KaM Remake -> Multiplayer Demo out!

[FallenLeader]

ok, sounds good.

its not that its boring but some people "me" are not very good and would like to pass missions that we end up stuck on for months.

[harold]

Hey Krom (and Lewin). I was wondering, how do you calculate the correct frames for the units when they walk? It seems that there are 8 frames in the animation, but there are 11 frames per tile that a normal-speed unit walks, and yet they end up on the same index every time they stop at their destination. How is this possible? How did you solve this?

[Krom]

Well, we just add to AnimationStep each frame and when render MOD it by animation steps count.

RenderFrame:=AnimationStep MOD AnimationStepsCount;

[harold]

That works? Wouldn't that make it stop at different frames?

[Krom]

It does, but that's hardly noticable anyway. When unit stops it just swaps AnimationStep with StayStillStep (which is frame on which unit looks standing still ok)

[JBSnorro]

May I ask how you defined that StayStillStep? If it is a constant, may I know its value? Because I can't find a value for which standing units in all directions are shown corrently.

[Krom]

So far it's more or less guessing. Most of the units look ok at default Step=1, but e.g. with Serfs I had to make a patch and same goes for laborers. Especially tricky is laborers work phases, e.g. that house building progress should increase on the frame where laborers hammere meets the site.

We have no working solution yet. More like quick patches and fixes at places where wrongness is abviously seen. AFAIK KaM has no StayStill or alike data in DAT files. If you find one that would be apreciated

[Krom]

Work on Remake continues. I've finally passed my exams and now I have a bit more time to prepare promised demo release..

Still struggling with unit-interaction thing, I don't think I can make it work good enough to include into demo yet :oops:

EDIT: Typos..

[Necrathex]

I would be thrilled to see a demo of kam-remake, however crude

[Krom]

It's not crude at all, just has some bugs we are hoping to get fixed

[Nick]

remakes are the only hope now since the source will never be released
And since i found a way to run windows apps directly on osx, I'm back

u got any date information? like in 1 week, 2 months...

[Krom]

I guess couple of weeks of work will be enough, that means upto a month in real-life circumstances.. Anyway, thats the scale of numbers

[Krom]

How do you like this new statistics screen?

http://krom.reveur.de/Temp/kam_remake_statistics_page.png

We tried to keep old KaM idea - corresponding houses and units in one row and to include all houses and units, so they fit in default size area.

Some constructive critics are welcome

P.S. Houses replaced with question marks are those that can't be built yet.

[Litude]

Well it looks a bit cramped but I don't see any other way to do it if you want to keep the associations.

[Nick]

erm well i cant rly say a constructive critic as i dont know exactly why i dont like it...
Maybe because its a bit chaotic at first glance or that i'm not used to it :S
Maybe try to fill the free space on the bottom?