May 11, 2009
This new release contains the first dungeon of the game.There is also a new quest linked with the dungeon at the end.The dungeon is located north east of the starting town,you can just go directly there but the mobs inside are tough so be careful :)
Also Marius Grafe has animated the goblin model,th…
Also Marius Grafe has animated the goblin model,th…
May 06, 2009
I have added dungeons to Dark Age today.I will try to explain how I did it and post some screenshots here.I made it all in one day so I'm sure there are still lots of tweaks to do and bugs to fix but hey it works [smile].
In Dark Age I have a Map class which contains entities(std::vector m_Entities…
In Dark Age I have a Map class which contains entities(std::vector m_Entities…
April 27, 2009
This post is not about programming or game development.It is about what I do at work. As you probably don't know :) I work as an architect.I mostly work on architectural visualizations of projects and they are usually outside views of buildings. Modelling and rendering the exterior of buildings are…
April 23, 2009
Here is the download link :
Download
The Changelog :
Change Log
ScreenShot :
I think I'm going to work on skills next,the skills will be used like diablo from short cut keys and they will upgraded with skill points.I don't know if I should add trainers to learn new skills or just start with all the s…
Download
The Changelog :
Change Log
ScreenShot :
I think I'm going to work on skills next,the skills will be used like diablo from short cut keys and they will upgraded with skill points.I don't know if I should add trainers to learn new skills or just start with all the s…
April 19, 2009
I have entered the world of terabytes [wow]
Just bought a 1TB samsung harddrive I haven't installed it yet but i will in 50 mins or so.At the moment I have 2x160gb harddrives one is a SATA the other one is and old IDE drive filled with MP3s music games etc. I am copying everything to an external 160…
Just bought a 1TB samsung harddrive I haven't installed it yet but i will in 50 mins or so.At the moment I have 2x160gb harddrives one is a SATA the other one is and old IDE drive filled with MP3s music games etc. I am copying everything to an external 160…
April 15, 2009
After wondering for hours on how to make my input code better I gave up and went for something simple.At first I tried to support both lower case and upper case letters but I couldn't find a good way to do it so I gave up.
At the moment I am handling only WM_CHAR,WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP for keyboard…
At the moment I am handling only WM_CHAR,WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP for keyboard…
April 14, 2009
I was busy trying to find the bug that was causing some people to crash in Dark Age.I finally managed to find it in my user interface code.I did fix a few of those but this one was harder to find.I will try to explain the problem.
When the player clicks a merchant a panel on the left side of the win…
When the player clicks a merchant a panel on the left side of the win…
April 04, 2009
I don't believe that time exists for a long time.This article explains it pretty good I think.
linky
I think it makes perfect sense what do you think?
It's just like in the movie matrix(second film i guess) where the computers compute all the possibilities of what Neo might say or do and react accordi…
linky
I think it makes perfect sense what do you think?
It's just like in the movie matrix(second film i guess) where the computers compute all the possibilities of what Neo might say or do and react accordi…
March 22, 2009
Lately I have been playing Drakensang and I must say it pretty good so far.It is based on a pen&paper rpg from Germany.The gameplay is like baldurs gate or neverwinter nights.The game itself is pretty bug free and enjoyable.Currently I have a party of four 3 hot women(1 warrior 1 amazon and 1 c…
March 20, 2009
YOUR RESULT
Candidate Number 003908
Listening 8.5 / 9.0
Reading 8.5 / 9.0
Writing 7.5 / 9.0
Speaking 8 / 9.0
Overall Band 8 / 9.0
Not bad I think [grin]
I also uploaded the new release of Dark Age
Here is the link Dark Age
The most imporntant thing in this release is the shadow.I started experimenting wi…
Candidate Number 003908
Listening 8.5 / 9.0
Reading 8.5 / 9.0
Writing 7.5 / 9.0
Speaking 8 / 9.0
Overall Band 8 / 9.0
Not bad I think [grin]
I also uploaded the new release of Dark Age
Here is the link Dark Age
The most imporntant thing in this release is the shadow.I started experimenting wi…
March 18, 2009
Everthing has a small beginning right?
And here is the c++ program that uses it :
function add(first, second)
print "Hi there.I am from Lua."
return first + second
end
And here is the c++ program that uses it :
#include
extern "C"
{
#include
#include
#include
}
#include
int main()
{
// Create a new lua state
lua_State *myLuaState = lua_open();
/* …
March 17, 2009
I am done with shadows.I managed to remove the artifacts and increased the size of the shadow map to 2048.I am checking the device caps if maxTextureWidth and maxTextureHeight supports 2048 if not I set the shadow map size to the biggest texture possible.
I was using 512x512 shadow map and it was ge…
I was using 512x512 shadow map and it was ge…
March 13, 2009
I hacked together shadowmapping with the help of the sample from the D3D SDK.
Currently I have a spot light as the sun which looks at the player so everything around the player has shadows.
But there are problems in the distance I don't know why I have those artifacts maybe its because of the shadow …
Currently I have a spot light as the sun which looks at the player so everything around the player has shadows.
But there are problems in the distance I don't know why I have those artifacts maybe its because of the shadow …
March 12, 2009
I was trying to fix my window resizing in windowed mode when I found this out.
I have seen some posts over the internet from people who are trying to do it and failed but I guess I found out how.
What I am talking about is when you are sizing a win32 window from any edge or corner the D3D rendering i…
I have seen some posts over the internet from people who are trying to do it and failed but I guess I found out how.
