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| Developer Journal - 2 days, 4 hours ago Almost done - By polyfrag I think it'll be done in about a week.[ ] AI buying/selling of property [ ] request to end war [ ] confirmation to start war [ ] AI starting/ending wars [ ] AI building competitors in case of m... |
| Developer Journal - 2 days, 10 hours ago How It Started - By TheChubu Introduction Hi! http://public.gamedev5.net//public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.png I decided to write up what I was doing because: a. I like to write. b. Writing about I'm doing helps me to... |
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| Developer Journal - 4 days, 23 hours ago Easy bake timers - By polyfrag are the newest addition. They tell you how long before the building's next cycle, when the next production quota starts.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/easybake2_... |
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| Status Update - 1 week, 1 day ago TheChubu Turns out that making a final class with all sort of static constants is a bad idea |
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| Developer Journal - 1 week, 1 day ago Resource transport - By polyfrag The transport works on an auction model. Clients bid for the cheapest means of transport and source of resources, and the trucks act on the most profitable bid. Cost for transporting with your own... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 week, 2 days ago Parallax Video Art v1 - By riuthamus So the art has changed considerably from when I first started but.... the idea is that we will use a script and mimic the common parallaxed video for the lore. I figure I can make some quick sketch... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 week, 3 days ago Progress - By polyfrag Reached 32,781 lines of code.AI can now build roads, powerlines, pipelines and units. Pathfinding and framerate fixed.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/aibuildcarly... |
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| Developer Journal - 1 week, 5 days ago Progress - By polyfrag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc4nRgZ_6dg |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 16 hours ago Pathfinding Fixed - By polyfrag Turns out it was a floating point subtraction-addition precision problem. |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 1 day ago AI Placing Roads - By polyfrag AI is now able to place roads.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/aiplacer_zps58d3002e.jpg Now to do the same for powerlines and pipelines. |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 2 days ago AI Placing Buildings - By polyfrag AI is now able to place buildings.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/aiplaceb_zpsc89b1e0a.jpg Next I have to make AI connect its buildings by road.I also noticed a b... |
| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 2 days ago Full speed ahead! - By ApochPiQ My big project at the moment involves rewriting the Epoch language compiler for what feels like the millionth time.The good news is, instead of yet another C++ incarnation of the compiler, this ti... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 2 days ago Change of Directions - By polyfrag This walkthrough stuff isn't working out.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/level1b_8_zpsf04b6d6c.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20m... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 2 days ago First Level (edit) - By polyfrag Here's how the first level is looking.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/level1b_8_zpsf04b6d6c.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 3 days ago First Level - By polyfrag Here's how the first level is looking.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/level1_1_zpsb64da32d.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/... |
| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 3 days ago Strife: Performance - By Wilhelm van Huyssteen Legends of Strife Spend the last week on performance optimisation. Up to now I've never giving it any priority so there was allot to do. I have managed to get the framerate (on my pc) 4 times faste... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 4 days ago Musings on Data Configs - By Net Gnome Haven't done too much over this week. Mainly just working on concepts surrounding creature definition files and ideas on how i'll make map configs work.Here is how the creatures.v file is forming u... |
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| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 5 days ago Script Editor - By polyfrag Making the script editor for the story.http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20misc/storymsg2_zps36c54ef0.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k276/krims2006/corpstates%20mis... |
| Developer Journal - 2 weeks, 6 days ago Inserting a letter recursively - By Alpha_ProgDes NOTE: This is not complete. Touch ups, corrections, and changes will be made. This may be an article in the first future. But this is more of me working through the logic of a problem I was working... |