Fourth KaM Remake Demo is ready. This demo includes several big features most important of which - melee fighting! Other features are - improved stability and performance, TSK and TPR campaign screens, replay function, built-in map editor beta.
It's been almost half a year since last major demo release. This is because we were busy with real-life activities, but as time goes more and more lines of code gets written, even at slower pace, this means new demo will be.
Please read included Readme, it has all the info.
I'm not good with words, maybe Lewin will add more info to this post later
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It's about time to announce my secret KaM project:
KaM Remake
I've been working on it for some time now and already made some good progress. I could finally be sure it's not going to die in a sandbox.
It takes it's roots in KaM Editor. Since that is a whole another level of coding it took almost complete rewrite and restucturing of code (huge thanks goes to my friend Alex who actually introduced new core design). Still Editor code (especially it's graphic part) largely reused. I'm still using same basis: Delphi6+OpenGL.
KaM Remake is planned to reach at least KaM TSK level without any changes nor radical new features. Then we'll see. I don't want to plan something out of reach now.
At the moment I'm working on building part of game. Just finished road building and going to move on to houses
Project is started ~2 months ago. Working on 2 projects which use one base, but became very different is uneasy. That is why KaM Editor gets only bugfixes recently.
P.S. I don't care about "Why do we need 2 projects" talks. As TheKnight said in other topic - only one of 10 started projects is actually finished. Mine is only third in this row (OpenKAM-TKE-Castlesand)
Last edited by Krom on Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:32 pm; edited 11 times in total
Ah... One of the things I hoped. Now the chance of a ''new'' KaM is only bigger!
But why do you make this? For the same reason as Harold and JBSnorro? A KaM with less (or none, if possible) bugs and maybe multiplayer support?
Can you guess how long it will take you to fully complete it?
And as JBSnorro said: OpenKaM is dead.
Sometimes it lives again, but that is only for (approximately) one day.
But why do you make this? For the same reason as Harold and JBSnorro? A KaM with less (or none, if possible) bugs and maybe multiplayer support?
Can you guess how long it will take you to fully complete it?
I make it for same reason I did KaM Editor in first place
Because I like playing KaM. Aswell for own pleasure and skills improvement.
I guess it takes 2-3 years for one person to complete something like that from scratch. If I'm lucky and have free summer - maybe a year or so.
I did most of the gamelogic in half a year or so, with an average of 1.5 hours a day... About 50 % of that time I was creating animations..... That was really boring. Have you done that already Krom?
All animations I did in about 2 weeks, I can't imagine why it could took any longer
I used unit.dat and houses.dat files (had to decode animation steps there). Another week went into adapting it to Editor render code. Later on I shall spend another week or so to make all sprites draw in right order (top-to-bottom), cause atm they are rendered random (see farmers head overlapped by farm).
I'm busy with village logic now, started house building today with queueing and drawing a border around the site.
I miss pathfinding, so far units walk shortest way diregarding any obstacles.
Why should I be unwilling to tell it? You think we are competitors or something I prefer to think we are making one job in the end, why not help each other
I already posted about unit.dat file - grab my code in nearby topic.
Data goes right as I posted structures of it. Opening units.dat in hex-editor will give you good overview of it. If you have any specific questions about it - I'm here to help you (not in this topic, in TKE maybe).
Once you acquire that code I will tell you what I know about houses.dat (it's very similar to units).
Looks impressive.
Unfortunately coding takes so much time, I want to test this today
No, to be honest, I hope you'll finish this project. And I'm sure, you do
When you got unit.dat, houses.dat isn't a problem anymore. Getting out the meaning of each value goes fast. But I still don't know everything.
Ah, what does mapelem.dat and pattern.dat include?
PS @ Krom: Do you know something about houses.dat I don't know? If yes, please tell me
Mapelem.dat is really simple, same principle. It should be called trees.dat though Same table of image indices and framecount+offset for all map objects (trees mainly).
Pattern.dat - that's a hard one, I even have no idea about what can be inside of it.. Same goes for gouraud.dat - no idea.
h2lremap.dat looks like pallete colors remap for terrain shading.
- playable under windows xp - windows "7"
- playable multiplayer mode
- deleting bugs in TPR
I only hope, that the developers don't adopt the features which are already sucks in TPR (like that at first stone will be bring to construction sites instead of wood!).
like that at first stone will be bring to construction sites instead of wood!.
I'm pretty sure there is no priority diffrence there. Imagine level 11 TSK, you only have a single laborer and 2 serfs left. They will pick up the resources of your first school practically at random. It isn't that all the stones are brought first and afterwards all wood, nor the other way around.
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Didn't know how to.... I don't suppose you're willing to tell how those 2 files work?
I prefer to think we are making one job in the end, why not help each other 