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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #150 on: September 25, 2011, 08:16:58 pm »
Quote from: t0xic_kitt3n on September 25, 2011, 03:06:37 pm
How are the levels going to be stored? As an array with the map and then a list containing enemies and pickups?

Kinda.  It is indeed an array and a list, but both are compressed seperately.  The author of gemini used LZSS compression for maps themselves, and I didn't want to mess around with something that worked just fine.  The list of enemies and such is compressed seperately with pucrunch.

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How fast is decompression?

I haven't timed it, but so fast that you won't even know it happened.  Which is good, because I have to re-decompress a level and textures after running a cutscene.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #151 on: September 27, 2011, 03:52:19 pm »
More progress!  First, you can view a screenshot here:

http://ourl.ca/13235

A couple of new features/bug fixes from the time that I finished switches:

* Enemies and the player now have no issues hitting each other.  In the original game code, sometimes an enemy would take no damage even if the player aimed dead-on to the enemy--and vice versa with the enemy firing.  This problem has been fixed.
* Enemies now fire more often. I have yet to make it so that an enemy will miss sometimes when you move, but that's an easy fix

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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #152 on: September 27, 2011, 07:02:11 pm »
Hm, watching the screenshot, the aiming reticle or whatever it's called is kind of hard to see.  Would it be possible to make one that sticks out more?  Maybe an xoring scope or something...
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #153 on: September 27, 2011, 09:00:40 pm »
Quote from: Darl181 on September 27, 2011, 07:02:11 pm
Hm, watching the screenshot, the aiming reticle or whatever it's called is kind of hard to see.  Would it be possible to make one that sticks out more?  Maybe an xoring scope or something...

I think I'm actually going to remove it.  On such a small screen, it takes up too much space.  Whether or not I make it stick out, it also blocks/blurs other content such as enemies or trees. 
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #154 on: September 29, 2011, 07:26:47 pm »
It's really hard to see stuff in that... The first screenie looked better.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #155 on: September 29, 2011, 10:02:35 pm »
Quote from: boot2490 on September 29, 2011, 07:26:47 pm
It's really hard to see stuff in that... The first screenie looked better.

Are you saying that it's really hard to see stuff with the aiming device?  If so, I agree
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #156 on: September 30, 2011, 12:27:48 am »
Yeah, because of the fact we are looking down the barrel here, not with the gun off to the right like in modern first person shooters, and there is only side to side aiming, it isn't that hard to aim without a reticle. Having a key to enable/disable it won't hurt if there are people that still want it.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #157 on: October 01, 2011, 01:39:53 am »
I added a new screenshot to the screenshots page.  At the end of the level you can see how many secrets you haven't found

Before I continue with level design (which is the huge chunk of the project), I'm going to edit the saving and loading of levels--including allowing a player to save in-game rather than at the end of each level.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #158 on: October 01, 2011, 05:22:59 am »
I looked at the screenshots. WOW! I think it is the best FPS I've ever seen for the z80.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #159 on: October 01, 2011, 04:56:44 pm »
No, I meant stuff was hard to see. The first screenshot, with the beautiful grey walls and blinking door lights was much better. I didn't even see the scope.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #160 on: October 05, 2011, 09:32:25 pm »
Change of plans! 

As some of you may know, the Ti-83+ SE/84+ screen is slow, and so I'm coming up with creative ways to use the time required to output data to the screen.  This should help speed up the game.
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #161 on: October 05, 2011, 11:22:56 pm »
Sounds interesting. Good luck Hot Dog!
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #162 on: October 07, 2011, 09:42:03 pm »
1 question will this throw an err mem when I run it like if I dont have all memory free like in gemini?
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #163 on: October 07, 2011, 09:42:55 pm »
Quote from: annoyingorange on October 07, 2011, 09:42:03 pm
1 question will this throw an err mem when I run it like if I dont have all memory free like in gemini?

Not quite.  You'll see a message that says "Sorry, Elimination requires 9 KB of RAM."
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Re: Elimination: A New FPS
« Reply #164 on: October 07, 2011, 10:05:29 pm »
Oh never mind then. Awesome I deleted Gemini of my calculator because of that mem err
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