[Athelstone]

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I probably would've waited to release this, as it's in a very incomplete state. Then again, if the intent was to make the engine development more open, I guess that was unavoidable, hey.

There were two main intents really -

The first was to show what we had developed so far since the project began in March, so as to secure the community's faith.

The second - and main purpose - was to excite people, so as to encourage further artistic contributions. The success of the project depends upon high quality art from the community. Many hands make light work, as they say. The more high-quality artistic contributions we receive, the quicker the project will be developed.

By the way, here's Steve's music:
http://www.filedropp...dhillscubasteve
http://www.filedropp...creenscubasteve

This post has been edited by Athelstone: 15 September 2008 - 10:25 PM

[Eshadow]

This isn't too shabby, Nice things you got going here.

[Mad Echidna]

http://digg.com/pc_games/Sonic_the_Hedgeho...h_Demo_Released

DIGG THIS SHIT PPL

[Canned Karma]

Wow, consider me blown away by the quality of this. Echoing what's already been said about physics as well.

The system reqs for this are greatly over stated - with the exception of my CPU I'm running half of what was supposed to be necessary for it. Runs smooth as silk. Fantastic job.

Post-awe edit: Though I haven't run into the clipping issue described earlier in the 4x version, the physics for the S pipe in the 1x seem skewed. You need no velocity at all, to the point of standing right next to it, to get sucked in and propelled about halfway up through it. This also applies if you have maximum speed going into it. Aside from that, you can see that there isn't much in the way of exponential speed dropoff when running/spindashing up the right wall in the 1x. Looked to me like Sonic maintains a certain speed most of the way up the wall and then invisible brakes are applied suddenly.

Rest assured I'll be playing, er, 'testing' the crap out of this one extensively in the days to come, pre-alpha or not!

This post has been edited by Canned Karma: 15 September 2008 - 10:48 PM

[NioZero]

[sonicblur]

Full-screen works fine for me in VMWare Fusion. Not sure if that helps any, but the fact that it's working there suggests that graphics cards aren't the source of the Full-screen problems people are having.
Running under Windows XP with up-to-date Direct X.

[Arthas]

I got it running in wine. Great stuff so far guys! the physics were great, and it ran just fine on my computer. To those who couldn't run it in Wine yet, try extracting the required dlls to the game folder. (running wine 1.1.4 btw)
edit :
Winereg settings:
I only changed stuff under this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Wine->Direct3D:
DirectDrawRenderer -> opengl
Multisampling -> enabled
OffscreenRenderingMode -> backbuffer
PixelShaderMode -> enabled
UseGLSL -> enabled
VertexShaderMode -> hardware

This post has been edited by Arthas: 15 September 2008 - 10:42 PM

[BuffaloWilder]

Post settings, please.

[Hitaxas]

The physics on this are pretty good, besides the rolling acceleration and declaration. Acceleration was too fast, and the declaration also seemed fast.

[Spexfox]

Doing well though there are bugs and optimizations of course. It definitely needs some fine-tuning in the graphics rendering department but my biggest issue is that this is an HD project with no widescreen support. Now don't get me wrong. If you decide to slap black-bars on the side of the screen when running in fullscreen mode (which didn't work for me I'm afraid) then that's fine. The viewable area obvious affects the gameplay to a degree. But I would love to see the viewable play area expand with widescreen monitors and screens. =3

[Elratauru]

The fullscreen mode is at 1280 x 960 I think... The resolution must be that to work If I remember.

Mmm Here I got a Celeron 2.4ghz, 1024 ram, geforce 6200 256mb, and the X4 is working 60/60... Awesome.

[muteKi]

That would explain it -- I'm 160 pixels short.

[King]

Wow, glad to see the progress so far! Keep up the good work guys.

[Wolf Rogers]

Very Nice Job! First off, My Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
nVidia 8600GT 256MB
1GB PC6400 Ram

Whilst running the x4 Demo, Framerate never dropped below 57 and at an average guess, used around 380MB Ram, Window Mode, controlling with a PS Controller, 1280x960 on a 1280x1024 Desktop. Runs very smooth and extremely well.

Full Screen worked, on x2, bumped the ram usage up to around 400MB, still ran extremely well.

Also, noticed you're using WAVs for the sound fx, if you want to reduce space, go for lossless, I've converted those sounds into both FLAC and APE, FLAC caused some problems but APE worked perfectly, both are open source.

[Neko Kit Su]

Epic awesome, guys @_@ I played a bit with Sonic and Knuckles, and the engine is so good, I was giggling myself shitless like some little schoolgirl. XD Good job.

This post has been edited by Neko Kit Su: 15 September 2008 - 10:54 PM