nIrium 008 - release : 002

RPG Project

Re-started
Old Screenshot :


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Imager v0.20

• Pixel Editor
• Sprite Creator
• TileSet Creator
• Texture Creator
• Preference Dialog
• Small extension bug

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Mapper v0.10

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Common Controls :
F1 Switches between games/programs
F4 FullScreen

Download link :
[230kb] nIrium

40 - 101 fps

Celeron 700MHz
Geforce2 MX400

~15 FPS

735MHz Pentium 3
16MB SiS card (I know it sux but for some reason my 32MB nvidia gave me 1FPS so w/e...)
768MB RAM

Looks pretty good.

way to much teritory visible IMO
i'd do it a 32x32 pixel 10x8 or 20x16 at max full scrolling

30-60

Intel Pentium 4 2.53 GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 64 mB
512 (reported as 509) mB RAM
1400x1050

Yeah, i know, I just took this for testing.

In a real snes rpg, it's in 320x240, 16x16 tiles.

because SNES has dedicated graphics hardware that handles 16x16 by default
you don't have that in a PC :(

Yeah, but i really want to do a snes style rpg :P

oh, and i was wrong, it's in 256 x 224 (at least, ff2 is :P)

lol, even with this resolution, the game shows 224 tiles at the same time.
in my demo, there is 1200 tiles shown :P, plus the character.

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Oh, and guys, take your fps in fullscreen, it's alot more stable, and the resolution is 640x480, which will run faster.

if i recall correctly SNES has 2 video modes
you could do 32x32 tiles at 640x480

I think Donkey Kong use it.

I'm doing a 320x240 scrollable version. Im pratically done, but i must go watch some stargates.

oooh stargate . i love startgate :D

I've uploaded the scrollable 320x240 version :P

hope u enjoy it :P

But i seems to have a problem. I can't delete the folder "ressources" after i close the program :S do u know what could do this ?
It seems that it does it only when i unzip it on the desktop :S

Hmm, i could delete the folder fine. I get 59 fps constantly (never changed, even when i went to fullscreen)... Stats:
Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz with Hyper Threading
128mb Ati Radeon 9700 Mobility
512mb ram
Screen res 1680x1050 (16:10 ratio)

I need to find the way to remove the lock on refresh rate thing.
This is why you can't go upper that your refresh rate (60hz).

Do one of your guys know which one should i use in this :

Alright, i fixed it, you should try again NintendoFreak.

180 - 250 windowed , 200 - 300 fullscreen
Tough it intearfears with other tasks , you should make it timer based 60fps

350-600 windowed (Maximized).
The guy moves too fast tho, and it also won't help. Your fps won't show any higher than the refresh rate on the screen, even if it shows higher. You know :P

200-300 windowed, 200-430 fullscreen

Pentium 4 1.6GHz
NVIDIA GeForce MX 100/200 32MB
512 MB RAM

Yeah, but the purpose of fps testing is to see how much your computer can handle. The maximum of frames he can input in a second. If your computer can do up to 300, it only means that he'll run smoothly at 60 (when i'll enable the 60-fps-locker) and that i can also add effects/details/etc.

I started yesterday my TileMap Creator 1.00, i should finish it soon.

will this be singleplayer ?

Yeah. It's my first game made in c++, i don't want something complicated, and, i really, really want to do a snes style rpg game :P

I've pratically finished the TileMap Creator, just fixing the save as box and uploading :D

me and some guys thinking of starting a SNES style online rpg

Gime a minute, i want you to test out my tilemap creator :)

i'm kinda proud of it :)

Alright, i've finished the hard work !!!

I just need to do the open button, some other nice options, and v1.00 is finished !! (check out the first page to download)

Oh, and to C-Man demand, i've put the 60 frame-limiter :P

Now, i think i'll take a break :P

map editor mmmm ^_^

What does mmmm means !? ;)

nothing special
as in mmmm beer (homer)

What do you think of it ?

Personnally, i think i'm really in fire these days, i just made this in about 8 hours :S

it's ok but has a bug when you click cancel

Fixed it before you posted this :P

splendid

I need some help with something.

My program is made entirely in directx, but i need to find a way that the user can input numbers and words in, well, hand-made directx-based boxes. Does someone know how to retrieve a keyboard stream of characters/numbers ?

something from msdn on keyboard input:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....ingkeyboard.asp

btw, nice job :)

DirectInput

C-Man, could u give a little more details ;)

I mean, i've set the keyboard in directx and all, there's no prob with that.

The only prob is that i don't really know how to make the user input strings. The only methods i have in my class for input is this :

char m_KeyBuffer[256];

bool KeyPress(char Num);

bool nInput::KeyPress(char Num)
{
return ((m_KeyBuffer[Num] & 0x80) ? true : false);
}


where i could use as this :

kInput.KeyPress(DIK_A); for exemple.


i would need a function that does the contrary, like this :

char a = kInput.KeyPress();
char KeyPress();

the prob, i don't know if DIK_A for exemple, is the A character in ascii.

DIK_A is #defined as 0x1E, so it's 30.
DIK_B is #defined as 0x30, so it's 48;

Well, now i'm fucked.

fill a buffer on every keypress
pseudocode :

Yeah, but the problem is that DIK_A ISN'T the A ascii code.
I would need to do a whole table of convertions :S

just do a map

Whoa, you're right, i've never thaugh of this technique before. Thanks !

By the way, i've uploaded a new version, MUCH better than the last one.

Oh, and C-Man, do you know how to gain a list of all the files in a folder ? I just need the name of the file, not the path or anything else.

Since OPENFILENAME isn't really good, (in fullscreen, sometime it appears below the window, and the path isn't even used), i would do a list of all the files and make my own save/open pattern.