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zwzsg · Post by **zwzsg** » 22 Jul 2005, 22:09

Buggi wrote:Oh, and zyzsg... why'd you even try a png? Even in the quoted text it doesn't list a PNG as a valid type.

Ah thx, that explain well while it doesn't work. I feel stupid now.

Many color *.pcx isn't supported. But 256 color custom palette *.pcx is. I hesitate between that and many colors .bmp. I have no idea what *.dds is.

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 22 Jul 2005, 22:58

DDS is the nvidia compressed format. It's what the tiles in the map are saved as.

-Buggi

Neuralize · Post by **Neuralize** » 23 Jul 2005, 20:32

I don't know if you fixed the aircraft height bug thing in build 8 of minispring, but here are some amusing screenshots of World Dominion
in action under build 7, where a unit has got itself stuck way up there, and everyone wants a piece of it.

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 23 Jul 2005, 20:56

Yes build 8 includes an attempted fix for aircraft height.

LOL

Well at least we know satellites won't really work unless there's some special coding done.

-Buggi

AF · Post by AF » 23 Jul 2005, 22:36

Yuk that must be fixed. Anyone know if the cvs is back again?

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 23 Jul 2005, 23:40

Don't fix that looks great!

Gnomre · Post by **Gnomre** » 23 Jul 2005, 23:56

Reminds me of the coverage from the first gulf war...

Meh, those were so much better in movie form...

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 24 Jul 2005, 01:16

CVS has been down for 2 days. Not sure what's going on.

grrrr

-Buggi

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 24 Jul 2005, 05:33

LOL! I never seen that happen before!

so what was your FPS at when all these bullets were in flight?

Neuralize · Post by **Neuralize** » 24 Jul 2005, 07:43

Well, the game was already at 20 fps, because I was running shadows to take some neat screenshots. I would say keep it in too, except the Aircraft fly so high that they can't be killed, and my basic machine shells were coming back at me. Then again, in this build, gravity had not been halved.. (I think.)(See main discussion for screens.)

Any word on what's going on with the trees? Is the color for transparency changed, or what's going on?

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 24 Jul 2005, 17:35

I've been told trees have been fixed, but since the CVS is down, I can't update the build.

And gravity hasn't been affected at all.

-Buggi

genblood · Post by **genblood** » 24 Jul 2005, 19:24

Buggi,

Any updates on Sharp Map? Will it be released before
the next update? Any information would be helpful ...

Neuralize · Post by **Neuralize** » 24 Jul 2005, 21:36

Ah well, they shouldn't have been firing at something way up in the sky in the first place.. >.>

Just tested build 8 of Minispring some more.

Unfeatures:
Treadmarks do not resize to miniscale.
Planes still get stuck in the high in the sky, usually at edges of the map.

Only buildings which have odd numbers of units lengthwise/heightwise have difficulties with drag and click line building under minispring.

AF · Post by AF » 25 Jul 2005, 15:04

hehe they've added a rotating overhead camera. Oh well, there goes populous.h

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 25 Jul 2005, 20:02

Yeah I just checked the lastest build and trees are fixed for one. YAY

They've also added custom cursors for resurrect and capture but obviously I don't have them because they'll be in the next release of their XTA mod.

And I don't know what this means:

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-Added tag SmoothAnim=0/1 to the fbi. If it is 1, units will use animation interpolation

In regards to the new SharpMap, the sharing of tile files and how that relates to the current maps tiles is more complex than I had anticipated, and it must be perfect. Add in conjunction to that the new feature placement system and you have a mess of stuff that has to be tweaked and tested before the next beta is released. So no epic size maps for a few days I'm afraid.

I know SY is getting ready to release this code as the "next release". I thought they were going to do it yesterday, but it think the CVS servers delayed that a bit.

-Buggi

FLOZi · Post by **FLOZi** » 25 Jul 2005, 20:11

That's at the request of zwzsg. Great to see the SYs still listen to us pesky people.

GrOuNd_ZeRo · Post by **GrOuNd_ZeRo** » 25 Jul 2005, 21:15

Smoothanim ala GLquake i'm guessing! awesome! K-Bots will move SMOOTH now!

AF · Post by AF » 25 Jul 2005, 21:20

SmoothAnim is referring to the scripting improovement made a few releases back, that interpolated the script commands so that movements became more fluid. Some argued this however would cause incompatability problems in that there scripts did not behave exactly as they used to.

AF · Post by AF » 25 Jul 2005, 22:02

Buggi, are you waiting for SJ todo a major release or are you gonna compile for us again? I've been waiting ages to test my AI out, I dont even know if it works yet.

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 25 Jul 2005, 22:04

I'm waiting.

They updated the version to 0.60b1 so a release in imminent.

-Buggi

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