Hi Ryan and all, The analog jumping wasn't permanently removed, but just disabled for this release. The reason is because when I recompiled Mysteries of the Ancients using the Genesis 3.0 engine I found out my implamentation of the analog jump system was causing problems with SDL input. Instead of stopping a jump it would cause the game to go into an infinit loop, lockup, and crash. The only way to get out of it was to alt+f4 out of the game completely. I can't tell you exactly why it worked with DirectX and not SDL, but all I can say for sure as it was causing some nasty bugs and major instability. So I did the only thing I could do and disabled analog jumping until I can work the bugs out of it, and will put analog jumping etc back into the game as soon as I'm sure it is stable enough to do so. Diddo for some of the other things I disabled or removed like joystick and mouse support.
Basicly, what we have here is an updated Genesis Engine based primarily on the cross-platform version i designed for Linux and Mac OS, I recently ported to Windows, and some of the things aren't altogether working properly like joystick and mouse support. In fact, I'm not all that happy with the way SDL handles joysticks in general, lacks advanced features like force feedback so what I might have to do is settle for using some Windows proprietary APIs like DirectInput or XInput for joysticks, SAPI for TTS support, and use SDL, ESpeak, etc on the non-Windows side. That's in the future though. For now I do have a cross-platform engine that seems to work fairly decently on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux now and can build upon that framework assuming we have everything working properly. HTH On 5/24/11, Ryan Conroy <staindadd...@juno.com> wrote: > Why was analogue jumping removed? Just curious. I kinda liked that feature. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
