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I'm back. I uploaded another alpha (too much alphas :( ).
Although externally it haven't changed much, internally there was a heavy work.

You can hear music radio (if you have internet connection, of course). If you press P it connects to a radio station (P key doesn't work on main menu, you must use ingame).

I started the development of an external config tool.
As inside the game some config changes can be complex, I moved many options to this external tool.

Its development goes on well. There is a screenie on the homepage.

I have done many changes on loading process. One of the bottlenecks was the SMD files. As they are text files, it takes some time to read the values inside it. So I convert them on a format similar to the structures I use on the game (and I take the opportunity to add small changes on these, like adding environmental textures).

Now it takes less that 200 ms to load all objects. The animation files still remains as SMD.
I also removed the zipped files. It's good to have zip files, but the unpack process can take some time. And the game won't be too big, so it's the same if it uses 10 or 30MB of space. Now I load all the files of the game in less than 300ms.
Most of the load time (66%) is wasted building mipmaps. I could make them staticly instead on runtime. But for now I think it isn't necessary.
If you can't wait 3-6 seconds you have a big problem...

I think I'll finally use this library.
One of the coolest things of that library is that allows internet streaming.
I have been listening several internet radio stations inside TVStation and works fine!

So you'll have three music options:
-Original TVStation soundtrack
-CD playbackl (probably)
-Internet Radio Stations

We'll keep working on the game.

The news room is almost complete. It left constants adjustement and better graphics.
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The MD3 to SMD conversion was succesful. As a colateral effect, the rendering speed was increased (vertex arrays instead of inmediate mode). And the new model looks better on game.... read more

This change drastically improves the animations of (the future) models.
With MD3 animation and model are joined on the same file. With SMD animation and models are separated. We can use different models for the same model. And I know how to animate skeletal models (more or less :P), so I can animate for myself.

The problem is that I must change all MD3 objects to SMD format.

Check out the screenshoots to see a new (possible) player model.

Changes on version 0.05

-Added 4 Archives Rooms. Now you can move programs to your briefcase. Useful to sell old films.
-Bug fix when press space.
-Added TV Info. When the cursor is placed over the TV screen, a new popup appears.
-Programmer now shows the total programs per subgenre.
-When you place an advertising on programmer, now a copy of the advertising remains on your cursor.
-TV buttons now bright.

Changelog:

Fixed many bugs.
Added Load/Save feature. With keys F5-F8 you can save 4 states.
With keys F1-F4 you load one of the 4 states.
Test program database translated to english.

To 99% of people the CVS isn't useful at all, only to see how active the project is.

After many fights with WinCVS, SSH, PuTTy and more I finally imported my tvtycoon folder.
But some unknown reason, my WinCVS 1.2 "doesn't work" with SSH, it says me something strange. WinCVS probably works correctly, it's me that I don't have idea of how CVS works :)
I downloaded a WinCVS 1.3 beta and that works fine.
It's the first time I use CVS, so I hope I didn't destroy anything ^_^U. ... read more

Yum Yum, many changes on this release ^_^
Maybe they aren't a lot of changes for you, but for me it's a lot. Check out the home page:
http://tvtycoon.sourceforge.net/
and the release notes on dowloads to see what's new:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80024

AainaalyaA AA has joined to our project.

His role will be 2D Graphic Artist, he will create some graphics for the game.
He will make up a bit the face of our monster ^_^