Drake7707

I've played FTB ultimate but the redpower 2 mod is not updated anymore so the entire modpack is stalled. FTB Unleashed is its successor somewhat. I'm recently played FTB Techworld 2 with 2 other people, because of the additions like rotarycraft along with the (almost mandatory ic2 and buildcraft). There's no magic though and both the client and server require a lot of ram (3+gb for server and at least 3gb+ for the client), so x64 is pretty much required.

I'm honestly surprised that DCME still works after 9 years, I mean it was written in visual basic 6 and that didn't exactly encourage good practices. I mean, a temporary folder in c:\windows\system32\, what Also yeah, don't use the editor but import/export the tileset.

In case you wonder, this is the source of generating walltiles (well at least in the version I still have). It should be fairly straight forward what it does: It flips, mirrors, rotates, then takes the |\ and \¨| from the horizontal and vertical parts, and combine them for the corners Sub GenerateWallTile() Dim i As Integer Dim j As Integer Dim srchDC As Long Dim myDC As Long picgenWallTile.Cls srchDC = pictileset.hDC myDC = picgenWallTile.hDC 'Copy vertical tile BitBlt myDC, 0, TILEH * 1, TILEW, TILEH, srchDC, leftsel.Left, leftsel.Top, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 2, TILEH * 1, TILEW, TILEH, srchDC, leftsel.Left, leftsel.Top, vbSrcCopy 'Rotate 90 BitBlt myDC, 0, 0, TILEW, TILEH, srchDC, leftsel.Left, leftsel.Top, vbSrcCopy Call RotateCW(myDC, 0, 0, TILEW) 'Spread the rotated tile BitBlt myDC, TILEW, 0, TILEW, TILEH, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 2, 0, TILEW, TILEH, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, 0, TILEH * 2, TILEW, TILEH, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW, TILEH * 2, TILEW, TILEH, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 2, TILEH * 2, TILEW, TILEH, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy 'Corners... 'Top-left For i = 0 To 15 BitBlt myDC, 0, i, i, 1, myDC, 0, TILEH + i, vbSrcCopy Next 'Top-right For i = 0 To 15 BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 2 + i, TILEH - i, 1, i, myDC, TILEW * 2 + i, TILEH * 2 - i, vbSrcCopy Next 'Bottom-left For i = 0 To 15 BitBlt myDC, i, TILEH * 2, 1, 16 - i, myDC, i, TILEH, vbSrcCopy Next 'Bottom-right For i = 0 To 15 BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 2 + i, TILEH * 2, 1, i, myDC, TILEW * 2 + i, TILEH, vbSrcCopy Next 'Center... BitBlt myDC, TILEW, TILEH, 8, 8, myDC, TILEW * 2, TILEH * 2, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW + 8, TILEH + 8, 8, 8, myDC, 8, 8, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW + 8, TILEH, 8, 8, myDC, 8, TILEH * 2, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW, TILEH + 8, 8, 8, myDC, TILEW * 2, 8, vbSrcCopy 'T's 'Top T ¯|¯ For i = 1 To 7 j = 16 - 2 * i 'width to copy BitBlt myDC, TILEW + i, TILEH - i, j, 1, myDC, i, TILEH - i, vbSrcCopy Next 'Left T |- For i = 1 To 7 j = 16 - 2 * i 'height to copy BitBlt myDC, TILEW - i, TILEH + i, 1, j, myDC, TILEW - i, i, vbSrcCopy Next 'Bottom T _|_ For i = 1 To 7 j = 16 - 2 * i 'height to copy BitBlt myDC, TILEW + i, TILEH * 2 - 1 + i, j, 1, myDC, i, TILEH * 2 - 1 + i, vbSrcCopy Next 'Right T -| For i = 1 To 7 j = 16 - 2 * i 'height to copy BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 2 - 1 + i, TILEH + i, 1, j, myDC, TILEW * 2 - 1 + i, TILEH * 2 + i, vbSrcCopy Next 'Straights... 'Vertical BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 3, 0, 8, TILEH * 3, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 3 + 8, 0, 8, TILEH * 3, myDC, TILEW * 2 + 8, 0, vbSrcCopy 'Horizontal BitBlt myDC, 0, TILEH * 3, TILEW * 3, 8, myDC, 0, 0, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, 0, TILEH * 3 + 8, TILEW * 3, 8, myDC, 0, TILEH * 2 + 8, vbSrcCopy 'Single wall... BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 3, TILEH * 3, 8, TILEH, myDC, 0, TILEH * 3, vbSrcCopy BitBlt myDC, TILEW * 3 + 8, TILEH * 3, 8, TILEH, myDC, TILEW * 2 + 8, TILEH * 3, vbSrcCopy picgenWallTile.Refresh End Sub (yes I went digging into the code until I found it)

