Wijitmaker

I'm not sure I would recommend doing anything with global illumination because it would be to much of a strain on the art department. I was just curious, as it was something I always wanted to do. It would probably be just as easy to burn the shadow map into the diffuse map. If indeed the art department is thinking of redoing all the building artwork and making individual graphic files for each building and creating normal/spec mapping, then a unique (with burned in shadows) diffuse map wouldn't be out of the question. I think that all of these map types are 'future proofing/assisting' the graphics engine, so that it might be appealing to other developers that might take advantage of these capabilities, even though our current WFG staff might not have the resources to do so. An aside... W mapping has always intrigued me because it is a portion of UVW dataset that is rarely ever used (to my knowledge). Perhaps could be used to store vertex shading data - again you would be limited to the artist's ability to understand and harness/use the 3d program. So, with the combination of this thread here and this thread... are you looking at pre-configuring the graphics settings for the users? Dis-allowing graphical features that their graphics card is unable to render correctly? I like your proposal #2. Make a break - separate graphics for old hardware from newer, this would free you to make updates for newer whenever needed without having to worry about the old hardware anymore. Just need to make sure that playing in one config or the other doesn't give one player an advantage over another.

Would proposal #5 allow for pre-rendered shadow maps?

Today I made WFG's quarterly server payment. Current account balance is: $2,935.82 USD

Great marsha! I'd love to see your AI in action

Cool pic Pureon Nice tweaking!

Well after I updated SVN (didn't help) and deleted the terrain folder and re downloaded it, it finally recognized the missing files. It works - no bugs Nice work guys, it is really awesome. I love the pathfinding and new fog of war. Resource shuttling is fun too. I do miss the run/stamina and auras. Hopefully those will appear back in the game sometime

Sure, here you go mainlog.html

This looks a little more up to date crashlog.txt crashlog.dmp

Hmm, I agree, that doesn't look recent I'll investigate further when I get home.

Started up the game for a first time in a long time. It seems to be crashing after the map loading screen. j I think it choked on this? Assertion failed: "SDL_SetGamma failed" crashlog.txt

Balance today is $1,247.61 USD

I thought I would start a new topic just for this subject. Feel free to move it to a more appropriate place. Today's balance $1,012.66 $814 in 10 days in impressive. I honestly wasn't expecting that result. Donations range from $5 - $100. Paypals (or Pledgie?) fees are also not to nice it looks variable 10% on the smaller transactions to 4.2% on the larger. Here are a few comments: To the 0A.D. devs, I study History at university, and cool historically based RTS' were a big part of getting men enthusiastic about it, during childhood. Keep up the great work! Thank you for going open source with this project, and for producing Linux builds, it's much appreciated. Jon Pritchard Good luck on the game! - From Korneel Guns 0 A.D. looks great, I have not yet played it but I am sure I will get around to it soon. Regardless I am happy to support open development of games. Continue to amaze us all over at OMG! Ubuntu!

Excellent work Alexander! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next!

Yeah, that is pretty much the extent of the sprites we made. There might be a few more, but I don't think they would be very useful to you. Let me know if you had something specific in mind you were looking for, I probably have it.

Sorry, I don't have my computer to test this out. Is it context sensitive? If so, I applaud the minimalist GUI. Only showing what is necessary as you interact with the game world. There should be a way to make this, and other modifications to the GUI into a mod package - for those that would prefer it to the game default. Philip could likely provide more guidance on this.

Cool, very creative screenshots

Excellent addition Notice Michael's mockup. The map icon, and the figure by the computer screen? I think it would be great to see those icons included into atlas, and when selected - your menues would pop up. Aside... I'd also like to see the text buttons that Philip put in place years ago, replaced with icons as well and placed in that toolbar that spans the screen.

Great info and links here as well: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/ticket/13

Nice guide(s) More info: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/XML.Entity.Traits.AI

Awesome, a summary statistic screen is a great addition to the game. Excellent contribution! For UI appearance and theme, I'd suggest replicating the colors and textures in the UI activity found here: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.p...ndpost&p=212325

Here are some old ideas on repair: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/XML.Entity.Actions.Repair

The design (from a few years ago) required that wild resources of timber, stone and metal were collected within the aura of Civic Center or a Resource Center. So, the idea was pretty simple - if the resource was within the aura, then you could collect the resource. This was further constrained because you could only build Civic Centers and Resource Centers in a territory that you had ownership of. The citizen soldier or female citizen would collect the resource a entity defined rate until the resource slowly depleted into the player's bank and reached a quantity of 0 - then it would move on to the next nearest resource. There wasn't a "shuttling" feature where the unit would move back and forth between resource and drop site. Hunting and foraging were excluded from these restrictions. The feature was already implemented (as well as territories) in the past versions of the game before Philip's rewrite. It should be easy to reconstruct the feature. Here is some more info (not sure if these are up to date for code, but the design likely is): http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/XML.Entity.Traits.Auras http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/XML.Entity.Actions.Gather

Thanks Philip - yeah the difference between green and red is my issue, but every colorblind individual is different (I believe a smaller minority of the population are yellow and blue color blind). For me, it would be sufficient if the green hue color was edging towards a yellow (a lime green color) and if the red was darker towards a maroon color. Example... pure red and green RGBs such as #FF0000 and #00FF00 are contrasting enough for me because the green appear lighter to me than the red. However something like #808000 and #FF0000 is very hard for me to distinguish the difference, especially in a small health bar.

I'll throw in my 2 cents again... IMHO rank symbols are important if the player isn't familiar enough with the other visual indicators (textures, helmets, etc). If there was a simple system such as basic: no helmet, advanced: silver helmet, elite: gold helmet - then I agree, it wouldn't be needed. But, I don't think units are that simple anymore? Knowing what units are ranked and what aren't (without single selecting in the UI) is important in gameplay as you make decisions on what units should engage the enemies units (for leveling up or for fodder or for a sure victory in a skirmish) If the player is familiar enough with the unit's plain appearance, then allow them to toggle off rank in the config. I would assume that most first time players won't know 0 A.D. and they won't know history to the extents that the people reading this forum do. Westwood RTS games have them, I personally never had a complaint with using them. Yeah, I'm color blind, so I'm speaking for a minority. The outline I'd recommend would just be a simple 1px border around the health bar (it used to be a sprite - I think, but I could see how some would think it was bulky)

They used to have a little black outline around them (and the stamina bars). I liked this because it helped outline them and 'pop' them out of the terrain.