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Started by Sleepwalker February 12, 2000 08:41 AM

16 comments, last by Sleepwalker 24 years, 4 months ago

Sleepwalker

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February 12, 2000 08:41 AM

Hello everybody ! I just set up the site for a game project that is currently under development. Please take look at it and tell me what you think. C O R A X Thanks in advance - Sleepwalker "Excuse me sir, which way is reality ?" Edited by - Sleepwalker on 2/12/00 8:44:17 AM

- Sleepwalker

Staffan

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February 12, 2000 09:02 AM

Just a quick note..your ''Map Prototype'' returns/whaever (not even a message box or a log! bwah) instantly when i execute it. The screen turns black and then back to normal, however It doesnt change the resolution before exiting.

Cloxs

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February 12, 2000 09:07 AM

Just a tip Sleepwallker, change it to Win32 Release. From the other persons post it sounds like you left the game in it''s "debug" form. Click on build->Active project settings->Win32 Release->OK and then reinclude the libraries. Also, it looks pretty good, but I reccomend you go with bitmaps. They''re easy to load, and look better than ascii.
Hope that helped - Cloxs

I can use my finger to point out the moon, but my finger is not the moon, and you don''t need my finger to see the moon, do you?

Sleepwalker

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February 12, 2000 05:42 PM

Thanks for giving me some feedback...

Staffan...I have a clue as to ehat might be wrong...The thing is in 24bit color mode...Your graphics card might not support it...I run it on a Voodoo 3 3000 and it works fine.

Cloxs...It actually is a release version - and it is an embedded bitmap (in the executable) with different tiles...but they just happen to be ASCII characters.
I thought it might be good to combine these two worlds: DirectX and ASCII...

So thanks again for you comments...
I''ll work more on the thing, so cheack back later...

- Sleepwalker

- Sleepwalker

Staffan

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February 12, 2000 06:04 PM

Thats it. My card only supports 32-bit color, not 24.

Sleepwalker

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February 13, 2000 02:20 AM

Hummm...that might be a problem...I thought I''d make it 24bpp - one byte for each primary color...
In 16bpp you have the diffifculties with the different 555/565 color models...

But I could as well make it with 32bpp, but I don''t know if all cards support that, especially the older ones.

Oh, and I heard that Pentium II class processor can handle 32bit faster and easier than 24bpp. Is that true ?

- Sleepwalker

- Sleepwalker

ZoomBoy

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February 13, 2000 02:43 AM

You might want to place a screenshot on your web-site. For most it's too long to download and unzip and then play when it might also crash.

ZoomBoy

My web site with screenshots

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Atlantis/7739/

Edited by - ZoomBoy on 2/13/00 2:49:07 AM

Geradian

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February 13, 2000 03:01 AM

One of the differences between 32 and 24 bit display is that the 32 bit takes more memory but is faster than the 24 bit.

Sleepwalker

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February 13, 2000 09:50 AM

I don''t think memory will be an issue...The game''s not gonna be very graphically intensiv, I''m afarid...So I could afford that...but still - what about older cards ?

Yep, ZoomBoy, I thought of that one too. Trouble is I do not know how to make a copy from ddsurface to a bitmap file without having to write up my own routine and messing with file headers and stuff like that #-) ...Any ideas ?

Anyhow, I made a weather cycling finite state machine engine type sort of thingy program (That parataxation of words is stylistically incorrect, I believe). Well, you can take a look at it at the download page...

- Sleepwalker

- Sleepwalker

Staffan

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February 13, 2000 03:13 PM

sleepwalker - did you try the print screen key?