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'''we moved the devblogs of our projects into one common blog: http://schattenkind.net/blog/'''
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for download, see [[Main Page]]
 
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=== 2007 august ===
 
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 02:49, 20 August 2007 (CEST) : hud stuff : edgemarkers and name display for objects
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== 2008 March ==
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:12, 19 August 2007 (CEST) hagish and i met this weekend and coded like crazy =)
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[[User:Hagish|Hagish]] 15:35, 8 October 2008 (CEST) because of some issues with the wiki bloging we moved to a "normal" software. you can find the new post under http://schattenkind.net/blog/ .
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* we've replaced the billboard-planets by 3d-ones with textures from the freeorion orion project that were available under cc-by-sa (see README for credits)
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* hagish added a spaceport menu listing planets and stations
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* mousepicking is now more accurate and when there are multiple objects under the mouse you can cycle between them by clicking repeatedly
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* we tested multiplayer networking and solved a few bugs and issues, it works fine in a LAN
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* we accidentally "discovered" a feature, when you exit a ship while it's autopilot is activated, the autopilot does not switch off, and it continues to not only approach, but to actually FOLLOW the target if it is a moving ship. by repeatedly undocking fighters from the mothership, setting them to follow leaving via spacesuit and re-entering the mothership, we built a little fleet of fighters following us and made a few screenshots
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* hagish improved a few things in the gui system
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* you can now "call"/mark targets by pressing strg-t for the rest of the team, they have a red hud-border and can be selected by pressing t
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* a line marker now helps finding the direction to selected targets that are offscreen
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* we experimented with engine trails
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* we built in the gui graphics that ray made for sfz
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* a few changes in how cargo is handled internally in preparation for a generic container/equipment system
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:33, 12 March 2008 (CET) : we're still testing in the iris codebase mainly, but the new gui system will be used for sfz as well, a little preview about some upcoming features for text display :<br>
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== 2008 February ==
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 18:27, 15 August 2007 (CEST) : simple delivery missions are now working, e.g. you can earn some extra iron by bringing supplies from earth to mars. still far from actual gameplay fun, but it's a good start.
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 22:42, 14 August 2007 (CEST) : ok, openal should work ok with wav and ogg files in the current svn version. but it sounds a but sloppy (if i use openal with alsa). I also added a random name generator based on this article: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2016.asp
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:40, 15 February 2008 (CET): we're still around, but rather busy lately with other stuff, some interesting things that will probably be used for sfz planets later are being experimented with in iris (see  [http://iris2.de/index.php/Dev_Blog iris devblog] ), namely shadows, sky, and also a few grass and tree experiments. Also code for TextureAtlas and geometry-batching for better performance has been added there.
  
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 21:54, 7 August 2007 (CEST) : added some icons and keybindings to the shipeditor to make using it more comfortable.
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and we're also brainstorming for a redesing of the guicode, a few notes [http://lugre.schattenkind.net/index.php/GUINotes here].
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:33, 6 August 2007 (CEST) we're back from dusmania, had a lot of fun, some interesting talks, and saw lots of spacegames this year, but mostly 2d.  we also worked a bit on sfz and talked with a few people about it and got lots of positive feedback, which is very motivating =D
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hagish started experimenting with random generated structures that can be used for plants and lightning effects, and i just finished a geometry generation utility called loft (the green thing, not yet used with hagish data), that can be used later to generate geometry for plants with the data generated by hagishs lib.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:39, 4 August 2007 (CEST) : bought weapons can now be equipped from cargo dialog<br>
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 21:09, 4 January 2008 (CET) : we've been working on a class for grouping the geometry of up large numbers of objects into a single batch, similar to the Ogre::StaticGeometry, this allows better performance at a slightly increased vram cost.
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It is a bit more lightweigt and flexible than static geometry, and has been designed to construct the batch fast so it can be used for contructing the batch at runtime, whereas Ogre::StaticGeometry was rather designed to construct the batch while loading a level or similar, so it wasn't really designed for fast construction.
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Also our batch allows colouring instances via vertex colour, and allows the whole batch to be repositioned and rotated as a whole. The main reason for developing it was to improve performance in iris, but it will probably be useful for things like asteroid fields in sfz as well, and maybe for stuff on planets later as well.
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:34, 3 August 2007 (CEST) : a very simple trading starts to work, you can now buy and sell iron for other things, but so far they're useless, but that'll change soon.
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 11:39, 29 July 2007 (CEST) : we extracted/capsuled all the code shared between sfz, iris2 and other projects and put it into an external lib so we have it in one central place and don't have to merge changes back and forth every time.
 
