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Work in Progress / Snow Globe

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Mikko
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 13:22 Edited at: 1st Oct 2006 19:47
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Hi !
This is a Snow Globe with Newton physics.
Made in DBP 6.2b (now compiled with 5.8)

Please, tell
1. Does it run ?
2. What fps you get ?
3. Is it too dark/light ?
4. Does it mess your memory (Does
Windows act normally after the program)?
5. Your specs.

You can use arrowkeys and "a,z" while playing,
alltough it's a screensaver kind of program.



Mikko

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added screenshot:


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24.9 Changed the music from "Blue Danube" to "Winter Wonderland" .
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25.9 Made a finnish loading page
http://koti.mbnet.fi/itek/pasila.html
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01.10 Compiled with older DBP 5.8 for better compatibility
with older DirectX9.0c.
Also put everything in a one executable.

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Sven B
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 13:51 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2006 13:51
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Lol, nice...

It runs at 78 fps on my computer.
and there's nothing wrong with it in my opinion...

It's the programmer's life:
Have a problem, solve the problem, and have a new problem to solve.
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Roxas
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 13:52
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Pics?

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Mikko
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 14:38 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2006 14:38
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Sven B,

>>It runs at 78 fps on my computer.
and there's nothing wrong with it in my opinion...
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It's good to hear that

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dark coder
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 15:33
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That was pretty cool, I get 100-105 fps, you should have used spheres for the collision though, as I assume the slowdown was mainly due to the collisions, and sphere collision is alot faster than cubes, and texturing them with snowflakes that point to the camera would make it cooler , the sound was fairly annoying though other than that it's pretty awsome.

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Mr Kohlenstoff
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 16:38
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Very nice. But I hate the music, because I've heard it so many times when playing Rollercoaster Tycoon. xD

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H4ck1d
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 16:49 Edited at: 23rd Sep 2006 16:54
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Wow, this is really cool!!! Keep it up!

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2006 23:09
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Didn't try the demo, but judging by the screenshot it should make for a lovely screensaver! Put some nice flowing camera movements in there (if you haven't), for different views of the snowglobe.

Sometimes the only way over a wall is to pile up enough bodies to climb over - Dave W.
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Valle
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Posted: 24th Sep 2006 00:58
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1. Does it run ? Yes
2. What fps you get ? 28-29
3. Is it too dark/light ? no
4. Does it mess your memory (Does
Windows act normally after the program)? no
5. Your specs. a sh!tty laptop 1.8 Ghz, 512 mb , noname graphicscard

looks really cool, like the lensflare

let me guess, this will be a screensaver!


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FoxBlitzz
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Posted: 24th Sep 2006 02:19 Edited at: 24th Sep 2006 02:19
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1. Yes.
2. 106-114 FPS
3. No.
4. No.
5. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ | 1GB DDR-SDRAM | 512MB ATI Radeon X1800 XT

Just a suggestion: switch to streaming music, and perhaps go for a more ambient tune. This one didn't seem to fit all that well in my opinion.

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Steve J
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Posted: 24th Sep 2006 02:45
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1. Yes
2. 137-150
3. Its good.
4. no
5. Intel Core 2 Duo x6800, 2gb ram, 2 xfx 7900gt's

Lower volume=P

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eek
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1. Yes
2. 34-36
3. No
4. No
5. Athlon XP 2600+, 1GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 256MB

Nice!
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Mikko
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Posted: 24th Sep 2006 12:27 Edited at: 24th Sep 2006 12:28
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Roxas,dark coder,Mr Kohlenstoff,H4ck1d,Agent Dink,Valle,FoxBlitzz,Steve J,eek.

Thanks for testing it. Ok, I have to change the
music. And maybe the form of the flakes.

Mikko

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Agent Dink
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1. Does it run ? Yes
2. What fps you get ? 55 - 75
3. Is it too dark/light ? no, perfect
4. Does it mess your memory? nope
5. Your specs?

