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> Looking good, are those autotiles or just regular cut-out tiles? Yes they are auto tiled. I'm using this program to create my maps [http://www.mapeditor.org/](http://www.mapeditor.org/) I do plan on making my own map editor later on :) > Nice. Like Doc asked are those autotiles?

Thanks i recruited someone into the team he will be in charge of the networking added player entity 

Finished an audio player it only supports midi file extensions

Well i think its time to go at a faster pace, without the use of gaming libraries it will be time consuming to finish this engine and making it efficient. Ok i made big progress today i decided to use lwjgl and slick2d now so i can do this quick Sound system is finished as well  

Mouse support has been implemented, pardon my slow progress i've been quite busy lately. 

Basic particle system has been finished i made this with java swing and i used the thread class :) 

> What graphics library you using? I'm not using any external libraries the only library I'm using for graphics is javax swing I plan on implementing JOGL later on if I start adding graphical features such as particles and lighting effects however it is possible to do that with swing :P

> For future reference, if you ever need a thread moved or see something in the wrong section you're welcome to use the report function at the bottom right of every post. :) It makes our jobs easier, while we do tend to read as much as possible it's not always feasible to expect us to read every single post made at any given time. :) It'd be a never ending job, haha. > > > > Anyway, I am not 100% sure on what the rules are regarding custom engine posts. So I'll have to forward this to someone else. But rest assured, it's being worked on and it has been noticed. > > > > Now for a more personal remark, why MacOSX but no Linux support? Of course it will support Linux! thats why it has an OSListener to set the best optimizations accroding to the OS you're running :) > I went ahead and moved it to custom versions. As long as the project isn't dropped it will be okay here. > > > > Best of luck. > > > > JC Thank you, i plan on updating this project at least once a week.

> I love this community too! Otherwise I wouldn't have stayed for so long. I was looking at it in a humorous way, I apologize if anyone saw it otherwise :D I just revised what I said to you, wow I sound like a jerk, I'm sorry. And yes this is a great community :) feel free to add me if you would like to get to know me better.

> Thats sounds quite good, I like the self detecting OS it will make gaming much better! I am sure this project will turn out great! 60 frames a second is perfect to what kind of PC you got (spec wise) 2gb ram Nvidia GeForce 6200 120 GB hard drive (Sata) Intel pentium 4 I know it's an old desktop that I upgraded to windows 7 :( that's why I'm limited to 2D programming Thank you for the comment philosophy :) it really increases my motivation towards this project. Well my next step is designing a player entity and mob entity with UML I plan on making the entity an interface which contains methods that every entity shares in common. So it would work like this Public class Player implements Entity { protected int xCoordinate; @Override public void getX() { return xCoordinate; } } That's just a basic example using an accessor there are more methods that need to be implemented when creating an entity Oh and by the way I'm basically using a while loop for the game loop with a thread and I implemented the runnable interface so there is a Boolean called isRunning and when the game component is constructed the Boolean is set to true upon the run method a thread initialized and 3 variables are set detecting the time each loop starts and another variable contains the time difference which is the time it takes for the UPS and FPS to be processed then the thread sleeps and runs again! :)

> I think this would be a "Custom Version" as opposed to an Eclipse Project, which are typically games made with Eclipse Yeah sky addressed that on his previous post unfortunately I will have to wait until there is a moderator available to move this thread. @sky I sense sarcasm I don't understand why you say what a good community in a bad way, so far I've liked my stay here and everyone seems to be friendly; I personally think this community is great! New update I've been doing some research on the Linux operating system so I have decided to implement an OSListener which on start up it detects what operating system you're running and runs a condition which sets the clients configurations for the best optimization settings for your OS For example, windows OS doesn't need V-synch enabled and the fps is smoothly displayed, however I noticed that on Linux the fps sometimes dramatically drops so It would set v-synch enabled by default. The client currently runs at 60 fps with the game loop I'm using. I am going to do some research on Tiled based maps I might create a tiled map creator just like the one eclipse has.

> I like your idea, cross platform is always good. Making a C++ or C# version would be pointless. I like the idea of a good java version though. Actually a server application would be a great idea but only if you have more than 1400 Players :P since C++ can use more than one core and thank you Philosophy it was a pleasure meeting you in the shoutbox > First off, I like what you are doing and wish you good luck! :D But I do believe that this sort of topic/post belongs in eclipse custom versions. Just so you know ;) Good luck! Yes you're right! Philosophy told me that in the shoutbox but it was too late i got the message after i created the thread :( if a moderator could move this thread i would appreciate it.

