Well my progress has been very slow, but I finally released a functional demo for what I have been working on. what I have in the demo is very basic and just shows off some of the scripting and player interaction. There is a lot more to come and the hard part of the coding is done I should think, now its just a matter of ironing out the bugs, upping the fps and adding features (and eventually real content ^^).
you can get the demo at
http://www.smithcosoft.com please dont report any bugs or problems I already know of most if not all of them. The FPS should be around 20 or so, please let me know what you think and what FPS it reports.
You can get EJ Demo 1.5 at
http://www.smithcosoft.com/downloads.html
It looks cool, but the low fps gives me a headache from "skippies" (Small jumps when you move)
It needs more FPS...
I got 16 on average..
AMD 3400+
1GB RAM
GeForce 6800XT
yeah, I cant seem to figure out why its so slow =/ you have used SDL Z!re, any suggestions for the fps?
26 fps
nice music
I hope you don't mind, but may I recommend against people not posting bug reports SSC? You never know when they'll find one you don't know of, or when some people will have bugs and others not.
Very neat demo btw. I like it ^_^;; 24 fps.
Quote:yeah, I cant seem to figure out why its so slow =/ you have used SDL Z!re, any suggestions for the fps?
Not without looking at the draw code...
SDL is sadly pretty slow.. You could look into using Yagl, it's openGL based and as such full hardware..
SDL is software unless you tell it to be hardware, and then only most of the blits (not all) are hardware accelerated..
have to agree with z!re. I got the "skippies" too. fps ranged from 15 to 22, ran nicely. It's a good start.
Quote:yeah, I cant seem to figure out why its so slow ... any suggestions for the fps?
Yeah, profile your code, determine your fast execution path, and modify code along that path. (don't assume your drawing code, or the API you're using, is necessarily the problem. always profile to make sure you're optimizing the right code)
I'll d/l and post my specs tonight.
SCC: Make sure you're loading your sprites in the same format as your screen. Also, make sure you init the graphics for speed.
omaLib takes care of a good portion of this. Take a look at the source at
http://oma.qbxl.net/
I got 21 FPS... I was a little confused about why you couldn't move some places, but other than that, it looks cool