Expect a video this coming weekend. If I can figure out how to upload it to youtube that is.
François On 2012-10-10, at 05:41, Neil Riley <[email protected]> wrote: > Brilliant! > > Sounds like this could turn into a labour of love, still, it does sound good > :) > > Any chance of work in progress screen shots or a Youtube Video? > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francois Lanciault > Sent: 10 October 2012 06:14 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] (Update) New game for the QL under development > > Hi everyone, > > Just a quick update on my progress. > > In the last couple of days, I worked mainly at improving the 3D engine; line > clipping, object visibility, object creation and removal, simple hidden line > removal etc. All this unfortunately takes time to compute, so at the end of > the day, the fps score was not as good as it was. > > To compensate, I redefined the 3D object definition in order to reduced the > number of 3D transformations to compute its position on screen and I wrote a > greatly improved routine to erase the screen between each frame. > > Finally I wrote a very simple control interface and defined the first "stage" > of the game. This stage will be called "The Ice Field" where you are in > control of a ship that navigate in a comet tail. You need to doge the ice > crystals and collect some rare Iridium cube lying around. > > I just played for a few minutes and it is fun ! Some parameters need to be > adjusted to improve playability and set the difficulty level right. > > The game will have the following stages: > > The ice field > The power station > The mothership > > and one or two still undefined stages. > > What left to be done: a lot... Firing, object explosion, scores, better > steering, collision detection, introduction story and graphics, testing, lots > of testing. > > BTW I lots the whole weekend trying to solve a very strange bug... At the > end, it was a error in an assembly function; ADDA.L instead of ADDA.W... > > François > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > *********************************************************************************** > The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. > It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor > may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company > on 01234-265380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the > company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your > responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. > No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email > communications. > > BC Services (UK) Limited (trading as Boxclever), Technology House, > Ampthill Road, Bedford, MK42 9QQ. Registered No. 5290544 England > > www.boxclever.co.uk > *********************************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