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As the main part of the lib is the lua binding for ogre we decided to call it lugre : http://lugre.schattenkind.net
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 01:11, 28 July 2007 (CEST) : i've been busy with work (and with watching a cool animee) this week, so i didn't find the time to write here...
 
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Thanks to rookie1 from the freegamer forums it might now be possible to compile and run sfz on a 64 bit linux, but i can't test...
 
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He sent in a patch, i added it to trunk, and also fixed a few other things that might be troublesome in 64 bit.
 
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see this thread for details : http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&goto=111
 
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I also squashed a few bugs, cleaned a few things along the way, and made a new win32 exe, so you might want to run the updater if you were having problems.
 
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To clear up misunderstandings about the "as long as" in my last post :
 
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We will implement some form of spacefolding travelspeed and possibilities to interrupt it, but i think we need to focus on other things first, see this thread for an interesting discussion about the topic : http://freegamer.schattenkind.net/index.php?t=msg&th=11
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 02:01, 23 July 2007 (CEST) after thinking a while about space-folding travel and all the things to be considered when implementing it, i came to the conclusion that we don't really need it yet as long as the planets are so close together and not on a realistic scale, and other things like trading and missions are more important right now, and those usually involve traveling to other star systems, so i started a bit with the code for a list of star-systems
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:33, 21 July 2007 (CEST) experiments with simple engine-particles
 
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 20:00, 20 July 2007 (CEST) : screenshot of two new models by isha :
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 18:14, 16 July 2007 (CEST) : now laser and explosions have sound effects if you activate it in the config
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:31, 16 July 2007 (CEST) : win compile was successful, so we now have a new binary released :
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=== merry xmas to all ! quiet here lately due to work on iris ===
  
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[http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/sfz/sfz_1.0.489.zip win32-binary] (build 489, ca32 mb)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 16:17, 24 December 2007 (CET) : merry xmas to all who read this =)
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it's been a bit quiet here lately, we're currently busy working on performance improvements for [http://www.iris2.de/index.php/Dev_Blog iris], but at least some of them might also be interesting for sfz later =)
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We're experimenting with multitexturing, tilebased terrain, transition masks, and a more dynamic batched geometry class than the Ogre::StaticGeometry, as we need to change the contents at runtime, and want to avoid costly reading mesh data back from VRAM.
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it includes an updater.exe to get the latest code changes, and as we are working mainly on the lua code which does not need to be compiled, you can get the latest changes this way even if we don't make a new release for a while.
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 02:46, 16 July 2007 (CEST): i successfully compiled and modified the iris updater for sfz, but it is useless until we have win binaries in the svn. i'll try to compile some using the project file by pascal in the next few days.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 20:11, 14 July 2007 (CEST) :  we now have our own [http://freegamer.freeforums.org/viewforum.php?f=31 forum], thx to charlie aka [http://freegamer.blogspot.com/ FreeGamer] for hosting us !
 
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 05:48, 14 July 2007 (CEST) : another coding night with hagish and lots of stuff done. we can now walk around inside the ship and place several furniture items and stuff like doors, ladders, grates, engines, and it even works well over network =)
 
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:14, 12 July 2007 (CEST) : i'm currently busy learning and writing tests for my studies, so i won't get to do much until the end of next week.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 16:22, 22 November 2007 (CET) : no new feature, but i made a short video showing how interior walking and furniture placement currently looks
  
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:41, 7 July 2007 (CEST) : enhanced the interior mesh generation a bit more, holes should be fixed now, some fine borderlines and a little tweaking of the ambient light vector greatly improve the spatial awareness, and i changed the firefly model to look better from the inside.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:17, 20 November 2007 (CET) : the weapon icons now have a bar displaying the cooldown time until the weapon can be fired again.
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 03:41, 7 July 2007 (CEST) : experiments with walking around inside space-ships have begun, it's flying rather than walking and there is no collision detection so far, but we've got the inverted ship-mesh with inner walls removed.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:16, 19 November 2007 (CET) : now we've got clickable weapon icons, left-click to fire the weapon, rightclick to open a context menu (currently only for unequipping)
 
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 02:36, 7 July 2007 (CEST) : another coding night :)
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 13:00, 18 November 2007 (CET) : Last night and the last 2 hours we improved the ship movement. Now we have a non-newton-max-velocity navigation. This not very realistic but far more fun. There are some new weapons too: splitting rockets (nut,star), chain laser, lightning gun
 