What I am talking about is when you are sizing a win32 window from any edge or corner the D3D rendering i…
March 08, 2009
I added a new version to my site but I couldn't manage to add it to the GD showcase.I waited for a very long time but it never ended my upload speed is crappy but I was able to upload it to my website with a FTP program.
Anyway here is the link :
here
The changelog :
-Version 0.4.603-
-Target Level and…
Anyway here is the link :
here
The changelog :
-Version 0.4.603-
-Target Level and…
March 07, 2009
Well this morning I entered IELTS and I think I did pretty good.The listening part was easier than I thought and I only missed one question.It was a multiple choice one and I picked an answer randomly [smile]
Reading was even easier.There were about 3-4 passages each increasing in difficulty.The las…
Reading was even easier.There were about 3-4 passages each increasing in difficulty.The las…
March 04, 2009
I was storing items under the world class in a std::map and then storing the items of the units under the unit class too.
When saving the map all the items of the NPCs and the player was getting saved to disk too.This was causing a trouble for example when I changed the stats of a weapon it wasn't g…
When saving the map all the items of the NPCs and the player was getting saved to disk too.This was causing a trouble for example when I changed the stats of a weapon it wasn't g…
March 01, 2009
Now that I have bridges working I decided to work on the map.
I created two rivers and placed the bridges and then connected the village to the bridges with paths.
I also removed all the random lakes that were formed because of the sea level.
Here is how the starting map looks now.I have increased the…
I created two rivers and placed the bridges and then connected the village to the bridges with paths.
I also removed all the random lakes that were formed because of the sea level.
Here is how the starting map looks now.I have increased the…
February 28, 2009
I wasn't feeling like doing anything today.It was one of those days when you get so bored that you don't even want to get out of bed but you do because you have to.
Anyway late at night I was playing with my world editor and saw a bridge model.I created some rivers on the map and placed the bridge o…
Anyway late at night I was playing with my world editor and saw a bridge model.I created some rivers on the map and placed the bridge o…
February 27, 2009
I found this somewhere on the web.It finds oldStr in source and replaces it with newStr.I'm using it to replace tags in my quest texts.
inline std::string& ReplaceIn(std::string& source, const std::string& oldStr,const std::string& newStr)
{
assert(!oldStr.empty());
size_t b = 0;
…
February 25, 2009
I managed to implemented everything in my previous post.I need to do more testing to make it error-free then I'll work on more gameplay elements.New quests etc.
While working on save games I needed to get the file names in a directory.First I created a text file to hold the names of file names in th…
While working on save games I needed to get the file names in a directory.First I created a text file to hold the names of file names in th…
February 19, 2009
I am having some hard time with save games.In the beginning everything was easy because I was storing the player inside the map and I was thinking of making the whole game take place on a single map.So basically a save game meant only saving the state of the player and the state of this map.There i…
February 17, 2009
February 16, 2009
I have uploaded the latest version to my site here is the link:
Here
You can test out the quests and trading.There are 4 quests at the moment and they have prerequisites like level and other quests.
Here is the change log :
-Version 0.4.466-
-Quests can be completed in the game.Quest rewards,minimum qu…
Here
You can test out the quests and trading.There are 4 quests at the moment and they have prerequisites like level and other quests.
Here is the change log :
-Version 0.4.466-
-Quests can be completed in the game.Quest rewards,minimum qu…
February 13, 2009
For the first time I have completed a quest in Dark Age :) In fact I have completed four.I created four quests in the world editor then I added all these quests to a NPC.I also added support for minimum level requirments and quest prerequisites.In the beginning you can only see one quest from this …
February 10, 2009
Here is the quest.h
#ifndef INC_QUEST_H
#define INC_QUEST_H
#include
namespace QuestTypes
{
enum types
{
KILL_X_Y_TIMES,
TALK_WITH_X,
GIVE_X_TO_Y,
QUEST_TYPE_COUNT
};
};
class Quest
{
public:
Quest(unsigned int id,
unsigned int type,
const std::string& name,
const std::string& startTex…
February 08, 2009
Today while I was browsing through old directories I came upon very old screenshots of my project.They were taken back in 2001-2002 when I first started writing the map editor.
I was learning how to texture quads, use multiple textures draw wireframe in OpenGL etc.I was also learning win32 and I did…
I was learning how to texture quads, use multiple textures draw wireframe in OpenGL etc.I was also learning win32 and I did…
February 05, 2009
Yesterday I managed to complete trading.When you are close enough to a trader npc right-clicking him will bring up the inventories of you and the trader.
By right clicking on your items you can now sell them,normally right-clicking equips,unequips or uses an item.Left clicking on a trader item buys …
By right clicking on your items you can now sell them,normally right-clicking equips,unequips or uses an item.Left clicking on a trader item buys …
February 03, 2009
I already have items implemented but currently only the player has items.The player and the NPCs on the map both use the same class called Unit.This class has a member class called Inventory.When a method is called that adds an item to a unit the inventory class is created and the item is added to …
January 30, 2009
Finally another release.
This one changed alot of stuff the most important one being the change from strategy to rpg.
In this release you can grab items from the ground,equip them and place them in your inventory,kill goblins (or get killed) earn gold and experience,level up,distribute skill points t…
This one changed alot of stuff the most important one being the change from strategy to rpg.
In this release you can grab items from the ground,equip them and place them in your inventory,kill goblins (or get killed) earn gold and experience,level up,distribute skill points t…
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