Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

Work in Progress / Mercenaries in Space, demo in a few but here are some nice screens =)

Author
Message
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 18th Jun 2004 21:23 Edited at: 18th Jun 2004 22:49
Link
http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/db/downloads/mis.zip
UNFINISHED, 11.4mb demo

I've been working non stop on this. THing I've noew added

- two detail modes, don't think it helps much though!
- lovely engine trails
- lower polygon bullets
- general optimisaion
- cut scenes
- main menu (in the loosest sence of the word)
- loading screen

Even through loads of optimisation it's still a power-hungry game. High detail mode on my athlon 2800+ 1gig ram GF$ti4800 I get around 20-25-30 fps.

Here are some (more) screens-

Intro



Flaming ship with smoke trails a bug in the game forced a ship to be followed by large flames through the game. I think it looks rather cool, especially the wisps of smoke at the end.



Engine trail look better sine I took the pic; some blue as has been added to it.



Expect a demo this weekend.

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
ReD_eYe
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Mar 2003
Location: United Kingdom
Posted: 18th Jun 2004 21:32
Link
Ooooh, aaaaah, looking fantabulous
Can't wait for the demo!

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 18th Jun 2004 21:44
Link
Well, you needn't wait I've decided to post up what I've got atm. It's basically a one-mission demo which doesn't say "Congrats!" at the end.

just compiling now...

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 18th Jun 2004 22:49
Link
(sorry for double post but I wanted to indicate to people who may have read the above reply that there's been an update)

http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/db/downloads/mis.zip

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Rob K
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2002
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Posted: 18th Jun 2004 23:24 Edited at: 18th Jun 2004 23:25
Link
Hi David,

Looks nice, but its too slow. I get 8 FPS here! According to the time map, the big losses are 80ms on SYNC, 20ms on drawing the mini-map. I know DBPro can be way faster than this (I have a Radeon 9700 / 1.6Ghz processor)

Remember that very few people will have a system like yours, and really you should expect in the realm of 200+ FPS on your system for other people to be able to run it.

However, the game runs quie happily during the fly-by at the start of the level, when presumably all the graphics necessary are there, except the 2D. I suggest that you replace all the 2D with sprites which are much faster.

BlueGUI:Windows UI Plugin - All the power of the windows interface in your DBPro games. - Plus URL download, win dialogs.
Over 140 new commands
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 18th Jun 2004 23:50 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 00:03
Link
Hi,

I agree Rob. I've been trying to optimise for the last week. Try running in lower deatil mode - that disables the minimap (my next area of optimisation) as well as most of the particle effects.

I've disabled everything too intensive and I'm going to continue getting rid of little things.

However there's only so much optimisation I can do, especially if it's the sync that's slowing things down. My ship model's aren't hugely obese - the DB stress test demo gave me better results with higher poly models.

I was wondering, does anything offscreen still take up time in sync'ing? Even on a reasonable empty scene (ie. only the sky sphere and grid) it's still a bit slow. Maybe some other models offscreen are slowing rendering down? I know it sounds stupid, but I've heard worse...

[edit]

Okay, playing around a bit I've got all gui operations down th 0ms apart from the mini map. The main speed loss are the 3d ship models.

With a blank map I get 50fps.

One ship, 47 fps
2 - 43
3 - 40

etc.

Since the demo uses about 47 ships, it's no wonder I'm getting such losses. In each model above there were 1114 tris and 2812 verts - a bit much?

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
jrowe
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 12th Oct 2002
Location: Here
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 01:50 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 01:52
Link
Quote: "Since the demo uses about 47 ships, it's no wonder I'm getting such losses. In each model above there were 1114 tris and 2812 verts - a bit much?"


I hope that's sarcasm ! Remember Each ships's only occupying a very small area of the screen. You won't need more than 1-200 polys for each ship MAX, as your high detail models.

Otherwise looking REALLY good.


For Fathers and Sons who enjoy wholy spirits.
Back to top
Profile PM
walaber
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Oct 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 02:27
Link
looking fantastic- I agree you could definately lower the polcount on the models without much loss in detail!

hope to see this one keep improving

Go Go Gadget DBPRO!

