[Doom : Slayer Edition]

9 hours ago, jgkspsx said:

Meanwhile in 32X land they’re doing a whole lot more than this vaporware thing ever dreamed of. Poor old Jaguar.

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No, I don’t. I know why. There’s only room for one meatball on top of this hill of spaghetti.

Entitled much ?

[Dino Rage W.I.P. and Pre-alpha roms for download (new Wave 1 Games project)]

Just my opinion - the rotating background doesn't fit the flat design of the game.

 

What i mean by this is that it's not a tekken a like fighter where the characters and backdrops are 3d ( or faux 3d ) and the camera moves about the scene as well.

 

I think, as others have suggested, a parallax backdrop would suit your game style better - maybe with the 'camera' zooming in and out at certain times.

 

Looks like it will be fun though.

 

As an aside, how are you creating and handling the player power bars ?

[Skyhammer Guide]

 

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Bingo. A couple of nukes thins out the ranks, and then go in low and clean up the leftovers 

 

[What could it be?]

Valdisere skiing- total whiteout edition

[Anyone using RMOTION?]

Used it early on, but found it easier to use code to cycle through frames etc in the game loop - if that makes sense.

[WIP : Nitrous]

1 hour ago, CyranoJ said:

Wow, congrats on the first almost real engagement with this utter c*nt of a broken AI.

Should put that in your sig - made me laugh anyway 

[Toaplan games on the Atari Jaguar]

58 minutes ago, CyranoJ said:

 

Not really, I'm usually trying to speed it up! 14Mhz 68000 running code for an 8Mhz 68000 (plus emulating BIOS, XBIOS, and other system calls!) and the other processors busy killing themselves trying to be SHIFTER, GLUE, YM, MFP!  These ports absolutely hammer the Jaguar.

Ahh, i hadn't considered the 68000 clock speed difference - i'd assumed you were slowing down to get the audio to sync.

 

Anyhoo thanks for the info.

[Toaplan games on the Atari Jaguar]

12 hours ago, CyranoJ said:

 

Hey CJ - when you port an ST game, do you have to slow it down on the jag ? or is the speed factor one to one ?

 

Just interested is all.

 

cheers

[Voxel Flight WIP]

Looks great and seems ( to my eyes ) to move pretty smooth.

 

Every time i see it fly over a lake i think, RIVER RAID 3D

[Voxel Flight POC]

Brilliant - thanks for the link.

 

Commanche landscapes and speed always impressed.

[Voxel Flight POC]

I've always been interested in voxels, but never understood the intracacies of rendering.

 

E.G you use a height map for the terain but do you only plot the surface (single pixel layer) or as a solid ( multiple layers )

 

But I guess that depends on how you interact with the terrain ( you can blow holes in it ).

 

Anyhoo always seemed to me that it created some very realistic terrain to roam around.

[Model M or Model K?]

8 hours ago, Zerosquare said:

The first step of recovery is admitting you have a problem...

I thought it was using fdisk

[UK Customers can't be sent games by Atariage anymore / European maybe next]

I don't know Alberts logistics and actual sales in the UK, but could a AA-UK not be set up to assemble and sell carts ?

 

Personally i'd love to see a digital download option - especialy with the advent of the gamedrive - but i guess that has it's own problems.

[What's in your Atari Jaguar cartridge slot / disc tray right now?]

Ganedrive with something i've been working on forever.... and never seem to get any further forward.

[Why not try port Super Mario 64 without vfx?]

7 minutes ago, CyranoJ said:

Got it!

Pfft - Real men got wood(s)

 

[What's the most innovative gaming feature introduced on the Atari Jaguar?]

Jaguar didn't have FIFA - so all good imho

[New 3D (homebrew) game]

A few questions for phoboz -whats the differnce in performance hit of textured vs non textured models in your experience ?

 

Also, not sure if you experimented, but how much of a hit does gouraud shading impart on performance ?

 

It's great to see how much you've been outputting for the jag.

 

Once you've completed this, will you do a write up of how you did it ( tools used, gotchas to avoid etc... ) as i for one would find it very interesting.

[Move sprite behind]

Thanks - for some reason I thought it was a property in rapinit.

[Move sprite behind]

Hi,

 

Maybe this has been covered somewhere ( but I couldn't find it)...

 

How do you get a sprite to pass behind ( or in front off ) another sprite/background object - is this a z order thing ?

 

It's not leaping out at me

 

Cheers for any info

[Changing sprite frame]

Nah, never mind...

 

Helps if you asset file is pointing at the right image in the first place DOH!

[Changing sprite frame]

Well that's a bust - OMF's tool only allows images that are 16 or 32 pixels wide, perhaps that's my problem here.

[Changing sprite frame]

yeah, sorry

pgfx_loc=sprite[player].gfxbase
pgfx_size=sprite[player].framesz

is called at the start and outside the loop

 

I think my code is correct, i may have my rapinit wrong somewhere, think i'll see if OMF's tool gives me the same settings for this image

[Changing sprite frame]

Managed to stuff my back over the weekend so am sat at home twiddling my thumbs so i thought i'd get back to JagStudio.

 

I have a sprite (24 x 24 px ) which has 3 frames of animation, so the image is  24 x 72 ( verticaly stacked )

 

I've been able to display my sprite and move it around no problem - but as soon as i try to change the frame I get a jumbled mess.

 

Is this code correct ?

pframe = 1
pgfx_loc=sprite[player].gfxbase
pgfx_size=sprite[player].framesz

sprite[player].gfxbase = pgfx_loc+(pgfx_size*pframe)

The rapinit looks correct and there is nothing in there that i can see where you specify the number of frames.

 

Thanks for any advice.

[What could have saved the Jag?]

28 minutes ago, CyranoJ said:

This bollocks just writes itself.  We certainly could use a Lobotomy around here.

"i'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy"

[Open Lara engine on the ATARI Jaguar]

just throwing this out there - make it like Warbirds on the lynx, that would rock imho