Client rebuild

tester · Post by **tester** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:07 pm

bone-you wrote:
tester wrote:
bone-you wrote: lol what's up with hb2. What happened and why did it disappear?
IRL > HB2

xDxD

Cheers Tester
haha true true. Some of the features looked so promising. I looked forward to some (not so much others like the class system x.x) and then it just disappeared.

Anyway, with this client, I really want to remake the HG too. Dax and I had a thinking session and we thought of dynamic HGs in the Log server that can be loaded with a click of a button in its own separate thread and all. Given it'd have to be very stable, it's a pretty good idea. No more gateserver or anything. Gateserver would turn into a simple function for() loop xD

Dynamically loading so that you can still open/close the hgs like normal. I think I just may attempt it because I already have my logs and now working on the client. It'd be an entire game rebuild at that point ^^

The HG needs more recoding than the client does anyway.

Shitloads of work tbh, but whatever makes u happy xD

Cheers Tester

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:53 pm

Here's the converter. It serves as a full converter and as a single pak converter. It also converts between my method back to bmp and vice versa allowing an easy drag-drop editing

It can also extract full .paks too. ^^

Basically you'd use it on a fresh install and then add in your custom paks by single conversion.

It'll be publicly released as my client will only be able to read my image structure and not .paks

Charles · Post by **Charles** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:26 pm

Press the ANY key to quit.

sorry couldn't keep that one to myself lol

tester · Post by **tester** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:51 pm

bone-you wrote: Here's the converter. It serves as a full converter and as a single pak converter. It also converts between my method back to bmp and vice versa allowing an easy drag-drop editing

It can also extract full .paks too. ^^

Basically you'd use it on a fresh install and then add in your custom paks by single conversion.

It'll be publicly released as my client will only be able to read my image structure and not .paks

Nice concept, hoping to see some early results from it soon

Cheers Tester

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:39 pm

Charles wrote: Press the ANY key to quit.

sorry couldn't keep that one to myself lol

I had to put that there.

DInput is being mad gay so I'm ripping it to pieces right now.

Now that I see my G15's LCD, I got 98% ram usage of 4gb. From all the debugging and process halting I must have run this shit up to the roof. I guess a restart is in order xD That might be why.

Drazz · Post by **Drazz** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:10 am

bone-you wrote: Here's the converter. It serves as a full converter and as a single pak converter. It also converts between my method back to bmp and vice versa allowing an easy drag-drop editing

It can also extract full .paks too. ^^

Basically you'd use it on a fresh install and then add in your custom paks by single conversion.

It'll be publicly released as my client will only be able to read my image structure and not .paks

You talk like Bill Gates (closed software/closed data format)

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:37 pm

Drazz wrote:
bone-you wrote: Here's the converter. It serves as a full converter and as a single pak converter. It also converts between my method back to bmp and vice versa allowing an easy drag-drop editing

It can also extract full .paks too. ^^

Basically you'd use it on a fresh install and then add in your custom paks by single conversion.

It'll be publicly released as my client will only be able to read my image structure and not .paks
You talk like Bill Gates (closed software/closed data format)

The issue was, with the current .pak format, the bmp types (8bit or 24bit) made it a bit hard to read the colorkeys. 8bit having color indexes while 24bit being raw RGB. On top of that, quite a few of the 24bit images had little errors in it that made it so the image bases didn't line up. That doesn't quite work for a system that needs it to be perfect. It may work for stech because in ddraw they just wrote the bmp to a surface to get the colorkey. I get it from the bmp itself. What my converter does is it reads the paks and extracts them all to bmp in a format D3D can process and read properly. Also, transparency works 100% now

It had to be done one way or another for this to work. ^^ I think I put more time into the texture structure than the client itself. The conversion tool is an editors dream come true. All you do is create a bmp and it converts it for you. It'll be able to create rects too but not yet. In that case, all you'll have to do is drag-drop a txt file onto it with the rects ^^ How easy is that compared to pak editing? Also with this, you can use high quality 24bit/32bit bmp formats for ALL images (with .paks, they were locked to whatever they originally were otherwise you had to recreate the entire .pak).

Aryes · Post by **Aryes** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:50 pm

Congratulations Jimmy.

Like Hypno, I've never tried to code on D3D, it seems to make the client "Fly" with the improved fps.

If you're able to achieve the 100% recoding (i'm sure you'll do), you will be able to use 800x600 without problems, because now the fps at 800x600 sucks even at good machines.

I'd like to have the time to try your client, but my job and my daughter are consuming 100% of my time now. Also, I have a serious problem with the internet here

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By the way, as you've said, you're not making it open source. It means you're planning to raise a hb server again? I'm sure that making it only to learn is not in your plans

.

Hey Dax! Still alive?

I'll try to chat with you in some days, I'm installing internet again

.

Dax · Post by **Dax** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:46 pm

Aryes wrote: Hey Dax! Still alive? I'll try to chat with you in some days, I'm installing internet again .

ARYES!! Can't wait till you're back

! It's been too long

<3

Charles · Post by **Charles** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:52 pm

nice to know everything is good on your side Aryes.

bone-you · Post by **bone-you** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:04 am

Well well. There's a face I haven't seen in a while

How ya been? xD

tester · Post by **tester** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:06 pm

lol hi aryes !

*Bored in java class, spamming forums*

Cheers Tester

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