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    Josh

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    Well, iam talking business here and thats why i exclude win8 - you do not go for an additional low end renderer and exclude half of the current potential user base. In 2013, windows 8 might be half through the door - atm its not.

     

    Wargames sell harware for a market where the money was in 1997. Computergames are grown up, there is not just the average 20+ male gamer anymore, its family entertainment.

    Josh

    Posted

    I doupt that i will be a source developer ...

    but 2010 with the option for win7/8 (its 2013 then, right).

     

    WinXP is going down just like Win2000 (both good but not supported).

     

    Keeping up with the tech is a good thing - if that means that all the helping hands are leading you in the wonderfull world of stupidity however ?!

     

    ... and you just cant do that with some of the nice video/gui/sql etc. libs.

    ... which means you have to rebuild there libs for/with 2010.

    Road Kill Kenny

    Posted

    We had that in the forum some time ago but with self-contained lua objects ... the dummy object would just load its sub-parts like you do too :

     

       --Load all the parts for the models
   --
   object.mezzHouse_parts01_groof =LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_groof.gmf")
   object.mezzHouse_parts01_gfloor=LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_gfloor.gmf")

object.mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_1=LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_1.gmf")
   object.mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_2=LoadModel("abstract::gTown_smallBlock_mezzHouse_parts01_gwalls_2.gmf")

     

    but since all loaded models can have its own lua script we made a simple camera-distance check to repaint the part in question with a transparent material like :

     

     if fw~=nil then
  object.model:Hide()
--    pick1 = LinePick(campos, camera.position, 1, nil)
  pick2 = CameraPick(camera,Vec3(GraphicsWidth()/2,GraphicsHeight()/2, 20.0),0,0)
  object.model:Show()
--    if pick1~=nil then SetWorld(fw.main.world) end
  if pick2~=nil then
   SetWorld(fw.transparency.world)
 object.model:Paint(LoadMaterial("abstract::dirtyglass2.mat"), 1)
   SetWorld(fw.main.world)
  else
--	  [fixme] rePaint original material ...
--	  and scale materials alpha value by distance (glFragData.w)
   object.model:Paint(LoadMaterial("abstract::gTown_1_1024.mat"), 1)
  end
 end

     

    ... the issue which came up was that lights and skinned models are occlussion culled by default and "cant" deal with this way of half-transparency. A real shader for this might work however if you push the object in question into the transparent world.

    Josh

    Posted

    right - i just mean that in old school games if the designer throws enemy at the player the player got used to look right behind him/Her because yesterday`s ai might do walk just in straight lines ...

    by offsetting the approach, the player is challenged to pay more attention to the surroundings, enemy behavior he already has experienced etc.

    Josh

    Posted

    Welcome in the wonderfull world of ai debugging - you can spend a lifetime with this. :)

     

    I actually cant say anything about it so far ... but the shortest path aint always the smartest however - will work for zombies ( see you = yummy yummy) but soldiers etc. might move perpendicular to the player movement while they are still hidden to the player ... well, dont know how to describe in english - i mean approaching tactical.

     

    PS: iam a fan of building the node graph from the polygon center of the navmesh however. Still the same area but lowers the need of tweaking the agents radius to not get stuck. But its used the way it is because its way more optimal performance wise i guess.

     

    nice work anyways so far. :)

    Josh

    Posted

    Since the 2.43 "bugs" seam to only appear for few of us

    -- i highly suggest to get some option for evaluation users to report bugs and issues ...

    would help us greatly to react and handle such issues for with our upcoming releases !

     

    PS: could you make such community things sticky in the forum ... i might miss half of it.

    Josh

    Posted

    Which would be great for the ipad ... 200 sidescroller a la "manhattanProject" in the first year :blink: -

    i wonder which gametypes we might develop on the iThing next xear. :blink:

     

    Anyways - dont want to rain on your parade but there is an still an issue, in the tracker, i need to know more about ...

    Admin

    Data Loss Announcement

    in Ultra Software Company Blog

    A group blog by The Ultra Software Team in General

    Posted

    I wouldnt say its all your fault josh - as a user we need to expect that the software is configured properly. In case of a backup i too would expect the default setting would be "all-and-everything".

    Got me tempted though and i might have to put a bbord up myself, just to work with it.

    I hope its not too bad for lw beginners ... at least there is the wiki, the set of tutorials, the user-manual and the C api manual from sep2010.

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