Thread: What do u think of my current project?

hey im currently developing a rts engine, at present it mainly uses gdi, infact the only bit of dx i used was to set the display mode, and i was wondering whether u guys could give it a look at and give me any feed back on speed issues glitches or any other general feedback, i think its around 3mb in size so i wldnt waste ur time downloading it if ur on 56k, it currently uses populous sprites as at first i was trying to see if i could make a populous clone,so if ya'll got time please download it and give me feedback loads of people say its a waste of time creating games using gdi but i think it runs at a high fps what'da u think?

http://members.lycos.co.uk/csoft/demo.exe

Thanx

link didnt work for me.

i tried:

1. clicking it, but Lycos doesnt allow people to link files from outside pages
2. copying the address, pasting into new window, but an error message came up
3. then i tried going to the members.lycos.com/csoft page and then typing in demo.exe but i got an error as well

hmm i know i get the same prob, i been trying to look at the error but it seems lycos ftp is down il resubmit the link when its working, soz about that

ok it seems to be fine now, save target as should fork but u may need to visit the main site first, if ne1 still has probs please tell me and il host it on another server thanx

I run a dual monitor setup, and when i go to the edge of the sceen, instead of keeping the mouse within the window, it lets me go off the edge of the screen onto the other monitor. Quite annoying.

awesome work man! PM me or message me on AIM sometime. I am working on an RTS right now as well and it would be great to discuss different methods of doing things.

Overall I loved the demo. Music was great. Graphic were good. Gameplay was great.

Two complaints:

1. Pathfinding. Not that great. Use A* if you are not already. If you are....fix your A*.
2. The map scrolls way too fast, slow down the scrolling. It's almost like my computer screen is on a caffeine buzz or something.

What is your scrolling rate set at? I used to have mine set to 10 pixels per frame whenever the mouse was in the regions where scrolling needed to occur, however, that was much too fast. I took it down to 5 pixels per frame and that works nicely for me.

thanx for all your feedback i didnt expect people to say it wasnt that bad, i know what ya meen about the scrolling its going at 20px which is way to fast so im moding this now, the left hand bar is for the spells, items menu but it is blank at the moment as i havent made any heh, as for pathfinding i am just using basic point to point destinations i havent done much on this i thought of on object collision setting a new path and then returning to the old path, i havent heard about A* before any info would be great, i was a bit lazy when it came to the mouse as i didnt give it bounds as i didnt think i required to :S i never used a dual monitor system but now i know of this flaw it shal be corrected thanx again for all your feedback