DEV Community: Maxim Khotlenko

News on update 19.03.2026

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:58:56 +0000

Hello! New neon effect based on the Motion Engine inscription texture!!
I would be grateful for subscriptions and ratings!! Thank you.

News on update 06.02.2026

Maxim Khotlenko — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:01:49 +0000

Good evening, I'm slowly working on improving the graphics of the game engine.

News on update 19.10.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:00:26 +0000

Hey everyone, it's been a while since we've posted any news.
But here it is 👍

We're working on the website and updating the documentation. We're also thinking about making a small demo with a car if we can get it done in a short time!

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News on update 26.03.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:16:02 +0000

Hello everyone, the diesel station model is almost ready, it looks like this:

Appears on stage here thanks to lua scripts:

In the end, I even managed to make a small animation of the rotation of the blades of the cooling fan.
Gif: https://i.ibb.co/yFJ1qrMs/11.gif (https://ibb.co/MkL47mjN)
All the latest news and something interesting can be found in my telegram channel: https://t.me/motionengine2 Streams are held on Twitch on weekdays (I will also be happy to wait for you) https://www.twitch.tv/khotlenko Thank you for your attention!

First information about the game | 19.03.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:56:23 +0000

Hello everyone! As always, we are actively preparing interesting content for you!! Let's break it down a bit:

I would like to provide a little more specific information about the game, it will be a first-person multiplayer game, connected to a shelter (develop, protect and attack others).
We make 3D models ourselves (with our own efforts! 😎) because it is interesting to work out everything that is planned. We are inspired by the stalker games, the Metro series of games.
The game will present the capabilities of the game engine, so we can say that the project is a demonstration!
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who helps the project, is interested, thank you very much 👍 for your support!!
Not long ago, I started streaming about the development of the game on the Twitch platform, I will be glad to see people in the chat.. www.twitch.tv/khotlenko That's how it is... it will get better!!

Update of the editor and model converter | 07.03.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:40:43 +0000

Hello everyone, now the main points of the map editor have been completed, and there are also two small pieces of news:

The inspector has been rewritten, otherwise the old one worked very poorly and led to a crash.
A tool has been made in the map editor for converting 3D models (into the format: ME2) and textures (into the format: GI)

Major update to the engine... 11.02.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:39:22 +0000

Hello everyone, I'm talking about the latest grandiose🤩 news.
At the moment:
🔧 1. Basic capabilities for the map editor are done (in the future they will be improved/corrected)
🔧 2. Now, in addition to the multi-threaded system in the game engine, there is also a system in Lua scripts, which allows you to perform many tasks separately from the main script thread. Called for example: thread( testFunction )
🔧 3. Accordingly, replacing functions in Lua scripts instead of engine:* (namespace - namespace) instead of for example, now the call is carried out:
Was: engine:PropCreate(0, "geom_tunnel_06.mep", "geom_tunnel_06.ME2.s0.mtx", "0.0;0.0;"..z, "-90.0;0.0;"..is, 0.1)
Became: propTest1 = cl_exec( "PropCreate", 0, "geom_tunnel_06.mep", "geom_tunnel_06.ME2.s0.mtx", "0.0;0.0;"..z, "-90.0;0.0;"..is, 0.1 )
🔧 4. At the moment, I am creating a basic part of the multiplayer for the game project..
And about the game project... we'll talk later! I'm waiting for your activity in the form of likes, comments, invite friends) I'll be glad for the activity, thank you!

Map editor user interface.. 19.01.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:33:40 +0000

Things are going slowly, I am improving the work in the map editor in addition to rendering, namely the program interface!

Engine rendering system fixes | 10.01.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:32:01 +0000

I am working on improving the engine rendering, optimizing the drawing of objects by reducing the functions of calling the drawing.
As you can see at the moment, FPS=332 has increased significantly and the frame break is smaller = 2 ms
(though rather some mechanisms have failed 🔧, I am working on fixes!)

The first shadows in the project | 07.01.2025

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:27:28 +0000

The first shadows in the project! Happy Christmas Eve to everyone!!

News on update 28.12.2024

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:25:34 +0000

Good evening. Found during the development of the game fixed important problems:
🔧 Important fix loading maps in two places (due to properties: physfile and phymat) crashed
🔧 Fix map editor crash when loading maps, with non-existent 3D model files in the objects folder
🔧 Crash due to syntax errors in lua scripts, a notepad with logs and a dialog box are displayed (interrupt - exit, Retry - restart the script, Skip - ignore the script)

News on update 12.11.2023

Maxim Khotlenko — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:17:32 +0000

Good evening! I'm trying to implement a color change when the mouse cursor hovers over the text, and in the future I'll do click processing in Lua)
By the way, the screen is drawn using Lua scripts + a resource scheme json file.