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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Auran on November 18, 2003, 10:30:47 am
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Hi guys, this is also on another thread but it is extremely low visibility there and I really need your help. As you might or might not know we had the plans for a game based on the PS community. You can find details on this forum on this thread
http://planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=6148&boardid=19&sid=4c58d91e023412fced6ac3c39575d499&page=1
Anywho, I need your help to create the ingame charachters based upon PS community members so i\'ll repeat my post on that thread here:
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Greetings all:
Everyone, and I mean everyone, is invited to submit their charachter details for the game. Dont worry if you are a n00b or not well known. We\'ll select the most interesting out of them. Please go to this page:
PScommunity: The Saga (http://www.freewebs.com/thecabal/links.htm)
and fill out the form.
The form is to be filled in the following format:
1.Your name
(the PS forum name)
2.email ID
(for communication of any specific queries.)
3. Race
(any not just the existing races eg- you can be klyros or Diaboli)
4.Profession.
(in game profession that is. Also include guild name seperated by a colon eg- Mage : Arcane Order )
5. Decription of you
(A short description of physical features
eg-
short, skinny, with spikey hairdo, Wearing a trench coat and jeans, A punk Neo;).
or
Old, with a white beard a 2 feet long, A mage\'s hat, White robes, basically gandalf:D
)
6. Sex:
(not the \"yes please\" variety:P)
7 & 8: your attacks
eg
attack 1: Shuriken straight line throw.(long range)
attack 2: Katana impalement or decapitation. (short range)
or
attack1: Magic missile (fast)
attack2: Fireball (high fatigue)
Attack1 must be long range / fast/low fatigue and less powerful
and
attack 2 nust be short range/ slow/High fatigue and more powerful
you can also (logical)OR these to increase or decrease the potency and ease like so:
attack1: poison dart (fast|long range)
attack2: Raging Flames (slow|high fatigue)
also add a short description of the attack.
9. Anything else:
Anything else you want to add about your charachter
10 suggestions:
Suggestions and comments about the game in general
Thank you
PS- I\'d also like the mods to help a poor developer wannabe out and stickify this here thread for a couple of days so enough players can see it. Pretty please:).
Thank you all. Remeber to fill those forms out. (yes I am talking to you mods. Or how the hell would I know what venge or some other guy is supposed to be like)
Peace out
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My info hopefully got sent... unless that silly timeout thing on the Cabal site decided to erase it all and not send when I clicked the button. It just went straight back to the front page of the guild site, see... =/
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seems to me the NS-evil cabal is tryin to gain info on us all XD lol ya ive filled it in =)
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Ya, another evil scheme of the Cabal no doubt :P
Well anyway, nice to see this kind of thing in the PS community.
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Uh oh, I\'m gettin\' the big \"Page cannot be displayed\". :|
\'punk Neo\', eh? Thanks. :rolleyes:
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Sorry that you couldn\'t access the page Jedi. Where did you encounter the message and what browser were you using?
Not many others had the same problem. I recieved most submissions just fine:).
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And no, it\'s not an evil Cabal plot. Last time I checked, I was still the project leader, so you\'ve got nothing to worry about :D
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Sent in my info, and good luck guys.
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*** copy Aendar post and paste it here ***
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I encountered the error page as soon as I clicked the link. I\'m at school using IE Version: 6.0.2800.1106 .
Can I just pm somebody my stuff?
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submitted and sent off look forward to seeing the game :-)
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i sent mine 2 =)
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Errion the Evil One wanna join the party too !
*sent ! :D
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Fill out stuff? You lost me on click. :O
Anyone wanna do it for me? :P
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Yay! Nevermind the problems I mentioned before. I got it to work at home. :D
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I have been submitted... but now if i am a bad guy i am going to have to kill me in the game 8o ... mmm self-annihilation... Maybe i am too late
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I\'m proficient at coding in click. If you\'d like I can try to design an engine.(provided you can provide graphics/sound/music)
I can\'t guarentee I can code everything though, since I don\'t actually know what you want in it.
Oh, and I\'ve already designed a multiplayer server, so adapting the game to multiplayer wouldn\'t be too hard.(But someone would have to host the server app)
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Ok, I\'ve submitted my PS character, good luck!
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All i get when i click that link is a blank page with a responders advertisement.
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Think I sent it, could you send me a PM and tell me if you got it or not?
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Originally posted by Windra
All i get when i click that link is a blank page with a responders advertisement.
that\'s not an advertisement.. it\'s the script he uses to get the info...
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Auran, I sent my information. PM me if you recived it or not.
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Can we get some feedback to how your guys project is going and wether any progress has been made?
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Fine just fine!!! NOT! I am struggling with the crappy 2D engine I am trying to create:(. Its so rudimentary but its proving to be a pain. Damn engines;( I have been at it for four hours now and I am still where I started!! I expected it to have a sturdy skeleton by now but noooo! Curse DX9 and VS. NET X(.
I plan to call the engine \"XANDRIA\" once its done. If its done:(.
Thats all folks!!
