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MrTAToad
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On my web site (under the DLL & Routine section - around halfway down) is a prototype of the title sequence. Would you grateful if you could try it, and let me know how smooth etc it is.
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eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a rar file???
that's just a complete turn off lol

Anywho, I'm not sure what you want to know about it.. I can tell you that the fadeout thing in the menu was FAR too slow, 20 secs approx on my comp...

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Posted: 28th Mar 2003 10:03 Edited at: 28th Mar 2003 10:23
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Yes, thats because its not linked to the computer speed... How about the crafts - do they rotate at a decent speed ?

And the other thing is - was there a long loading time for the crafts ?

Zip files are, like, so 90's, man... RAR compress a lot better.

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Hmmm, when I click on it it loads it in Notepad - so I right clicked and said save target as - and again I get a text file. WinRar won't open it

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Posted: 29th Mar 2003 00:03 Edited at: 29th Mar 2003 00:33
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Sounds like .RAR has been hijacked by something else...
You should be able to open it in WinRAR directly and then extract it elsewhere...

If you want, I can ZIP it up and e-mail it to you.

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Quote: "Yes, thats because its not linked to the computer speed... How about the crafts - do they rotate at a decent speed ?"

Yes, crafts rotate fine.

Quote: "And the other thing is - was there a long loading time for the crafts ?"

No.

Quote: "Zip files are, like, so 90's, man... RAR compress a lot better."

lol, it doesn't matter if it's "so 90's", the majority uses it. I also agree that the majority is one MASSIVE IDIOT (individuals may be smart, but together they make one hugely idiotic entity) lol

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Posted: 29th Mar 2003 00:36 Edited at: 29th Mar 2003 00:37
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WinZip can deal with RAR files, so I'm not too worried about the majority at the moment. Besides, if they ask I can always send a ZIP file...

Now, I just need someone with a Radeon to try it...

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It can??? lol I'm a dumbass then!
Sorry, no radeon here but I'll be getting a better video card soon lol

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Did not know if you mean terminator title thingy or wipeout thingy, so downloaded both. Winzip does not handle RAR natively, so downloaded winrar. I assume you can get winzip to use the winrar command line interface.

I've got a radeon 9000 by the way.

Terminator thingy: Nice and smooth.

Wipeout: Crafts very smooth. each loads in a couple of seconds. Can you actually play the game as it appears the buttons do nothing, execept for the 'race' button which fades the menu over about 5 seconds, then just reappears!

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Well I ran your demo and your 'lil counter in the top left averaged about 138
On my system, which is:
Athlon 1800xp,256DDR,geforce2mx400

I did notice however some minor pausing/glitching during rotation of your crafts
looks nice otherwise, though perhaps the camera is a bit close to the ships, making it hard to see the overall shape sometimes (I know it's just a test).

No radeon sorry

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Thought WinZip could deal with RAR files - mind you, haven't used that properly for ages now.

No, you cant actually play anything with the title sequence, although I have got a pre-design demo of part of the main game up and running. I'll have to get that sorted and uploaded...

At least no-one has really large delays loading the crafts...

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Well the counter drops to about 7 on my machine when a new craft loads, but it doesn't noticeably slow the thing down.

I prefer rar myself

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When I start doing it properly, the crafts wont need to be loaded for each change.

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Yeah, I think it's a bit silly how (in dbc at least) you have to completely write your own cloning system for instancing objects from memory, when it seems to have most other things right, still, I guess we must do some of the work
I like the 'mirage'

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Yes, I do too... The crafts took around 5 minutes to do in Doga3...

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Uhh, winzip cant read it, it says it's corrupted, cant you juat make a simple zip file?

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Posted: 12th Apr 2003 13:51 Edited at: 12th Apr 2003 13:52
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But RAR is more efficient. I supposed I can though...

Anyway, its now been updated to post title design now...

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personally i think that RARs rule they kick the ass of zips

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Too right!

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Has anyone tried the new version ??

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Just like PC vs Mac! In my opinion, RAR is much more better than ZIP and it was so since its earliest versions for ms-dos. Downloading now...

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I like your BMP font very much!!! About other - I think the animation will look better if you make it a bit faster.

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PC vs Mac is such a stupid argument... personally i prefer WinZip Zips, they're the only type of archive not to corrupt information stored within them for no reason and also bloody fast to compress.
As oftenly the size difference in compression between the two at most has been 10Mb for a 1Gb compression and as little less than 600kb for anything under 10Mb, the difference really isn't worth the risk of the data stored.

on a more important note i'm downloading the new one now gotta do something whilst this damnd movie renders hehee

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Which animation should be faster ? The font was supplied by Rich - I wrote a routine to chop up the characters into different image blocks whilst I was waiting for P3 - thats what created all the text. Whats the speed like, especially for the fding up & down of the menus ?

Got a new one coming soon - name entry & credits (what few there are) - once I've got most of the title system up and running I can start on the game...

I've had not problems with RAR files becoming corrupt.

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Hey, MrTAToad, your rave ejay songs are a bit of ok.

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Glad you like it!

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just to let you know, I couldn't open the rar file. sorry.

Oh, and RAR kicks ZIP's ass! But WinACE kicks RAR's ass more!

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Good job I've compressed it as a ZIP file then!

Its got the name entry system up and running (single player only), and credits...

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ACE files are cool, but they have nothing over the stability over ZIP... best Zip format is v7 as its the most stable there is
can't wait for v9 later this year, they've increased some features in it.

i downloaded it, i didn't see a title sequence - however i mucked around on the menu for a while
pretty cool ... althought the names of the ships look very tacky against the menu.
Not sure what you could do, but floating in from the side in that font is just a little bleck.

otherwise its pretty cool, loads very fast too

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The title sequence is what you were looking at...

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oh ... well erm oki hehee
not what i'd called a title sequence, more like a game menu but oki lol

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Well, its not even pre-design either now, but I dont want to start a new thread.

Did you try the name entering part on the Single Player Race option - that was easier than I thought it would be.

I do have a demo of the main game up and running (did have it running before I started on the title).

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ya... i really like the menu setup, ofcourse you try to actually play a game and you're back on the main menu lol but its cool.
i'll look forward to the F-Eight demo hehee

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I'll have to stick it on the web site over the weekend - unforunately all pathing is absolute at the moment, so its going to be fun sorting that out.

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I cant use either the ZIP file or the RAR file.

Oops. Maybe i'll get the newest versions of each.

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Would tend to help..

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Te he Ill have to DL is little proggy

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I'm re-doing the complete site so you may find the file unavailiable for a short while...

Its now availiable in the 'Tech Demo' section.

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I've updated the title sequence program (the craft selection area is somewhat jerky when switching between two crafts quickly, but that should be easy enough to fix).

I've also uploaded an example of the main game - whilst there are bits of graphics everywhere - it has got the basis for the real thing - you need to go through the checkpoints in the correct order (you cant cheat).

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WinZIP is junk compared to WinRAR .

I'll go try it out...

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I've updated my program so its got a very simple part of the main game in.

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Dude ... Sorry, it looked very cool, but ran at 132fps or so and was completely unplayable, I couldn't control the thing
Can you post another version with a capped FPS or something?

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I know its uncontrollable - haven't set up the craft speed yet...

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