Scorched Earth Remake
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| Well, I've made a functioning, updated version of Scorched Earth an old game that presented a 2D terrain with small artillery pieces that fired back and forth at each other. WELL, when a shell impacts the ground it produces a particle effect sending dirt flying in the, Problem: some times the dirt just sits there, mid air, until the other player fires and his shell lands. If anyone would like to take a look at the code I'd be glad to email it or post it. |
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| Is that game the same as 'Scorched Tanks' on the Amiga? Damn that game was good. - I assume your particles have a 'life' value, and when it reaches a certain number ie. 0 they are deleted. Make sure you're freeing them properly. - Use If life<=0 instead of If life=0 - *Always* update the particles, not just when the shell lands. It sounds like you're only updating at certain times or game states because the particles disappear when another shell comes down. That's about all I can think of without seeing the code :) |
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| Hang on. I've already seen a 3D version of Scorched Earth by the original author on a magazine CD (2 yrs ago?). Perhaps you should check with him first? |
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| Hmmm... Well the particles don't have a life variable per say basicly its: check.particle = first particle while check <> null for p.particle = each particle if p\y > 450 then ;if its gone of the bottom of the screen delete p; else p\y = p\y + gravity endif next check.particle = first particle wend I know all the particles are deleted because it does exscapes this while loop and continue to the next players turn. I'm just gonna have to step through the draw cycle ans see exactly where this "dirt" is. John, A 3D version huh?, I'm just playing around with the 2D version right now, I actually have code for it but its not very well commented and does't have particle effects in it. I'm also adding characters, a story(sorta), settings, and hopefully network play. It should be fun. Can any one point to a good netplay tutorial? Thanks All! :) |
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| You don't need the 2 nested loops. The 'Each' command automatically starts from the first instance of a type and moves toward the last with each 'Next'. Also, you have to actually free the sprite/image/whatever you're using for your particle before you free the type instance. So, just use : for p.particle = each particle if p\y > 450 freeimage(p\your_particle_image_field) delete p else p\y = p\y + gravity endif next |
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| Oh well there is no image to free, p.particle just has x, y and color then I use rect() to draw them to the screen. |
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| Ah, well in that case I expect you're drawing over the *old* particle position each frame??? Just do one last draw at the particle position with your backdrop color before you free the particle. It would be WAY easier to use a 1 pixel image though. |
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| I've seen quite a few remakes of this classic, they all have in common however, that they are not very good remakes at all. So if you can do this proper, recreating the great gameplay of the old classic, then you defenately have a buyer in me :) |
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| wedoe, so your a real fan huh? Wanna help. I plan to make it opensource freeware, as its will hopefully be my first, complete project, so I'm not all protective about the code. Plus I could use as much help as possible. Interested? |
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| Pocket tanks deluxe is excellent - that's like Scorched Earth, isn't it ? |
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| Scorched Earth rocks! I play at my grandma's sometimes on her old Windows 3.1, but I only get to about once a year and since shes got a newer computer I don't that will be happening any more. |
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| @Moore: You can always ask if you need help, but I can't promise anything as I'm under a pile of work right now, but still don't hesitate to ask, I'd be more than happy to betatest. |
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| Cool guys, Thanks for the interest. I'm setting up a web page for it. http://www.geocities.com/NRMStudios/aa.html should be the address when I'm done. There you'll be able to dl the excutable and resources. It should be up in a couple of hours. |
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