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:56, 6 July 2007 (CEST): we're currently working on a "location" system, that enables us to move objects to seperate "dimensions", for example to avoid destroying a fighter-object when it is docking, it is simply moved to a seperate "hangar-dimension".
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 16:45, 17 November 2007 (CET) : the first new weapon starts to work. a split rocket and a chain laser.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:41, 4 July 2007 (CEST) : player now starts with a bigger ship and can launch from it in a little fighter and dock back on if they wish. meshes and gui for this are still very simple, but the code behind it works and can now be cleaned and extended.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 02:02, 4 July 2007 (CEST) : it is now possible to exit the current spaceship and float around in a space-suit, you can also enter ship.
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 19:40, 4 November 2007 (CET) : last night ghouly and i worked a little bit on sfz. he startet to implement the new weapons and i merged the contributed enemygroup patch and started to implement a hero-defense like game mode.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 03:12, 30 June 2007 (CEST) : now we have text next to the hull and shield meters, especially the distance info to the selected target is useful. also the right-click-menu has gotten a few useful new items.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 00:57, 28 June 2007 (CEST) : real live will keep me from coding until friday, i just dumped a few ideas here : [[Ideas_mission_planets]]
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:08, 26 June 2007 (CEST): players can now collect cargo, currently this is only iron from destroying asteroids and pirates, stations can now offer services (available via right-click-menu when you are close enough), currently only repairing the ship, which costs iron =D
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 17:56, 26 June 2007 (CEST): we got shields, and we got fancy hud meters for shields and hull status of your own ship (left-top) and of the selected target (right-top)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:37, 24 June 2007 (CEST) : finished cleanup and extension of code used to track 3D elements with 2D-HUD-gfx, now we've got the basis for fancy hud stuff like edges around objects and text next to them.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:45, 22 June 2007 (CEST) : gui and input system cleanup is finished so far, just the cursor stuff that was in the old gui code has to be reactivated, but thats not much. New context/rightclick menu implementation, supports easier creation and nested submenus.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:24, 21 June 2007 (CEST): there is a forum thread about sfz in the [http://freegamer.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=426 freegamer forums]  in case anyone wants to talk about it =)
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 22:55, 20 June 2007 (CEST) : we're currently cleaning up and improving the input and gui systems, especially event-handling.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 19:41, 16 June 2007 (CEST) : targets can now be selected via mouse-click, that makes destroying asteroids easier.
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 23:44, 11 June 2007 (CEST) code is now online (not trunk, but branches/eihortport)
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[[User:Hagish|hagish]] 14:46, 10 June 2007 (CEST) friday night ghoulsblade and i worked on sfz. due to a lack of internet (his t-online router sometimes acts a bit bitchy) the current code is not online but here are some screenshots. you can now fly around kill each other using the custom ships. the satellites with the green lasers are a first test of tower-defense like "towers".
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[[User:Ghoulsblade|Ghoulsblade]] 09:38, 5 June 2007 (CEST) our [https://sourceforge.net/projects/sfz sourceforge project] has been approved =)
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[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] 17:30, 2 June 2007 (CEST) : first working version of sfz-editor under Windows XP with MS Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition successfully created. Without sound support.
 
  
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== DevBlogArchive ==
 
[[DevBlogArchive]]
 
[[DevBlogArchive]]

Latest revision as of 10:15, 6 July 2012

we moved the devblogs of our projects into one common blog: http://schattenkind.net/blog/

for download, see Main Page


2008 March

new blog software and url

Hagish 15:35, 8 October 2008 (CEST) because of some issues with the wiki bloging we moved to a "normal" software. you can find the new post under http://schattenkind.net/blog/ .

working on the new gui system

Ghoulsblade 23:33, 12 March 2008 (CET) : we're still testing in the iris codebase mainly, but the new gui system will be used for sfz as well, a little preview about some upcoming features for text display :
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2008 February

bit quiet lately

Ghoulsblade 00:40, 15 February 2008 (CET): we're still around, but rather busy lately with other stuff, some interesting things that will probably be used for sfz planets later are being experimented with in iris (see iris devblog ), namely shadows, sky, and also a few grass and tree experiments. Also code for TextureAtlas and geometry-batching for better performance has been added there.

and we're also brainstorming for a redesing of the guicode, a few notes here.

