hey man! i used to play your fps Secret of Manes when i was little, it was on a Czech CD with games distributed by a magazine. i managed to find a copy of th egame online, but cant manage to run it on w10. is there a way?
Sorry I missed this one. Maybe it works when you have latest DirectX9 support, and legacy support for directPlay, and a way to disable DEP for a particular EXE. (Data Execution Prevention was added with Windows 2000 I guess, causing Blitz3D EXEs to crash when they were compiled before BlitzResearch released an updated Compiler.)
You know, in Windows 10, it often says "Your operating system cannot run this program. Talk to the company who made the program ". But it's a lie! Can you believe that? So then you run the same program with Admin rights, and confirm "yes, I really want to run this." Then it works, and from then on it works even without admin mode.
I tried a batch (.bat file) that would simply redirect a textfile to a COM port (type test.txt > COM3:) and Win10 said "Sorry pal, this OS cannot run this program, talk to the company who sold you this crap" but you know what? Microsoft sold me MSDOS that it said, doesn't run under Win10... they are crazy lol.
Thanks! This "game" is mostly to show the output of the "fancy terrain generator". Pity tho, with an island that size, I'm getting a low framerate if I add too much NPCs and additional meshes like buildings.
However, making the terrain/ island only about 1/4 of the size, would be the way to go. All the other things like Ammo, medipack etc. pickups would then be simple additions. But the trees still need a proper LOD handler, right now only the ultra-low-poly version is shown, regardless of distance (4 triangles per tree). Also, I have to find a way to get smooth seams on alpha-masked, yet correctly z-sorted geometry, such as the trees. Also, fog causes a white seam problem with these alpha-masked textures, so I use a fog substitute made out of a couple of add-blended cubes around the camera - far from elegant.
What I really like here however, is how the grass adapts to the ground color, like the shade under trees, which is just individual vertex-color on the actual terrain mesh. And also, how the grass grows perpendicular to the ground angle, and not just aligned to the Y axis.
For a procedurally generated terrain that's pretty fancy i'd say, I'm learning about procedural generation in class today, hopefully well see some more fancy terrain generation such as this one.
Thanks. I had some engine limits. Like the outlines of masked textures are sharp and clumping, ruining the horizon unnecessarily. But generally speaking, yes, procedural can do a lot. You invest a lot of time in finetuning the procedure, hence a quick testing option is required. Once it is nicely tuned, it will take you just a click for a whole new world. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration ^^ Trees are originally procedural as well, see my procedural pine tree thing. Here I render those trees from 4 different angles, and cover 4 intersecting triangles with these renders. These ultra-lowpoly trees were meant as distant LOD trees, and on close distance they were meant to be switched with a higher poly version. But the thing became slow already, so I never added that.
Good game, but a little boring. But it's already excellent for coppercube. I like your scene. You can also take a look at my game, which is also made with coppercube, but it is still a little inferior to you
Thanks. There's a problem with plants and fog mixed in WebGL (bright seams, as bright as the skybox), so right now I use a fog substitute, but it's just a little bit of fog at a distance, using a cascade of add-blended big boxes around the camera. I'd love to add bloom, but I also want to see what's possible with the free version of CopperCube. Frankly, Niko should add postprocessing to the free version. Well, I still want to see whether I can use the underlaying functions using Copperlicht syntax directly - it can render to texture, which is half the rent for Bloom.
Note: despite the fact that I have added to this game the necessary tabindex zero script thingy to make keys work on itch.io, a step that worked reliably so far, I just now had again unresponsive cursor keys, which is weird. I then hit ctrl-r to reload the page, then it worked again. But still.. well just so you know. Try reload if keys don't work.
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hey man! i used to play your fps Secret of Manes when i was little, it was on a Czech CD with games distributed by a magazine. i managed to find a copy of th egame online, but cant manage to run it on w10. is there a way?
Sorry I missed this one. Maybe it works when you have latest DirectX9 support, and legacy support for directPlay, and a way to disable DEP for a particular EXE. (Data Execution Prevention was added with Windows 2000 I guess, causing Blitz3D EXEs to crash when they were compiled before BlitzResearch released an updated Compiler.)
You know, in Windows 10, it often says "Your operating system cannot run this program. Talk to the company who made the program ". But it's a lie! Can you believe that? So then you run the same program with Admin rights, and confirm "yes, I really want to run this." Then it works, and from then on it works even without admin mode.
I tried a batch (.bat file) that would simply redirect a textfile to a COM port (type test.txt > COM3:) and Win10 said "Sorry pal, this OS cannot run this program, talk to the company who sold you this crap" but you know what? Microsoft sold me MSDOS that it said, doesn't run under Win10... they are crazy lol.
Had fun exploring, maybe a couple more npcs in the finished version would be nice and limited ammo?
Thanks! This "game" is mostly to show the output of the "fancy terrain generator". Pity tho, with an island that size, I'm getting a low framerate if I add too much NPCs and additional meshes like buildings.
However, making the terrain/ island only about 1/4 of the size, would be the way to go. All the other things like Ammo, medipack etc. pickups would then be simple additions. But the trees still need a proper LOD handler, right now only the ultra-low-poly version is shown, regardless of distance (4 triangles per tree). Also, I have to find a way to get smooth seams on alpha-masked, yet correctly z-sorted geometry, such as the trees. Also, fog causes a white seam problem with these alpha-masked textures, so I use a fog substitute made out of a couple of add-blended cubes around the camera - far from elegant.
What I really like here however, is how the grass adapts to the ground color, like the shade under trees, which is just individual vertex-color on the actual terrain mesh. And also, how the grass grows perpendicular to the ground angle, and not just aligned to the Y axis.
For a procedurally generated terrain that's pretty fancy i'd say, I'm learning about procedural generation in class today, hopefully well see some more fancy terrain generation such as this one.
Thanks. I had some engine limits. Like the outlines of masked textures are sharp and clumping, ruining the horizon unnecessarily. But generally speaking, yes, procedural can do a lot. You invest a lot of time in finetuning the procedure, hence a quick testing option is required. Once it is nicely tuned, it will take you just a click for a whole new world. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration ^^ Trees are originally procedural as well, see my procedural pine tree thing. Here I render those trees from 4 different angles, and cover 4 intersecting triangles with these renders. These ultra-lowpoly trees were meant as distant LOD trees, and on close distance they were meant to be switched with a higher poly version. But the thing became slow already, so I never added that.
You should definitely join and add this or the Shambala game in the game jam.
Good game, but a little boring. But it's already excellent for coppercube. I like your scene. You can also take a look at my game, which is also made with coppercube, but it is still a little inferior to you
Thanks. Yes, it's not a full game. However some spots I like there, certain bays.
Thanks. There's a problem with plants and fog mixed in WebGL (bright seams, as bright as the skybox), so right now I use a fog substitute, but it's just a little bit of fog at a distance, using a cascade of add-blended big boxes around the camera. I'd love to add bloom, but I also want to see what's possible with the free version of CopperCube. Frankly, Niko should add postprocessing to the free version. Well, I still want to see whether I can use the underlaying functions using Copperlicht syntax directly - it can render to texture, which is half the rent for Bloom.
Note: despite the fact that I have added to this game the necessary tabindex zero script thingy to make keys work on itch.io, a step that worked reliably so far, I just now had again unresponsive cursor keys, which is weird. I then hit ctrl-r to reload the page, then it worked again. But still.. well just so you know. Try reload if keys don't work.