Anyone want to test my first 3D game

rickp101 · 2003-07-09T03:45:50

Hi there, I hope this isn't frowned upon, using the forum to get games tested. I have searched and seen other people doing it and figured what the hell, if you all rip it apart I will learn for next time. I did a 3D Art Gallery for a degree project and have now added to it and made my first proper game (first 3D game, I have actually made a basic 2D game before). It is a 1st person shooter called Cop Trainer which involves you walking through a police training alley shooting the targets as they pop up. Download it from here: http://www.rich.cx/cop trainer.zip It is just over 1MB. It will only run on Windows so sorry to other OS users :-). If you could let me know if you have any problems running it and also what fps you are getting with your system. It is limited to 66 fps so you shouldnt get higher than that. Just want to know if you are getting a lot below that really and what system you are using. Any constructive criticism will be gratefully received and remember that it is my first proper project so please don't slate it too much ;-) I am wanting to get into the UK game industry as a programmer and would be using this game as part of my demo so if anyone has any tips/advice on what could/should be changed before sending it off I would be very grateful. Thanks, Richard EDIT: Here is a link to the game with no limit on the framerate. www.rich.cx/cop trainerNoLimit.zip This will run as fast as your setup will allow so if you would like to let me know how fast it will actually run then try this one. If you just want to play the game then use the other one as the targets are not time-based movement and may appear/disappear quite quickly if you have a fast video card The source code is here for anyone that is really that interested and/or would like to help see if they can spot why it isn't any faster: www.rich.cx/cop trainer source.zip [edited by - rickp101 on June 23, 2003 7:01:38 PM]

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Started by rickp101 June 18, 2003 05:52 PM

58 comments, last by rickp101 20 years, 9 months ago

Thunder_Hawk

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June 30, 2003 03:11 PM

I mean when the window loses focus

(like if the user hits ALT+TAB or something). I''ll have to check your code for a fix. Basically you just need to handle the WM_ACTIVATE message and do the mouse resetting thing only if your app is active. Chances are that you''ll have to do some more stuff if you haven''t handled this message before (like changing resolution problems, etc.). Obviously I can''t test for them because most of the problems lie in switching tasks while in fullscreen mode.

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Anonymous

July 01, 2003 09:01 AM

nicely done!

getting constant 60fps on my 2.4 ghz, 512 RAM, 128 VRAM system.. must go play more

nodoubt

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July 01, 2003 09:03 AM

quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
nicely done!

getting constant 60fps on my 2.4 ghz, 512 RAM, 128 VRAM system.. must go play more

oops forgot to login, but yah very nice game. May I ask what books/references you read to get to this point(so good)? thanks!

I'm a newbie, please don't hurt me!

rickp101

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Author

July 01, 2003 10:08 AM

Thanks NoDoubt,

I have just finished a computing degree that covered modules such as 2D and 3D graphics, Advanced Graphics and Animation and Games Programing as well as teaching me some C++ and OpenGL. I''d say my degree set me up to understand what people are talking about in tutorials and on forums, especially with the Maths behind 3D graphics but to be honest most of what I used for this game (in terms of OpenGL) I have taught myself from Nehe''s site and tutorials, I also had a bit of help from the OpenGL Game Programming book (LaMothe, Hawkins, Astle) although to be honest not as much as I would have expected, that isn''t to say it isn''t useful just that I haven''t used it much yet myself.

Nukem

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July 01, 2003 08:00 PM

I tested it at work. Its pretty kool. Since we have pretty crappy hardware at work 1gz and an Intel Exteream gfx card I only got around 30fps. But I was surprised thats you dont have any model lifes or map files. Are they built into the exe? If you put them in by hand youve made a big mistake. You should use BSP(all Quake engine based games use this) for the world and MDL(Half-Life) MD2(Quake II) or MD3(Quake III) for the models.

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Anonymous

July 01, 2003 09:48 PM

Nice

I haven''t gotten NeHe''s CD-Rom (going on 2 weeks now <aherm!>

so I have never made an OpenGL game

I can provide no input.

56.1FPS

Radeon 7500/64MB
AMD Athlon 1.4GHz
1GB DDR Memory
166MHz FSB

OH OH OH!!! I CAN PROVIDE INPUT!!!!

INVERSE MOUSE!

So up is down and down is up ;-P

Nice game! Wonderful job! Just think: it took ID Software almost 2 full years to create Doom 1

It took ID Software just as long to create the Quake 1 engine.

One quickly begins to appreciate OpenGL.

Anonymous

July 01, 2003 10:02 PM

I recieved 30.0 frames. Pretty good for a first try. FPS aren''t my thing though (rpg), but I like it. Just need a little texture on the hand and gun.

rickp101

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Author

July 02, 2003 05:41 AM

Nukem,

The models are included in the .exe as display lists exported from 3D Studio Max 5 using Deep Exploration.

There probably is a better way as I think it is because of this that the frame rate isn''t so hot so I will look into them for future projects.

Fizban

122

July 09, 2003 01:34 AM

I know you''re demo''s been up for quite some time, but I went back to check it out and noticed a bug I thought you might want to know about:

The recoil on the gun doesn''t stop when you''re pointing straight up.....meaning if you shoot over and over without turning or repositiong via mouse, you wind up standing on your head and you can walk around like that.

Good game.

Corrail

133

July 09, 2003 03:45 AM

Nice game! :-)

My stats:
about 45FPS @ Athlon XP2000+, 512 DRR, FX5200

When I read this topic I noticed that your frame rate doesn''t really depend on the graphics card (GeForce2MX@30FPS, ATI9700Pro@55FPS, there is no great difference)! Maybe your bottleneck is at you CPU!

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