Rob Janes Posted October 15, 2012 Author Share Posted October 15, 2012 > So that let's say I have a cave and I want whoever dies in the cave to respawn in front of it. I put a checkpoint on the ground in front of the cave entrance so the person is forced to step on it before they enter the cave. The server keeps a record in a file of the last checkpoint each player has stepped on, when the person dies they teleport to the last check point they stepped on, being the front of the cave in this example. It's a very useful thing!> > Oh, and for the item interface check out Dragon Eclipse same with the checkpoints!This is doable, very doable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vus Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 > I'd love to have a new UI, but I am HORRIBLE with Photoshop.> > if someone wants to design a new user interface, I will impliment it. It can look, feel however they want as long as it looks professional.> > I just finished an Anatomy and Physiology exam, and heading to work tonight, so I may not get a chance to work on or upload the engine tonight. Though my goal is to get the quest system live for people to test by Wednesday.> > Thanks !Gratz on your exams.Also, do you have any particular idea how should the ui look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iSnow Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Contact me with a layout rob and I'll work you something up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 > So that let's say I have a cave and I want whoever dies in the cave to respawn in front of it. I put a checkpoint on the ground in front of the cave entrance so the person is forced to step on it before they enter the cave. The server keeps a record in a file of the last checkpoint each player has stepped on, when the person dies they teleport to the last check point they stepped on, being the front of the cave in this example. It's a very useful thing!> > Oh, and for the item interface check out Dragon Eclipse same with the checkpoints!Why dont you use use the boot map setting under the map properties? what that does is when you die on the map it warps you to the Boot Map number, x, y. if you leave it as 0, 0, 0 then it warps you to your default death point.and keep up the good work rob looking great. point of advice delete the error logs from the client before ziping after it unzips its close to a 1gb file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 15, 2012 Author Share Posted October 15, 2012 Haha drakenIt was a bug in the DrawBuffs causing the error, the log that was zipped was smaller but using the current version will just spam the txt file with errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hey everyone, sorry for a few days without an update. Had a pharmacology course the last two days, and working at night. I'm at work now with some down-time so I hope to get a lot done and upload a build before morning. Will update later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 Hey everyone,As promised here's another build. Here's what you can expect in this build.Download LinkA. Fixed bug with projectiles on WarpTiles thanks to PeaverinB. Items now have a 'Stackable' setting in the Item Editor, non-stackable by default.C. Some minor changes to the /who who's online list and /inspect command for players.D. Quest System1\. Two types of quests (a 3rd in the works). QUEST_TYPE_KILL, QUEST_TYPE_COLLECT2\. NPCs have new behaviour, NPC_BEHAVIOUR_QUEST3\. Use the Quest Editor from the Admin Panel to create quests.4\. In the NPC Editor, choose the behaviour as 'Quest Giver' and select the quest you want them to offer.5\. Quest Givers will render with a Yellow ! for new quests, a white ? for incomplete quests and a yellow ? for completed quests not turned in.6\. I am working on a QUEST_TYPE_TALK variable for the next build.7\. Quests can reward XP, Currency (Item num: 1) and Items Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooklove1911 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Hey Rob, not sure but for whatever reason I'm having issues unzipping it.! C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Temp\EOrjanes5-1.zip: Unexpected end of archive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 Try this one[http://www.samugames.com/eclipse/EOrjanes6.zip](http://www.samugames.com/eclipse/EOrjanes6.zip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooklove1911 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I'm still having the same error, for some reason it wont unzip. Just to make sure it wasn't something on my end, I went back and downloaded one of the earlier ones you uploaded and that one worked fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tepe15 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Great work Rob !Maybe Can You add select character screen with limit for example 3 character on one account and auction system ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 The auction system will likely get done tonight but as for multiple characters for one account, I'm not sure if I plan to implement this or not, I haven't decided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaverin Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 > I'm still having the same error, for some reason it wont unzip. Just to make sure it wasn't something on my end, I went back and downloaded one of the earlier ones you uploaded and that one worked fine.I have the same error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I am also having the error on unzipping says its a corrupt zip archive. tried both of the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 Anyone looking for the latest build but ran into errors can you try these 2 for me?Zipped[www.samugames.com/eclipse/EOrjanes.zip](http://www.samugames.com/eclipse/EOrjanes.zip)RARed[www.samugames.com/eclipse/EOrjanes.rar](http://www.samugames.com/eclipse/EOrjanes.rar)I'm using a shoddy Wifi connection tethered from my iPhone so maybe the uploads were never actually completed properly.Try those and let me know how you make out.Still looking for someone to design a new UI for this default client. (I would like to run it at 800x600 - with a small Heads Up Display, just not a clone of CS:DE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcsnider Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Just a suggestion, in my Create 3d device function… add a render mode option into the options.ini, and when the device is being created it will have a number 1-4 to force a specific render mode with 0/1 going through the loop so as Deathbeam said, his computer will not support hardware/software... he can at the very least edit that 1 number in the config.ini..