Experimental 'Wall buster' mode. Press and hold the 'd' key to enable it (your bike'll turn silver), and run right through the next wall. Hold for at most a second, recharges in at most 5 seconds (if you don't use it for more than 0.5 seconds, you can use it again in 2.5 seconds). Lemme know what you think (apart from the obvious that you want to know how much 'Wall buster' you have left.
Bugfixes
Please post here if this version works for you. Please mention if you used the patch or the full download.
Andreas
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and drag & drop each artpack folder onto it. It'll create a new 'walls.png' file inside the folder, which is just a concatenation of the four gltron_wall_[1-4].png files.
Lemme know if this works for you
Andreas
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Ok, I fixed the walls using gimp by combining them to create a 64x1024 file from the four 64x256 pieces. The floor isn't right, though. It's missing its transparency. Other than that, it looks about right.
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You don't have permission to access /stuff/fixartpack.bat on this server.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.gltron.org Port 8080"
It doesn't matter, though because I fixed the walls manually. How about the floor transparency? I'm using the binary" artpack if you want to see what I mean.
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Don't worry about it. Like I said, I figured out how to manually fix the problem with my trusty gimp. It's still a nice tool, and I shall keep it for any other artpack issues. Do you have any idea how I can fix the floor transparency issue, though? I hate to sound like a broken record.
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Yes, I broke the floor transparency (unintentionally) when I added the planar reflections. Reflections and transparency don't go well with each other, I guess when a tile is semi-transparent, the reflection should be weaker too. I'm trying to find a way to render this effect properly (without too much of a speed-hit).
Andreas
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I'd like to be able to build them myself (and hence be able to quickly put up a beta), but I still need some help from Darrell to update/convert the project files...
I''ll post one as soon as that's done.
Andreas
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The HUD creater is still suffering from lack of exposure to the beta with his creation in it! Also, he would like to hand you the version with the "official" colors, but he can't!
Oh yeah, and by the way, when I handed you the PNGs for the HUD components, they were mostly transparent. What happened to the transparency? Also, is there any way you can fix the rough un-anti-aliased edges around the HUD? Just wondering...
Sniff... I wan't the latest version on OS X :'(
Ah, well, I can wait some more.
Andrew
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I've bugged Darrell about modifying the OS X build process so I can make the binaries myself (I only have a 10.2 (Jaguar) OS X, so I can't use the fancy new 'XCode' stuff...
Andreas
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Patch from 1005 (100kb):
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/patch-0.71-1005-to-1006.zip
Full-Download (3.3MB):
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/gltron-0.71-beta-1006-1.exe
What's new:
Experimental 'Wall buster' mode. Press and hold the 'd' key to enable it (your bike'll turn silver), and run right through the next wall. Hold for at most a second, recharges in at most 5 seconds (if you don't use it for more than 0.5 seconds, you can use it again in 2.5 seconds). Lemme know what you think (apart from the obvious that you want to know how much 'Wall buster' you have left.
Bugfixes
Please post here if this version works for you. Please mention if you used the patch or the full download.
I introduced a small bug that broke wall acceleration, here's the updated url's:
Patch (can also be used to patch 1006):
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/patch-0.71-1005-to-1007.zip
Full Download:
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/gltron-0.71-beta-1007-1.exe
Sorry for the inconvenience...
I liked the reorganization of the menus, but it still needs artpack compatability (or a conversion tool) and a HUD toggle option.
-Brandon
Download and install ImageMagick (it's an awesome command line based image processing toolkit) from
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick-6.1.6-Q16-windows-dll.exe
Now get
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/fixartpack.bat
and drag & drop each artpack folder onto it. It'll create a new 'walls.png' file inside the folder, which is just a concatenation of the four gltron_wall_[1-4].png files.
Lemme know if this works for you
Ok, here's a patch for 1007 that takes care of the HUD options:
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/patch-0.71-1005-to-1007.zip
Happy now? :-)
ARGH: Pasted the wrong URL! Ok, here's the correct one (about 7kb)...
http://www.gltron.org/stuff/patch-0.71-1007-to-1008.zip
Thanks for the HUD toggle menu. I couldn't download the patch bat due to lack of persmissions.
Ok, I fixed the walls using gimp by combining them to create a 64x1024 file from the four 64x256 pieces. The floor isn't right, though. It's missing its transparency. Other than that, it looks about right.
I just double-checked the links. The permissions are correct, and it works for me here.
"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /stuff/fixartpack.bat on this server.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.gltron.org Port 8080"
It doesn't matter, though because I fixed the walls manually. How about the floor transparency? I'm using the binary" artpack if you want to see what I mean.
Duh! I thought you said 'patch' in your last post. Of course I didn't check the permissions for the batch file. Fixed it now.
Sorry for the screw-up.
Don't worry about it. Like I said, I figured out how to manually fix the problem with my trusty gimp. It's still a nice tool, and I shall keep it for any other artpack issues. Do you have any idea how I can fix the floor transparency issue, though? I hate to sound like a broken record.
Yes, I broke the floor transparency (unintentionally) when I added the planar reflections. Reflections and transparency don't go well with each other, I guess when a tile is semi-transparent, the reflection should be weaker too. I'm trying to find a way to render this effect properly (without too much of a speed-hit).
Any chance of an OS X version ever?
I'd like to be able to build them myself (and hence be able to quickly put up a beta), but I still need some help from Darrell to update/convert the project files...
I''ll post one as soon as that's done.
The HUD creater is still suffering from lack of exposure to the beta with his creation in it! Also, he would like to hand you the version with the "official" colors, but he can't!
Oh yeah, and by the way, when I handed you the PNGs for the HUD components, they were mostly transparent. What happened to the transparency? Also, is there any way you can fix the rough un-anti-aliased edges around the HUD? Just wondering...
Sniff... I wan't the latest version on OS X :'(
Ah, well, I can wait some more.
Andrew
I had an e-mail exchange about OSX with Darrell yesterday. Fear not, help is on its way :-)
I'd really like the .71 10007 build Beta for OS X.
The sooner, the better =)
I've bugged Darrell about modifying the OS X build process so I can make the binaries myself (I only have a 10.2 (Jaguar) OS X, so I can't use the fancy new 'XCode' stuff...
Its comforting to know its getting worked on.