http://hoverex.xullum.net/ 2006-02-08T20:56:37+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/ http://hoverex.xullum.net/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2005-11-13T06:50:45+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/arena?rev=1131893445 HoverEX calls a game environment Arena. Arena consist of three essential dynamic data that can differ from game to game. They are: Map TileSet EntitySet To make things simple for Arena building, HoverEX has a specially written editor just for t... text/html 2005-10-19T17:37:15+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/basic_physics?rev=1129768635 This subtopic is created for the basis of recording what HoverEX’s physics engine involves. It is also written in the hope that someone else writing simmilar physics simulation based game will benifit from this. They are mainly High School st... text/html 2005-10-19T17:40:01+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/collision_detection?rev=1129768801 HoverEX uses BSP method to speed up collision detection. Usually, the problem with computational physics is that the collision detection is the bottle neck. This is due to collision checking requires every objects to test for collision with the wall... text/html 2005-11-05T07:59:32+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/file_archiving?rev=1131206372 HoverEX creates it’s own zip archive for it’s tile sets, entity sets and arenas. It basically wraps around the Minizip(the code is in C, hence was wrapped to C++) code to do this. This is thanks to ClanLib not having anything close to co... text/html 2005-11-28T00:42:27+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/game_art?rev=1133167347 Fonts are essential part of a game. Fonts gives the player a certain feel and mood of the game. There are some points to take when designing a font(especially for games): easy to read. visible in all sort of background imaginable. consistent thro... text/html 2005-12-17T05:58:12+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/game_design?rev=1134827892 The Goal of HoverEX game is simply by scoring through shooting the one and only puck into the team’s own goal. This also means that say, when a puck enters the goal of Team 3, Team 3 would gain a point while others do not. The match is timed a... text/html 2005-10-24T07:59:45+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/game_interface?rev=1130165985 In Game Interface Information to Show All teams’ Scoring My Info Weapon Speed Energy Bar Bullet Slots Countdown Mini Map (Radar) Toggle Player Name and team in game Wall Line on mini map Tile Graphic on mini map Ally Marking b... text/html 2005-11-05T12:09:07+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/game_production?rev=1131221347 HoverEX is an open source game. Although we are not the first (Open TTD) but we are definitely among the pioneer who venture into open source game. As no one could give us advice and guideline on how to run an open source game project (project here ... text/html 2005-10-22T19:00:55+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/game_programming?rev=1130032855 First off, HoverEX uses almost the whole part of ClanLib; almost because it is not decided to use the Sound engine or not (ClanLib sound engine isn’t very nice at the moment.) ClanSignal ClanCore ClanDisplay ClanGui ClanNetwork ClanSound and ... text/html 2005-10-19T17:39:18+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/hovercraft_motion_simulation?rev=1129768758 This page tries to describe how HoverEX deals with the physics of simulating the motions of the objects in the game. Things to Note An important thing to note is that the calculation step for HoverEX is dynamic. It depends on the FPS and collisio... text/html 2005-11-20T12:22:55+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/installer?rev=1132518175 An installer is the first experience of a player with our game. Slow or unsuccessful game installations are the most irritating gaming experience. A quick and user friendly installer (such as Red Alert 2) is therefore an essential part of HoverEX. ... text/html 2005-11-20T15:51:08+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/join_hoverex?rev=1132530668 First of all, welcome to the HoverEX Game development team that driven by dream and passion. Focus HoverEX objectives is clear and we wants to focus on the game itself than anything else. Thus, we are neither a die hard Free Software Foundation ... text/html 2005-11-20T15:41:10+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/kickstart?rev=1132530070 HoverEX is an Open Source project, so you’re invited to contribute to it. Many cool features have been addin by other people and you too can help to make HoverEX a fun to play game! Role to Play First, please identify which role you wants t... text/html 2005-10-30T23:16:21+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/map_editor?rev=1130742981 HoverEX map editor is the means of building maps and stuffs for HoverEX. Because we belive in providing good tools for any game, we put alot of effort in building a good map editor for HoverEX. The goals of HoverEX Map Editor are: designed for eas... text/html 2005-10-19T17:26:25+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/map_generator?rev=1129767985 HoverEX uses wall lines to do collision detections. So it is essential to build the wall lines for each map. Being that wall line drawing is a daunting task and it is indeed a waste of time and wits if the map designer have to draw the wall lines in... text/html 2005-11-27T21:33:54+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/milestone?rev=1133156034 Milestone for HoverEX 2.0 release Legend OPEN – Open Task, anyone can volunteer to take this task pln – Planning, mark this status after you took the task and is figuring how to accomplish it exp – Experimenting, mark this sta... text/html 2005-10-19T17:30:39+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/network_protocol?rev=1129768239 HoverEX utilizes the ClanNetSession system to organize the network stuff. The main thing that it uses is the “channel” system to split data of different type into different “channel”. This allows easy coding and organising of... text/html 2005-10-19T17:32:44+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/particle_engine?rev=1129768364 Particle Engine Scriptable Scriptable particle effect using some open source libary, such as EGG http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/egg/index.html or the updated version http://lyrian.obnix.com/egg/ ... text/html 2005-10-19T17:29:29+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/physics_engine?rev=1129768169 The physcis engine in HoverEX uses the prediction step size model. This means that the calculation step depends on the collision time of any single object or any few objects. The engine first looks for the shortest interval of a possible collision b... text/html 2005-10-31T14:34:36+01:00 http://hoverex.xullum.net/dev/rendering_engine?rev=1130798076 The goal of the Rendering Engine for HoverEX is to beable to easily integrate the rendering and internal data of the game. For example, rendering a puck would require the direction and location of the puck. 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