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« Reply #465 on: October 27, 2007, 08:32:00 am »

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This screenshot shows off my implementation of the CLOS algorithm. Toward the end of the screenshot, the player casts a spell for XRay vision -- which is basically just turns off the CLOS algorithm.

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« Reply #466 on: October 27, 2007, 08:39:00 am »

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Wow that is amazing work!  

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« Reply #467 on: October 27, 2007, 09:37:00 am »

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Art_of_camelot is confused no more!
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Ok, I understand what you meant now. That makes perfect sense  :)smile.gif .  


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« Reply #468 on: October 27, 2007, 10:34:00 am »

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interesting.  so is clos just inside dungeons, or at night?  


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« Reply #469 on: October 27, 2007, 10:42:00 am »

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interesting.  so is clos just inside dungeons, or at night?  

 Currently, I use a CLOS algorithm everywhere except combat maps.

There is also the Day & Night algorithm. When the sun goes down, so does your field of view. When you are underground (where the sun is not present) it is completely dark.

There is also the Light Point Source algorithm. Things like torches, lamps, candles, fireplaces, lava, etc will give off some amount of light. This will only be evident during the night or underground.  

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« Reply #470 on: October 27, 2007, 11:34:00 am »

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It is pretty amazing how many features this game has in it. This game is how old?, Early eighties?  


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« Reply #471 on: October 27, 2007, 12:26:00 pm »

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« Reply #472 on: October 27, 2007, 03:28:00 pm »

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It is pretty amazing how many features this game has in it. This game is how old?, Early eighties?  

 It's crazy isn't it?

Ultima V cost $60 in 1988. It was the most expensive game on the market. If you account for inflation, it would cost about $100 today.  O_Oshocked2.gif

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« Reply #473 on: October 27, 2007, 03:55:00 pm »

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It's crazy isn't it?

Ultima V cost $60 in 1988. It was the most expensive game on the market. If you account for inflation, it would cost about $100 today.

Holy economics Batman! Geez, all the intersting stuff in this Ultima game makes me want to look up and play throught the rest of the series. I remember there was alot of hype about the (later) Ultima games when I was in high school, but I never played any of them. Mabey i'll try to see if I can find some of these somewhere.  


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« Reply #474 on: October 27, 2007, 04:30:00 pm »

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The Ultima series started getting really good with Ultima IV (1985). Ultima V, VI, VII, and VIII continued that tradition. Ultima IX was rushed to the market and very buggy from what I heard.

Most Ultima fans consider Ultima VII the best with Ultima V coming in second place.

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« Reply #475 on: October 27, 2007, 04:46:00 pm »

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yeah apparently UVII was pretty good. However the sim city like perspective looked quite weird imho, they should have made walls vertical like in Zelda or Final Fantasy or make the game isometric. I have to tilt my head by 45

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« Reply #476 on: October 27, 2007, 05:09:00 pm »

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Those were cutting-edge graphics back in the day. ;)wink.gif:Ptongue.gif

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« Reply #477 on: October 27, 2007, 05:50:00 pm »

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true, but i would have prefered if the perspective was more vertical than diagonal

that said this is awesome graphics though, most SNES games didn't had that great gfx  


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« Reply #478 on: October 28, 2007, 06:53:00 am »

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Hey, didn't you post the UVII tiles somewhere?  or was that athlor?

DJ_Omnimaga, SNES probably didn't have as good graphics hardware as DS/GBA.  I might be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if the gfx hardware couldn't do the same amount of masking and transparency as GBA/DS.  GBA/DS can do 3-4 layers of tiles with transparency and masking, which means you can put real isometric tiles on different layers and overlap them to produce a isometric tiles, when the hardware only accepts matrixes of square tiles.  


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« Reply #479 on: October 28, 2007, 08:18:00 am »

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but didN't the SNES had isometric games too? I remember Mario RPG was isometric