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 Honestly don't know why I haven't done that already jc…Even old video cards like the 9400gt or 8600gt work fine with EO, so I'm shocked there are still cards in use that don't support such a now basic function. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaverin Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 > Just a suggestion, in my Create 3d device function… add a render mode option into the options.ini, and when the device is being created it will have a number 1-4 to force a specific render mode with 0/1 going through the loop so as Deathbeam said, his computer will not support hardware/software... he can at the very least edit that 1 number in the config.ini.....I think that just moving that case to the bottom and changing the case numbers that problem is solved (or at least it worked with me) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLordOfTheManor Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 This is looking so good…I just wanted to ask a question, post official release (source and all) will you be releasing frequent updates? Because I want to use this right when it comes out and I have some of my own custom stuff that I don't want to keep moving over every time, if you will (frequent updates), will you be showing us (giving us the code changes) how to manually update or not? Just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaverin Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 Hey Rob i am very excited about your engine, im sure that i will use it.Just a few questions:-Will i be able to change easily the amount of max buffs?-Will you create NPC's spells?a few small bugs reports:-This one: [http://postimage.org/image/68y0fywx9/](http://postimage.org/image/68y0fywx9/)-The other is that the buffs affect the monsters. I tested giving a +200str buff to a bee. Without the buff, his max hit is 11\. With it, his max hit is 21\. Maybe the amount of damage isn't much higher but this will allow players to cast buffs to monster and then let the monster kill other players easily.And the last one, a suggestion:I think this maybe works for make players walk slowler when they walk diagonally.When they are walking in diagonal decrease his speed using the same metod that the shift button use to reduce the speed of players with low agility.I don't know if this isn't posible but maybe…Thx for all you're engine is exciting! keep doing good work  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 @TheLordOfTheManor - After I release the source (around the time of the new head developer selection), I will likely still make updates and new functions as necessary. What I will do is as I add new features, include step by step instructions on what was changed in a seperate rtf file included with each build so people can upgrade their existing version.@Peaverin - Thanks for the bug catch! I've fixed the Quest Desc textbox in the next build so it's locked. This UI will likely change anyway when the time comes to add a new UI. I will look into buffs for NPCs, I hadn't realized that you could buff and NPC at the moment. What I will do is make a flag for each NPC such as 'Buffable' which you will be able to enable or disable per NPC. People keep asking for NPCs spells so I guess I'll add it  As for the number of buffs, right now it's stored as MAX_PLAYER_BUFFS = 2\. You can simply change this to however many buffs you'd like, the only thing you will need to do is add the extra picBuff(index) picture box to the frmMain client side and on the sub DrawBuffs just render the new buff on the new picturebox. It's well commented so you will find it easy to add.I'm at work again tonight. As long as it stays quiet, here's tonight's agenda.1\. The Options Window - Vastly improve the Options window and make it available from the Login Screen as well as within the Game. Inside the Options window, you'll be able to change various in game features, WASD movement, Mouse movement and all the basics, plus an advanced tab which will allow users to modifying Engine Settings to increase performance. Features that can be changed from Advanced Options. (Render NPC Names, Render Map Titles, Number of Onscreen Text Lines - Chatter, Render Blood, Adjust Max FPS, Set Foreground/Background FPS, and Toggle render method)2\. NPC Spells - Give NPCs the option to cast up to 3 spells as well as a % for each spell as to how often they cast each one.3\. Note / In-game Forum System.4\. Start an Auction House system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mal Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 I love the WoW-esque quest icons above the heads of NPC's; really intuitive and easy way to track quests. Awesome stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Janes Posted October 19, 2012 Author Share Posted October 19, 2012 Thanks Bud! I wanted to make it user friendly for players to track quests rather than having to read through tons of quests or talk to random NPCs if they've forgotten where they're at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 Small Bug See ImageAlso Says 7/5 in the quest log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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