Athlon XP 2400+ || DDR-SDRAM 1GB || Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8x 128MB
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
indi
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 26th Aug 2002
Location: Earth, Brisbane, Australia
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 05:16
Link
looks great so far but only 8 fps.

pentium 933 / 512 ram / tnt2m64

If no-one gives your an answer to a question you have asked, consider:- Is your question clear.- Did you ask nicely.- Are you showing any effort to solve the problem yourself
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Rob K
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2002
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 11:33
Link
Quote: "specially if it's the sync that's slowing things down"


Its very misleading. Many of the DBPro commands don't actually do anything when you call them, they just set a flag and everything is processed in the sync.

Your scene is comparatively low poly and as DBPro supports frustrum culling, any object which is entirely off-screen will not be drawn. Although, what version of DBPro is this compiled with?

If I were you, I would try disabling / enabling the following items to find out where the slowdown is:

- 2D (HUD)
- Collision

BlueGUI:Windows UI Plugin - All the power of the windows interface in your DBPro games. - Plus URL download, win dialogs.
Over 140 new commands
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Phaelax
DBPro Master
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 16th Apr 2003
Location: Metropia
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 14:00 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 14:01
Link
15fps on a FX5900? I don't think so! And sync ranged from 50 to 125, and loops fluctuated. If I'm just sitting there doing nothing, why are these times so different?

athlon 2600
fx5900xt 128mb
1.5gb ram

I've had 8000 polys on screen at 230fps, what ya doing there buddy?

"eureka" - Archimedes
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 14:34 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 14:48
Link
Quote: "If I were you, I would try disabling / enabling the following items to find out where the slowdown is:

- 2D (HUD)
- Collision"


I've rem-ed everything out in the GUI section - it's now just a couple of sprites.

In short there is no collision Just a few distance checks with bullets etc.

I got the ships from a DB collection, if anybody can lower their polycount I'd be very greatful, I'm not a modeller myself and the demo of Action3D doesn't actually let you test out to see how far models can be reduced.

Quote: "Your scene is comparatively low poly "


Thank you! That's nice to hear It's around 1 plain, 6 spheres and a few extra plains. Plus whatever ship models are on top of that.

Quote: "Although, what version of DBPro is this compiled with?"


Latest patch, compiler version 1.0.0.5.

I'm still a little annoyed at the low speed this is runing - it may be entirely my fault but I'm not even getting 200fps in a blank scene!

Thanks for the help guys

[edit]

Just checkled, it seems facing a completely blank screen apart from sky sphere and a plain I'm rendering 6500 polys :s

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Rob K
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2002
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 16:42
Link
What happens if you turn off the sky sphere and re-enable the rest of the 3D?

BlueGUI:Windows UI Plugin - All the power of the windows interface in your DBPro games. - Plus URL download, win dialogs.
Over 140 new commands
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 20:03 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 20:13
Link
Without the sky sphere I now get 6700 polys on a blank scene, 55fps.

Hiding every object in the game does however give 6500 polys. SO i have to figure out where these extra 6,500 polys are coming from


[edit]

Okay, I've completely surrounded the make nebula routine in a check for high detail mode. Before I only checked at certain points not wanting to upset the rest of the prog, but it seems to be running okay at the moment - with only 1063 extraneous polys! And at 55-60fps, with all ships on screen

However, while the game runs smoothly with a large amount of objects there's one worrying thing. Even on a blank screen *with ships else where in the map* the polycount still reflects the ships. I've experimented by moving to a blank area, placing a ship and watching the polycount go up to a new value. Moving away from the new ship the polycount didn't return to its original value. It seems the polycount of all objects, no matter in screen or not, is affecting the speed.

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Rob K
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 10th Sep 2002
Location: Surrey, United Kingdom
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 21:32 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 21:37
Link
Hmm, there is definately something wrong with the models. I tried a test with normal objects and the frustrum culling worked fine, tried again with fighter.x (from MiS) and it was messed up. The polycount did not decrease no matter how far away I was from the object. Plus the moment I got v. close to an object, the FPS went right down.

Some suggestions:

1 - Try exporting the models differently

2 - Ensure that the object is positioned in the center of the 3D world in your editor

3 - Ensure that there are no stray polys anywhere

BlueGUI:Windows UI Plugin - All the power of the windows interface in your DBPro games. - Plus URL download, win dialogs.
Over 140 new commands
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 22:18 Edited at: 19th Jun 2004 22:20
Link
I think I mentioned before, I didn't make the models - they came from T3DGM to be precise (I'm pretty sure its OK to use them if you're not selling the game, it's just media supplied with a DB product).

