Aura

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 11 Mar, 2005 1:18 am

I can see it now! And it is cool

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Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Fri 11 Mar, 2005 2:43 am

Wow, awesome...your right Dys, I have never seen that before in a game! Awesome.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 11 Mar, 2005 4:31 pm

The overworld is almost complete, so I've switched gears a little and started into the battle system.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 18 Mar, 2005 8:44 pm

Update!
Scrolling in the battle engine is now implemented. The battle engine will use XLIB-based scrolling over an 4x24 map. If I have speed to spare after the AI is complete I might add parallax scrolling, though as thins are going I dobt I'll have the speed to spare on the black 83+. I might add it in as a special feature for SE-only however. It may even turn out that I'll have to eliminate scrolling altogether for the sake of speed, so don't get too excited. I'm now beginning to implement enemy motion (no AI yet, just random movement).

Toaster · Post by **Toaster** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 1:00 am

Nice!! Good work I cant wait till this game gets done!!

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 1:38 am

I am pleased that xLIB is able to help people. I dont even know why i wrote it really ... Nobody used it for ages, but now people are

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Remember just PM me with any suggestions.

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 8:38 pm

I used XLIB when it first came out, for Ender's Game- I recoded the scrling engine to use it within a week of the first version's release. Here's what it looked like:

And of course this achieved a solid 5 fps on a black 83+ hardware.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Tue 22 Mar, 2005 10:29 pm

That is really swee, great work dysfunction

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dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Wed 23 Mar, 2005 6:56 pm

Ive recently begun recoding large portions of EG, and I got all the old bugs out. I'm almost through with the recode of the physics engine. Unfortunately it currently takes ~20 seconds to calculate

However i plan for the final version to be in MLC so that won't be a problem. Once I'm finished with this stuff (not giving any dates yet) I'll release a beta with only multiplayer (same calc and maybe multi-calc) in Basic, which will be the only release before the final version.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 06 May, 2005 3:39 pm

Well i know i am not alone when i say that i cant wait for any kind of release for this game. I have been interested in it ever since you announced it long ago

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dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 06 May, 2005 7:12 pm

Thanks for the interest! Of course you know that EG is my first priority, at least until I get get the BASIC beta out. I want to at least have everything finished except AI when that happens. Btw, XLIB will make Aura much much easier to finish! Especially if it can read from pics higher than 10, as then Aura could have pixel scrolling. I've also thought of a way to speed up collision detection, and between that and xLib I think I can sseriously increase this game's speed.

Toaster · Post by **Toaster** » Fri 06 May, 2005 7:30 pm

Cool looks like there's some work being done on this now!!

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sat 07 May, 2005 7:24 am

Well i just realised that adding support for pics above 9 shouldnt be too hard ... but do you really think that you are going to be able to pull off pixel scrolling?

tokijnct · Post by **tokijnct** » Sat 07 May, 2005 10:29 am

I trust that dysfunction will be able to think of some way to implement pixel scrolling after what he has gotten so far. Being able to use more than the default pictures would be sweet though

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sat 07 May, 2005 10:44 am

Im goign to have to see how exactly zPic (is it zPic) stores these pics. Can you recall them from the tios or do you have to use zPic ... i have a feeling that they are custom vars ... mainly because there are only 10 pic tokens.