About the latest version of the game

raga · **Reply #340 on:** March 12, 2009, 10:12:40 PM

I know its not a bug, I just call it a glitch for a lack of a better term

action9000 · **Reply #341 on:** March 12, 2009, 11:15:55 PM

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I know its not a bug, I just call it a glitch for a lack of a better term

Fair enough.

I just won't be dealing with this glitch because it will fix itself once we finish the maps.

Oh, flathead? Okay cool, I understand what you're saying.

In theory, my latest changes should have that issue resolved. I fixed the bouncing cube problem with a new solution, which should be much more reliable than the old solution, which, as we saw, was causing problems.
I've been trying to do it for awhile now and I've been unable to.

Thanks for the efforts!

I also just spent a few hours trying to figure out how to improve the camera. I was able to get 2 changes done:

1) The bug where the camera gets stuck randomly in the ground is fixed.

2) there is now a larger range of vertical motion. You are now able to look basically straight down and straight up. There is still a minor issue with this: The more you zoom out, the less you can look UP. I'll try to resolve this but I hope it's relatively minor and we can ignore it for now.

action9000 · **Reply #342 on:** March 14, 2009, 01:29:50 AM

Okay, I got my internet back today, which is making things much nicer.

Running into some more minor problems with the camera, which I'd like to fix before I post anything up. I'd also like to get some other nice, polished featured into v0.20 before it's released.

Here's what you're able to do with the new camera system though:

"Hey, I can see where I'm landing now!"

Flathead770 · **Reply #343 on:** March 14, 2009, 02:59:21 AM

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"Hey, I can see where I'm landing now!"

haha, no more misjudging the landing when coming up to a mountain and falling short.

Kor · **Reply #344 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:12:08 AM

Is that flying you folks are talking about, or something else?

Mumbling · **Reply #345 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:23:25 AM

Yup, they are talking about flying

Kor · **Reply #346 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:24:28 AM

I've not been smart enough to get the flying thing to work.

Mumbling · **Reply #347 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:26:10 AM

Shall I explain? If you have chosen a flyer as your character, you can press 'f' on your keyboard, you will jump up. Then you can press space to 'flap your wings'. So if you press space repeatingly you will go up in the air. That's how flying works

Kor · **Reply #348 on:** March 14, 2009, 03:32:38 AM

For you, but not for me. Likely I'm just to stupid to get it to work.

Mumbling · **Reply #349 on:** March 14, 2009, 04:07:21 AM

Quote from: Kor,Mar 14 2009 on 09:32 AM

For you, but not for me. Likely I'm just to stupid to get it to work.

Why don't you just try it out?

Kor · **Reply #350 on:** March 14, 2009, 04:11:28 AM

I did, never got it to work.

action9000 · **Reply #351 on:** March 14, 2009, 11:55:16 AM

I will see if I can explain it, Kor.

Step 1: Make sure your cube is on the ground.

Step 2: Press F on the keyboard.

F Will make your cube jump.

Step 3:
While the cube is in the air, so before it hits the ground, press and hold the Spacebar.

This will lift you off the ground. Release the spacebar to stop 'flapping' your wings whenever you want. You can start flapping again.

If you touch the ground, you have to press F again to start flying again.

Does that make sense?

Kor · **Reply #352 on:** March 14, 2009, 01:53:32 PM

f doesn't do anything for me if I do a flyer character. No jumping or anything.

Mumbling · **Reply #353 on:** March 14, 2009, 02:30:19 PM

Have you downloaded the latest version then? Maybe you're trying it in an older version.

action9000 · **Reply #354 on:** March 14, 2009, 02:46:03 PM

yep yep, ya do need the newest version (v.19) .

Here's the link to it again:
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...lcTJrUmxFQlE9PQ

action9000 · **Reply #355 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:43:00 PM

Hey all!

I'm feeling like a mad scientist today.

I'm in the process of converting our good friend Neil Cubestrong into actual dino models at the moment.

After a bit of trouble getting the models to load, I took a screenshot of the first successful attempt at loading a spiketail in place of our faithful cube. I figured it was groundbreaking (and amusing

) enough to post here.

Behold...the world's smallest spiketail!

If you can't see it...yes, there is a Spike model there, I'm working on getting it bigger now, of course.

Myrkin · **Reply #356 on:** March 18, 2009, 01:45:20 PM

This spiketail is so small, that even a Chomper could eat him whole.

Kor · **Reply #357 on:** March 18, 2009, 02:39:19 PM

Quote from: Myrkin,Mar 18 2009 on 11:45 AM

This spiketail is so small, that even a Chomper could eat him whole.

It looks more like a spiketail cookie, like those animal crackers that were around when I was a kid. No idea if anyone here has seen those.

Mumbling · **Reply #358 on:** March 18, 2009, 02:46:55 PM

Lol. Nice job. Reminds me of jelly blobs of doom

NaNaNa · **Reply #359 on:** March 18, 2009, 04:45:17 PM

Aww look at that little spiketail. It wouldn't last a second in the real world but isn't it awesome?