3D-Engine with cutscenes like in Monkey Island 4?

[Pixelex]

Hi,

first I have to say... sorry about my english, I'm german. I hope you all will understand me.

I'm searching a nice 3D-Engine like the one Monkey Island 4 used. I heard it's an improved Grim Fandango Engine. Since I know 3D Adventures I liked the cutscenes in 3D ingame-graphic with dialogs beetween the characters. Now I'm searching an engine or a 3D Creator, which I can use to make a 3D Adventure with those 3D cutscenes. Does anyone know an engine or creator to create such an adventure? Or does someone know a user-created Adventure with 3D cutscenes? Never found one except the old 2D Adventures with dialogs, but thats easy.

Long time ago I tried it in Blitz3D. That programm was cool but I can't go on because it was too hard for me. xD

Please can anyone help me? ._.'

[ad7venture]

Monkey Island 4 used 3d characters with a rendered background.  Wintermute does that.  It's set up for doing adventures, so it would be your best bet, I think.

[Trumgottist]

I agree that's probably your best bet. (The cutscenes in MI4 and Grim are prerendered movies, though, and are not doable in-engine.)

[NigeC]

i'm using a 3D engine called Awakening, originally it was designed for 3D presentations, but has since progressed to being a games engine:
http://www.awingsoft.com/

i think theres a video tutorial, showing how the "under the sea" was done with a dolphin swimming about

or i you use Swift 3D you can create flash 3D animation that could be used with the Lassie game engine

[ad7venture]

I agree that's probably your best bet. (The cutscenes in MI4 and Grim are prerendered movies, though, and are not doable in-engine.)

It does Ogg-Theora in-engine movies.

[Trumgottist]

It does Ogg-Theora in-engine movies.

A cut-scene done "in engine" usually means that it's not a movie, but a scripted event. What I meant was simply that to achieve the same effect, you'd have to use a movie. I did not mean it wasn't possible to do in Wintermute.

[ad7venture]

Oh.  I thought they were movies.  I have to admit, a cut scene for me usually involves a character saying something.

[Pixelex]

Whoa! Thanks for the fast and good answers! I think Wintermute is the system I will try next. Sounds really good. YaaY!

[Orange Brat]

Oh.  I thought they were movies.  I have to admit, a cut scene for me usually involves a character saying something.

MI4 and Grim Fandango cutscenes are movies. They're prerendered movies, and the gameplay consists of realtime 3D models on prerendered backgrounds with hidden scene geometry for the 3D model to interact with. There are instances where there is dialogue that is still in-engine; thus realtime, but the fancy cutscenes with lots of camera movements and better looking graphics are prerenders. This is how 99% of 2.5D games operate, and unless you want to do a lot of custom coding/scripting in a realtime 3D engine to transform it into a 2.5D engine, your only choice is Wintermute given it's the only adventure game specific engine that supports realtime 3D graphics on top of 2D backdrops.

http://dead-code.org/