project and it does all the stuff like loading the map, placing all the entities, taking care of ambient values, transparency effects etc...

I have no idea how long it takes until I get there, though...

I'd really love to have a new entity type: mesh
So I'm able to have static geometry with skins and collision, but without all the entity overhead...

Some new pics.

The first one shows there's still some work to do.
A shot from the probably most complex and challenging level ever made with Acknex3. Abiventure 2 by Crew99



Simpler levels are next to no problem anymore. The sky shader provided by HeelX is working fine - scaling and offset of sky texture needs more work, but that's part of the converter tool. Shot from World of Kandoria (my work).


One more shot. Deathman's Island by Lutz Hüls. This one renders just about perfect in A8 (except the sky).

Adeptus A3 (by Harald Schmidt)

This all screens looks really great, but the worst thing for me here is, that A8 still uses textures from A3...
Otherwise, I have to say that levels are great, and someone had done a great job.

Haha I've thought exactly the same!
Nice work, Firoball!

NICE!
I still remember adeptus, it came with the a6 commercial 6.10...
liked it back then.