Hi!

Thanx for your commendation!
I had a look on youtube for "Blake Stone".
Nice style. I'm still thinking about open the model and texture interface.
This would open the game for many styles... (but it's a lot of work to implement this stable )

Meanwhile I had asked my friends to check the game.
From your and my friends response I worked today and made some changes:

- the light settings per choosed sky
- add some models (fountain["], grass['] and bushes[@])

A friend made the levelpack "houting" //you must install the current version,
(i love it and it's great to see GS handle that much vegetation (transparent models)!! But you'll need a fast computer)
I'd add a screenshot to the gallery

Thanx also to Shou for his first level!

And - have fun...


[ps] I was asked to make it multiplayer. What do you think?

Oh ... I've clicked the wrong button xD
This level was only a test.

But you definitly got the clue!
Work on it and send a new version!

(btw: I've changed the weapon properties: 10 shots with the gun and 3 shots with the pumpgun - that makes it more fun )

New version available [same link] (with new models/entites/light/...), new levelpacks and level to download...

(play the "hounting" package and he "storage" level - it's cool!)

Yeah, cool levels

But why I can change the floor and sky for the whole level and not for each "block"? Its that possible?

And you can only use 256 objects with the ASCII-Code...

I had an idea.
If you save for each "block" an integer in the *.txt or *.lvl data, you can use 4 Bytes, 65536 different objects.

Or you generate a code like,
first byte - wall textures or sky and floor
second byte - objects
byte 3 and 4 - flags like, moveable, destroyable, shootable, door, light, enemy, object, floor (than you can use the first byte for the sky and the floor texture, 4 bit for each).

Byte 3,
1 Bit, moveable
2 Bit, destroyable
3 Bit, shootable (if you set flag 1-3, than you create a floor, this split the first byte into two pieces (sky and floor) ... like the lines before)
4 Bit, light (bit 1-3 can use for different ceiling lights, because there no blocks present and the flags are redundant).
5 Bit, ceiling pictures, bit 1-4 includes the information about the texture ...
Bit 4 and 5 are set, thats means this block is a door.
6 Bit, enemy (for different enemys use the second byte)
7 Bit, object, weapon, treasure, ammo ... (second byte)
8 Bit, object or door ... vertical or horizontal?

Byte 4 is empty at the moment ...

I hope you understand my bad english ;-)

Du hättest es auch auf deutsch schreiben können da mercuryus deutsch spricht^^

Aber ich denke das würde das ganz schön kompliziert machen mit den Bits und Bytes

Ah ok -.-
Ich muss es immer umständlich machen xD


Edit:
So komliziert ist das gar nicht, die höherwertigen Bytes lassen sich doch mit & "aus Und-en". So können alle Bytes einzelt betrachtet werden und für die Flags gibt es sowieso nur wenige kombinationen (1,2,3,4,6,8,16,24,32,64,128).

z.B.:
Um nur mit dem ersten Byte zu arbeiten,
result = iInput & 255;
damit müsste nur das erste Byte "überleben" ...
Mit << und >> lässt sich in der Variable die Bits so verschieben, dass diese immer nur die ersten 8 Bits belegen, somit werden zu große Zahlen vermieden und es wird einfacher zu verstehen.

PS: War nur ein Gedankenspiel

[de]
Mit dem Editor ist Deine Idee gut bzgl. der Levelcodierung.
Auch platzsparend und "verschlüsselt".

Ausgehend, dass ich die Level mit einem ASCII-Editor erstellen wollte und das Spiel ohnehin vermutlich nicht weitereentwickelt wird (und dies auch nicht geplant war), reichen jedoch ca. 200 Zeichen (<#32 sind überwiegend Steuerzeichen).
Derzeit verwende ich davon ca. 80 Zeichen, es währe also noch Spielraum für Erweiterungen.
Zudem könnte per globalem Flag auf andere Modell-/Texturpakete umgeschaltet werden. Dadurch würden zahllose Möglichkeiten entstehen.

[en]
Your idea how to describe the level definition would be good (with the editor). Furthermore it's less data and "encrypted".

The main concept was to create the levels with a simple ASCII editor and the game as designed had a fixed final state.
So the range of ~200 chars (<#32 are mostly control chars) where easy to use and far enough (currently i use ~80 chars).
And I could use a global var to set the model/texturpack so there would be a huge number of possibilities.

Ist dir wirklich toll gelungen! Nur weiter so!

I've got to be honest, I downloaded it yesterday, and besides from the level editor I didn't really like it :\ it didn't really feel like Doom or Wolfenstein and there was nothing too impressive about it.

Here are a few things that I thought were awkward:
-Why am I always looking down?
-Why does it take so long to kill an enemy?
-Why is the shotgun able to fire three times before my character pumps it, and why does it only fire one pellet?
-Why is there such a lack of medical supplies?
-Wolfenstein never used the mouse/keyboard combo controls. It just doesn't feel right.
-The enemies in Wolfenstein don't approach you in a straight line; they like to approach the player in a zig-zag fashion.

Sorry, I just don't like feel this is doing Doom or Wolfenstein any justice. The enemies don't act right, the guns don't feel right... It just doesn't fit.