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David T
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Thanks alot - I'll put them in today

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@David T: did you get my email with the upload script?

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Yes I did - it didn't work. Came up with page cannot be displayed when I submitted it (sorry forgot to reply )

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@Animeblood: Lol.
Anyways, that is a great game DavidT! I really enjoyed playing it.

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Very nice, this looks awsome! Really great work.

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Deadly Shadow
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Yes the hands are crappy looking. They could be fixed. Also when are you releasing this game? No offense.

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what offense?
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I get the same error as mm0zct, it cant load the music at line 739.


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i'm not sure what's wrong with the upload script, it works fine for me, did you hit refresh as that would crash it, if you go to the page, hit browse, then upload and leave the page for about 20 mins or so (depending on how long your connection would take to transfer 50MB (adsl upload is slower than download usually)

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Quote: "what offense?"


I think he meant over the crappy hands .

Btw, DavidT, I agree that the music either needs changing in-game or the voice over needs taking out. It just doesn't fit too well with it IMO, but you are the creator of the game so it is your ultimate call! . I actually kinda miss the old music that you had in a previous version during the game (the long piece that you now have for the title sequence). I thought that worked pretty well in-game!


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Good job on the game! It should go online if it was I would buy it!

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Quote: "i'm not sure what's wrong with the upload script, it works fine for me, did you hit refresh as that would crash it, if you go to the page, hit browse, then upload and leave the page for about 20 mins or so (depending on how long your connection would take to transfer 50MB (adsl upload is slower than download usually)"


I jsut selected it and clicked submit I'm on 2mb internet.

Quote: "Btw, DavidT, I agree that the music either needs changing in-game or the voice over needs taking out. It just doesn't fit too well with it IMO, but you are the creator of the game so it is your ultimate call! . I actually kinda miss the old music that you had in a previous version during the game (the long piece that you now have for the title sequence). I thought that worked pretty well in-game!"


Problem is most of the music I have is more epic rather than heavy deathmatch style. The old music (Adagio for Strings remix) is actually realy music, and so technically I shouldn't be using it

Quote: "Good job on the game! It should go online if it was I would buy it!"


Thanks

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Here's a pic of Wendigo's fantasic desert level



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Nice.

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Sweet.

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we all know the core of the game is my guns :p, anyways yea i agree those hands totally suck they must be over a year old, i will make some new ones then i can slap em on the guns and send em back to ya david.


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Okay Personally I think the hands are fine

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David T, you really need to change the fonts and aby work a bit on the GUI. The game looks great, but the GUI kinda ruins it.
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Thanks for posting a screen DavidT! I might re-release them with some tweaking, cuz I'm still not happy with how the levels turned out. Kinda bland, me thinks, but I'll fix it. Unfortunetely I found out some REEEEEEALLY bad news about Strata Works that needs urgent attention. Basically, it could very well mean a rewrite of the entire thing. I'm going to be very tied up with this no matter what the outcome is, but I hope to get back to work on those maps again!


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hhhm... I dont know much about mercenaries... and I dont know who made it first but I just found this...[href][/href]http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox/data/919925.html[href]
....just so no one get any copyright issues.....just letting you know ...I honestly dont know if this is a real game and yours is a fan game....just telling ya

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Argh, for god's sake it's been mentioned tons of times before

The bottom line is.. I was there first.

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David T how do you load your levels! I cant seem to!

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How do you load the actual Merc 2 level format files, or how do I store the data in a file then load it?

The answer to the former is there's a text file which contains all the data I need - level heightmap, texture map etc. I use the read string command to read this data in then I interpret it.

The answer for the latter is pretty much the same - I use the file commands to load the necessary data in then I interpret it. So, for example if the file was:



Then I'd do something like



hope it helps

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Thanks your awsome! I will try it! Hope to buy your game soon! Its so sick! As in kool!

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Its got problems! When I load lightmap it needs the othe code too but I load it and it dosent read it! And I opened up the other file it needed seperate and it had parameter problems! Could you check out your code and fix it?

