The characters have various animations - above is one 'attack' move for the Punk character shown in a series of frames. Note that all textures (sky, wall and ground) are included with DarkMATTER (click for larger image).

It can be painstaking work, constructing your characters and animations from scratch. Wouldn't it be great to have preset characters to load in and tweak? Wouldn't it be great to look at how someone else made their models, so you can learn? Or to drop in a placeholder character into your game just to get things going, and replace it later with a unique model of your own once you have things underway?

The DarkMATTER collection lets you do just that!
 

• Pre-created characters, vehicles, weapons and more, ready to use 'out of the box'

• All objects in native gameSpace .COB format, and stored in easy to use Libraries

• Characters have animation sequences such as attacks, walks, and 'deaths' !

• Also includes extra textures that will be ideal for use in a game

• Includes extra objects such as Sky Spheres

Read a detailed list of the models, their animations, and details about their polygon counts here!

The Spook - one of the more monstrous characters in the collection! Click to view!
 

Characters

The most important elements in your game - the characters - are also the most difficult to create.

If you want to focus on game design rather than modeling, then the pre-made characters in DarkMATTER will let you do just that. Alternatively, you can use them to learn from, or use them as a starting point for unique characters of your own design by modifying the textures, or reworking the models themselves!

Weapons

What good are your characters if they can't defeat the bad guys - and how are they going to do that without weapons?

DarkMATTER gives you an arsenal of weaponry at your disposal, so you can arm up your characters (and the bad guys!) with ease. You'll find a variety of pistols, rifles, machine guns and rocket launchers to choose from.

One of the DarkMATTER weapons. Click
to view a small sample of weapons included.

Various land and air vehicles are included, like this jet. Click to view the animation.

Vehicles

The DarkMATTER collection also has a set of vehicles, from regular civilian cars through to military tanks, missile launchers and jets.

The vehicles are animated, with the wheels turning on the ground vehicles, undercarriage on the aircraft lowering and raising, and so forth - see the VET sample by clicking on the image on the left to see the jet animated.

Sky Spheres and Sky Boxes

To bring your levels to life, you will find a libraries of sky spheres and sky boxes. These are objects you can bring into your game to provide the background, and here you will find a set of skies so that there should be one to suit the mood of your game!

Of course, you can always take the textures from the sky spheres and sky boxes and use them elsewhere too!
 

One of the textures from a sky box.

A small sample of 4 textures,
reduced in size.

Textures

As well as the textures on the objects themselves, there are also a set of extra textures, including walls, ceilings, floors, ground, doors, slime and more!

The textures are usually 256x256, so are ideally sized for use in games, and with categories such as Urban, Natural and Sci-Fi, you will find these game-ready textures a useful addition to your game development palette!

The Game Creators

DarkMATTER is is made by The Game Creators, makers of DarkBASIC, and now this excellent collection is available in COB format, ready to load into gameSpace and be exported to your game engine of choice!
 

This collection contains all the materials from DarkMATTER for DarkBASIC from The Game Creators, only with every model in native gameSpace format and ready to export to any game or game format!