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- Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:22 pm
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
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It was my understanding EAW's 70 clock cycles/second made it possible to adjust for different CPU speeds on different machines..... You are basically correct here. From memory, the computer has hardware circuitry that updates a counter 70 times a second. The game loop looks at how many of these 1/7...
- Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:08 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Hi Wuddy, The 3 camera setup is there to solve 2 separate problems. The screen image is displayed firstly from Camera 0. That image is overlaid with the the view of Camera 1. Finally the image is overlaid with the view of Camera 2. Camera 0 and 1 are the 2 cameras that are moved around in the 3D wor...
- Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:20 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Hi All, Just a small update. A kind model creator has donated 4 aircraft models for this project. The only major limitation he placed was that I have to find some way to protect the native files for the models so that other unscrupulous people do not pinch them, as he makes a living from creating an...
- Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:02 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Second Download Available
- Replies: 1
- Views: 19067
Second Download Available
Well folks.... here it is. I have been in a holding pattern for some weeks waiting for a new release of the game library that I am using. Hopefully it will be released some time this year. This release is just a slightly more polished version of the other release .....but a little prettier. Currentl...
- Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:54 pm
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Time for another progress report. Even when using Z buffers based models things are not as simple as people sometimes expect. Have a look at this picture ( look at the propeller disk of the aircraft flying towards us) http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b49/sydbod/100108232149.jpg As you can see, the ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 12:34 pm
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Hi Wuddy, Getting some one else's code and modifying it is not very productive. One only gets a view from within the modules and one never gets a global perspective of how a game should function. Starting from the overview and then developing the bits and pieces has given me more insight in the last...
- Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:50 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Hi Dumo, A most interesting article. I have been spending many sleepless nights thinking about what that article talked about. The ground shadows cast by aircraft in FSX are calculated straight off the polys themselves and the more of them you have the more performance you lose. In case you don't be...
- Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:49 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Hi All, Just a quick update of what is being done. I have decided to settle for something like a HD2400 (dirt cheap bottom end card) as the minimum video card for this project. Likewise catering for 128 online players at the one time looks like it will be more than enough. After spending the last 2 ...
- Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:12 pm
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
UMMM!!!!!! Ehhhh!!!!! gulp. It looks like the transparent water was causing all the problems when a machine is using an early generation video card. Oh well ..... I learned a lot in the exercise. I know my graphics creations suck (so dont judge it on my graphics skills), but I liked the sun effect t...
- Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:09 pm
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
- Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:12 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Greetings fellow travelers, Some interesting developments have been under foot. It is a good thing the Z Buffer approach was never implemented within EAW to replace the BSP system. Here is the continuation of the Rodnoc story so you hopefully will see the relevance to the above statement. After play...
- Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:28 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Hi Shreck, Just some background info for you. I am still trying to finalize a procedure for creating terrains for this new project. There are so many options and at the moment only one poor brain to try to think of all the options and how to implament them. Things become even more complex because th...
- Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:52 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Was having a little fun integrating terrain into the model I included a few sandy atols but decided to determine what a good texture would look like. Zoomed up the small crappy 128x128 texture for the island to 4096x4096 and then replaced a section of it with an 800x600 picture to determine what sor...
- Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:38 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
I know people like pretty pictures, as it means much more than just text. While I was playing around to develop a suitable water mode for the game, it became necessary to test water transparency. I still have not added ocean bed detail ..... only because I suck so much in creating graphics. The ocea...
- Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:43 am
- Forum: Project RODNOC
- Topic: Change in TERRAIN direction.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 72764
Just a small update about the terrain. While I was creating parts of the new terrain code, it looks like we came across a nasty fault within the game library when using its inbuilt terrain functions. It appears that when one creates a terrain using the inbuilt functions, then these functions actuall...