War of the Mages (Krieg der Magier)

Delight · Post by **Delight** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:13 pm

My project is still in the pre alpha stage but anyway I want to post some screenshots. It's called "Krieg der Magier" ("War of the mages" in english, but the title looses elegancy translating it..) and is a real time strategy game. Some further information can be found here. I'll update the blog as often as possible. But now the screenshots (click to enlarge):

Thanks in advance for comments and suggestions.

greenya · Post by **greenya** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:39 pm

Very nice.
Keep it up.

Delight · Post by **Delight** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:22 pm

Today I build a first "playable" demo. Nothing worldshaking, but the things, which are already implemented, can be discovered now. The minimap isn't done, but the basic pathfinding should work. Group movement and formations are still missing. If you move more than one unit, then they'll all take the same path and move one after another.

The camera movement is very easy. You cam zoom in and out with the mouse wheel and rotate the camera with the arrow keys. To move the camera focus move the mouse cursor near to the edges.

And here is the file. Please leave a comment, when there are any problems or bugs.

By the way: Since it is programmed in C# using Irrlicht.NETCP you need the .Net framework to run the program (and of course DirectX 9.0)

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:18 pm

Ok, crashed for me. After your prog loaded some images, my PC froze completly (hadn't have this kind of error for a very long time

)

BTW, I started the "RTS Engine.exe" executable. Hope this was the right approach.

.NET and Dx9 both installed. The Irrlicht Demos do run using the DirectX-Device.

Delight · Post by **Delight** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:31 am

Mmmh that's strange. I know from three guys that the prog is working on their pcs... One question: What type of graphic card do you have? It should support 5 texture stages and if it doesn't - well I don't know how the program handles this...

Strong99 · Post by **Strong99** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:33 am

didn't crash for me, nice how you did the fog.

Revan1985 · Post by **Revan1985** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:30 am

it's good...
but only a thing...

make a key to quit....
poop, this game is 1024*768 in window mode, and i'm not able to kill him

for the others things, is very good

Masterhawk · Post by **Masterhawk** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:13 pm

Well, I played your demo, too....The fog of war is quite impressive...good work...
Can't wait to the game sometimes....

regards masterhawk

Georgian · Post by **Georgian** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:05 pm

i played the demo but only spiders are visible, nothing more just spiders and a green cube, no terrain fog or anything. weird...

i'm using latest ATI drivers with my x1300pro.

Delight · Post by **Delight** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:59 pm

The way I see it I have to fix a lot of bugs. The terrain uses some features and I have to implement some fallbacks... But the x1300pro should render the terrain - my radeon 9700 does it too and I think the x1300pro is much better... What does the console say?

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:09 pm

Delight wrote:Mmmh that's strange. I know from three guys that the prog is working on their pcs... One question: What type of graphic card do you have? It should support 5 texture stages and if it doesn't - well I don't know how the program handles this...

I've got a Nvidia 6800 Go (Laptop computer).

Strong99 · Post by **Strong99** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:30 pm

I got the ati radeon 9600 pro ver old

Delight · Post by **Delight** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 8:55 am

Georgians problem has to do with the map.hlsl shader. When you change

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Output.RGBColor = (c1 + c2 + c3) * l;

to

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Output.RGBColor = (c1 + c2 + c3);

the terrain should be visible( but without fog). Perhaps I reduce the amount of the terraintextures - then it is possible to render the terrain with 4 textures and even OpenGlide should work again... But then there are only two different grounds... I have to think about it.

But I still cannot imagine, why Hyperions Laptop crashes...

EDIT: I made my decision and reduced the amount of terraintextures. There are two different ground types now. Perhaps I'll implement OpenGl support too.

I've uploaded the new file (http://www.the-kotti.de/PreAlpha.rar). I hope that the terrain is now visible...

k_kolibri_7 · Post by **k_kolibri_7** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:44 am

Hey.

It doesn't work on my computer, when I start the program, i can't see anything!

But I'm really intrested in how you came so far with that program.

Could I have a look on the source code please? (Ich spreche auch Deutsch

)

Delight · Post by **Delight** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:09 am

Well currently I am rewriting the code. I am not happy about the tile based pathfinding and want to implement polygon based pathfinding. Overmore the terrain generation and texturing will be changed. I think I'll use precomputed heightmaps and textures (which will be done similar to now, but will allow more than two or three different terrain types).

Perhaps I'll make it open source, when it's actually useful but I haven't thougt about this yet