Looking in my zones folder, I found: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8797691/continuumzones.rar Dragonball Z 2D Frontline Golden Sun SFSS DragonBall Z 2D (SSC) SSCC Desert Storm SSCC Halo SSCC Halo CTF SSCC Halo CTF OLD SSCC Halo Evolved SSCC Killer Instinct SSCC Metal Gear CTF SSCC The Complex SSCC Unreal Tournament SSCI Battle Field 2 SSCI Dragonball Z SSCI Fusion SSCI Gundam Wing SSCI Halo SSCI Mystic Kingdom SSCU 17th Parallel SSCU Extreme Games SSCU Trench Wars SSCX ChaosLeague Zone SVS SSCX Extreme Games SSCX PowerBall SSCX Star Wars Realm SSCX Star Warzone SSI ZeldaMotW SSM C&C Base Wars SSN Battle Field 1942 SSN Mystic Kingdom SSN RPG Wars SSN2 Pokeman (RPG) SSZ Mystic Kingdom I never deleted or reinstalled Continuum, so some will probably be from 2004ish and onwards. Those are only the client files though, I don't have the server files.

It's been quite a while indeed . I remember playing continuum around 2004-2005, writing DCME at the end of 2005. For nostalgia sake I reread the entire first thread in the DCME subforum , 7 years ago, I almost can't believe it's been this long. Time really flies once your life creeps past college and starts the normal routine of going to work everyday (which has been 3 years already). Continuum has been a lot of fun times for me (I mostly played on metal gear and halo maps), I rarely have the time to play games anymore (only weekends mostly) so I don't sink enough time in other games to get involved enough in other communities. The most recent game that made me think of the 'large' (certainly at the time) fast-paced action is Planetside 2, which - at times - feels very much like base rushing / base defending that used to be prominent on the Halo map. I think everyone in the continuum/subspace community moved on with their lives and there isn't any influx of new people, because let's face it, if you were a teen or 20ish something back then, would you actively play a game that's almost as old or older than you? It's somewhat sad that there was never a decent successor to the game, where the entire community could migrate to, so you'd still be able to play with the people you know. Also this being the 2nd topic and almost over a week old in General does speak for itself about the Continuum related activity

I have to agree with Lynx, I had loads of time in college when I wrote DCME, but now that I have a full time job as .NET developer I rather spend my free time in something that's not related to programming or is a day, 2 days tops work. Even if someone were to do it for the money, which may or not may be raised by a kickstarter run (which is also a good way to gauge interest), it would have to be a full time job for a while to even remotely finish it in a proper time frame. Not everyone who already has a job would risk his/her current job to do a year project that has a good chance of not working out in the end.

Looks good, haven't found any problem thus far (using the latest version of Opera)

Well I removed most of the jquery, in particular the .css() to set the div's position etc and swapped to standard javascript setAttribute it ran 100 times faster, so yeah, don't use jquery about 1000 times each 25ms

Or create a dropbox account (http://db.tt/tPU28UR) in case you don't have one yet and just put the source in that folder. It's how I backup mine entire project folder on the fly. 2gb should be plenty for programming projects (yes this can be considered a shameless plug for a referral link , for 250mb extra)

I had some fun writing stuff in javascript, because I found my background too static: http://dwight.skyon....efault&p=Battle As it turns out, jquery sucks in terms of performance.

Make sure to run the dcme_install.bat as administrator, otherwise it will probably won't allow you to register.

