I recreated some real locations in alephone, they were very cool, with multiple floors and everything (Had to use a lot of 5D space trickery though...). Everyone here will discourage you because real locations don't make playable net maps or campaign maps, marathon needs open areas, not cramped up l...

Not much has been updated this week besides the final game settings. The game world is adjusted depending on the frame rate, however, some people would like framerates above 20 so there's a low resolution option (Like the original game) and a draw no floor option (Like in the PPC release). And of co...

Hmm, I would think that if you needed a random generation of a maze, you would want to take a peek at dungeon coding for Elder Scrolls 1:Arena. It was very talented at generating random mazes, being as 99% of the game was RandomGen. I'm going to tackle the problem when I get to it, I'm part of a ga...

Update on development:


Map editor is now good enough to map the layouts of any level (But not the labyrinth!), I need to add texturing and sprite-placement into the editor then levels can start being created.

It works. So i guess you are trying to say that there will be classic and modern mode options? Perhaps, perhaps not. I was thinking of ways to make the 3D window bigger but keeping the screen resolution the same, so thinking of having it go: 640x480 classic:modern - small3D:large3D 800x600 classic:...

I put in ".save level Angry.sceA" without the quotes, then the console spits back "An error occured while saving the level." I've tried typing just ".save level" as I had earlier been able to save in VisualMode with the exact same result. The map file is located at C:\...

Idea:

W wrote:Really, the ability to resize the main game window is the most important, however you do that.

Why?

Do you mean increase the size of the 3D view? (Resolution of entire screen would need to be up'd as it's all in one window now, but it can be done)

you could try making it look like a journal/notebook I hate games that have paper-looking UIs, it always seems needless. It won't be modernised ammo counters, etc, I meant a facelift with skinning or something to make it more gamey and less like a Mac OS classic application, to give it a more multi...

Here is my first UI design plan (Mockup)

Of course, the OS window borders will be removed.

Everything is in the game window, it's not all seperate.

Any suggestions for modernisations?

I might see if I can start getting some actual PiD textures

That looks good, but the other side of the pyramid should be lighter so it is visible. There is no other side [spnkr] I just finished programming an external line and sprite lodaer, unfortunetly the lines are encrypted, I've been trying to keep the formats as open as possible so people can learn fr...

Progress report:


And I also made this:




anyone interested in getting me some PiD resources?

EDIT: Would also be nice if someone analysed the PiD enemy AI and give a rundown of what it goes through!

Nice work, Xilef! Good to see you're making progress, I for one enjoy seeing what you've got working and hearing about the techniques you use. The technique used for the 45 degree walls is horrible at the moment, it's based on what's being rendered, as opposed to being drawn into the world. As the ...

I'm working on angled walls again:


I came up with several methods, this is the most promising however the way it's coded it sticks to the screen and other walls and texture calculations are really weird (Y texture is easy, X texture is harder)

TectonInd wrote:My favorite one so far would have to be this one:
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Followed by the original.

that one is very nice indeed

Something about the Aleph One icon has always bothered me but I've not been quite able to put my finger on it. Looking at it a moment ago I realized it was the bevelling that seemed very... simple. [attachment=4492:AlephOne.png] The icon does look bad. But I don't see yours as much of an improvemen...

Are you able to make it so every time the player gets damaged the screen blurs?

Or do something like Goldeneye Wii, bloom the screen ridiculously when reloading so the player thinks it's distance blur.

I made this grass and normal map for you <3

how poetic

chinkeeyong wrote:Is there an in-game map function?

There was one in PiD, so yes there will be one with this engine, however i'll make it slightly different in functionality.
As it's sector-based mapping, I can easily render a top-down view of the level.

I just tried out SDL, but framerates are really poor

Has there been any progress since the last update? Just curious. Yes an optimising re-write. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw6kJNMqTE0 I had to swap out the pixel-editing for this new method (Increased the FPS from 40 to 60 for me), with this new method comes other benefits, each texture now has a...

Ares Ex Machina wrote:Nice work. I noticed new glow map effects, such as glowing blood for the assimilated Bobs, and glowing lights in wall textures. Is this how the glow map effects appear in the the XBLA version?

It didn't have glow map effects, that's an AlephOne feature

glowing lava always looks great

The problem with the xbla player model is that AlephOne uses the original Software rendered sprites from the shapes file during the color selection and post-game carnage reports screens - texture overrides wont work there which leaves the graphics completely distorted. If you want to find a workaro...

I really think we should fix the player sprites