Well, I thought I am the only one..

[Feda]

Yeah tileset info is in the mis file.

[THE AQIB]

reverse engineering??

[jamie]

Usually the .mis file stores that.

Yeah tileset info is in the mis file.

What about skirmish maps? So if you adding new maps to game, you need patch exe or mis files? :)

 

reverse engineering??

Yea. When you writing program you're engineering. When you trying to understand how it was done — you're doing reverse engineering.

more info.

[jamie]

Thanks to mvi, passability is now red from original *.bin files.

 

[Feda]

I think that for skirmish maps the game reads the tileset from the .map file, not 100% sure though.

To add new maps you need to copy the map file i the maps folder and then create an entry in text.uib with the map name. This can be done with Shai-Hulud or manually with the String Table Editor. Please have a look at my video tutorials for activating with SH. I'll add one with manual activating soon.

[jamie]

I think that for skirmish maps the game reads the tileset from the .map file, not 100% sure though.

I am reading tile info from original .map files, and I can say that they are not contain info about used tileset.

 

While was playing with passability, I realized that just changing tint color of sprites makes it possible to add 'night' mode to the game. Hehe.

 

 

It's just need to add light sources to units and buildings. This is not a problem I think.

[Feda]

That night mode looks great, imagine the heavy factory while producing units :d

[mvi]

That night mode is a really nice idea.

 

You could have stormy weather too, with sand storms obscuring vision and damaging units out on the sand.

[Feda]

Also you should see enemy units harder.

[athanasios]

Much like TTD night conversion.

Cool! But if we could rotate day and night it could be even better...

[mvi]

I don't think anyone was suggesting just having night...

[THE AQIB]

having night is a great thing....

[athanasios]

I don't think anyone was suggesting just having night...

I meant to rotate within the same game. Because if you simply use diffrent tileset you cannot rotate within the same game.

[mvi]

He isn't using a different tile set, read what he said

[jamie]

You could have stormy weather too, with sand storms obscuring vision and damaging units out on the sand.

To have a good visuals for such complex weather effects, I need to have normal maps for every game sprite. It's a huge amount of work. But I am mad enough to do that.

 

athanasiosathanasios, I am changing tiles color in realtime.

To have a better understanding of how it looks like, check out this vid: 

http://youtu.be/DRyOvqkJx8Y

[THE AQIB]

Impressive.....

[shai]

Nice, also you should see if you can add support for really big maps like 258x512.

[Feda]

Wow thats very nice! Good job 

[D2k Sardaukar]

Nice work! I might one day try to steal this night idea of yours and make it into a mod for Dune 2000, but for now I will just wait and see if you pull more nice ideas out of your sleeves. :-)

[mvi]

To have a good visuals for such complex weather effects, I need to have normal maps for every game sprite. It's a huge amount of work. But I am mad enough to do that.

 

athanasiosathanasios, I am changing tiles color in realtime.

To have a better understanding of how it looks like, check out this vid: 

http://youtu.be/DRyOvqkJx8Y

I was imagining more of a layering effect, normal maps might be a bit overkill ;-)

 

[jamie]

Nice, also you should see if you can add support for really big maps like 258x512.

Maps definitely should be big. Because when playing with 800*600 as displaying resolution, you can feel that "8PLAY6.MAP" (which I am using for tests) is looked like it was designed for 1 vs. 1 battles.

 

I was imagining more of a layering effect, normal maps might be a bit overkill ;-)

 

This effect looks good, however I had ideas about normals maps (and effects that can be achieved with it) in early 2011. It's definitely worth to try. But of course for early beginning of my project simple overlays/effects will be enough.

[athanasios]

My error. I didn't read well. Nice effect with current graphics.

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mvi: Good idea. But not Armageddon! I 'll get mad with those colors and go out in the street and start beating people! :D

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simple overlays/effects

Sandstorms?

[Feda]

lol you really think the 6 player dune maps are small? You never saw the C&C maps then :D

[shai]

Any new news?

[Nuclear_harvester]

we should have 1024 x 1024  maps  with unit and bulding limits lifted