BM 2 Development Log

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 12:48

to do list:
- glitches - most important, and most difficult
- green and blue nebulae - 90% finished, should not be much of a pain in the bum
- player command screen - pain in the bum
- starship constructor - too complex, best deleted to make the game less heavyweight for the loading.
~~- access sonaran nebula~~ - problem was distance indeed
~~- magic ship box and torpedo/phaser spread box~~ - DONE Smile

- planet strengths in comparison to bombarding power

*digs up flash*

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 12:49

log:

12-dec-08
- edited some controls, weapons can now also be fired by number keys 1-3. will edit more.
- ships now enter systems at half the speed, no more overshooting a planet by miles because you're going to fast!

by **Darkwing** 2008-12-23, 12:50

um, didn't the number keys control your fleet?

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 12:50

@ Darkwing: yes, they did...

23 dec 2008
- found out that vex makes mistakes... before, when you ordered your fleet to go to the planet, it said it would S@D. not anymore.
- edited controls. fleet control keys 1-8 are now F1 - F8.
- edited controls. ships now turn a bit slower, rendering them more controllable.

EDIT: darn. just found out that at warp, the sovereign class does not steer any more. fix on it's way!

by **Darkwing** 2008-12-23, 12:51

ah, I see

by Galaxy-Scarface 2008-12-23, 12:58

glad someone is trying to do this.

by **Darkwing** 2008-12-23, 12:58

yeah, and I'm glad it isn't me!

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 13:04

Darkwing wrote:yeah, and I'm glad it isn't me!

LOL, i feel used.

- found out that the sovvie isn't the only one not capable of steering at warp... working to fix...

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 14:38

really, i hate spelling mistakes. 'trunspeed instead of turnspeed' Mad

EDIT: went through testing aprox. 70 ships, to find out something still is not right. Mad

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 16:45

23 dec 2008
- turn bug FIXED. Very Happy

by **Darkwing** 2008-12-23, 16:54

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 19:11

23 dec 2008
- magic box has been hidden.

BUT...

somehow, flash didn't save that .fla completely. some things were saved good, others were screwed up.

BACK to the drawing board...

by Guest 2008-12-23, 20:01

MNIM if you need any help then I know AS and I have flash CS4

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 20:03

Thank You, i will soon get something to look at for you, but not now, considering it's 0.07 AM here. Razz

by Guest 2008-12-23, 20:08

lol it's only 23:08 here.

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 20:25

man, it's late. and since terra ain't coming back soon i might just as well go sleeping.

by Earthdeath 2008-12-23, 20:34

have fun...sleeping.

by me naam is m 2008-12-23, 20:35

yes, i will.

by me naam is m 2008-12-24, 07:21

there will probably not be much progress in the next three days, christmas activities and all.

by Jim Russ 2008-12-29, 22:44

Also, there are no graphics for some of the weapons like the Sonar's.

by **JPB18** 2009-01-01, 09:22

I think I may try help you with the remaining weapons sprites (I'm trying to learn how to do that on gimp)...

EDIT: Here's a example of a photon torpedo I made:

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 10:41

hmmm, i like

but yes, if you would want to do that, i appreciate

by **JPB18** 2009-01-01, 11:09

just... say what you need (btw, I still can't make very long beam weapons)

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 11:12

basically, all weapons work and are visible, but they don't have any HUD and buypanel sprites yet

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 12:32

1-1-2009
- ship cheat bug fixed! oh goodies, finally!
- sonata and iritium accesable. vex put them too far away from other planets. Neutral

- game now pauses and blocks the keyboard controls, preventing you from accidentally bombarding a planet or getting killed

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 16:56

JAY, screenies! oh goodies...

*starts dancing around*
Banana

by Jim Russ 2009-01-01, 17:00

Awww, I’ll miss those cheat boxes Sad

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 17:07

the ships cheat box is still there, just hidden... Twisted Evil

by **Darkwing** 2009-01-01, 17:08

man, you're making major progress there! advertise it elsewhere!

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 17:10

i'm posting the log on gathering too

by Shemuel 2009-01-01, 17:12

It looks like you've got far already.

But ugh! Is that what FF always looks like?

by **Darkwing** 2009-01-01, 17:18

no, it's the design he's chosen. they have literally hundreds of designs to choose from

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 17:19

i kept the most boring and simple skin to prevent looks compromising performance at 58 tabs open at max res.

the advantage of Firefox is skinning, i'm sure your nice pretty and slow IE8 can't do that! :p

by **Darkwing** 2009-01-01, 17:20

here's mine:

BM 2 Development Log Ff10

by Shemuel 2009-01-01, 17:22

You inadvertdly showed the staff stuff.

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 17:25

hehe. i already seen it anyway Razz

by **Darkwing** 2009-01-01, 17:26

how did you already see it?

by Shemuel 2009-01-01, 17:28

He's just boasting.

by **Darkwing** 2009-01-01, 17:28

ok, still, how did he see it?

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 17:30

DJ can do hacking, but i do mind hacking Twisted Evil

anyway, enough of the OTness now

by Shemuel 2009-01-01, 17:31

MNIM has always boasted he can see extra stuff. Just he actually can't.

by **Darkwing** 2009-01-01, 17:34

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 17:34

just joking, you're always so uptight about it

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 18:38

01-01-2009
- felt like adding another planet. say hello to Chin'toka, starfleet's private testing grounds!
- found a bug with planet sprites. somehow sprite 14 (the moonlike one) doesn't show Mad

by Quantum 75 2009-01-01, 19:14

So do you update the link every now and then or the files you download, or not at all?

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 19:20

what do you mean by that?

by Quantum 75 2009-01-01, 19:30

It wasn't that hard to understand was it?

Anyway, I mean with every update you do, do you update the link to the game or the downlodable file to play it?

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 19:34

no, i just post my progress, for now at least. maybe i will get an .swf on the net soon, when i got a place to host it or make it available for upload

by Quantum 75 2009-01-01, 19:37

Ah okay. That makes sense, mostly.

by me naam is m 2009-01-01, 20:25

hmmm.. productive day today...

it appears my 'soon' is within a hour sometimes Razz

lookie, i uploaded it!

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