On 10/10/2012 06:13, Francois Lanciault wrote:
Hi everyone,
Just a quick update on my progress.
In the last couple of days, I worked mainly at improving the 3D engine; line
clipping, object visibility, object creation and removal, simple hidden line
removal etc. All this unfortunately takes time to compute, so at the end of the
day, the fps score was not as good as it was.
To compensate, I redefined the 3D object definition in order to reduced the
number of 3D transformations to compute its position on screen and I wrote a
greatly improved routine to erase the screen between each frame.
Finally I wrote a very simple control interface and defined the first "stage" of the
game. This stage will be called "The Ice Field" where you are in control of a ship that
navigate in a comet tail. You need to doge the ice crystals and collect some rare Iridium cube
lying around.
I just played for a few minutes and it is fun ! Some parameters need to be
adjusted to improve playability and set the difficulty level right.
The game will have the following stages:
The ice field
The power station
The mothership
and one or two still undefined stages.
What left to be done: a lot... Firing, object explosion, scores, better
steering, collision detection, introduction story and graphics, testing, lots
of testing.
BTW I lots the whole weekend trying to solve a very strange bug... At the end,
it was a error in an assembly function; ADDA.L instead of ADDA.W...
François
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This all sounds amazing and really good if the 3d engine is available
for others to use :-)
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