[Risu2112]

I have made the said changes to the critical hit system, the missile launcher on your ship is now a destructable system just like every other one, the computer has been removed (it didn't really do much). All that is left to do on the critical hit system is to rework the damaged sensor effects because I'm really not pleased with how they look now.

I still have more story elements to add to the game, and at the current rate it's taking a long time.

No further bugs have been reported though and I find that again very encouraging

Asgromo: Yes.
KKairos: Also yes.

[Risu2112]

LOTS of work done today, I completely rewrote the sensor system for your ship, and gave it a damaged effect that actualy makes sence. I've only got it applyed to one of the boards, porting it to the systems will be easy, but moving it to the battle screens is gonna be tough, I will first need to free up some more robot memory by craming things into the already bloated global robot. It looks REALLY nice though, lets hope I can fit it on to all of the boards.

I also fixed a pile of small graphics problems such as flickering displays, and stray overlay parts. Tomorrow all I have to do to finish cleaning it up, is fix the shield generator so you don't have to (sometimes) press twice to turn it off.

[Frobozz]

KenOhki2112, on Dec 31 2003, 06:37 AM, said:

I will first need to free up some more robot memory by craming things into the already bloated global robot.

One word. Subroutines.

Oh and two other words. Remove comments.

[Risu2112]

Frobozz, on Dec 31 2003, 12:05 PM, said:

KenOhki2112, on Dec 31 2003, 06:37 AM, said:

I will first need to free up some more robot memory by craming things into the already bloated global robot.

One word. Subroutines.

Oh and two other words. Remove comments.

#1 No.

#2 There are no comments.

[Revvy]

#1: Why not?

#2: Remove blank lines.

[Risu2112]

Revvy, on Dec 31 2003, 04:12 PM, said:

#1: Why not?

#2: Remove blank lines.

Because at this point the game would not benifit enough from using them that would make it worth the time to fix it. When I went through the numbers with frobozz, converting to subroutines, aside from taking many hours of work, and probably causing all sorts of errors, I found that the amount of robot memory saved was miniscule, shrinking a 100 line block of code into 96 lines just doesn't seem worth it. Now if I were starting a new game I probably would, but it's not broken right now so I'm not going to fix it.

Also I have removed excess empty lines, I've gone through entire robots changing all of the labels and counters as well to reduce size, every time I need more space I just shrink another robot.

[KKairos]

Ohki, your game is gonna need a PS2 to run at this rate. Why not just port it and save yourself the time?

Seriously though, if everything ever gets all crammed in, I'll be playin Starflight MZX.

[Micah]

Same here.

[Frobozz]

KenOhki2112, on Dec 31 2003, 06:19 PM, said:

Also I have removed excess empty lines, I've gone through entire robots changing all of the labels and counters as well to reduce size, every time I need more space I just shrink another robot.

I personally do not see why Janson wrote MegaZeux to store the actual name of the label rather than simply store them as numbers. Not only would numbers have saved memory, but they would have been faster as well.

At anyrate, good luck in getting more robot memory.

[Xeirxes]

Any updates?

[asgromo]

Good point, Xerxes- updates would be very cool.

No rush, of course.

[weasel]

asgromo, on Jan 18 2004, 04:45 PM, said:

No rush, of course.

I'm sure he means that in as little of a musical sense as possible...though I will remove your Rush listening privileges if you don't hurry up =P

[Risu2112]

WildWeasel, on Jan 18 2004, 05:23 PM, said:

asgromo, on Jan 18 2004, 04:45 PM, said:

No rush, of course.

I'm sure he means that in as little of a musical sense as possible...though I will remove your Rush listening privileges if you don't hurry up =P

You'll do no such thing.

More to come... oohh mysterious..

[Risu2112]

The new sensor code is finished and applyed to the H-space screen, The good news is it makes FAR more sence, looks a lot better, and to boot the effect is a little lighter. instead of screens going staticy directly preportional to the HP/Max HP of the system. Now the effect applys to screens at half the current rate except for a situation where the sensor system has 0 hp, where all the screens go blank.

The down side is the code takes about 2.2 K of robotmem, currently making it not fit into the combat screen, assuming I can free up the remaining space (I've already cleared out 1.8K) I will apply the effect to all boards.

[Xeirxes]

This game will be awesome. Not that it hasn't been said before...

[asgromo]

asgromo's friendly tip of the day: Remember to backup your stuff. Megazeux files are a delicacy for hard drive failures.

Anyway... How much does this game resemble the original Starflight, KenOhki?

[Risu2112]

2.1K free... 0.2 more and I'm gonna make the long conversion of the sensor stuff.

[Kuddy]

So how's it coming along, Ken? Great? Good.

[Risu2112]

HIATUS!

[Xeirxes]

[Dr Lancer-X]

C'mon, like you didn't expect this..

[Risu2112]

Hiatus over, resuming work now, well as soon as I remember what I was doing.

[Revvy]

Yay.

[Risu2112]

Is this the begining of a nifty 3Dish animated spinning planet? Or another idea that will simply wash out under the downpour of feasability.

http://kenohki2112.h...ns/SFplanet.gif
http://kenohki2112.h...Fplanettest.jpg

YOU BE THE JUDGE

[asgromo]

That idea is a perfect example of what one files under IMPOSSIBIBBLE

[Risu2112]

asgromo, on Mar 13 2004, 11:56 PM, said:

That idea is a perfect example of what one files under IMPOSSIBIBBLE

Actualy I have it working fine right now, the perspective is a little skewered, as you can see by the screen shots.

The sphere is generated from a compressed ground map (shown as the small rectangle on the second shot which is about a 4th of half of the main map). The compressed map and sphere are generated/animated automaticly by robots. All I have to do is place the robots on each board and every thing is done for me.

Only took about 6 of the remaining 20 K of robot mem, so it was easly affordable.

[Micah]

You can try it; if you get it working, props to you.

[Risu2112]

That's what it looks like, sorry bout the pcx's don't feel like converting them. I've decided to start using mzm's. That's some seriously good news for you 56k'ers, this alone will take at least 3 megs off of the download. =\

Attached File(s)

•  SFMZXplanetspin.zip (110.88K)
  Number of downloads: 53

[Risu2112]

Thanks beige!

EDIT: Ignore all the displays on the right, this was a test board and those are the wrong displays. The acutal game will use the ship displays at this point because obviously you are still in the ship. ^_^

This post has been edited by KenOhki2112: 15 March 2004 - 06:54 PM

[asgromo]

Very nifty, KenOhki, and you're correct- it's definately worth the robot mem.