Too bad

Then I'm out, I need some data buffer for a sound to realize what I was thinking of (procedural creation is not possible I think).
Maybe I'll create the project without taking part at the contest then.

Nice issue George
Interesting articles

Cheers

Frazzle

Is it allowed to save a bitmap temporaly. Or does anybody now how to implement an "on the fly" bmap into 3d space without this nice "can't open file" error.

Thank you George I appreciate the mention!

this is going to be awesome. this contest, i mean. the AUM's awesomeness goes without saying

and as usually... i won't end up entering due to my own lack of organisation

julz

Thank you for the kind words. I try to make the magazines as interesting as possible (even though sometimes I might miss the point completely )

"Is it allowed to save a bitmap temporaly? It isn't allowed to save an external bitmap. If you create the bitmap at runtime without using an external file (think "bmap_createblack") then you can save it.

Thank You, David! You've got a great game there and you've given us an extremely useful piece of code.

it's very unlikely that i will take part in this contest but it's fun to think about what i would do.



at the moment my idea would be to do something like elite with very simple old school vector graphics (by using draw_line3d()).

And what's with files like Tile-Source?
Is stuff like this allowed?
Example:
(for example: 1 grass, 2 water, 3 stones)
1 1 1 2 1
1 1 1 2 1
3 1 2 2 1
3 3 2 1 1
3 2 2 1 1

if it is possible to replace the mesh of such entities with ent_setmesh() without any problems then i would probably do some kind of procedural landscape and vegetation generator (with l-systems).

Ventilator: You've got interesting ideas. If you ever change your mind and create something like Elite I'd be interested in seeing the result of your work.

CetiLiteC: You can use arrays, but you can't dump data from graphic files to text / source files. Basically, don't try to trick the jury by dumping external resources; everything has to be created at runtime.