+DarkLord Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ach, downloaded it, now I've just got to get around to assembling (thanks for the howto Stephen!) my Skunkboard. Pictures and effect looks awesome, congrats and 2 thumbs up for the fast timing on it! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Here's a video capture. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Loved it, but then I love anything to do with Mars. So after a long time away from tinkering with the Jag (busy overseas) I set up my Jag and Skunkboard to check out this awesome mix of the Jaguar and Mars. That was really great. Thanks for the compliments. Now that you have the generator for mountains, make Rescue on Fractilus (Or Behind Jaggy Lines) for the Jaguar. Its certainly possible to do that style of game on the jag. I did briefly look at real time terrain generation e.g. infinite landscapes in all directions and not the limited data set the demo works with (once computed). That would be the best way to tackle a RoF style game otherwise it'd pretty much be a CD based game with all the data needed to make interesting and varied terrains. If anything an AMOK style game would be more up my street if I was to do anything more with the engine. I've no plans for anything beyond this at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Pictures and effect looks awesome, congrats and 2 thumbs up for the fast timing on it! Thanks for the compliments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 Here's a video capture. Thanks for that . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I made a VJ grab: http://youtu.be/HK--YoE_j28 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoquickcapri Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 It looks kinda like that pc helicopter game Comanche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 I had some free time today so I moved the smoothing algorithm onto the GPU. It now takes a fraction of the time that it used to . rover.v2.rom.zip 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classic Pac Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I am truly impressed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 I am truly impressed Thanks for the compliment. I'm currently making some optimisations to the code so that the landscape data generating time will come down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I am truly impressed Thanks for the compliment. I'm currently making some optimisations to the code so that the landscape data generating time will come down. Now we are talking Mark! SPEED! Now let me throw a starfeild and moon in there...... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 Now we are talking Mark! SPEED! Now let me throw a starfeild and moon in there...... You could certainly do a multi-screen wide bitmap that would wrap around if you spun on your own axis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonner242 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 You know what you are doing to me when you say things like "You could certainly do"....? Don't cha? You should know by now to just ignore me...not egg me on....I can't stop Mark! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 You know what you are doing to me when you say things like "You could certainly do"....? Don't cha? You should know by now to just ignore me...not egg me on....I can't stop Mark! But from my point of view it just becomes a blitter copy from a bitmap to the back buffer instead of a blitter zero fill to the back buffer. Its only a few lines of code to change. As long as the bitmap is held in RAM then the performance shouldn't suffer too much. Having said that some experimentation would be required and it it was a problem it could be enabled/disabled from the key pad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 4 days ago I was impressed when the first 'proof of concept' build arrived, even though it was very slow and wasn't using the Jaguar's strengths to any great lengths, it was still hard to believe this was written by someone who hadn't programmed the Jaguar until a few weeks earlier. To see it come along so quickly and improve so visibly from build to build was really enjoyable and I just want to say thanks for being allowed to witness that We're lucky to have Mark coding for the Jaguar, what with all his other interests such as 7800/Inty/etc. It only bodes well for future releases from him (and having seen some things he's working on, we're all in for some real treats!) Here's the latest build (V2) in ghettocam form running on my PAL/60 Jaguar, just made for the sake of it. Great work. Myth busted! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LS_Dracon Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 This is awesome! I remember voxel technology, was amazing by the time but was shadowed by texturized poligons. You can create lot of good games with this, with a river, you can make a 3d version of river raid, or this can be a fancy background for a Fzero like racing game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 4 days ago I was impressed when the first 'proof of concept' build arrived, even though it was very slow and wasn't using the Jaguar's strengths to any great lengths, it was still hard to believe this was written by someone who hadn't programmed the Jaguar until a few weeks earlier. To see it come along so quickly and improve so visibly from build to build was really enjoyable and I just want to say thanks for being allowed to witness that Wow! Thanks for the huge compliment. Many thanks for all the testing along the way too. In code terms the biggest speed improvement (after moving the display rendering code to the GPU) was in correctly guessing what they did in phase zero . We're lucky to have Mark coding for the Jaguar, what with all his other interests such as 7800/Inty/etc. It only bodes well for future releases from him (and having seen some things he's working on, we're all in for some real treats!) The jag is a ton of fun to code on. So much so that I might actually get a Skunk instead of coding and testing everything on the Virtual Jaguar (VJ) emulator . That's a huge testament to the quality of VJ too. Many thanks to Shamus and team for that. Sure, its not perfect (what emulator is) but it makes development life much easier and is in active development so maybe some day it'll get close. Here's the latest build (V2) in ghettocam form running on my PAL/60 Jaguar, just made for the sake of it. Great work. Myth busted! Thanks for that. I like the green palette too. The jag is good at green. Hmmmm... a bit like the PAL 7800 in that respect . 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 This is awesome! Thanks for the compliment. I remember voxel technology, was amazing by the time but was shadowed by texturized poligons. You can create lot of good games with this, with a river, you can make a 3d version of river raid, or this can be a fancy background for a Fzero like racing game. Yep! Voxels are interesting to play with. The demo came about after one of my "I wonder if the jag can do ....." thoughts. It'd need quite a bit of work to make a good game from this engine tho. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 Last lot of optimisations for now :- rover.v4.rom.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jag_Slave Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Honestly, I think it would be a great flight sim, or maybe some sort of target based space shooter like Zero5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 I think it would be a great flight sim, or maybe some sort of target based space shooter like Zero5. Personally I think the jag needs something like AMOK. But for now this is as far as I'll be taking this. Don't worry I have other things planned for the jag. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 I can think of a bunch of uses for a landscape engine like this, or Phase Zero's. Like an off-road racer (SUV/cycle/snowmobile), or an open battle field FPS Halo-jr.. Maybe an action/adventure/RPG like Robinson's Requiem or yet another hover-slightly-above-the-surface shooter ala Cyber/Battlemorph-Hoverstrike-Phase Zero-Aircars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Oh God no, not more aircars! 'where did you learn to code like that??' lol. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyBee Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 I can think of a bunch of uses for a landscape engine like this, or Phase Zero's. Like an off-road racer (SUV/cycle/snowmobile), or an open battle field FPS Halo-jr.. Maybe an action/adventure/RPG like Robinson's Requiem or yet another hover-slightly-above-the-surface shooter ala Cyber/Battlemorph-Hoverstrike-Phase Zero-Aircars. Yep! All good ideas (well... maybe not aircars ) but as I've said this is as far as I'm taking the project at the moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I've got it - Rescue on Fractalus! for the Jaguar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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