hi, we finally have a demo update! we have completely changed our terrain rendering system to a much superior method when compared to the earlier version. It has lighting based on the direction of the light specified and also has smooth blends b/w different textures (rock to stone etc.) Please comment on this and give us suggestions on how to improve. heres a pic - Heres the Link - Click here to Download thnx in advance, Edited by - Raptor on 12/26/00 10:12:17 AM

Hey man, I like it! It gets even better every time. But pleeeaaase, change the GDI fonts! I hate them!!!
And also you should switch the horizontal mouse movement, its horrible to turn the mouse left and get the screen changed to the wrong side! Anyway I like it that you established the real flightsim-controller-feeling regarding the vertical mouse movement.
Ah, before I forget it, just a hint: how about changing your object clipper a bit so that it doesn''t clip away every object that is only half way off the screen, that gives a weird popup-effect!

Anyway it''s a nice demo (just look at the first lines of this post if you feel depressed already )
Keep up the good work!

greetz, and have a nice christmas
pi~

thnx for ur suggestion

These are some controls i forgot to mention in the readme.txt

Y - Follow mode
Middle Button - strafe around the screen
control+MB/Wheel to zoom


ill fix the clipper part




Raptor

Yeah, my opinion here isn''t too much vaild, but I''m just kinda curious. When I run the game on my computer I can''t see anything. The first time I ran it I at least got to see the jeeps, but I havn''t been able to since. I''ve never seen the terrain either.

My opinion isn''t valid though, I''m running it on a P133, 48MB RAM, with a Voodoo 2 (8MB). Anyway, I was still getting 15-20 fps at 640x480, and what I saw looked pretty good.

Just curious, is anyone else getting this "missing graphics" thing that I''m getting?

When I added about a thousand jeeps things started dissapearing, first the jeep textures went black and white, then the terrain dissapeared. It could be that you need more video memory?

a P133 is never good enough for the game(voodoo or not).
try it on a better system and as for the 1000 jeeps, we have not limited adding but the memory allocated to the jeeps limits it to 512 jeeps

keep the suggestions flowing

Raptor

2 anon poster:
I''m not sure but Voodoo2 is an addon-board so maybe Raptor''s Demo doesn''t use it for 3D output but your Primary Graphics Card... If that one doesn''t support 3D (or has bad support, as ATI''s early RAGE chips), it''s very logical that you can''t see any objects
My suggestion is: either beat up Raptor''s ass for not supporting secondary display devices (not meant offensive, raptor ), or you do what I recommend to everyone with a P133/Voodoo2/48Megs: JUST BUY YOU A NEW SYSTEM! THE OLD ONE''S CRAP!
(sorry for being such a capitalist asshole )

pi~

Try Tinkering around with the textures in the /terrains/textures folder. the game currently uses Tiles256.bmp. change the others to this name and check em out



Raptor

There is a bug with the newly spawned jeep. the tyres go flat. has anyone noticed it. this is due to a memory leak. donot spawn more than 512 objects.

Keep ur suggestion Flowing



Edited by - Raptor on December 29, 2000 6:20:14 AM