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Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:08 pm

Man you just reminded of Bill and Teds excelent adventure. Man what a freaking amazing movie.

Posted at the same time

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:13 pm

be excelent to each other, and party on dudes!!!

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:39 pm

marshallh wrote:Ok, the bulk of the tile munging/loading/saving/rendering is done. I still need to implement some sort of culling (with a 16x16 tilemap, I get 15fps on TNT2)

But anyway, here's what it can do:

There's still the 3x3 roadset I'm not using here - I need to add a converter tile!

This looks uncannily like SimCity 2000....

i can't see it

Radon199 · Post by **Radon199** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:42 pm

Hmmm odd, they were there for a whyle.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:49 pm

sweet man! would probably run like total ass on the gp2x tho, if your gettin 15fps with your current setup its not likely we will get anything thaty close with the 2x, it has no 3d hardware at all

MM007 · Post by **MM007** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:07 pm

NICE! I love how the tiles are set up. I also like that it isn't completely flat and that there are hills.

Plus, I love the reflection properties you have in the chrome! Still, think you should add a low graphics option to remove such things for the minimalist boxes?

daguuy · Post by **daguuy** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:39 pm

oh man it sounds good but i can't see the pics, could somebody please re-host them for me?

Post by **marshallh** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:43 pm

They're on page 33. I re-hosted them.

Streetlights are on the way! Next is.... FRUSTUM CULLING!!

sam · Post by **sam** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:45 pm

What is, fr...

"FRUSTUM CULLING!!"?

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:08 pm

sweetnes im going to get some food.

G-force · Post by **G-force** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:16 pm

sam wrote:What is, fr...

"FRUSTUM CULLING!!"?

http://www.flipcode.com/articles/articl ... ling.shtml
Something to do with what shows up in the view... This is why I'm not a game designer...

Post by **Skyone** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:37 am

marshallh wrote:Ok, the bulk of the tile munging/loading/saving/rendering is done. I still need to implement some sort of culling (with a 16x16 tilemap, I get 15fps on TNT2)

But anyway, here's what it can do:

There's still the 3x3 roadset I'm not using here - I need to add a converter tile!

This looks uncannily like SimCity 2000....

What launguage are you using?

cennar · Post by **cennar** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:08 am

he be a c++ coder i think, but man thats sweet, wait a minute TNT2 thats garbage some one could optomise that and homebrew it to some portable. (dont think ds or GP2x so much since those screen shots, but thats still an atractive thought)

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:37 pm

I got vector-based culling to work! Yay!
I now get about 80fps. Why? With culling, the engine only draws the tiles that you can actually see. Before, it had to draw 256 tiles, every frame. That's why I got 25fps. But on average, I only have to render 50-60 tiles each frame... thus speeding it up considerably!

Now for triple-buffering!

And to clear some things up here, I'm writing this in Visual Basic 6.0, not C++. So a gp2x port is possible, but would require a total rewrite.

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:55 pm

Yay framerate!

So after you finish the game engine, are you going to copyright the code? If you do then you could probably make a game creator based off of it... maybe make it shareware or commercial...