Dune II remake worklog on Boolean Soup

Land was created and the Art Of War was discovered

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:43:01 GMT

Greetings mates, we have some new intresting updates. recently me and Ecko had some understanding troubleshooting I was trying several times to explain Ecko how will the map editor work - how will the tiles be placed on the screen (warcraft\starcraft style)... and he was trying to explain to me the order of placing tiles in our tile sheet - we both failed with our explanations. [x] good news is, we found a solution to our little problem , we made a new tile sheet and a new tile placing functions - hahaha. [x] muhahaha our scouts discovered the art of war and began spraying each other with hot lead awsome display of gun fire! By Ariel_Yust the display was quit fast, everyone were shooting on burst mode in the end there was nothing left from the blue team but shame. [x] everything works great! we have tiles with there borders working, but modifications are in progress as you can see we have some problems with the edges but we are working on it , we use high spice inspired from Dune2 and the rocks on the dirt can be use by infantry which aren't implimented yet into the game hehehe [x] another intresting thing is the planing of the harvester... yes I dislike that stupid design of the harvester in the dune games! they couldn't invent something better?! jeez I hate it! its big with wierd shape! berly moves and harvest spice :| and I don't think it would have been used in the future so I invented my own harvester design a very unique design muhahahahah! my harvester is a walking harvester - has much more mobility then the normal dune harvester! it looks better! it has strong spot lights and any fictionary vision that you would like! and it walks into a field without ruining the spice! and collects the spice from its bottom part, most efficient! By Ariel_Yust My harvester will never sink in the sand! because Ecko won't progrem it to!

day amm... >_< DOH!

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:57:21 GMT

greetings we had lots of updates but I didn't have the power to write them down because ammm I'm lazy and I'm studying for my psycometry test... anyway... [x] we have left Fenix compiler and moved to Bennu, we are now using wip 11 by and stuff stoped crashing on me in vista 64bit! thats exellent news! [x] new net.dll was made for Bennu compiler because the old one didn't want to work well with our game, it seems his new dll works like a charm! [x] multiplayer works great! but not between me and Ecko for some stupid and annoying reason my ping with Ecko is 4300ms!!! OMG!!! Sandmans help was requiested and so it seems that I won't be able to play with Ecko or anyone from netherlands btw Sandman has a ping of 30ms to Ecko - bastards! >_< [x] Ecko fixed a missing hitpoint in one of the units - very good Ecko keep that up ^_^ [x] I worked hard and managed to make that gui finaly! heres a screenshot dudes! all menus are accessible using the gui you press the game menu button and the radar turns into a menu with everything real comfortble and pritty! [x] the radar is starting to take shape, we can see the pixeled terrian and can move to places on the map by clicking on the radar somewhere and soon units and buildings will apear on it as well [x] OMG!!! - buildings can now walk everywhere hehehe [x] units can fire at other units and destroy them ! MUHAHAHAH [o] destroyed scout gfx must be made [o] map editor should be made [o] radar should be finished [o] new building gfx should be designed - I dont lik the old one...

day 14

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:22:55 GMT

[x] I drew a gui, well not all of it I have the good looking gui for the game and I'm still working on selections and biulding proporties and etc... [x] Ecko used his awsome coding skills to make a credit counter like in the casino machines and like in dune 2 - but better because he used my graphics heres a screenshot to prove that I'm right - as usual By Ariel_Yust you see its moving! XD hahahahaha [x] we found out a real awsome fenix bug today - again - when Ecko tried to make those units mazzle shots (flashs), that I have mentioned before... we consulted Sandman and found out that on Bennu the same code does work without a crash... another point goes for Bennu! - good job! Sandman [o] need to finish all the GUI graphics oh man! [o] must finish homeworks for the course of the psycometery test (S.E.T) >_< [o] must find a bugfix for stalker clear sky! damn thats one annoying and bloody full of bugs game!

