NanoBlobs 0.41 + NTAI 8.0.

Isaactoo · Post by **Isaactoo** » 22 Mar 2006, 00:11

I havn't played an actual game with an opponent yet...but if rooks are a problem, perhaps their weapon should be dependent on weather you have enough energy.

Lord JoNil · Post by **Lord JoNil** » 22 Mar 2006, 00:26

I absolutely love this version. Good Job! Although it can be a little laggy.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 22 Mar 2006, 00:36

@Drone Fragger:

I am aware of that, and I will be very careful about this set of adjustments. I am also aware that compromise changes aren't likely to make everybody happy, either. First rule of game design: you cannot make everybody happy, but you have to try anyhow

krogothe · Post by **krogothe** » 22 Mar 2006, 14:11

Ill play the new version and see! Im all for mass exploding sheep at least

emo_boy · Post by **emo_boy** » 22 Mar 2006, 17:21

is there goin to be or has there been a map realeased for this mod

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 22 Mar 2006, 17:34

Try any 8x8 or smaller map, such as Castles, Ashap Plateau, The Chess Board, maybe even Sparewood, etc.
But there is going to be a map for Nanoblobs called NanoArena, and it is probably going to be released soon.

emo_boy · Post by **emo_boy** » 22 Mar 2006, 17:36

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 22 Mar 2006, 19:36

PLease make the new nanoarena called Nanoarena 2, As there is already problems with the 2 presvious version of nanoarean having the same name :/

SinbadEV · Post by **SinbadEV** » 22 Mar 2006, 19:43

huh... I wonder if that explains al the sync erorrs

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 22 Mar 2006, 20:40

Yup. Yes it does.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 22 Mar 2006, 22:38

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 22 Mar 2006, 22:52

ooh, seige engine?
Doesn't Spring have issues with long narow footprints when rotating though?

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 22 Mar 2006, 22:55

Quiet you! I wanna see the siege engine!

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 22 Mar 2006, 23:19

I have some tricks I can use, to deal with rotation. As for the map... we're almost done. Really. Sorry about the synch errors, I didn't put the map on FU, so I guess that gets chalked up as, "how not to release a map"

Drone_Fragger · Post by **Drone_Fragger** » 22 Mar 2006, 23:38

kk. I'm guessing the holes on the Millidede of for missles?

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 23 Mar 2006, 00:20

Yes. And just wait 'til you see the deathbeam it shoots.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 23 Mar 2006, 10:43

Well... I have just played out two games of 0.32b. Corrected many problems with the gameplay of 0.31b, but created others, which I will have to fix before releasing the next version.

GuiltySpark had a good idea- have the SquareRooks have some sort've chaingun for self-defense, instead of the admittedly-lame Archer gun they currently mount. I will make that happen.

On the not-so-good news front... here are my results with smoke-trails for the Archer's shots:

Basically, these look gorgeous, and the custom missiles are neato... however, with smoke trails, the FPS drops to the floor. Sorry, but I think this is a feature I'm going to have to cut... it's just not worth the framerate drop, even after slowing down the ROF for Archers by quite a bit in order to compensate for the smoketrails. Which is too bad, but I don't have a better solution yet. I will look at the smokepuffs from PE and see if maybe they're just too large/detailed and I can just fix things through sizing them down to reasonable levels, but I doubt that has any effect on the missile trail effect.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 23 Mar 2006, 10:52

The framerate drop can't be that bad...... i see you play with shadows on, that means the whole screen gets rendered twice... try to play without shadows or lower the particle limit.... without smoke it just looks like cannon balls instead of missles!

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 23 Mar 2006, 11:00

Well, I was getting 40FPS with 1024 shadows, even when combat was pretty heavy, now I get 11-12 at the low end. Pretty darn costly, and it's mainly because the smoke draws shadows, pretty inefficiently from what I can tell. Without shadows... I'll try that and make a decision, but I'm really not sure this small bit of eye-candy is worth the performance drop.

Which, coming from me, means it must be a pretty big performance drop

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 23 Mar 2006, 11:11

Pathfinding is usually the fps killer....

try it with standing still archers..

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NanoBlobs 0.41 + NTAI 8.0.