Hey there EE community!

For learning purposes, I was working on a tower defense project using Esenthel. Along the way, I decided to make it open-source so that everyone can benefit from it (or curse at me for how I programmed it..).

Features:

- Lots of comments that should make clear what I did
- Custom RTS camera controls (zoom in/out, move with WASD, rotate)
- Load world from editor
- Load waypoints from editor
- Enemies spawn in waves and run along waypoints
- GUI to place turrets and upgrade them.
- Placeable turrets (1 type so far), turrets shoot at, and kill, enemies
- Turrets rotate when idle, turn to enemies, fire with particles
- Turrets construct gradually, using mesh masking.
- Turrets can't be placed on the road
- ...

Not included (yet):
- Sounds
- Winning/losing
- Resources
- Turrets can be placed on top of each other


I'm not a superb programmer by any means. This project taught me a lot, so I would do things a bit differently if I would start over-new. Different turret types has to be more flexible, same with enemies.

Published Project (.exe (32/64bit) + packed data)

Source Project

Make sure to read the ReadMe in the sources for the licenses.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them here. In the meantime, I hope this can show people a bit more of how Esenthel works.

Nice project going on there! This is deffinitely showing that EE is perfectly capable of making your small game become a reality. And I have 1400 fps at this project, NICE!

Thanks, Tottel. I'm sure this will be a useful resource for many.

Thank you Tottel

Hi, for me is not work:



I use Windows 7 Ultimate x86.

PS. TowerDefense.exe Application.
Thx.

Viruzzz: Ah yes, I seem to have compiled to 64 bit. I'll provide a 32 bit executable as well.

Thanks for the testing and feedback guys!

Uploaded new published version with both 32 and 64 bit executables.

Many thanks Tottel, very helpful for someone new to the engine

thank you Tottel, very generous to share it!
im learning much from it!

would be great if somebody would add some TouchControl to it so it will be playable on the tablet

Thank you, Tottel!

Just upgrade EE v2 last night and found this example project. Thank you so much for share.

While reading through the code, getting some ideas, I saw this:
I was curious about this as well. Part8 is part of an enum generated automatically by EE. There's no way to find the last element without hard coding it into the enum, so I would recommend making an extra enum at the end of the list in the model editor groups section-Parts_total or some such, and just not assign anything to that particular group.
It might not be a bad idea for EE to automatically assign a final enum for this purpose.

Hey Tottel,
That's cool of you!
Just downloading now.

Also, I log into irc esenthel channel but nobody there.
is it:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##Esenthel
or
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#Esenthel
I'm sure it's the later
Probably a good idea to include it in your footer also
Maybe get more traffic, I'll add it to mine to

gwald: Yeah, it's the latter.

People drop in and out from time to time.

Tottel im wondering about these files...
such named like...

00n6rls_mwa4rz4#1g291dei

cause it just says it is a file without an extention.