| |
Slightly cold news on page 10! Phlamey breaks the server. |
| |
This is a long thread. Click here to view the threaded list. |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72402, posted by Phlamethrower at 22:10, 5/12/2005, in reply to message #72400 |
 Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Animations are working, and things are being plotted at the correct size 
Now I just have to tidy up the new code a bit, then add all the other bits of missing code so that peds and cars are more than just static sprites 
And I seem to have a memory leak to fix  |
| |
 [ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72406, posted by Phlamethrower at 23:31, 5/12/2005, in reply to message #72402 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Fixed that memory leak, but there are obviously a few other problems to sort out
http://www.phlamethrower.co.uk/misc2/ofla.gif
That may have been caused by a bug which I'd fixed a few minutes earlier, though |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #72407, posted by monkeyson2 at 23:34, 5/12/2005, in reply to message #72406 |
 Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
Why have you got a copy of Windows Vista in your gcc directory? |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72409, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:05, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72407 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Hmm, copyright 1996 David Allison. I wonder if he can sue microsoft for stealing the name of his program? |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72410, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:34, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72409 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
All crash-worthy bugs appear to have been fixed, and I may have just taken a screenshot that will help me fix the inaccuracies in my rotated/scaled sprite plotter
*makes another note not to press Ctrl-A in netsurf* |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Michael Drake |
Message #72428, posted by tlsa at 18:49, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72410 |
Posts: 1097
|
*makes another note not to press Ctrl-A in NetSurf* Why? It should just select all, which is what the style guide says and other apps do. I suppose, if the caret is in a form input text box it should just select all the text in the box and not all the text on the whole page though. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #72429, posted by monkeyson2 at 19:00, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72428 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
I think it should pop up a little message saying "please do not press ctrl-a again". |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72431, posted by Phlamethrower at 19:15, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72428 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
*makes another note not to press Ctrl-A in NetSurf* Why? It should just select all, which is what the style guide says and other apps do. I suppose, if the caret is in a form input text box it should just select all the text in the box and not all the text on the whole page though.
Yes - it should just select all - Not select all, show the timer, then get stuck in a seemingly infinite loop |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Andrew Poole |
Message #72433, posted by andypoole at 19:32, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72428 |
Posts: 5558
|
*makes another note not to press Ctrl-A in NetSurf* Why? It should just select all, which is what the style guide says and other apps do. I suppose, if the caret is in a form input text box it should just select all the text in the box and not all the text on the whole page though.
That's what it does here.. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Michael Drake |
Message #72434, posted by tlsa at 19:34, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72431 |
Posts: 1097
|
Yes - it should just select all - Not select all, show the timer, then get stuck in a seemingly infinite loop Is this on a specific page or all pages? |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72435, posted by Phlamethrower at 19:40, 6/12/2005, in reply to message #72434 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Only tried it when posting replies on TIB.
I'm using a copy from 14th Sep, so there's a possibility that it's been fixed already. Plus the date in the prog info window isn't style guide compliant |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72447, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:07, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72435 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Peds can now wander around levels, including falling off ledges and bumping into walls  |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72448, posted by Phlamethrower at 00:29, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72447 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
I really do need to write a completely new rotated/scaled sprite plotter though, it doesn't cope very well with small sprites  |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72449, posted by Phlamethrower at 01:11, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72448 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Not useful |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72450, posted by Phlamethrower at 01:20, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72449 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
QBASIC programmers are pussies, they only know how to draw rotated sprites if they're being drawn tiled
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/qbrotate.html |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72451, posted by Phlamethrower at 01:55, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72450 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Gah, even this thread is on Google for "rotated sprite plotting"
The search results seem to fall into five categories:
1. Use of sprites in arcade/console games, in particular Nintendo's
2. People asking how to rotate sprites for use in a game they're writing on Windows, and either:
(a) Getting told to use a presupplied function
or (b) Not being given an answer that is useful to me (e.g. using prerotated sprites). Or in some cases answers that aren't likely to be useful to them either.