Hello everyone, thank you for checking out my project thread, i am somewhat quite new to this forum and i've been looking around however i could not find any eclipse versions that meet my standards :( (VB is not OOP, I dislike the .Net conventions, not cross platform), however, i have decided to create a java version of eclipse origins from scratch i plan on using javax.swing package for any graphical effects and java NIO for networking. This project is mainly for educational purposes and i do plan on releasing this to the community once it's complete. So here are the bonuses to using my version Cross platform Mac OSX support (I will be releasing a seperate client for macs) Object Orientated Fully documented project (Makes everyones lives easier i will upload the java documentation on my website) I know someone has told me about someone releasing a java conversion of eclipse here, however, i dislike non-renamed varaibles and methods so i thought i'd make the client from ground up as well :P I know java doesn't have the potential C++ or C# has when it comes to game programming like memory allocation and the ability to run multiple cores but lets be rational this is a 2D game engine i don't think any programming language needs to run more than one core for a 2D game (that's an overkill :P) however i cannot say the same for the server :P but i shouldn't be a problem. Media  Updates State Handler has been added to handle the game stages Background class has been implemented to load images on to the client User input has been added Mac compatability has been added for the cache Upcoming updates GameState system (handles the game stages of the game you're in so lets say you're in level 1 in a game or you're in a certain map the gamestate will handle it and the client will send the server a packet indicating where the player is.)  

Sorry I thought you would possibly know well I'm going to conduct an experiment on computers energy consumption on watts per hour and I'll be placing the results here and see how hosting companies make a profit

I was doing it because of nervy consumption the whole time. Anyways robin, I wanted to ask you one last thing referring to electricity consumption. Let's say we have an old desktop 512mb ram and an nvidia TNT2 riva, so let's say I leave this desktop with only eo server running all day and night how many watts would Yo estimate it would use (note: it's just the desktop connected to a mode No mouse keyboard or monitor connected to it) so how many watts do you think it would use an hour I'll do the math for a price estimation and I checked the battery box and it says 5v not sure if Thats what it regularly uses

I am going to make my old desktop into a portable server and just have the motherboard video card Internet card and harddrive along with the heat sink power box and fan I think it will use around 80 watts an hour with eo running itself and the os is widows xp so I guess that will be around 10$ a month of power consumption by the computer itself so it's mug like paying for a vps what do you think robin? And sadly I can't get a refund because they said reined are under the companies consempt :/

Thanks for the information robin but sadly I cannot get wine installed thus I would like to know if there's any substitution apps for wine on a Linux based vps

Ok I've officially looked for every tutorial on putty to set up tightvnc or nomachines nx andno luck I even went through deamon tutorial on these forums and nothing worked so I bought a vps from 123systems 512ram and I've been trying either to get the runtime files installed through putty to run server.exe at least or find a way to get a remote desktop connection which I know is possible. Well if anyone is nice enough to help me through a remote desktop program such as teamviewer pm me if you can give me advice or make a tutorial or video tutorial please show me it and yes I have screen installed and wine could not be installed idk why I tried everything such as yum install wine or yum groupinstall wine and apt-get wine but no nothing at all!!! :( and I got no machines in stalled an running but when I try to connect the program would just close and yesi contacted the company but they only offered me 25$ an hour f they want me to set it up

wana help me i followed everything dude i get this error when the box with the M shows up it just closes Info: Display running with pid '3428' and handler '0x11037c'. NXPROXY - Version 3.4.0 Copyright (C) 2001, 2010 NoMachine. See http://www.nomachine.com/ for more information. Info: Proxy running in client mode with pid '2016'. Session: Starting session at 'Tue Aug 30 20:16:47 2011'. Info: Connection with remote proxy completed. Warning: Unrecognized session type 'unix-desktop'. Assuming agent session. Info: Using ADSL link parameters 512/24/1/0. Info: Using cache parameters 4/4096KB/16384KB/16384KB. Info: Using pack method 'adaptive-7' with session 'unix-desktop'. Info: Using ZLIB data compression 1/1/32. Info: Using ZLIB stream compression 4/4. Info: No suitable cache file found. Info: Forwarding X11 connections to display ':0'. Info: Forwarding auxiliary X11 connections to display ':0'. Info: Listening to font server connections on port '11001'. Session: Session started at 'Tue Aug 30 20:16:47 2011'. Info: Established X server connection. Info: Using shared memory parameters 0/0K. Session: Terminating session at 'Tue Aug 30 20:16:50 2011'. Session: Session terminated at 'Tue Aug 30 20:16:50 2011'. help me?

well anyways my friend gave me a copy of vb6 but i still don't know which file client or server sided would need to be edited in order to make the chat cloud work :/

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i'm so sorry i didn't kno vb2008 was not compatible with the program anyways well ok ill try what you guys said Thank you so much and robin i was checking out crystalshire the game is AMAZING! \M/ anyways thanks for the help ill uninstall vb08 and put vb6 (facepalm) >.>

ok i know i have visual basic 2008 but lets say what vb file do i have to open or what you're telling me is to go to client > graphics > main > chatbox picture and photoshop it and input an alpha % into it?

in the new eclipse version how do i add a little chat cloud so when everyone talks it shows a chat cloud saying the message they entered on top of the players head