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One Lane Ahead - MERGE!

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SGreth

Being the hacker I am, I've been making modifications to the source code of the Torque Game Builder engine. The *huge* downside is that whenever they come out with a new release that I want to upgrade to I have to merge my code back into the new stuff.

I was running TGB 1.0 and upgraded to TGB 1.1.1, which was a huge change. The only reason I wanted the upgrade is because they got rid of the very difficult to use and aesthetically disgusting tile editor and put it inline with the normal world editor. There are a bunch of other changes that were made too but that was the big one I wanted to pick up.

I've done the merge, tested out the game, and checked all the changes into the tree....now back to feature development!


I didn't think I was going to be able to test out a build last night (lack of testers) but gamerchicklet was able to hop in and give it a spin. The crash that I was hitting last week with DSmooth has been resolved so we were able to roll with it for more than 60 seconds. There were two bugs found that I need to fix though

- When player 1 fires, player 2's weapon energy goes down...d'oh.
- When you die, I don't restore your weapon energy back to full.

After I fix those two bugs I'm going to cook up an "in-game" menu so that you can exit/disconnect without quitting the game.

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SirPoonga·
Dude, if you needed testers you coulda asked me :) I still need to get hte torque engine. I think I got a letter a little while ago saying beta version for xna was available since I registered.
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SGreth·
Alright hombre, you're officially on \"the list\". I know you're busy doing your own dev work, so I didn't want to bother a fellow coder :)
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SirPoonga·
Heh, I am to the point where I have to be able to run the code on the real hardware. Many emulators suck at handling data storage.\r \r gamerchick, but who reads his blogs? ;)\r \r About the controllers, what do you need tested. I have a thrustmaster gamepad which I have retired as I now use a PS2 controller with USB adaptor. I also have two joysticks, a generic one and a Saitek X45 flight control system. I plan on getting either the wireless adaptor for my 360 controller or that one that does double duty too when either comes out.
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SGreth·
Well, I'm currently testing on a Logitech dual analog - \r \r http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2225,CONTENTID=8674\r \r Anything along the lines of \"controller\" (not joystick) would be great. Hell, even the PS2 controller w/ USB adapter *should* work. I'll see if I can finish up support for that this weekend. Although I'm not sure how much I'll get done since I want to hit level 43 in WoW :)\r \r
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SirPoonga·
Man, I recognize that controller, it's the one NHL06 uses in the controller setup screen.\r \r I found the other gamepad's product page.\r http://www.thrustmaster.com/eng/d_prd.php?p=T39&fam=5\r \r I have that but with the parent company's name on it, Guillemot. It's a pain in the ass since the button numbers aren't in a logical order.