[Risu2112]

Well, with the battles moved, I'm gonna try somthing. I want to set it up so that an encounter sends you to the fight screen, not that comunication screen. I will add in to the fight screen, the ability for you to hail the enemy, and them the ability to hail you. (either party can decline the hail if they are in a fighting mood) This will alow me to do neat stuff like where you might be trying to get an item from the enemy ship but they wont cough it up, then you just start shooting untill they hail you begging for mercy.

No guarintee this will work though, I'll keep you all posted.

[Risu2112]

Hey, the board ate my most recent post.


EDIT: There it is!

that was wierd, it's on the 6th page, but I couldn't see a sixth page untill I posted this...

[Risu2112]

Ok, that problem with starport has been fixed, I also cleaned up the repair screen, and got some major work done on the H-space board, (had to mod it for the swap worlds). Everythings looking good so far.

[Csonicgo]

thunderdog, on May 3 2002, 01:34 PM, said:

KenOhki2112, on May 03 2002,02:20, said:

Whew, people are still reading it, always good to know that.

And now how about a little teaser?
Here are screen shots of Starport, System travel, Hyperspace, and a bunch of planet screens (all from the same planet)

Not pictured:
Combat (due for a little clean up)
Communications (haven't finished that yet)

Make sure to tell me what you think about them, and yes all the numbers & stuff actualy do things . ?enjoy!

Oh, and Josh, how do you like Starport?

hmm... *pulls out hand-lotion while staring at shots*


now if you would excuse me please............

... riiight.

anyway...

Darn! i was hoping for a 3d flight thing like starfox , maybe at the end of the game or on the tiitle screen, have some 3-d gibberish? Maybe for the moving from space to hyperspace... just a thought... kinda like a little cinema clip...

[Risu2112]

Csonicgo, on May 20 2002, 07:34 AM, said:

riiight.

anyway...

Darn! i was hoping for a 3d flight thing like starfox , maybe at the end of the game or on the tiitle screen, have some 3-d gibberish? Maybe for the moving from space to hyperspace... just a thought... kinda like a little cinema clip...

Yeah, not working on a flight simulator, The aim was more of a tactical simulator. As for cut sceens? Yeah I'll be giving it a shot.

[Mr. Apol]

Good work Kenohki, keep it up!

Speaking of Starfox, I was thinking, do you think it'd be possible to do that sort of thing in mzx? In case you don't know, I'm talking about snes starfox. Using a voxel engine and stuff.... Personally I don't think it could be done, but even if it was, it'd probaly be slow as crap.

[Risu2112]

Whats this? I've actualy gotten some work done on the communications screen? Can it be?

Any way yeah, I'm actualy working on it now, (for those who missed it, I've done this twice and both times overshot my self and had to scrap everything)

It's not much yet, but I drew in some cool looking aliens, (that part always seemed harder to me than the actual code)

Any way lets see if I can finaly get one of these to work

[Revvy]

Oh Kenokhi, if you want a cool looking 3d starfield (like the screensaver flying through space) Artith created one for the gameover screen of Random Land. I could send it to you if you wanted.

[Risu2112]

I'll check it out, but I can almost guarintee it wont work, the screen have 0 board space, 0 overlay space and 0 robot memorty. the "SPACE" is actualy copyed from 2 buffers onto another buffer and finaly up to the top where you see it.

(Thats why I was slightly limited. )

[Risu2112]

Alright, I think I've actualy got a comm screen that I can use now, it looks pretty good and the code will be easy to alter. I have all the actual code finished (there's not a lot really) all I have to do with it is make carbon copys and plug in different text. Also I decided to *animate* the aliens in on the screen, I've already made one and it looks pretty damn good. If I can keep it up I'll be set. Also I've broken it off to its own world and finished all the code that links it to the other worlds.

Also I might still add in a pre- comm screen. This would, after you've had an encounter, display the ship and offer you the chance to hail it, or just skip to battle if you feel talking will get you nowhere.

Also I have not thrown out the idea of in combat hails, it will be a little tricky, but I think I can still do that.

[asgromo]

This is sounding incredible. It might look incredible, if there was a few more screenshots. Sheesh, my impatience knows no bounds.

[Risu2112]

ok, hit a snag with the little warning you get when ships are chasing you in H-space

Soon as that's cleared up, I'll show off the battle engine for ya.

[asgromo]

Woo hoo! Keep it up, KenOhki!

[gofer-chan]

I have this strange theory that KenOhkii has made NO PROGRESS on this at all, and is still designing the title screen, dreaming about how cool this is going to be. He's got an overactive imagination, and is good at making fake screen shots.

Just kidding!

[asgromo]

It does almost seem that way, though. Must be my imagination.

[Risu2112]

Ok, and now to release the fully playable demo--- Wait whats this? You guys think I'm making this up? Ha! Fine then no playable demo for you!

[asgromo]

Funny, KenOhki, but it literally scared me for a moment.

[Risu2112]

This is the 166th post in this thread, meaning it finaly beat Cardcators. Of course you can't tell that because the main page still isn't being updated . Any way I know the WA thread blows all the other ones away but I'm gonna go ahead and ignore it and say:

[weasel]

Well, my thread is only about 30 posts behind yours...

but to stay on topic, I could spice up your game by changing the palette for you...judging by your screenshots, you're using a slightly modified version of the default EGA palette. I can help you fix this. Just give me an example board in the form of an ANS format (hit Alt+X in the editor and select "ANS"), and I'll get workin for ya!

[Risu2112]

Actually that IS the default palette

Originally I planed to edit it, but when I got to that point, I had already used EVERY single color on every single board, the reason I don't go back and edit it is because I would have to retain the relative contrast between each combination of color. (There are a lot) Really I think it looks ok for the default palette, goes nicely with the relaxed approach to graphics.

(The char set on the other hand, look in the general forum)

[asgromo]

That's the default pallete? Wow. I didn't think you could do so much with it.

[weasel]

I'll just tweak the default colors a bit so it SEEMS like a new palette, but works the exact same way.

[Revvy]

Me to! I'll make it a hot and spicy default palette if you let me!

[Risu2112]

Ok, haven't touched it for a few days, I gotta find a way to fix that snag in the ship detection thing I decided to add in
I'll fire it up tommorow or the day after and try a fresh angle at it.

[asgromo]

Arrgh!!! Update!! Update!! UPDATE!!!
Really KenOhki, don't leave us in the dark with this!

[Risu2112]

Ok ok ok,

I shot down a MAJOR bug that cropped up out of nowhere and made the planet expo. screen unplayable.

I just started up again today, now I'll go shoot down that thingy with the warning thing at that one board.

Arr I'll go ahead and post later tonight when I can type more coherently...

[Risu2112]

... and he never did, any way, I'll get some work done real quick before I go off to sleep, see if I can't hunt the above mentioned bug down.

[asgromo]

Ohhhh KenOhki..... Somebody is neglecting to post....

[Fungahhh]

Asgromo, you're really looking forward to this game, aren't you?

[asgromo]

Yes. Very much. Very very very much. I'm an impatient person when it comes to computer games. If I could bother the guys at work on Shenmue 2 to hurry up with the XBox version, I would.