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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Got something for the next newsletter?

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 13:17
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Hiya,

Having been away most of Feb. I'm currently seeking out content for the next issue of our newsletter - so if you have spotted anything, or written/released something yourself then please email me and let me know [email protected]

Cheers,

Rich

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Van B
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 13:50
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Hmmmm, what date are you looking to compile the newsletter?

I'm about halfway through a remake of Klatrix (the old ST classic Columns rip-off, written in STOS no less, Atari fans need to look at Zero CD22) - my moms favourite game so I'm making it for her. 2 player version this time with practically identical gameplay to the original. Hoping to have that finished this weekend.

A progress report on patch 6 would be cool, a lot of us are waiting for it before we tackle any major projects .


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Don Malone
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 13:53
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I think alot of people are wondering how the new FPS shooter tool being created will effect DarkBasic Pro. Maybe an interview with someone to help fill in the gaps so the users are a little less apprehensive would be nice.

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walaber
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 16:42
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yeah there will probably be an uproar in the forums if update 6 isn't mentioned

Go Go Gadget DBPRO!

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 17:09
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Van - the 23rd (Monday). Klatrix sounds like a clone of Klax rather than Columns! although klax was sort of a quasi-3D "columns" clone too

re: U6, I can only put in the newsletter that which I've been given. I'll ask Lee, but no promises.

Cheers,

Rich

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Preston C
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Posted: 12th Feb 2004 23:30
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@Rich: Maybe post an article about the three 3D modellers that a few certain forumers are currently working on (screenshots or not )

Like VanB's VanMesh, or that 3D Level Creator (or whatever its called) makers modeller (I saw a post about it somewhere on Apollo or RGT). Heck, maybe you could even include a bit of info concerning my "OMG, You'll Never Finish It!" Kaiser3D (had to change the name to Kaiser3D from Decoy3D...turns out that the name was taken, must remember to use Google to search for names now). But, maybe you should only give info on VanB's and the 3D Level Makers guy's modellers.

Also, give as much info about U6 as possible. Maybe give us an example of the commands we'll see.

One thing I'd like to see is another present to us all, making it that shader pack that only you DBDN people get (or else, I'll hold a grudge j/k)

You should also congratulate the mods and Mike for all of their hard work during your absence.

Also, maybe a few more details for FPS Maker.

Well...thats all I can think of really.

Thats all I can suggest.

Cheers,
Preston


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Dostej
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 09:52 Edited at: 13th Feb 2004 09:54
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HI Rich
I wrote (another) IDE for DBpro - called: Yust another DBPro Editor (jaPROe). It is availalbe on my site: http://www.angelfire.com/droid/galacticx/ -> IDE. It has some small bugs in it yet, but I´m ironing them out in the next weeks. It is widly customizeable and featuring some kind of folding incl. user-defined folds (what I liked most). Maybe this is a point U can use (btw: it freeware and released under the GPL, written in PureBasic)

Till 23th of Feb I´m pretty sure that I have finished my Image-Enhance-plugin. It add some 2D functionality to DBPro
Basics:
make image, clone image, copy image rect to new image, split image to RGB-Images and rejoin them, Scale image, rotate image (currently working on)

Draw to images:
point, line, frame, cicrle, ellipse (all can be drawn dotted and filled, too) and text

filters:
grey image, blur image

I think its pretty fast, cos I tried to write directly to the image-memory, and for that its pretty small (about 60k at the moment)

If you are interested in I can send you a demo (DBpro) at wednesday (drop me a mail for this)

GALACTIC X - A very early demo is now available - comments very welcome - http://www.angelfire.com/droid/galacticx/
also my IDE - jaPROe and some snippets and tools
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Dave J
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 13:33
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Quote: "Got something for the next newsletter?"


There's DBXML, an XML Document Parser plugin created by Bulleyes that I personally think is very useful and that unfortunately I don't think anyone else realises what it does or is capable of.


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Van B
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 14:43 Edited at: 13th Feb 2004 14:46
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Rich,
It was designed as a mix between tetris and klax, it's most similar to columns though, but columns works differently. I'm guessing you have Zero coverdisk 22, it's on that - It's your duty as an Atari fan to check it out, it's probably the best ST puzzle game ever (yep, even better than Logical). If you like I could send you the .ST file, I had to copy it to a disk image because the download was in seperate files.

Preston,
There's not much to say about VanMESH, it's on hold till patch 6 and patch 6 will probably mean a rewrite of what I already have - I don't expect to reach beta stage for a while yet.


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 14:59
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Van - send it on over. The best ST puzzle game ever (in my opinion) was Color Clash by Animalsoftware. Pure genius, I'd love to do a 3D re-write of it.

Cheers,

Rich

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Ron Erickson
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 16:34
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Rich,
I have the Tokamak physics library working with DBPro now!
I'm writing a couple of demos for it. I could definately get something together for you on it.

WOLF

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Preston C
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Posted: 13th Feb 2004 23:08
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Quote: "Preston,
There's not much to say about VanMESH, it's on hold till patch 6 and patch 6 will probably mean a rewrite of what I already have - I don't expect to reach beta stage for a while yet.
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Yeah, I might have to delay too. I just pray to god that they put back the memblock meshes of old DBC!

Well, I agree with WOLF on the Tokomak physics working in DBPro. As well as Exeat and the XML parser. Would like to see another game featured in the newletter, and VanB's game sounds just right. Remember though, theres one thing we'd all like to see in the newsletter:

DBDN Shader Pack for Free

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Preston


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Posted: 14th Feb 2004 10:10
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@Exeat

" I don't think anyone else realises what it does or is capable of."

I use it. I haven't had time to fully integrate it into my main projects but I plan on making heavy use of it later when I get the time. So I second your recommendation for the DBXML plug-in. It is very handy.
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Dave J
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Posted: 14th Feb 2004 15:00
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Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks it's worthwhile


Quote: "I have the Tokamak physics library working with DBPro now!"


That's excellent news and I can't wait for the demos, definately newsletter-worthy in my opinion. I'll probably still write my own Physics Engine but that's because I study Physics and find that sort of stuff 'fun' - lol.


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MikeS
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Posted: 15th Feb 2004 02:16
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The source code of Magic World was realeased, and that may be worth taking a look at.
http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=25138&b=10
Would also love to hear interviews from any of the compo. winners. (I'm also pumped and ready for the next one, any early news?)

I wish I could recommend some of my projects, yet there too early in development. Always looking forward to the newsletter each month though.



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Posted: 16th Feb 2004 16:15
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any word on making lobyable games using DB/DBPro ?

http://zone.msn.com/en/root/default.htm

offers a free game matching site without alot of spam or popups.
I can goto an enter room
The room scans my PC and detects DUEL (in DBC)
so I can select DUEL as a game in the loby
But, how would my game detect that it was launched by a loby?

I know this has been brought up before, and this is what prompted me to code my own matchmaker that places IP information into the commandline of a DB app but I want more/better loby support.

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current project http://home.comcast.net/~norman.perry/Archon.html
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Philip 1337
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Posted: 16th Feb 2004 18:54
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3D Viewer 1.5!


http://gbros.dbspot.com/3dviewer.html
Version 1.5
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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 23rd Feb 2004 23:03 Edited at: 23rd Feb 2004 23:22
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Hey rich, i should've asked earlier, but did you get my email about my tutorial ([email protected])? It's not in the newsletter either, so you may not have got it. I know you're really busy right now, so I'm not blaming you, may even be my fault. I got some quite good responses about it so thanks for any response .

http://darkbasicpro.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=25076&b=7

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The Basics of DBPro Tutorial, on my site now!
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