And Xandria:
I have been meaning to contact you pal. I have started work today on the engine as you must gather from above paragraph. We need to talk about the architecture of the game. Email me with your ideas and lets start a mail discussion about what needs doing. You are after all the BOSS MAN here;).
EDIT::
OOPSY :P. I mixed up Xandria with windra:D. But that is corrected now.
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Windra? I think you\'ve confused me with someone else... :P No problem :D
I\'ll try to get together what I\'ve got and send you an e-mail when I\'m ready.
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hehe
I told ya! :P
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HEH HEH so I slipped:P. Gimme a break. Windra\'s been on my mind lately and \"Xandria\" is so similar to \"Windra\" that I mixed them. So get over it already:D. It has been corrected.
Hope you understand Xand meh pal!! Thats what comes of having feminine sounding names. Women are not my strong point as many have guessed already. With all the ladies (not just over the Net;)) I am having to \"realtime multitask\" lately there are bound to be mix ups:D.
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Just entered my description, hope I make it into the game :D
I am very tempted to play it due to the promise of killing lag monsters! :))
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Wow, four whole hours...
/me dies of laughter
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Yes Venge I understand that a person of your intellectual prowess can find it funny;). I expect things to be taking solid shape within four hours, specially a rudimentary engine like mine. But we are obviously speaking in different scales here so I wont press for comparison.
/me leaves with a smug grin.:D
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Hi guys\'n\'gals. Needing help. The following is the basic display framework of the game. I need people to test it out under as many display settings, with as many windows versions and with as many programs running simulataneously as possible. Plz plz help m3h. Report the errors here mentioning your OS and direct X version and the error message exactly.
thnx.
heres the file for download:
http://upl.mine.nu/uplfolders/upload7/Dxframe.bmp
its a mere ~30Kb download. It needs to be converted from .bmp to .zip and unzipped to get the folder out. Dont kill me if you think it sucks. I created it this morning so i can\'t be held responsible for its suckiness:P.
To Xandria:
You can have the source code Xandria. Its the ddraw framework you wanted. Sorry its late:P. I\'ll mail it to ya soon.
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I tested it with as many resolutions as possible for my monitor and with a LOT of programs running simultaneously (along with Planeshift :) ) so my cpu time was always high and task manager was reading well over 750 MB memory usage.... couldn\'t get it to fail.
Go stickman go! :D
Anyway, here\'s my specs:
AMD 2600+
512 MB DDR PC 2100
GeForce 2 MX 64 MB
Win 2k Pro SP4
Direct X 9.0a
Tested it from 640x480 to 1280x1024 with my 17\" monitor. Also tried a few different color depths at 1024x768 just to make sure.
EDIT: I made all three different sizes and each of em at different color depths by resaving the images (monocrhome, 16 color, 256 color then changed another to 24 bit)... still works good, just looks funny now :D
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Preciate it:) ghost!. There is more you can do with if it if you wish. The three bmps are displayed serially from 1.bmp to 3.bmp. Try changing them to differnt bmps of different size and depth. Other try it too. If you have the time that is:).
And BTW:
Heh heh! I know this is stupid to ask but can anyone tell me how to retrieve client area origin coordinates w.r.t the absolute screen origin? Using VC7 calls ofcourse.
Much Obliged
Auran
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w\'98
333
64mb
ati rage pro
if you move the window about the image doesnt move with it, eg. if you move the window down an inch you cant see the head, if u move it up u cant see the legs.
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I\'ll fix it as soon as I get to know that Call to retrieve the origin coords:P. Thanks forthe input:tup:
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Search for win API on the net.
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UPDATE:
Xand buddy,
I am done with the map engine. We now have a working animated tile maker and map generator. Working on AI right now. I need something done. can you arrange a communication library for me? Here\'s a description:
A lobby- client structure. Think of a chat client. Say the IRQ common room. I need to be able to send and recieve DWORDS to a server specified by an IP and a specific thread running on it. Preferably with parity checks. Can it be also rigged address multiple threads? Thats all. I don\'t have any more to describe since I don\'t understand networks adequately. Please feel free to ask me anything or correct me on anything.
Can this be done? What info will need to be provided to address specific threads on the machine?
Anyone else out there who might feel like helping out a poor net illiterate guy:
Please help if you can. Correct me wherever I was wrong or went too far in my demands. We can discuss the library\'s working if needful.
Help out and we might have a Killing Field for PS gamers where grudges and wars can be fought out before long:P.
Pretty please with sugar on top:).
Auran
PS:
Here\'s a screenie of the Map generator
(http://img30.photobucket.com/albums/v90/auran/MAPgen.gif)
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Great to see you\'re (finally :P) making progress, I tested the thingie you put up for download and so far the only thing I could find was that it gives me a \"DISPLAY CHANGE DETECTED!!!\" message when I minimalize it and then maximalize it again, but I suppose it should be doing that. :P
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thanks for testing it Ax. Dont anyone do it anymore. Its outdated. I already have a scrolling map and tiled terrain by now. More soon god willing:).
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My college days are about to be over guys. Wooohooooo!!!!!!!.