This bit of code:



does the job fine and only takes up 1ms in the main loop. Once I finish up some other bits I'll repost the new, faster EXE.

If anybody has some free, working space ship models I'm interested

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Shadow Robert
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 22:41
Link
Fullscreen bug'o'doom stricks again... Dave add an option menu to select the graphics mode at bootup please

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 23:49
Link
Sure thing, it'll be in the new EXE.

What is the bug-o-doom?

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Shadow Robert
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 19th Jun 2004 23:55
Link
i've nick named it that cause it kills Windows everytime hehee

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 01:33
Link
But what does it do, just crash windows?

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
walaber
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Oct 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 07:47
Link
sounds like you're making progress... the game looks amazing, but played really slow for me as well.

I want to try it again once you've sorted the poly issue.

Go Go Gadget DBPRO!

Athlon XP 2400+ || DDR-SDRAM 1GB || Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8x 128MB
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
faxmaster
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Jan 2004
Location: Duluth, MN
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 10:21 Edited at: 20th Jun 2004 10:35
Link
Ok, heres a sudden and strange offer: I have too much time on my hands, I like space ships, and you are having trouble with your models and are using pre-made ones... so, uh... would you like some models? If so, I'll post my e-mail (I never check it, so post something here first if you're interested), and you could send some descriptions, if not, sorry for wasting your time. (I don't have any sitting around, but making one shouldn't take to long). Um, yeah. I took a look at what you have so far though, and it looks promising. Keep at it.

NOTE: Sorry for the poor grammer and spelling, it's late and my brain is no longer working.
Back to top
Profile PM
Shadow Robert
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 11:00
Link
hangs it so i can't do anything else... pressing reset is the only way to fixx it.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
DeepBlue
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th May 2003
Location: A little box in the UK
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 12:50
Link
The demo is superb apart from the already mentioned frame rate (I'm only getting around 10-15fps, or 1-4fps if everything is firing at each other).

How are you drawing your map? (just wondering as I've tried loads of different ways of doing these & theres a massive difference speed wise using different methods).

Once you sort out your poly probs, if it still runs slow I'd suggest using forced timing if your not already.

The coder formerly known as Twynklet.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 14:20 Edited at: 20th Jun 2004 15:20
Link
Quote: "Ok, heres a sudden and strange offer: I have too much time on my hands, I like space ships, and you are having trouble with your models and are using pre-made ones... so, uh... would you like some models? If so, I'll post my e-mail (I never check it, so post something here first if you're interested), and you could send some descriptions, if not, sorry for wasting your time. (I don't have any sitting around, but making one shouldn't take to long). Um, yeah. I took a look at what you have so far though, and it looks promising. Keep at it."


Sure thing. D/l the demo and take a look in the models directory, there should be 3 directories (1,2 and 3).
Each corresponds to a different side. In each there is generally the same 3 models with a different colours depending on their side; fighter, colony and scout.x. Take a look at see what sort of style's there and what orientation and size they are.

I'd be very greateful if you ccould find the time to create a few ships


Quote: "The demo is superb apart from the already mentioned frame rate (I'm only getting around 10-15fps, or 1-4fps if everything is firing at each other)."


Thanks Oddly enough, the bullets are just plains (i got rid of the old bullet models, too poly intensive)

Quote: "How are you drawing your map? (just wondering as I've tried loads of different ways of doing these & theres a massive difference speed wise using different methods)."


The grid is one plain with a grid texture. The backdrop is a sky sphere are the rest are just objects placed on the map. All ships have zwrite set to off, to speed up things and make them appear 'over' a planet.

Quote: "Once you sort out your poly probs, if it still runs slow I'd suggest using forced timing if your not already."


Yeah I am. Not that it makes too much difference at 4fps!

[edit]

As some temporary ships I've got out my old friends, IAK's Star Trek models

On normal detail I get around 60fps with all ships, with excessive detail I get around 30. Which is pretty reasonable, considering I was gettind 15fps on normal a few days ago



Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
DeepBlue
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 17th May 2003
Location: A little box in the UK
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 19:08 Edited at: 20th Jun 2004 19:12
Link
Quote: "How are you drawing your map? (just wondering as I've tried loads of different ways of doing these & theres a massive difference speed wise using different methods)."

Quote: "The grid is one plain with a grid texture. The backdrop is a sky sphere are the rest are just objects placed on the map. All ships have zwrite set to off, to speed up things and make them appear 'over' a planet."


