Homebrew Minecraft DS (in 3D !)

[BreafingBread]

So, i made some new logo possibilities....

1.

This one is better.

 

[lucasade]

Smealum, I was thinking (logically, not scripting) of some ways you could save the game:
You could make the game write a changelog every time you modify a brick, and once you hit a 'save' or 'exit'(to menu) button, it would write the changes to the testmap.map file.
OR, if it is not Ram-savvy, you could dynamically write to the testmap.map file every time a brick is modified.
Just ideas. I'm kind of bored right now so I felt like posting something.

 

[Bmcs]

They all look great

It would be cool if Smealum made, say, 2 of those - A day and a night one - cycle as the background. Then it would be less boring as it gets older.

Something like this? (The dusk and night images are awful, they will however look much better if i had used real in game images...)

Day:

Dusk:

Night:

 

[BreafingBread]

They all look great

It would be cool if Smealum made, say, 2 of those - A day and a night one - cycle as the background. Then it would be less boring as it gets older.

Something like this? (The dusk and night images are awful, they will however look much better if i had used real in game images...)

Day:

Dusk:

Night:

Nice.

 

[lucasade]

They all look great

It would be cool if Smealum made, say, 2 of those - A day and a night one - cycle as the background. Then it would be less boring as it gets older.

Something like this? (The dusk and night images are awful, they will however look much better if i had used real in game images...)

Day:

Dusk:

Night:

Nice.

Seconded

Again, exactly what I tried to describe.

What version of DSCraft are you using though? Dusk isnt brown on mine, and I have 280711.

 

[Wizerzak]

Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

 

[Bmcs]

Seconded

Again, exactly what I tried to describe.

What version of DSCraft are you using though? Dusk isnt brown on mine, and I have 280711.

I made all of that with photoshop, i just used the "day" image as a source and then changed the colors of the sky and everything...so, that's why i said they are awful.

QUOTE(Wizerzak @ Jul 30 2011, 07:44 PM) Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

Calm down, we all know that...

Besides, smealum as no probem at all on saying his thoughts...we're not taking anything away. We're just giving some ideas for the design of the menus...i repeat, ideas, we just want to help.

 

[machomuu]

Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

Geez, calm down, no need to go bold crazy, that's just as bad as posting in all caps.

 

[lucasade]

Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

Like you said, its Smealum's project, and if he has a problem with us, I am sure he can tell us.

 

[machomuu]

Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

Like you said, its Smealum's project, and if he has a problem with us, I am sure he can tell us.

Joined 5 days ago, only has 26 posts and is rational? Congrats.

 

[lucasade]

Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

Like you said, its Smealum's project, and if he has a problem with us, I am sure he can tell us.

Joined 5 days ago, only has 26 posts and is rational? Congrats.

Thank you!

 

[machomuu]

Guys, you are jumping way too far ahead. It's Smealum's project and it seems to me like everyone is too eager to do it for him. Just calm down and wait, I'm sure Smealum is more than capable of doing this and, if he does happen to get stuck on something, then I'm sure he'll ask Google or post on here for ideas.

Like you said, its Smealum's project, and if he has a problem with us, I am sure he can tell us.

Joined 5 days ago, only has 26 posts and is rational? Congrats.

Um...thank you

*pisst!...what does 'rational' mean?

*

Basically I'm saying it's rare to see a newcomer who knows what he's talking about.

 

[lucasade]

Basically I'm saying it's rare to see a newcomer who knows what he's talking about.

OOh! ok. I just googled it before I refreshed this page. Thanks

 

[smealum]

Hey everyone, please just calm down, there's no reason to get so excited.

Anyway this is looking like quite a project and i wish you good luck and if the name isn't official yet, how does CrafteDS sound?
Thanks.

Well actually I'm thinking I'll be going with DScraft, which isn't too different.

They all look great

It would be cool if Smealum made, say, 2 of those - A day and a night one - cycle as the background. Then it would be less boring as it gets older.

Something like this? (The dusk and night images are awful, they will however look much better if i had used real in game images...)

Day:

Dusk:

Night:

Those are quite nice and actually entirely possible to do; to make the menu I'll probably be reusing the engine I'd made for two of my previous games, and it actually supports dual screen 3D so that's entirely possible !

I especially like the idea of having the DScraft up there with the clouds and also having the day/night cycle going on.

I have to warn you though, if I do make such a menu, it's not going to be before a while.

QUOTE(lucasade @ Jul 30 2011, 05:14 PM)

Smealum, I was thinking (logically, not scripting) of some ways you could save the game:
You could make the game write a changelog every time you modify a brick, and once you hit a 'save' or 'exit'(to menu) button, it would write the changes to the testmap.map file.
OR, if it is not Ram-savvy, you could dynamically write to the testmap.map file every time a brick is modified.
Just ideas. I'm kind of bored right now so I felt like posting something.

Well you're first suggestion is basically what I'm doing right now and what I plan on continuing to use.

The second possibility does sound more appealing on paper, however due to technical limitations which I'm not eager to get into right now it doesn't seem like the best way to go.


Anyway, I'm pretty much done with the lighting engine; I'll might still have to adjust the levels of light inside caves or at night and such but right now everything works.

I spent most of yesterday optimizing my engine for both speed and space; I do still have to try to optimize some stuff, but everything is running smoother already.

Also, I added actual torches !

 

[Nathan Drake]

This is a very impressive, high quality project. I look forward to seeing the next (first?) major release.

 

[DEElekgolo]

Just a suggestion. How about using a real-time clock?
So if it is day irl then its day in the game. If its night then its night in-game.

 

[Nathan Drake]

Just a suggestion. How about using a real-time clock?
So if it is day irl then its day in the game. If its night then its night in-game.

Ew. I would hate for it to be dark for 9 hours a time (possibly more).

 

[BreafingBread]

Just a suggestion. How about using a real-time clock?
So if it is day irl then its day in the game. If its night then its night in-game.

I didn't like, but that idea could apply in the main menu, if it's day, then the menu will be day, if it's night then the menu will be night.

 

[lucasade]

Just a suggestion. How about using a real-time clock?
So if it is day irl then its day in the game. If its night then its night in-game.

I didn't like, but that idea could apply in the main menu, if it's day, then the menu will be day, if it's night then the menu will be night.

That would be awsome

the main menu is going to be like Valves source engine ones! XD
But lets let smealum finish testing his current stuff. Cant wait for next release!

 

[smealum]

Just a suggestion. How about using a real-time clock?
So if it is day irl then its day in the game. If its night then its night in-game.

Eh, as the others said it might not be too great an idea for in game. (although afterall in classic mode day/night doesn't really have any incidence, so I could make it an option)
Having that in the menu by default could be cool though.

Also DEElekgolo, I reprogrammed the dawn/dusk effect to use your idea and it does indeed look much better ! (plus it saves me VRAM, so it's win-win heh) Unfortunately you might not be able to tell from this screenshot, but just trust me, it does.

Also, just wanted to say that I've been hard at work on optimizing my engine and I think I finally got everything I could out of it, so I should soon start focusing on improving the stuff I just started like saving, the bottom screen interface etc.