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What are you talking about? My code doesn't use any lightmaps at all.

In fact, it was just an example of how to go about it - not tested, wokring code. I've no idea how you're using it in your game.

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Ok can you fix the code?

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Quote: "Ok can you fix the code?"


I don't understand. My code wasn't meant to work. I just quickly wrote it to show the principles. I've no idea what code you're using or what happens or why it doesn't work. If you gave a little detail, such as the code you're using, it might help

Quote: "You need to make a db multiplayer tutorial. Something i really need and might dump db for it."


If someone every does, I'll be first to read it

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I've never seen it done in a DB FPS, how about adding an auto aim (you know, when you get close enough to an enemy it locks on) option for us poor FPS'ers?

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Hmm- maybe. I'm just thining how it would work? Would the crosshair move? Or would a new set of targets appear and when you press a button you get pointed at one of them?

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the crosshair should move


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Quote: "Hope to buy your game soon!"


You're selling it?

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You're putting words in my mouth

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!... [pees pants] Woah...
- Do we have a possible release date or maybe a possible price?
Now that is what I call (DB) Professional!

Only input i can give is that the text output looks, how you say, retro-ish. Pasteing transparent images of numbers/words would look nice. You guys just keep making my games look bad...heh, heh...

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Ohh i would love too see someone make a game better than this! Althogh Van-Bs Lone Wolf is looking GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!


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Quote: "Do we have a possible release date or maybe a possible price?"


I think DavidT has made it clear he isn't selling it.

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I will try and get some better text, although I personally don't like the complexities involved - having multiple sprites etc. I'd rather everything be contained in one cohesive unit. I could assemble an image off screen and show that, although I don't know how fast that would be.

Plus, I haven't found any good bitmap fonts too - any I try have transparency dodginess.

And I'm not selling it

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I'm thinking about a locked object with plains where I want the text and graphics, then just texture each limb to suit with a grabbed bitmap font or graphic. I ended up doing exactly that with OIE, the dogtags are a single object, I did try rendering to an image then texturing, but the quality just did'nt cut it. You could use alpha textures on it to get dark areas for the text etc. You could also add a plain for each character with the name badge textured onto it, with the screen coords of the enemy, you could offset them to the right positions. This would let you fade the text if you like to help keep the display crisp.


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Try this bitmap font editor. Not sure if it's the kind of thing your looking for. http://www.lmnopc.com/bitmapfontbuilder/. It converts windows fonts to bitmaps.

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Thanks for that, I'll have a look at it

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Need.More.Screens.Now.

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Sorry not right now - I've been swamped with work for the past two months, so DB has been pushed aside

I am working on a way to get nice sprites text now. However it's not helped by the bitmap font creator outputting a list of letter widths - but telling me an M is 13 pixels and an I is 26 pixels wide. The tiles are only 16 pixels wide. Grrr.

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I was thinking of make a DBPro app like that.. Basically, it creates a horizontal bitmap of text and then makes an array containing the x values where there is a column of "nothing".. so you'd take column "n" and drop a test line down detecting pixel colour. If anything returned is not background then its not a break between letters.. if that makes sense.. Ahh.. So many idea's, so little time!

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If you have to stick to a set width, I suggest double widthing your W's and M's, it's an old trick to get wider characters where needed. All you need to do is make the M in 2 halves, like one half as M, and the other half as an un-used character that you just stick onto M, like M~.


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The software I found exported a .ini file with the widths of every letter as I mentioned - but it got them all wrong

I've got it working pretty well though now. I'll post a screen soon.

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So how goes the game?

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uses the force and then david is like

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this game looks awesome!

Video games…they can take you places unreachable, impossible, unfeasible. They put you in the book...they put you in the movie...they put you in a world, a world that before could only be imagined.
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I've been in the Arctic for the past week, sorry for the lack os replyage

Recently I haven't had too much time for DB so not much work has gone on. Sorry

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Wow, now thats an excuse!...dont think teachers would accept it though !

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