New UnionBytes game impressions.

[Artus]

Hi PB-Friends,

I am Arthur from UnionBytes [UB] and i working momently an Game like Diablo.

Its only the first Graphic development, if some one has any ideas or want help to make graphics, especially Animations. Please Post it or send PM ^^

Here a actually ScreenShot:


http://unionbytes.de/
MfG Arthur

[Kuron]

Are you using PureBasic for everything?

[Artus]

Yes, of course. Otherwise I would not post it here

MfG Arthur
from [UB]

[Kuron]

Awesome! It is nice to see a game being posted that is being made fully with PB instead of using a third-party engine.

I really like the screenshot and the editor looks really good!

[Rook Zimbabwe]

Nice screenie!

What are you using tthe OGRE engine or Irrlicht??? Or the built in 2D stuff...

Hmmm have to post something of what Jared and I have done...

My question is: looking on your site at your map editor... what are you using to hold the tile images?

[gnasen]

My question is: looking on your site at your map editor... what are you using to hold the tile images?

Looks for me like an ImageGadget in a ScrollAreaGadget. Btw, nice graphics as every time.

[Num3]

Nice!

I played Dune 2077 good game too !

[Artus]

Thank you all, for the good resonances,

It's only 2D Stuff and the DX9 Device.
The TileSet Gadget is an Image and a ScrollBar, not more

At the Moment i have changed the TileSetGraphics and adding the Attribute-Screen.
The Game mechanic like Particle-,BitmapFont-,Map- and Light-Engine are done.


EDIT:
Here a Screen from the new TileSet, with fire-breathing dragon statues:



MfG Arthur [UB]

[STARGÅTE]

Now that our side was also presented in the English forum, I'll get to work to provide an English version online.
When this occurs, but is not yet known.
The old games will not come out but in an English version.
New games will be in future but multilingual.

[Artus]

Hio,

I thought, i say again, that i still need someone who can make animated Characters from top. In 2D of course.
If someone like to help, i will be realy thankfull^^

MfG Arthur

[X]

How did you get the lighting? If I recall correctly, natively, PB doesn't allow lighting of tiles. Are you directly accessing the DX9 sprites or something? If so, any chance to provide a code snippet or library snippet or something?

[TomS]

@X: I don't know they did it, but it's possible with PNG-Overlays with an Alpha-Channel.
Of course it's not dynamic, so shadowcasting etc is not possible, but setting a light-emphasis works quite well.

[STARGÅTE]

Sprite3DBlendingMode() is the powerful function, with their different effects can be created, provided one has the right images.
With a white spot and an addition mode you can brighten the background and it looks like light.

Here a very small example, with a texture and red light:

Code: Select all

InitSprite()
InitSprite3D()
InitNetwork()

Enumeration
  #Window
  #Background
  #Light
EndEnumeration


OpenWindow(#Window, 0, 0, 800, 600, "Screen", #PB_Window_SystemMenu|#PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
OpenWindowedScreen(WindowID(#Window), 0, 0, WindowWidth(#Window), WindowHeight(#Window), 0, 0, 0)
  
  ReceiveHTTPFile("http://data.unionbytes.de/sand.jpg", GetTemporaryDirectory()+"sand.jpg")
  UseJPEGImageDecoder()
  LoadSprite(#Background, GetTemporaryDirectory()+"sand.jpg", #PB_Sprite_Texture)
  CreateSprite3D(#Background, #Background)
 
  CreateSprite(#Light, 256, 256, #PB_Sprite_Texture)
  StartDrawing(SpriteOutput(#Light))
    For r = 127 To 0 Step -1
      Circle(128, 128, r, RGB(255-r*2, 0,0))
    Next
  StopDrawing()
  CreateSprite3D(#Light, #Light)
 
  
Repeat

  ClearScreen(0)

  Start3D()
    
    Sprite3DBlendingMode(5,6)
    DisplaySprite3D(#Background, 100, 100)
    DisplaySprite3D(#Light, 400, 50, 255)
    
    Sprite3DBlendingMode(5,2)
    DisplaySprite3D(#Light, 150, 150, 128+Sin(ElapsedMilliseconds()/100)*32)
    
  Stop3D()

  FlipBuffers()

Until WindowEvent() = #PB_Event_CloseWindow

[luis]

I thought, i say again, that i still need someone who can make animated Characters from top. In 2D of course.
If someone like to help, i will be realy thankfull^^

I can't help but I wanted to let you know about this one: Fragmotion (shareware)

A very nice thing about it is you can create a model in 3d, rigging it and that make the program generate all the 2d flat views you want, frames for animations included, with the background you like.
Practically you invest some time in creating a 3d model instead of a 2d one, but then all the frames can be program generated very quickly and at any resolution.

[X]

That is nice and cheap, TY! I gotta purchase this sucker!