[Jayalin]

I'll restate:

Is the game universe predefined by you? Or is it randomly generated?

[Sidewinder]

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KenOhki2112 Posted on Feb 16 2003, 09:29 PM

(yes the whole game uses the default pallet.. Let the criticism begin.)

Default pallet! Oh my Gosh! What where you thinking!

Nah! Just kidding. I use the default pallet all the time.(Sometimes I change the lite purple to orange though)

Anyway, your game looks great and I can't wait to play it!

[Risu2112]

Jayalin, on Feb 28 2003, 08:35 AM, said:

I'll restate:

Is the game universe predefined by you? Or is it randomly generated?

Oops, sorry.

The universe is pre defined. the way every thing is set up, making it random ( location of stars and arangement of planets on the stars) would be QUITE easy to do. However planets would have to be premade still.

The main reason it is predefined rather than random is mainly the locations of story elements. Hate for the plot to be ripped to shreads because the last boss was in the first star you visted


Sidewinder: thanks

[Dr Lancer-X]

I usually dislike using the default palette because the colours often clash together. Often I draw the chars and give them a foreground and background colour... then open up the palette editor and slowly adjust the colours until I get the mix I think looks best.

~ Lancer-X

[Risu2112]

Well, moved and settled in now, I spent most of last night converting the game BACK to MZX3.1 after I acidently saved it in 2.69 a few weeks ago. I found my list of things to do as well.. hopefully I can have the changes squared away in a few days.

[Risu2112]

To summarize the 7 lost posts: Lots of work was done, good progress. Also a few more peoeple asked to be testers. As soon as I remember what I did over the last 5-7 days I'll post it here. My thanks to the admin's who got DMZX back up. You guys kick ass.

[Frobozz]

Hmm... not to mention the post about you having to decide over 4 or 5 landers...

You had said something like "That was a really important decision."

btw... what's with the stupid white around the emoticons?

[Risu2112]

Oh yeah, the landers.. What did I decide on.. I think it was 5. And that WAS A very important decision, It took like 6 hours to figure that one out =\

[Risu2112]

Working on the operations board at the moment. I might split it onto a few boards depending on how much text I want it to hold.. 1 might not be enough, eh whatever. I made another alien race for fun. looks pretty cool.

Also, I need a name for the player's character.. still don't have one after all this time.

[Fungahhh]

Why don't you make it so the player can choose their name? I'd imagine that'd be pretty easy to do with strings and all.

[Risu2112]

Actualy I would love to do that, I personaly think naming the player my self is far more difficult than setting up strings and letting the player chose. The main reason I still want a fixed name for the player though, is because should there be a sequel I want the names to be consistant, and also, I don't have access to all the neat string functions in 2.69b


OK! and now, for the THIRD time some one has a chance to grab the 400th post in this topic and the bragging rights that go along with it..

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 29 April 2003 - 02:14 AM

[Beige]

HUZZAH

[Jayalin]

You aren't using 2.69b? Why?

[Sidewinder]

He probably likes sticking with the mzx version he uses the most or he wants his game compatable with all version of mzxs31 and up. I use 2.68 and it has enough stuff for me to make the games I like.

[Risu2112]

Jayalin, on Apr 29 2003, 07:23 AM, said:

You aren't using 2.69b? Why?

The main reason I'm not using 2.69b is because if I DID change, I would have to take full advantage of all the new features avalible to me. That translates to adding another year or 2 onto the release date.

Also I hear there is trouble regarding swap worlds in 2.69b, SFMZX swaps worlds every time you enter a star system, go to H-space, enter combat, enter comunications and each time you land on a planet. So that would cause all sorts of other problems.


Oh and congrats beige for making the 400th post!

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 29 April 2003 - 06:48 PM

[Jayalin]

That many swap worlds? How does that work? Doesn't that result in a 'restart' of each world every time you transfer? You'd need *massive* amounts of counters to store any meaningful amount of progress, unless you've really really engineered things in such a fashion that... hmmm... I see ~_^

Any particular reason that you went this route, though?

[apage43]

Swapping to the same world probably.
So he can reset the boards.
It's strange, I got an error clicking on this post, and the count just
happpened to be 404.

[Risu2112]

Lots of progress done over the last two days. I have it set up so that in combat, pressing a key will toggle the enemy's damage display between the standard one, and one with more detailed info, but with out the ship picture. Also, Missile weapons once again use damage transfer, where say if you hit a part of a ship that has 6 HP, and do 20 damage, some damage will carry over to another sector. Basicly it's one half of the damage not delt in the inital attack. Note that this only applys to missile weapons, lasers cannons and all that other good stuff do not transfer damage. Also I made consideribly more progress on the star map screen, it's pretty much finnished now.

[Risu2112]

<3 Kuru


And who ever else is responsible for this.

[zombieguy]

Damn... my journal's back in second place again...

[Pyro1588]

screenshots?

[Risu2112]

Pyro1588, on Jul 30 2003, 11:11 AM, said:

screenshots?

I've no new screen shots since the last time I uploaded them. If you've not seen those screen shots and want to, go back like 1 page in this topic, there are a bunch there.

might be a while till I put up new ones since most of the work being done now is in the code.

[Spinfusor]

Heh. This sounds great, can't wait until it's done.

[apage43]

---StarFlight Mzx --- 400 years in the making ---
Or it seems like it.

[Risu2112]

I almost started working on it again today.

[Frobozz]

Maybe you'll be able to upgrade to the latest MegaZeux. Exophase seems to have fixed the swap-world bug.

[Risu2112]

Lots of time off work coming up starting tuesday, this will be most aprciated since I've not had a day off of work for the last 9 weeks (yep 7-days a week, some half days)

This means more free time to work on SFmzx, and less money to pay those damn billz.

[weasel]

Yay, time off is always good! I wish you best of luck working with SFMZX. I've been waiting for this thing forever.

[Mr. Apol]

Me too! It was supposed to have been released like, a year ago, but

Keep working on it, everyone's waiting for it!

[Risu2112]

It finaly happend, I finaly got pissed off enough with warcraft to STOP playing it, and get back to work on SFmzx.

After about 2 hours or relearning my code, I actualy WORKED on the game...

Fixed the grey box on the communication screen
Fixed the sound effects for the communication screen
Fixed several problems with the starmap screen
Fixed some of the graphics on the planet exp. screen
Fixed some of the graphics on the starport screen

Aso I threw together some crap that may eventualy take the form of a title screen, hope that works out.

Probably lots more work tomorrow.