4E4 Contest Entry - Unnamed RTS

**cairnswm** · 10-06-2005, 12:46 PM

Its not in either my 0.5 of ver 1 download files - I'll try get it from the CVS repository.

**savage** · 10-06-2005, 12:53 PM

This is looking very good.

I could be wrong, but I think the mini-map is slightly off.

Btw, is this engine built from your RunAWar code base or are you building it from scratch?

**cairnswm** · 10-06-2005, 01:02 PM

I'm building it from scratch. It will be very similar to the run-a-war code when its finished but it will be a completely new engine.

By the time I finished Run-A-War I felt that I had strayed to far from the original OO model I had used. So I think I'll get a better result by starting agian.

The reason the minimap looks off is that it has a Sqare instead of rectangular view. I'm using rectangular tiles in the main map but single (square?) pixels for the minimap.

I have a sort of development process mapped out:
1. Scrolling Map
2. Small Map
3. First Items - Trees
4. Collision Map
5. Units.
6. Buildings
7. Orders
8. User Interface

Up to number 3 already. Of course 5 and over will take a lot longer per phase.

**cairnswm** · 10-06-2005, 01:03 PM

I cannot download the sound files for the tutorial

**{MSX}** · 10-06-2005, 01:16 PM

ok, i've made a small demo for 2D opengl as you asked.
I'll upload somewhere lately, now i'm at work.. why can't one attack file to posts ?

PS if you need it i've also a nice GUI system that works this way.

**savage** · 10-06-2005, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by cairnswm

I cannot download the sound files for the tutorial

Grab the sound files from this ]http://nehe.gamedev.net/data/lessons/vc/lesson21.zip[/url]

**cairnswm** · 10-06-2005, 01:49 PM

Thanks MSX - just let me know where it is and I'll download it and give it a try. I'll need to update all my S2DL libraries but then all my S2DL based game should work

The beauty of an abstracted interface

(Maybe I should have S2DLGL for the OpenGL enabled code)

**cairnswm** · 10-06-2005, 01:50 PM

Cool - thanks Savage

**{MSX}** · 10-06-2005, 04:45 PM

ok, i've uploaded it to
http://www.lugato.net/stuff/demo.rar

Let me know if you find it useful

Bye!

**cairnswm** · 10-06-2005, 04:54 PM

Thanks MSX

When I run the EXE I get:
"The procedure entry point SDL_RWFromConstMem could not be located in dynamic link library SDL.dll"

Maybe I have an old version of SDL.dll - I'll have a look at it anyway.