2008 January

fastbatch

Ghoulsblade 21:09, 4 January 2008 (CET) : we've been working on a class for grouping the geometry of up large numbers of objects into a single batch, similar to the Ogre::StaticGeometry, this allows better performance at a slightly increased vram cost. It is a bit more lightweigt and flexible than static geometry, and has been designed to construct the batch fast so it can be used for contructing the batch at runtime, whereas Ogre::StaticGeometry was rather designed to construct the batch while loading a level or similar, so it wasn't really designed for fast construction. Also our batch allows colouring instances via vertex colour, and allows the whole batch to be repositioned and rotated as a whole. The main reason for developing it was to improve performance in iris, but it will probably be useful for things like asteroid fields in sfz as well, and maybe for stuff on planets later as well.

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2007 December

merry xmas to all ! quiet here lately due to work on iris

Ghoulsblade 16:17, 24 December 2007 (CET) : merry xmas to all who read this =) it's been a bit quiet here lately, we're currently busy working on performance improvements for iris, but at least some of them might also be interesting for sfz later =) We're experimenting with multitexturing, tilebased terrain, transition masks, and a more dynamic batched geometry class than the Ogre::StaticGeometry, as we need to change the contents at runtime, and want to avoid costly reading mesh data back from VRAM. And since iris and sfz share the lugre lib, both projects benefit from the resulting code improvements and addtitions.

2007 November


tractorbeam experiment

Ghoulsblade 21:03, 26 November 2007 (CET) : first experimental tractor-beam weapon. Can be used to drag enemies inside the range of deadly close-range weapons.... or for having fun with asteroids :)

<flvplayer width="320" height="240" loop="false">TractorBeam01.ogg</flvplayer>


short video of interior walk

Ghoulsblade 16:22, 22 November 2007 (CET) : no new feature, but i made a short video showing how interior walking and furniture placement currently looks

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Interior.ogg(1.5mb)

weapon icons : cooldown bar

Ghoulsblade 22:17, 20 November 2007 (CET) : the weapon icons now have a bar displaying the cooldown time until the weapon can be fired again.

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clickable weapon icons

Ghoulsblade 17:16, 19 November 2007 (CET) : now we've got clickable weapon icons, left-click to fire the weapon, rightclick to open a context menu (currently only for unequipping)

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better movement and more weapons

hagish 13:00, 18 November 2007 (CET) : Last night and the last 2 hours we improved the ship movement. Now we have a non-newton-max-velocity navigation. This not very realistic but far more fun. There are some new weapons too: splitting rockets (nut,star), chain laser, lightning gun

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split rocket

hagish 16:45, 17 November 2007 (CET) : the first new weapon starts to work. a split rocket and a chain laser. http://sfz.schattenkind.net/wiki/images/f/f0/Splitrocket.ogg

weapon icons 2

Ghoulsblade 17:14, 11 November 2007 (CET) : BR48 showed up in the freegamer irc and asked if he could help out anywhere, now he started making nicer icons for us =)

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forum thread : http://forum.freegamedev.net/index.php?t=msg&th=443

weapons and enemygroups

hagish 19:40, 4 November 2007 (CET) : last night ghouly and i worked a little bit on sfz. he startet to implement the new weapons and i merged the contributed enemygroup patch and started to implement a hero-defense like game mode.

weapon icons

Ghoulsblade 03:44, 1 November 2007 (CET) hagish and i met today, and we decided to focus on combat. some notes : Sfz31.10.2007 i already started making a few weapon-icons, they're rather simple, but should do for getting started.



rn_pd_rocket.png rn_pd_rocket_strong.png rn_pd_rocket_split1.png rn_pd_rocket_split3.png rn_pd_rocket_split_star.png (unguided missiles, last 3 can split into multipe warheads, in different formations)

rn_pd_missile.png rn_pd_missile_strong.png rn_pd_missile_remote.png (guided/homing missiles, the last one is remote controlled)

rn_pd_laser.png rn_pd_projectile.png rn_pd_railgun.png rn_pd_charging.png laser,projectile,railgun,charging

rn_pd_edrain.png rn_pd_tractor.png rn_pd_emp.png rn_pd_plasma_glob.png e-drain,tractor,emp(paralyzing shockwave),plasmaglob

rn_pd_afterburner.png rn_pd_chainlightning.png rn_pd_lightning.png rn_pd_plasma.png afterburner,chainlightning,lightning,plasma(like flamethrower)


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