SquareDanceSteve Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 HI, I am a Gemini, my favorite color is pink, and I like to take long walks on the beach.Okay seriously… In my search for Small Studio RTS games I found this site. Stuff looks real good guys. You guys when you finish are going to knock the socks off Age of Mythology… Do you intend to make this a free game or are you going to package it up and sell it?I am 21 years old, I live in Sacramento California, I attend the local junior college (constantly changing majors makes you a 4 year JC student like me, political science, electrical engineering, history, computer science, general ed) I am new to programming, so I have been learning to program sense February. I learned C++ first… finished about 8 chapters of one of those directx books, found out about directx in visual basic, I learned visual basic and that’s why I am programming in now, getting ready to start writing my own math lib in c++ to use with vbWhat I am doing, “my game…”I got some money from my grandfather so instead of getting a job to pay for school I decided to write an RTS, a few months after starting I met a venture capitalist, he offered to pay for the publishing and distribution fee’s. So I am working harder on this every day then I have ever worked on anything else. I have been learning direct 3d for the last few weeks, but managed DirectX is hard on one’s time, documentation does not exist.Progress over the last month Implemented a grey scale height map loader and textured them, The geometry is also fully and easily deformable, and the texture modifiable during run time, no map editor yet. The only screen shots I have taken.http://my.starstream.net/scorpin/ScreenShot1.jpg http://my.starstream.net/scorpin/ScreenShot2.jpghttp://my.starstream.net/scorpin/ScreenShot3.jpghttp://my.starstream.net/scorpin/screenshot4.jpgsince the above screen shots were taken, I have hooked up multiple terrain squares, They are intentionally high res to allow nice deformation because of game effects (ripples and creators because of explosions, and possibly underground game play)yesterday I wrote my first controllable units, and implemented them into an old directdraw7 I wrote… much faster to setup and it doesn’t need to look good. The units can be killed, they can shoot, they can move freely. I programmed a primitive AI’s yesterday afternoon… it targets another unit randomly, the unit drives towards the target, once in range it unloads with machine guns, the unit’s can track moving targets, if the target tries to get away it is chased down. I also experimented with missiles, I made a dumb fire, trajectory prediction and seeker version. Mounted those on the units with the machine guns… The units don’t have path finding yet, I haven’t converted my vb6 pathfinder to dotnet yet… I also experimented with buildings that make units… that worked out…Played with my unit selection… you can click on em give em orders… translated them to 3d got the picking down… As for multiplayer… bah I don’t have clue…I don’t have a site for my game yet… I can provide hosting… if anyone is interested in helping…I would really like to talk shop with the staff making 0 AD scorpin@starstream.neticq: 12521692msn: scorpin@starstream.netaim: FlexibleMoralityyahoo: ScorpinReloaded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Howdy, SquareDanceSteve! It sounds like you have a tough but exciting job ahead of you! You guys when you finish are going to knock the socks off Age of Mythology… Do you intend to make this a free game or are you going to package it up and sell it? We certainly hope it is a "knock-your-socks-off" game, and I don't think many will be disappointed. Yes, we are releasing it completely free - we're insane and loving it! (See the 0 A.D. FAQ here)Those screenshots look nice, I can see you are using some fairly high-quality terrain textures there! Do you have anyone else working on your project, or is it just you?Good luck with your game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquareDanceSteve Posted July 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 heh... I have been hard coring it.... I made the textures and the height map... I have a buddy that made and then textured a tank and b52 for me... i made a two jets with textures... haven’t used them for anything... but I will probably swap the 2d engine with a 3d one using the tanks soon...also forgot to mention i made a bone engine... so i can make robots and people and crap... the bone's are also used to bind the turret to the tank body...Free, you guys rock! are you going to include a full sdk? (units, maps, behavior, effects and weapons?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnas Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 I don't know about an sdk, but I think the game will be very moddable.That terrain is VERY impressive. fish is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Welcome. You sound like a very interesting person. Good luck on your game dev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chichigrande Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Welcome to these here forums!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deaconwar Posted July 16, 2004 Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 yep everyone here is crazy :self-bash: good luck making your game steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquareDanceSteve Posted July 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2004 Thanks guys I am going to need it....I have been reading around this forum, everyone is crazy i love it, i think i may be a new regular Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aldaron Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 Good good! Welcome, BTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted July 17, 2004 Report Share Posted July 17, 2004 Hey, those screenshots are looking pretty sharp there Your lighting is what caught my eye. You using some procedural type textures? Those look pretty sharp too!... found out about directx in visual basic, I learned visual basic and that’s why I am programming in now, getting ready to start writing my own math lib in c++ to use with vbNice, there is another one of these 'small studio RTS games' that you should check out that uses that same combination:http://www.reverieentertainment.netGood, to see some more game dev guys stopping by to say hi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uppy Posted July 18, 2004 Report Share Posted July 18, 2004 Welcome mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Hey Steve nice to meet you! This is just a short reply because I have nt much time now. I will get back to you on Wednesday!have a good time until then and make yourself feel home here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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