College sucked bigtime:tdown:X(. Now i have plenty O time before my joining date. Then i guess i\'ll have yo go to work (though i\'ll try my best to not actually work;)). Anywho what that means is i\'ll be around much more and plague PS in increasing proportions. Now if that doesn\'t make your day I don\'t know what will????(.....
But anywho
what that also means is i\'ll finally have time to see if this game idea can actually go somewhere. I did a fair bit of work before the end of feb and I had a terrain generator and the rendering engine ready(though i have forgotten much of what i did since i am not into commenting and/or documentation).
I\'ll also be looking into the multiplayer aspect of this baby. Maybe we can actually have some sorta thingummajigger where atleast upto 4-8 people can play at once. The number is limited since this will be a small peer network. I don\'t have a server to spare to host anykind of larger game. Any help anyone can provide will be appreciated.
There has also been a change in the original idea. Xandria knows of this.
- The game will be isometric map based instead of side scrolling.
so what we need now are artists who can draw isometric charachters. We need 5 views of a symmertic figure N, S, N-W, S-W, W by the compass. Rest can be mirrored. For asymmetric figures we would need all eight views. Think Baldur\'s gate and you will get the idea. Not as complex and much more cartoony. Do anyone of you feel you can help us? I only need all veiws of one charachter right now. Can anyone do this? If you can post here. I\'ll get back to ya.
Thanx for reading the post.
Here is your complimentary pipe and pot.
*Hands out the pipe and 70gms of Marijuana*.
:D;).
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Next time PM/email me so I actually look at this thread, lol :D
Unfortunately, I am still in college, and I\'m a bit behind in my work (not to mention finals coming up soon). I\'ll see what I can help out on in my free time but I won\'t be able to guaruntee much at the moment. Only about 3 weeks left and after that I\'ll be so very, very free :)
But thank you for keeping us updated Auran, and thanks for staying devoted to the project even after I sorta...lost track :P But nevermind that, I\'m back and I\'ll make sure that we can create something that everyone will want to play 8)
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NP Project leader sir:).
I know what its like to be busy.
I\'ll be uploading the project files till date very soon. (As soon as i can find a free host that is:P)
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Latest Update:
This is to inform everyone that I am not sleeping but am currently busy with m3h nu job. But anywho that didn\'t prevent me from coding for my pet PS project and I am glad to announce that you can look forward to a release of the game next week or so. Now the reason i am making this prerelease post is that without it I couldn\'t release anything since i need artists to create the charachters for the game.
But first i\'ll enumerate certain charachtaristics of the near completion mini game:
1. Think Street Fighter with a slightly rpg style charachter creation.i.e you can choose looks and stats of your charachter. However once chosen the stats remain constant like core d&d.
2. Dice roll system for evaluating event outcomes. (which means there is a slight chance that a str 1 mage might floor a str 25 with a melee hit).
3. 6 offence moves(including one \"secial finishing move\") and two defending postions. Melee, Ranged and spell attacks available (but choice is very limited).
4. Spellcasting limited by Mana.
So there those should give you some idea how it is going. I have the graphic and game engines in place. Custom animation and character generation modules are ready. Now i am trying tyo get mutliplayer in place or i\'ll have to work on some sort of rudimentary AI.
Now let me get to the main point: Till now I only have one charachter \" StickMan\" for which my lack of artistic talents is accountable. To be fair a special move called \"Pixel Storm\" fails to impress. So i\'ll be needing artists if the game is going to be anygood. I will make the animation generation module availabale seperately in a few days anyone who wants can give it a go.
Any suggestions regarding the game should be expressed now. It\'ll be very difficult to incorporate anything once the distribution DLLs are compiled. Any input is valuable since it is very possible for me working by myself to have overlooked something. So any questions peeping in your mind should be asked and any suggestion forming should be expressed. AND SOON.
Thats all folks ,
with a bit of luck and help, you should be beating the hell out of each other before this month ends.
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name-torchblackrose hoping to get it changed to torch blackrose
email-torch1028@cheatcc.com
race-klyros
profession-warriarmage/dark and red
discription- short, skinny with buzzed hair bigish ears blue denim jeans/ black denim jeans black/blue shirt leather jacket hazel eyes that swap from brown to green depending on mood (its cool if im sick or depressed i really get green eyes) oh and i need a form of armor from medievil period no helmet.
sex-male
attacks- 1 fire sword swipe
attacks- 2 soul stealer
attacks- 3 summon undead warriars
attacks- 4 absorb flame
attacks- 6 currupt mind
attacks- 7 super nova (massive burst of flame)
attacks- 8 necromantic flame (makes all flame attacks more powerful and also blackens the fire)
attacks- 9 fireball of course
extras- i like dirtbiking so mabye you could have me riding beasts.
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I tried it on Gentoo Linux with an AMD Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB PC2700 RAM, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
It doesn\'t work.
bash: Dxframe/Dxframe.exe: cannot execute binary file
?(
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Heh heh! Don\'t try any more. And its a windows only distribution. Would you like linux as well?
BTW
Release ios indefinitely postponed. They are making me actually work at my new job ;(. Plus I had to leave town to report and my stuff is still at home. But don\'t worry you\'ll definitely see it released sooner or later.:P