Doh I should have been more specific I meant the mini-map (top left corner)

[Edit] What happens if you knock out the sky sphere for the moment & do some camera clipping (set camera range) ? At least ya stray polys if there are still any shouldnt get drawn [Edit]

The coder formerly known as Twynklet.
Back to top
Profile PM Email
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 19:19
Link
Quote: "Doh I should have been more specific I meant the mini-map (top left corner) "


At the moment the minimap is a boring old pure 2d affair (ie. dot commands ) and that's why it's slow. I suppose I'll convert it to a memblock routine soon, should be faster

Quote: "[Edit] What happens if you knock out the sky sphere for the moment & do some camera clipping (set camera range) ? At least ya stray polys if there are still any shouldnt get drawn [Edit]"


The sky sphere doesn't actually take that many polys. On a completely empty scene I only have 87 polys now which is pretty good I think.
I'm not sure about a camera clip, since you're looking down on a scene?

I'm making real progress speed wise; smooth 60fps now

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Pincho Paxton
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Dec 2002
Location:
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 19:25
Link
This game looks like it might be a lot of fun. I watched someone playing an online space trading, and war style game. I would have tried it if it wasn't online. The ships are probably the slowdown problem. Looks to me like you could just put the ship images on plains, and have 2 poly's per ship. Anyhow, you are such a long way away from them, you could get away with low poly ships.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 19:29
Link
Yeah, I have replaced all the ship models as they too high poly and were glitching Pro's frustrum culling as well. I've now got some really low poly star trek ships in at the moment (see a few posts above)

Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Guhill The friendly one
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 12th Jun 2004
Location: The fourth demension
Posted: 20th Jun 2004 20:06
Link
It went fast(er) on my computer. Maybe it's because I chose to "disable" the effects at the beginning.

I know now, without a doubt, that Kingdom Hearts... IS LIGHT (Sora)
Back to top
Profile PM Website
Shadow Robert
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 22nd Sep 2002
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Posted: 21st Jun 2004 07:02
Link
Discovered it WAS a driver problem just as i suspected.
Found that Service Pack 2 installed Microsoft version of the current detonator release, so i installed that and everything works hunky dory now

i get 8-5fps on this machine, (but not unplayable which i'm glad to see someone has non-sync based input commands); i'll try it on my gameing-rig later.

Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 21st Jun 2004 12:00
Link
Quote: "(but not unplayable which i'm glad to see someone has non-sync based input commands)"




Two strings walk into a bar. I'll have a pint says the first$%ASLDJ09920D"$"$D. Excuse my friend says the second, he isn't null terminated.
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
The Wendigo
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Sep 2002
Location: A hole near the base of a tree in the US
Posted: 29th Jul 2004 18:53
Link
Howdy folks, I seem to pop my head in and out of the forums alot these days.

Just some helpful advice. Sky spheres are passe (however it is spelled). Go with a sky box now. Sky boxes have a less poly count, and if done right, usually look better than sky spheres. I also feel that the slow down isn't necissarily in the poly count, unless you did a bunch of unnecissary quad-divides that can't be seen (joke joke). My guess is it is somewhere in your pipeline. how-a-bout AI? AI is bessed ran every 5 to 10 frames to keep the framerate smoother. Within 5 to 10 frames, the user won't be able to do too much anyways (thus NPC's shouldn't look stupid). With higher framerates you could even try 20 to 30 frames to do AI. Someone asked about camera ranges too. I've noticed significant frame drops if ranges lye in floating point values (especially the near range, being less than 1). I've been writing a 2D engine in VB6 for a while now and have found that a lot of little modifications to the overall pipeline (and im not just talking the engine, but also the games i write in it) really add to the framerate. For and While loops are killers, I've noticed, and any crazy math (trig mainly) kills things. Dunno how DBP handles trig, but if you haven't already, try making some sine/cosine tables and for proximity/collision detection, try using box collisions. if you need circular/sphereical collision detection, do a box first and see if it is in that, if not, no need to do a sphere collision. About For and While loops, I know you need em, so the best thing I've noticed is to create buffers (takes a little more memory though, but probably shouldn't be that bad). If you have 64 ships but only 10 currently active, why go through an entire loop of 64? just buffer your 10 at some point and index through them only. With While loops, use for loops and remember where you left off with the variables. That way you can split your while, which might have done 10000 calcs/frame, down to 5000 calcs/frame. That can be tougher to implement, though. Over all, and knowing I've been playing an Alpha, I'd say very well done and would rank you at least an 8, but leaning to a 9 (especially since I haven't seen many RTS's in DBP and want to play them! ). Great Job!

