FUNCTIONALLITY IDEAS

gasp · Post by **gasp** » 05 Feb 2003 13:35

*Select logo for your company
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*Ehm??? Forget all the others

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 05 Feb 2003 13:43

HEhE .. we even do not start but we are talking about everything except that is really neccessary

gasp · Post by **gasp** » 05 Feb 2003 15:26

Huh? Can't understand...
remember: local city traffic and people.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 05 Feb 2003 16:27

Strange topic, why did you start this, there is already a topic with lots of suggestions and ideas
Lets keep this subforum tidy

gasp · Post by **gasp** » 06 Feb 2003 15:50

The idea topic is locked.

Arathorn · Post by **Arathorn** » 06 Feb 2003 15:54

No it isn't. It's sticky.

Hajo · Post by **Hajo** » 06 Feb 2003 16:00

Arathorn wrote:No it isn't. It's sticky.

As sticky as a fly strip. Don't touch it or you'll be caught

At least the ideas will stick there, too, and don't get lost

c.u.
Hajo

Arathorn · Post by **Arathorn** » 06 Feb 2003 16:02

And the currently more important engine discussion doesn't get lost either.

Hajo · Post by **Hajo** » 06 Feb 2003 16:03

gasp wrote: remember: local city traffic and people.

Simutrans has local city traffic and pedestrians.

c.u.
Hajo

http://www.simutrans.de

rein · Post by **rein** » 06 Feb 2003 16:48

Hajo wrote:
gasp wrote: remember: local city traffic and people.
Advertisement:

Simutrans has local city traffic and pedestrians.

c.u.
Hajo

http://www.simutrans.de

ou, btw Hajo, what is fps limit in simutrans? i'm asking bacause all animations run a bit slow...

Hajo · Post by **Hajo** » 07 Feb 2003 08:24

rein wrote: ou, btw Hajo, what is fps limit in simutrans? i'm asking bacause all animations run a bit slow...

Frame time won't go lower than 28ms (so max FPS is 1000/28=35 FPS). If your PC is too fast, Simutrans starts to give away CPU time to other processes.

Animations (buildings etc.) have a frame time of 300ms IIRC. That's a little more than 3 frames per second.

It's a tradeoff. Higher FPS means less time for the simulation engine, thus less vehicels for the player and worse response times. I tried to find a compromise that works well.

But Simutrans graphics system isn't very fast anyways. Simutrans graphics system is designed to be very portable. Between the OS/Hardware and Simutrans there is an adaption layer that helps to keep the program code platform independant. The drawback of this solution is that the adaption layers interface is the smallest common interface of all supported platforms, and therefore it is often a little inefficient. Benefits are that Simuntrans could be very simply ported to many platforms.

ATM below the adaption layer there is SDL used, which itself is an adaption layer so you might say this is quite silly to have an adaption layer as part of Simutrans. But when Simutrans started I didn't know about SDL (I think it didn't even exist) and wrote my own adaption layers for X-Windows and DOS.

If you go for hardware accelerated graphics the frame rates will easily be much higher than those Simutrans can get with it's graphics engine.

c.u.
Hajo

gasp · Post by **gasp** » 07 Feb 2003 16:27

Graphics are tooo poor. Hey, there is a translation in brazilian portuguese!!!

Hajo · Post by **Hajo** » 07 Feb 2003 16:40

gasp wrote:Graphics are tooo poor. Hey, there is a translation in brazilian portuguese!!!

I'd like to get help to improve the graphics. I just can't paint any better and many of my helper cannot, too. Please take a look at my last messages in the thread: "Who will be doing what." I'm quite desperately looking for help with the graphics.

c.u.
Hajo

Topic locked, really old moot (12112006).

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