Amd Athlon 64 3200+ 2.1ghz
1.5 gigs of ram
GeForce 6800GT 256mb
winXP

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sneaky smith12
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Posted: 27th Sep 2006 15:10
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Im sorry to say this but,

1. Does it run ? NO
2. What fps you get ? N/A
3. Is it too dark/light ? N/A
4. Does it mess your memory? not really
5. Your specs?

Pentium 3
256 mg of ram
GeForce 4 MX
win 2000

When ran comes with this error:

Failed to load DLL(1:Enhancements.dll)

maybe you require a dll of some sort that i dont possess.

If at first you dont succeed, LOWER YOUR STANDARDS.
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Mikko
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Posted: 27th Sep 2006 20:42
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sneaky smith12,

I think that Enhancements.dll is inside the exe.
So I don't know what is wrong there.

Mikko

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dark coder
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 12:02
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He needs to get a new pc, that's the problem.

Hallowed are the ori.
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Roxas
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 17:23
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Sorry if this comes late

1. Yes
2. 75-120
3. No
4. No.. But isuggest ad cooldowncpu.. if you dont have it already
5. I too lazy for this.. ok?

Finnish:

Muuten.. Mistä oikein saat näitä ideoita? Ja se sun ajopeli oli aika hyvä.. Mitäs teet seuraavaks?

English:

Hey.. Where do you even get these ideas? And that your driving game was pretty good.. What are you doing next?

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Robin
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Posted: 29th Sep 2006 17:51
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Doesn't run on my laptop...I get the MFC71.DLL is missing error and then the enhancements.dll file is missing error.

My laptop isn't that amazing though:
1.7Ghz Pentium M, 512MB Ram, 64MB Ati Radeon 350M, XP Pro

Robin


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mm0zct
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Posted: 30th Sep 2006 01:43 Edited at: 30th Sep 2006 02:32
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1. Does it run ? yes
2. What fps you get ? you'll have to wait until i install fraps in vista- that's 40fps now, at 1280x1024, is it in windowed fullscreen?
please note that i have all the fancy glass effects on in vista beghind the program
3. Is it too dark/light ? no
4. Does it mess your memory (Does
Windows act normally after the program)? it doesn't seem to
5. Your specs.
see sig, running vista RC1 (32bit).. it's quite odd that your program said i needed above dx9.0c when i ran it at first considering i'm running dx10.. but it worked after i updated that.

AMD athlon 64 3000+, 1GB ddr400, 400GB total hdd, ati radeon x700pro 256mb (pci-e) 17" tft(@1280x1024).
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Mikko
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Posted: 1st Oct 2006 13:54 Edited at: 1st Oct 2006 13:58
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Roxas,
I just tried the cooldowncpu -thing with gogasdll
as you suggested, but it slowed down the fps.( I'm doing something wrong maybe).

Finnish: Viime vuonna käytiin ajamassa VM -Karting Centerissä, ja halusin mallintaa radan. Tämä "Snow Globe" on taas siksi, että oon täällä Pasilassa töissä. Seuraavaksi laitan jotain muuta tuonne palloon...

English: Last year we went to VM -Karting Center to drive, and I wanted to model that track. This "Snow Globe" exists, because I'm working here at Pasila.Next I put something else to that globe...

Robin and sneaky smith12,
I had done this with Dbp 6.2b installation with
those extras and all...Maybe I have to reinstall
everything from box and update to 6.2b

But now I jumped back to Dbp 5.8 which uses older Directx9c (It now runs even xp pre sp 2)

Also I put everything to one exe ,
with Dark Explorer. (Also took away unused dll:s)

When I go home from work this afternoon (yes ,weekend
at work ) I update the file.

mm0zct,
Lets see, what Vista says about that. (Older DirectX)

Mikko

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Roxas
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Posted: 1st Oct 2006 16:48
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No you are not doing anything wrong.. But little instructions

Put cooldowncpu first command in loop


And what bigger number than more CPU decreases but also fps decreases so i suggest you test what is the best number after it

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