Battlez0wned: 3D tank combat on networked HYDRAs (sneak peek)

[mpark]

I hope to have this running at NWCGE in Portland (Oregon) this weekend, so if you're in the neighborhood, drop by. Otherwise you'll have to settle for this blurry video and pic:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e708sfBKfoU

Sorry about the low picture quality. I hope you can make out what's going on.



Michael


EDIT: Changed video link to YouTube.

Post Edited (mpark) : 4/4/2010 5:19:15 PM GMT

[Ym2413a]

oh my god... THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :)

[Baggers]

Yeah, what he said lol

[CardboardGuru]

Looks fantastic! Have you networked 2 Hydras, or are you somehow running both TVs off the same one?

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[JT Cook]

Ditto, that is pretty cool.

Vecter deathmatch.

[Bamse]

Very impressive...

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[mpark]

Thanks, guys! I just wish I had enough memory left for sound.

CardboardGuru, it's two HYDRAs connected with HYDRA-NET (phone cord).

[JT Cook]

Are you using 4 color bitmap or 2 color bitmap?

[potatohead]

Excellent!!

Well now I'm just gonna have to show up at the show.

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[mpark]

JT -- it's 4-color. I don't think I want to give up my 3 shades of glowing green for sound, if that's where you're headed. I'd rather explore writing a teeny-tiny sound driver.

Potatohead -- Please do!





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[Coley]

Wow!

Well done mpark, I can't wait to see the finished article if this is WIP....

Coley

[Baggers]

Is there going to be a one player version?

[mpark]

I'm not particularly interested in single-player, mostly because I have no idea how to do the enemy AI. However, if someone would like to give it a shot we could maybe collaborate.

[Baggers]

sure :)

[mpark]

Cool! But I must warn you there's hardly any room left for AI.

What I'll do is clean things up a bit (and hopefully save some memory) and just post the source for two-player. I believe the value of this program is less as a game and more as a demonstration of the power of the Propeller. I wrote the whole thing in Spin; the only assembly language is in the drivers (standard Parallax TV and graphics drivers).

The point being: This is something you can do with brain-dead algorithms in unoptimized Spin. Now imagine what you could do with some real coding--and do it!

Heading off to Portland now. Hope I can get online at some point.

[Baggers]

Ok, sounds like a plan, :)
yes, the propeller is an amazing chip, we can't thank Chip enough for this great gift to us all :)
Hope you have fun at Portland.

Baggers.

[JT Cook]

I live in central Iowa, so Portland OR is a little out of my way.
But I would imagine there would be enough memory for a single player version if someone made a seperate app and pulled all the networking code.

[Baggers]

Pulling the network code was going to be my first port of call if the memory ran out doing AI.

[AndreL]

This is totally sweet, glad someone used my network port. Using a phone cable and reflection cancellation and hours of Oscope work to get it to work doesn't help if no one uses it :) So I am glad this first game is such an amazing demo.

Andre'

[Ym2413a]

How many cogs does it take so far when running? :)
I got an idea!