day 11

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:23:39 GMT

okay long time I didn't update this worklog I had some very importent guests ^_^ and lots of doing lately ^_^ but! it doesnt means that we didn't continue our project [x] multiplayer is supported now, we have connection between people who doesn't use windows vista >_< because vista allways crash for no reason... shortly it is possible to host or join yey [x] we have shooting function now ^_^ units can fire burst fire at there enemys and it looks great hahaha, I drew some awsome bullete hit smoke and mazzle shot and Ecko programed a unique way to make it all work realy perfect and now were working on "shooting modes" Scouts In Action! [x] for some reason buildings were shooting enemys by them self, so now we stoped them from chasing and firing at enemys so it apears that they forgot there job in the game hehe [o] 90% progress on terrian tiles have been done so far I just need to finish the spice tiles and the slow sand tiles! and everything else is just add-on decoratives! I have the sand\rocky tiles and cliffs done! with 2 types gfx [o] shooting effects need to be worked on - adding another process to handle mazzle shots (flashs) [o] map editor is in progress [o] we gonna use flowting gui for everything thats much more modern - I hope it will be original XD

day 6

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:34:09 GMT

hhh well I didn't have much time to work on the projects graphics but I managed to draw several stuff and Ecko did progress on multiplayer system [x] we have sprites for a gunshot hit smoke for scouts [x] we have tiles for buildble rocky terrian (two options in order to avoid using repeating graphics) [x] the game now plays from a command schedule instead of direct mouse interaction. [x] thanks to schedule commands we have connection between two clients and can move and select units

day 4

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:53:08 GMT

[x] we have a selection graphics done for the units including health inside as well. I like what we have so far, I was working today on a cursor I made lots of options but I still dont know what will be used in the end... I even took a pic of my own hand with rings and all to make it look more royal hahahaha [x] now we can change colors to everyone ofcourse it means there side as well meaning we can support many sides playing togever I like this cursor more [x] buildings can build scouts and deploy them around the construction and if the construction is blocked then units will stay inside the factory untill there will be space for the unit to deploy [x] we had a problem with units moving aimlessly when they are too close to the target and its blocked by another unit... - fixed [x] fixed and grayscaled the light factory color mask and the scout unit color mask as well things to do next: --------------------- [o] I need to animate cursor [o] must draw a temporary GUI [o] must make cliffs, walls, slow sand and spice and from there we should work on the infantry movement

day 3 - [after teaming with Ecko]

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:03:35 GMT

I'm writing this worklog in order to document my work with Ecko on this Dune II remake. I will include screenshots of the engine and write about things I would like to add and things I allready have working. Lets hope to the best that we will be the first team to manage to remake this great old game ----------------------------------------------------- [x] I was working for 3 days alone making a pathfinder and working on my own engine, I drew a fremen 8 direction standing/moving/shooting sprites and managed to include them into the game engine. [x] I teamed up with Eckolin and let him program the project, now I have time to draw the graphics and a strong programer to help me make this game multiplayer. work was on its way fast and Ecko was working on a workframe quit fast. [x] Ecko made a new engine using Fenix path finder function. This time I made 8direction "scout" unit and we were programing some unit selections using draw commands, and improving our pathfinding system and for some wierd reason we got this... we still can't undentify thereason to this hell but we can assume that it's some kind of "Fenix Bug", then we stoped using the "draw_box()" command and for some reason, everything works great. [x] When sending a huge group of units to a spot, unit that couldn't reach the spot were found circeling around the area. [x] Great progress was made! groups of units, no matter the size, can now go to any spot and to gather there without causing any fps drops or circeling aimlessly around. [x] Ecko and I were making a light factory today. scouts can be built there and the building process is animeted! I have a diffrent approuch to the Dune theme and I would make it more industrial futuristic design that tends to look abit realistic as well meaning I'm gonna add much more realistic aspects to the game [x] A scout photo that will be used in the game made by me ofcourse to be continued...