Hi Thomas. Yes I understand this. If you ever played Ever quest or WOW, that is the general Idea I'm wanting to work with. I know it's possible to do these games in sound based, if the Game engine supports the tools needed to do it.
I know the sound limit is a big factor, as the world I would create wouldn't have that many sounds, until you get to say a group of trolls or a entrance to a dungeon. Maybe you could implement a auto detect sound modual into the engine to down grade it self if it sees that the user computer is lagging behind or unable to handle 32 tracks of sounds at once and so forth? Sounds like you are making this game engine to beat the snot out of AGM lol. Can't wait to know when you got a beta ready. I would gladly test it out for you and such. Peace Kuvvosh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 7:36 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game Engine Discussion. Hi Kuvvosh, Well, setting a world of 1000 by 1000, by 1000 isn't going to be a problem. I can make the grid size flexable. However, the thing you need to be careful with is not making your worlds too large. If you make them too large with too many audible objects you will eventually out strip the average users resources to play the game. For example, Sarah crashes my laptop because it uses too many resources on my laptop. I have to edit the sound.ini file and change the games default buffers from 50 to 30 in order to keep it from crashing. It is not that Sarah is a bad game, but it eats up way too many resources and has too many sounds going at once for my laptop to cope. As a result I've learned that you need to try and play it safe with memory in order to make your games functional on most computers. Kuvvosh wrote: > One thing I have to say Thomas, I'm glad that your games put every files in > a folder structure. As I have stressed this to several people on problems > with there games having to slow down and find the files and so forth. Not > only that, it makes working on a game much easier to find the file that is > causing the bug, and to correct it then going through 1k of files in a > single folder. > > > > Sure computers are fast, but, NT file system hates it when you got nearly 1K > of single files in one folder and isn't organized. When you throw a folder > with 1K of individual files onto a hard drive, all those files are basically > scattered across the drive, even after defragging, which causes the head to > go nuts on locating a file. When organized, it helps a lot for the NT file > system to be able to locate the folder name and files when placed on > separate folders. > > > > Right now, the one game I somewhat got in the works is going to have nearly > 3K of files alone give or take a few hundreds. I just hope that the game > engine is going to be able to handle a large world, I'm considering a world > with a grid base of 1k by 1K square. Each square being at least 12 feet > square. Roughly 24,000 square feet. *Grin* and that's only the world map > lol Then the dungeons alone going to be a different story. > > > > Peace > > > > Kuvvosh > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