PS. - About skyboxes. I don't know what 3D modeller you are using, but I have a great skybox maker on my site. It will undoubtably only work on TrueSpace 4.3 and above, but might still be worth looking at. I have an HTML tutorial with it (but it relies on the TS 4 scene heavily, if i remember correctly).

http://www.geocities.com/djpeterson83/projects.html

everyone feel free to browse the site, too! got one DBP game and a VB6 gems game to play (don't mean to advertise, sorry)

Current Projects: Game Spawn 85%, mini BSP maker 50%, Height Mapper with many features 75%, Space Tactical (Like BC300AD) 15%.
Back to top
Profile PM Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 29th Jul 2004 19:00
Link
Hi,

Wow this thread is old

Since I last worked on this (this is temporarily on hold) I've tried some speed optimisation techniques in Merc 2. Things like AI every 5 to 10 frames etc.

I'll see if these things can go into MiS.

What does the time map say about the speed of things like Ai, etc?

Get 15 new commands, all the date / time commands left out of DBPro for free!
DOWNLOAD PLUGINS HERE: http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/ and select "DarkBasic"
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Retro Addict
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 12th Feb 2004
Location: Georgia, USA
Posted: 30th Jul 2004 02:56 Edited at: 30th Jul 2004 03:01
Link
On my work pc (old p3-800mhz with 256 meg of pc100 ram) I'm getting 8-14fps. Haven't tried it on my home system yet. This game has HUGE potential. Between this and Firewall I'll never finish my game! I look forward to the next update on this one.

BTW, there's a space bmp file that you use. Do you mind if I use it in a background for one of the levels in my game?

PC Specs: AMD 1800+ 512M DDR, Radeon 128meg DDR - DB v1.13

To DB or not to DB............duh DB!
Back to top
Profile PM Email
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 30th Jul 2004 06:16 Edited at: 30th Jul 2004 06:17
Link
No, I think it came from las6's texture collection anyway :p

Quote: "This game has HUGE potential. Between this and Firewall I'll never finish my game! I look forward to the next update on this one."


That's very nice of you

Trouble is, in the latest DBpro it won't compile at all...

Get 15 new commands, all the date / time commands left out of DBPro for free!
DOWNLOAD PLUGINS HERE: http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/ and select "DarkBasic"
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
teh game wiz
20
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 24th Feb 2004
Location: EWS
Posted: 3rd Aug 2004 23:30 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2004 23:31
Link
this game has very good graphics and i had decent fps.

fx5700(normal clock speeds 425,550) : 28
(overclocked 470,646) : 36
that was with enhanced graphics(e) and i had programs like msn and windows media player in the background.

you should try and find out why it wont compile any more and report it in the bugs forum

http://www.elliot-dickerson.co.uk http://www.killstuff.net im a DBP fanboy
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 4th Aug 2004 03:51
Link
Already done

Quote: "you should try and find out why it wont compile any more and report it in the bugs forum"


It's very hard when it's about 2000 lines I might try in future.

Get 15 new commands, all the date / time commands left out of DBPro for free!
DOWNLOAD PLUGINS HERE: http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/ and select "DarkBasic"
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
The Goldorak
19
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 29th Aug 2004
Location:
Posted: 30th Aug 2004 03:33
Link
Help ! I don't know how i cannot go on your webpage http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/db/downloads/ ??????????

Did someone had this problem ?

Darkbasic is great !
Back to top
Profile PM
David T
Retired Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 27th Aug 2002
Location: England
Posted: 30th Aug 2004 03:35
Link
Yes I have posted elsewhere that my web site is down until September 1st.

Unfortunately with the latest patches MiS is silently crashing when compiled. It's a great shame as it could have been a great game but all energies are now focussed on Mercenaries 2.

Get 15 new commands, all the date / time commands left out of DBPro for free!
DOWNLOAD PLUGINS HERE: http://www.davidtattersall.me.uk/ and select "DarkBasic"
Back to top
Profile PM Email Website
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-04-23 08:48:56
Your offset time is: 2024-04-23 08:48:56