3. Advertising/downloads of Windows based programs that will perform sprite rotation for you, but either
(a) Are not designed for realtime rotation
(b) Have no source code available
(c) Use an algorithm far inferior to my current one
or (d) Use C mixed with inline x86 assembler to produce Mode X graphics, with insufficient documentation for me to work out what the algorithm is doing
4. 3D maths
5. Pages about RISC OS, a significant proportion of which seem to constist of me talking about sprite plotting
[Edited by Phlamethrower at 02:27, 7/12/2005] |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72452, posted by Phlamethrower at 02:09, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72451 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Finally, someone who knows what he's talking about
I Need some help to make a Grand theft auto like game
I plan to make a game called Car Jack 89. It will play similar to grand theft auto but will revolve around a central theme. MONEY. You owe a bookie a large sum of cash and you have to pay installments at a certain time. I already have plans to make a static map entity engine as well as a dynamic one (for cars people ect.) THERE IS A PROBLEM THOUGH. I am having difficulty creating a rotational sprite algorithm. The algorith needs to conform to my sprite routines and be fast as h3ll. If your interested in playing an integral part in this groundbreaking game e-mail me. ridesaburton@hotmail.com http://www.ticalc.org/programming/upcoming/games/89.html?p=17
*mumbles something about how his college decided to use crappy Casio graphics calculators instead of uber TI ones*
Hmm, I still haven't uploaded my games collection for the fx-9750G. I even had a nethack clone at one point, but didn't make a copy of the code (Which was probably because it sucked )
*resumes reading about Car Jack '89, in particular the useful post a couple of posts down where someone gives help with rotated sprite plotters* |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72453, posted by Phlamethrower at 02:30, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72452 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
How come no-one programs anymore? They all cheat and use hardware acceleration, presupplied libraries, or just precomputed images.
*gives up using Google and goes off to devise his own algorithm again*
[edit]
And where is everyone? It's only 2:30 AM! Are you all in bed? 
[Edited by Phlamethrower at 02:31, 7/12/2005] |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Adrian Lees |
Message #72454, posted by adrianl at 02:50, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72453 |
Member
Posts: 1637
|
How come no-one programs anymore? They all cheat and use hardware acceleration, presupplied libraries, or just precomputed images. Having just had to chase down another limitation of the NVIDIA chipset without any documentation on it, and with the result being a total machine hang if the limit is exceeded, I wouldn't necessarily call it cheating 
And where is everyone? It's only 2:30 AM! Are you all in bed? No, of course not
[Edited by Phlamethrower at 02:31, 7/12/2005] Posted using Netsurf, because I know how to edit stuff with it!
makes 42nd mental note to finish the NS editing routines. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72456, posted by Phlamethrower at 02:55, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72454 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
How come no-one programs anymore? They all cheat and use hardware acceleration, presupplied libraries, or just precomputed images. Having just had to chase down another limitation of the NVIDIA chipset without any documentation on it, and with the result being a total machine hang if the limit is exceeded, I wouldn't necessarily call it cheating
Well, that's slightly different
The use of hardware acceleration implied that you also had the software driver for the hardware. Reverse engineering the hardware to get a software driver is classified as real programming
Posted using Netsurf, because I know how to edit stuff with it! I can edit stuff too, it just gets a bit tedious loading webpages through a serial network without any guarantee that NetSurf will have enough memory or display them properly
makes 42nd mental note to finish the NS editing routines. And to stop long words vanishing off the side of the text areas |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #72462, posted by monkeyson2 at 09:12, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72456 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
How did Axis do it? |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72479, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:01, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72462 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Never heard of the game, so I have no idea |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #72480, posted by monkeyson2 at 16:12, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72479 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
Never heard of the game, so I have no idea link |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #72481, posted by monkeyson2 at 16:13, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72480 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
Or even:
google cache of vanished page |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72482, posted by Phlamethrower at 16:57, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72481 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
The foreground enemy tanks got drawn by a slightly different routine at full resolution. Well, that's nice and descriptive
Plotting a screen full of rotated tiles is easy. What's harder is plotting an individual sprite rotated, because you have to make sure the edges are neat and all the sprite coordinates stay within the bounds of the sprite. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Phil Mellor |
Message #72483, posted by monkeyson2 at 17:16, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72482 |
Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler
Posts: 12380
|
Plotting a screen full of rotated tiles is easy. What's harder is plotting an individual sprite rotated, because you have to make sure the edges are neat and all the sprite coordinates stay within the bounds of the sprite. All the baddies wot you shot were rotated. They could turn and move about, and as you rotated the screen, they got rotated too (obviously). |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72484, posted by Phlamethrower at 17:19, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72483 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
Yes. My point was that he goes into considerably less detail about that algorithm than the one he uses for the background |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72488, posted by Phlamethrower at 18:24, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72484 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
I bring you messages and stuff!
The oddly shaped coloured blob on the second screen is just something to test the object spawning/destruction/animation system. The block in the middle of the map constantly spits out the blobs in random directions. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
Jeffrey Lee |
Message #72495, posted by Phlamethrower at 19:29, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72488 |
Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot Hot stuff
Posts: 15100
|
I've started work on the collision detection routines
Ped -> ped/car/object collisions are working. Next will be object -> ped/car/obj, then finally car -> ped/car/obj. |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
|
John Hoare |
Message #72496, posted by moss at 19:33, 7/12/2005, in reply to message #72495 |
Posts: 9348
|
... |
| |
[ Log in to reply ] |
| |
| Pages (22): |< <
6
> >|
|
