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BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 31 Oct 2003 16:07

You know that simulation game I'm making? Well I've finally disposed of that annoying problem I had for ages, and can start actually coding the engine. So far, all you can do is place trees, but hey, it's a start!

Attached is a screenshot...

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 31 Oct 2003 18:03

Are the trees extracted from GRF files or did you make a PCX/GIF/JPG/BMP/WHATEVER file?

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 31 Oct 2003 18:32

Each sprite IS a file.

Besides, extracting them from any kind of file is hard....

TBOT · Post by **TBOT** » 01 Nov 2003 13:07

BobXP wrote:Besides, extracting them from any kind of file is hard....

The TTS GRF decoder is 135 lines of code, and I didn't think it was 'hard' to code.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 01 Nov 2003 14:43

TBOT wrote:
BobXP wrote:Besides, extracting them from any kind of file is hard....
The TTS GRF decoder is 135 lines of code, and I didn't think it was 'hard' to code.

just use grfcodec source

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 01 Nov 2003 14:45

Then he has to release the source code if somebody wants (GPL)

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 01 Nov 2003 15:31

SHADOW-XIII wrote:just use grfcodec source

I'll bet that grfcodec wasn't written in VB

Besides, there's no way I'm releasing the source of such a massive and complicated project

Post by **orudge** » 01 Nov 2003 16:39

Hmmm, Visual Basic... good luck. For the result of the last game I (started to) write in Visual Basic (twice), see this article.

eis_os · Post by **eis_os** » 01 Nov 2003 16:45

Hmm, my old WinRT was written in VB too

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 02 Nov 2003 23:43

orudge wrote:Hmmm, Visual Basic... good luck. For the result of the last game I (started to) write in Visual Basic (twice), see this article.

I take it you don't like the "Visual" side of VB then...?

IE: You don't seem to use controls... from the screenshots anyway

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 03 Nov 2003 19:48

BobXP wrote:Besides, there's no way I'm releasing the source of such a massive and complicated project

Wow. Now there's masochism if ever I saw it

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 03 Nov 2003 20:02

ChrisCF wrote:
BobXP wrote:Besides, there's no way I'm releasing the source of such a massive and complicated project
Wow. Now there's masochism if ever I saw it

Yes, it's obviously several times more complicated than Linux.

(The only reason I can see for keeping it is to sell the game at some time.)

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 03 Nov 2003 20:11

Oracle wrote:(The only reason I can see for keeping it is to sell the game at some time.)

Not really a nice thing to be doing, is that.

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 04 Nov 2003 19:15

Didn't I tell you, it's going to be free! Besides, who's going to start buying a game if it's been free for ages?

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 04 Nov 2003 19:44

BobXP wrote:Didn't I tell you, it's going to be free!

Eh?

BobXP wrote:Besides, there's no way I'm releasing the source of such a massive and complicated project

Err, you appear to be contradicting yourself. If you aren't releasing the source, it can't really be free, can it?

Post by **orudge** » 04 Nov 2003 19:46

BobXP wrote:I take it you don't like the "Visual" side of VB then...?

IE: You don't seem to use controls... from the screenshots anyway

Well, I didn't really think they suited themselves to a game like that.

Chris 'Awkward' McKenna · Post by **Chris 'Awkward' McKenna** » 04 Nov 2003 19:47

opensource does mean free, but free does not necessarily mean opensource, so he isn't contradicting himself.

Chris

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 04 Nov 2003 19:48

I think you got that the wrong way around there.

DominionSpy · Post by **DominionSpy** » 04 Nov 2003 19:49

ChrisCF wrote:
BobXP wrote:Didn't I tell you, it's going to be free!
Eh?
BobXP wrote:Besides, there's no way I'm releasing the source of such a massive and complicated project
Err, you appear to be contradicting yourself. If you aren't releasing the software, it can't really be free, can it?

He is releasing the software (binaries), but not the source code.

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 04 Nov 2003 19:58

d'oh!

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