[erbuka]

Tiberious, on 04 April 2012 - 01:14 AM, said:

Just to save a little hassle, I've uploaded those extra S3&K stages.

They can be found here (click the Download button).

Probably wouldn't take much time to re-make, but I figure if it can be saved, then why take it?

Thanks man, you saved a lot of my time!! ^^ I will include those on the next release, but I'm not rebuilding the installer or uploading fixes until the next release.

This is what I'm working on at the moment:
1) a new level editor which will allow the editing of the stage's sky (background and stars colors)
2) checkerboard textures have been removed, they can be generated procedurally by specifing the 2 colors
3) optimizing the game for multicore architectures
4) double-click on a stage file from the Resource Explorer will run the game and play the selected stage.

These things are almost done, and I could upload a new release in a few days. Anyway I'm really busy with university at the moment and I don't know exactly when I'll do it

This post has been edited by erbuka: 04 April 2012 - 11:27 AM

[Professor Neo]

erbuka, on 04 April 2012 - 11:22 AM, said:

Tiberious, on 04 April 2012 - 01:14 AM, said:

Just to save a little hassle, I've uploaded those extra S3&K stages.

They can be found here (click the Download button).

Probably wouldn't take much time to re-make, but I figure if it can be saved, then why take it?

Thanks man, you saved a lot of my time!! ^^ I will include those on the next release, but I'm not rebuilding the installer or uploading fixes until the next release.

This is what I'm working on at the moment:
1) a new level editor which will allow the editing of the stage's sky (background and stars colors)
2) checkerboard textures have been removed, they can be generated procedurally by specifing the 2 colors
3) optimizing the game for multicore architectures
4) double-click on a stage file from the Resource Explorer will run the game and play the selected stage.

These things are almost done, and I could upload a new release in a few days. Anyway I'm really busy with university at the moment and I don't know exactly when I'll do it

Step 1 was my suggestion if you all refer to my diagram below.

[erbuka]

I'm about to publish new version with a few bug fixes and improvements. Someone suggested me to move Sonic down because he could barely see what was in front of him.
Below you can see the result after a few tries. While now you can see better what's ahead, I don't like how Sonic looks a bit fat. What do you think?

[Professor Neo]

Sonic's altered Y-position, relative to the original Genesis version, is definitely a match. But he doesn't appear too oversized -- it's just right. I'll actually start trying out the game whenever the next release comes out.

This post has been edited by Professor Neo: 28 April 2012 - 01:13 PM

[Kharen]

It looks absolutely amazing. Could anybody please let me know the specs I'll need to run this? If it's something like Portal 2, I'm fine. Generations-level requirements, and I'm going to have to pass this up.

[winterhell]

I think its proportional to the resolution. I can max it on GeForce 9600GT on 1920x1200.

[erbuka]

Yeah the requirements are quite high, I'm working on it, but I can't seem to lower them for now at high quality. Anyway here it is a new version:

http://dl.dropbox.co...621/Release.rar

The website isn't updated with this, just because I didn't plan to release in its current state, but, you can try it.
The level editor is new, and there's not an updated guide on the website. Anyway this version should run better from the performance POV. Also the collision system should be fine even with low fps. You can press TAB while playing to show the fps/stat display.

I get 20 fps at high quality, 30/40 at medium and 60 at low at 1366x768 on my laptop with a GeForce GT230M, which is more or less equivalent to a GeForce 8600 GTS

[Knucklez]

I'm glad you fixed most of the issues from before, but what's remained are the menus with their misaligned and garbled looking text.

Main menu (misaligned)

Spoiler

New Game menu (misaligned, garbled text)

Spoiler

Custom Stage menu (misaligned, garbled text)

Spoiler

The Options menu crashed the game on me every time, so I couldn't access it. The CPU usage is ridiculous.

This post has been edited by Knucklez: 29 April 2012 - 08:54 AM

[Lanzer]

Hello.

MegaGwolf has reviewed your game:

[Vinchenz]

Well, I have tons of problems navigating the menu. But I can play one stage at least!

It seems to run at a full 60 FPS on my machine, although I am just basing it off visuals alone and with no counter (I should get FRAPs...).

Here are my specs:

Windows 7 64-Bit
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Thuban 3.0GHz
R6950 Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 2GB
8GB of RAM DDR3 1600MHz

BTW, whether you finish this or not it makes an excellent portfolio piece and you should be proud!

[dsrb]

Haha, I don't mind MegaGWolf, but his inability to understand 3D perspective is pretty amusing.

[erbuka]

Vinchenz, on 29 June 2012 - 03:24 PM, said:

Well, I have tons of problems navigating the menu. But I can play one stage at least!

It seems to run at a full 60 FPS on my machine, although I am just basing it off visuals alone and with no counter (I should get FRAPs...).

Here are my specs:

Windows 7 64-Bit
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Thuban 3.0GHz
R6950 Twin Frozr II Radeon HD 2GB
8GB of RAM DDR3 1600MHz

BTW, whether you finish this or not it makes an excellent portfolio piece and you should be proud!

Thanks for reporting. You can activate the FPS counter with the TAB button. By the way your video card is good, so yes, you should be able to run the game at full speed and quality. Sadly, the menu thing seems to be a problem with my shaders and the ATI/AMD cards, and since I have a GeForce I can't debug it and it's hard to tell what's wrong.

Ahah, I liked the MegaGWolf review. I think I'll do that first person mode he is suggesting, it will be a nice feat to get a bad headache :D