Aircraft action/rts Demo here

suliman · Post by **suliman** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 11:01 pm

My new game underway thanks to alot of help on this forums. You can destroy buildings by shooting, hit the ground and fly around! Plz post FPS and other comment.
Erik

Known issues
1. Aim is not very correct
2. Sometimes crash from not finding terrain for getHeight (sollution?)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/26/ ... slands.rar (2,5MB, but kinda slow download, sorry)
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JP · Post by JP » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:07 am

Oo, i like the mouse movement for the plane, very nicely done!

I don't know if it's me or not but i couldn't find ANYTHING in the game... no terrain or ships or buildings, just the water and skybox...

Some thoughts:

When you fly up higher the water seems to shrink, probably due to the draw distance. I think the water needs to be handled a bit better, someone did nice sounding version where it fogged out in the distance so it seemed to continue forever. I can't remember what it was called but it was in the project forum i should think and was a similar sort of game.

And when you crash into the water it just re-places the ship back to a suitable height but with the same rotation so if you were doing a nose dive into the water you end up doing another nose dive into the water so it takes a few crashes to stop this happening. It would be good if when you crash it ends the game and then lets you restart.

That said, i'm sure this is just an early version you're showing and you're planning on improving a lot of things anyway!

The FPS i was getting was around 428 with a 3 gHz processor and 1 gb of ram (not sure about the graphics card...).

suliman · Post by **suliman** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:40 am

No houses or even islands? Well that is kinda of bug... It uses directx9 but i guess thats not the problem... Could you fire bullets and see them? Could you hear them?

Yeah the crash is not supposed to work like that in the final game:) You can also crash into the ground but it doesnt seem to load on your system (its simple terrainnodes, made from heightmap-bmp in the gfx folder)

Yes the sea is crap, i need to get into that more i know. I've tried the animated sea node but it totally chews my machine even if i only use a small patch of it.

Erik

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:52 am

I do see the houses though the movement is a bit funny - I didn't knew an airplane can stop and fly like a helicopter

though for alpha version it's very nice.

JP · Post by JP » Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:53 am

I can fire the projectiles and see them no problem, not sure if i could hear them as i didn't have sound on.

Yeah the animated water does slow things down quite a bit, i guess it's not an optimal implementation, rather just shows you how you could do it or something nice for a little demo.

I guess it calculates sin/cos values for every vertex, every frame, which could be rather costly, a better way to do it would be to create a table of sin/cos values at start up and then read from the table during rendering, much faster!

rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:11 am

JP wrote:I guess it calculates sin/cos values for every vertex, every frame, which could be rather costly, a better way to do it would be to create a table of sin/cos values at start up and then read from the table during rendering, much faster!

Moving table data into L1 cache == profile it before making such a claim.

JP · Post by JP » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:25 am

My statement is true, i am a god, i know all. It's true.

Dare you question me?

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 11:59 am

JP wrote:My statement is true, i am a god, i know all. It's true.

Dare you question me?

Than I'm your Master, obey or suffer my wrath!

suliman · Post by **suliman** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:02 pm

what could be the reason why it doesnt load the heightmaps and houses on JP's system? I mean that's pretty serious...

JP · Post by JP » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:19 pm

Well it's working now... Maybe i messed up at the start and went flying off over the sea and hence got too far away from the islands and houses to see them?

I have to say it's a pretty fun game, best of luck with it!

xray · Post by **xray** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:57 pm

Nice project, I also like the controlling of the fighter. Just the graphics...

It dont depends on luck, but willing to keep up!

sio2 · Post by **sio2** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:31 am

MasterGod wrote:I didn't knew an airplane can stop and fly like a helicopter

A Harrier jump jet can hover in mid-air.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:42 am

I have a fear that you are creating something, and not deleteing it later on in a loop or something. I played the game for the first time, actually trying to win, and it all of a sudden crashed for no reason. I then proceeded to investigate, and I played through the game 2 times without modifying anything, and just flying around, and it crashed both times.

By the way, how did you do that camera. That's very professional, great job.

suliman · Post by **suliman** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:30 am

yeah there is i crash that i know of (when im not finding the within the heightmap for getHeight()).

The cam was hard! I will clean it up and post it. It moves after the target, but also moves every tick acording to rotation before applying this ticks rotation. Its hard to explain.

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