This reminds me a lot of http://jsc.sourceforge.net/ (especially this example: http://jsc.sourceforge.net/examples/web/ThreeDStuff/Tycoon4.htm) , the demo's surely are impressive, I wonder why it doesn't have a lot more attention. I haven't used it myself though, so there might be some serious limitations, but parsing IL in javascript is rather cool nonetheless Anyway, I'll stop now about javascript because this is getting off topic

Why would anyone want to jump to a weak typed language and horribly confusing (to some, including me) object oriented structures, while java works just fine on all platforms? 'But then it's in a browser' doesn't sound a valid statement to me. I don't have anything against javascript and HTML for GUI related things or to some extent business applications (for basic CRUD operations), but to write & debug entire games in javascript would be the equivalent (to me at least) of walking 100 km (or miles if you prefer) barefoot on sharp rusty nails.

Best way is much like an IRC chat system, where all messages from a client are applied on the server and are forwarded to the others. It's not really that hard in java. I wouldn't focus much on optimization or lag issues at first though, even if it takes 20kb/s per client at first, getting it to work is more important. Otherwise it might end up as a case of premature optimization.

Aaaahhhhhh my eyyyyeess, the comic sans ms is blinding meeee Other than that, good job ^^

Holding the locks for the entire action on the array is usually a bad idea when there are a lot of concurrent threads that access the same list. If it's only occasionally this wouldn't pose a problem, but if it's accessed per frame by multiple threads I'd go for a copy of the list and do the actions on the copy (well unless the action itself also has to be blocked, then this would be fine). The lock(); and unlock(); mentioned would have to be implemented with a mutex, semaphore or monitor, depending on what kind of locking you'd need

I usually do a List<meh> list; lock(somequeue) list = somequeue.ToList(); foreach l in list { ... } in c#. Without the handy linq functions such as ToList twould be slightly more of a hassle, but it could still be done if there aren't a lot of methods that access the list, and by keeping those methods in the same class (otherwise it gets confusing very fast). Isn't there a thread safe list in java, similar to the recently added ConcurrentBag in c# (although locking yourself woulds probably still be faster)?

Use synchronized() { } ?

Eh, not really . Haven't played it in months. It's just that voxels are easier to model with .

One week of holiday 'well' spent on learning directx, XNA, ditching XNA for SlimDX, HLSL shader programming and performance optimizations: At least it integrates my tree algorithm and previous implementation of diamond square for terrain well . And I finally found a use for my shiny new laptop with quad core i7, gfx card with 1.5gb ddr5 and 8gb ram to use.

A break; ? better jump right back in that loop or you'll terminate.

That's because the ship was already overlapping with the wall, inverting the velocity without moving the position to touch the wall would yield a collision each loop, making the velocity vector oscillate and thus getting stuck in the wall. You have to account for the difference between touching the wall and the amount of overlap, say delta x (dx) then invert the velocity of x, then add that dx * velocity x to the current position. That would give the correct position of the ship

Path-rect collision of tile http://i.imgur.com/zpemY.png Rectangle tree (using spatial subdivision algorithm) for multiple rect-rect collision of tile (Although what I drew is not an octree, this article on Octrees shows how spatial subdivision works) http://i.imgur.com/3qWvy.png The path has the advantage of being able to calculating the normal for semi accurate bouncing. Using bezier curves or splines for the path rather than line segments by interpolating the normal between 2 points of an line segment would yield an even better bounce vector. Edit: oh heyo, http://help.eclipse..../PointList.html has an intersect method for exactly that.

Might as well leave some room to define a region path (array of points) for each tile that defines the outer outline of the tile and to do a Path-Rectangle collision afterwards. Or a spatial subdivision algorithm like an octree to define finer blocking regions, depending how heavy the intersection calculation is (a few rect-rect in a tree is probably faster)

In the header: " Subspace has been running since 1997. Frienships have come and gone over the years with our unique social chat system which takes multi player gaming to an entirely new level. Find out why are motto is "Meet people from all over the world... then kill them!"" Shouldn't that be 'Find out why OUR motto' ?