Galactica : Corsairs

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:02 am

Well, with one annoying bug fixed and several things all in place, I think I have something I can finally show you!

Quick info about the game: it will be a hybrid (no pun intended!) of several game types, but mostly, it will be a strategy. So I present you a short movie of several fighters fighting each other. Nothing special, just all-out massacre.

Just click here and enjoy.

Update 10 September: Actual .exe for 10th September 2008

JP · Post by JP » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:10 am

pfff movie... we want an executable!

looks like a good start, though it was quite hard to see what was going on there. how did you do the flight of the ships and rockets? they look pretty nice!

also how did you capture the video? looks like a pretty good framerate on the video.. fraps is always rubbish for me...

cdrwolfe · Post by **cdrwolfe** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:04 pm

Nice start,

Also i concur with the honourable delegate of Naboo 'JP', how did you capture the video with such a good frame rate.

Regards Wolfe

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:25 pm

taksi allows you to adjust it so that even if the game doesnt play with full frame rate, the recording will change timings so that the video will play at full fps.

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:57 pm

No taksi, just Camtasia. Good app. Worth it.
As for the rotations, they're based on a funny matrix math thingy I found somewhere. Had to tweak it a bit to fit my needs and set it up correctly for PhysX, but sadly, I still don't fully understand that code.

lostclimategames · Post by **lostclimategames** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:45 pm

how is it worth it when taksi is free, open-source, and perfect for any dx or ogl screen recording solution?

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:48 pm

If I'm not mistaken Camtasia also comes with a video editing software that is pretty nice as well. Taksi being free and open-source doesn't make Camtasia any less worth it.

On topic :
Nice video. Hope to see something great come of it.

vermeer · Post by **vermeer** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:04 pm

i doubt camtasia captures dx and ogl. not well at least.
camtasia 3 came free also with some mags cds.

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:33 am

vermeer wrote:i doubt camtasia captures dx and ogl. not well at least.
camtasia 3 came free also with some mags cds.

Well, what you see recorded there is dx. I've also recorded ogl aswell without any problems.

vermeer · Post by **vermeer** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:00 pm

eh...you probably own 4.x?

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 6:18 pm

5 actualy

Anyway, once I get some time to finish the third person camera, I'll post a better looking movie.

And JP: no exe for now XD not stable enough yet. Maybe after I implement actual interaction and some multiplayer.

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:17 pm

Rejoice, for I need feedback. And because I need feedback (and most importantly, bug reports), I'm posting the current version of the game. It's not realy that much, but it's multithreaded and very likely full of bugs. It's hard for me to try and find bugs, so I come to you for help!! Maybe it will even be a fun experience. Anyway, here's a link:

This is a link

Please tell me of ANYTHING that looks... not right.
Feel free to mess around the Data/Ships/ships.xml file. Add weapons, change weapons, make them shoot barrages of rockets, etc, etc, etc...

BTW: thanks to Sudi for his effects

Got them up and running in no time.

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:29 pm

can't start the game. It tells me something about a side-by-side configuration is invalid. so sry

night_hawk · Post by **night_hawk** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:17 pm

Sudi wrote:can't start the game. It tells me something about a side-by-side configuration is invalid. so sry

Do you have the Visual C++ Redist installed?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

Ah, and of course the NVidia PhysX drivers... how can I forget about them?
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/physx_downloads.html
You only need the System Software Versions for Game Distribution.
A direct link here: PhysX Game Installer.

Sorry for forgetting to mention them...

sudi · Post by **sudi** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:02 pm

installed both still the same error