Iceball Project

[GreaseMonkey]

After moving the map loading stuff into Lua (and also adding a mostly untested *.icemap loader), I decided to add image creation / editing routines...



Yeah, I know, it's only putpixel / blit. But it works!

And yes, you even get the big map with the battleship markers:



Next step: fetching files through the *cough* "network" *cough*.

[Semper]

dat shotgun.

[Priok]

it looks really cool, good job dude. I think you should focus more on equipment/support weapons rather than adding things like smgs and shotguns. I think the SMG was a decent idea, but when the shotgun was implemented in aos it was kind of weird since the SMG already had a close-range role. a shotgun might be a better idea to add instead of adding an SMG, but I personally like SMGs more

[MrHaaax]

it looks really cool, good job dude. I think you should focus more on equipment/support weapons rather than adding things like smgs and shotguns. I think the SMG was a decent idea, but when the shotgun was implemented in aos it was kind of weird since the SMG already had a close-range role. a shotgun might be a better idea to add instead of adding an SMG, but I personally like SMGs more

How about make it like WW1/WW2, and add some sidearms. Hell, even a shotgun as a sidearm could be funny.
No it isn't.

On sidearms, obviously a simple pistol. Grease, add this please, me and others hate to ran out of ammo on a streak/in middle of battlefield. Obviously it's your stats.

On World War equipment:
Trench-digging: Shovel.
Area Denial(Defense): Stationary HMGs.(RPGs are not needed IMO, back then they were used against tanks, not a gunner; a sniper would do)

Seriously, we need some more tactical stuff to use. Radio for backup? Voice commands?(As in Counter Strike, Battlefield and tactical shooters).

And imagine how would AoS like war. Slow-paced, gun shots everywhere, people scared about being shot... Man. I would love something like that.

[rakiru]

it looks really cool, good job dude. I think you should focus more on equipment/support weapons rather than adding things like smgs and shotguns. I think the SMG was a decent idea, but when the shotgun was implemented in aos it was kind of weird since the SMG already had a close-range role. a shotgun might be a better idea to add instead of adding an SMG, but I personally like SMGs more

How about make it like WW1/WW2, and add some sidearms. Hell, even a shotgun as a sidearm could be funny.
No it isn't.

On sidearms, obviously a simple pistol. Grease, add this please, me and others hate to ran out of ammo on a streak/in middle of battlefield. Obviously it's your stats.

On World War equipment:
Trench-digging: Shovel.
Area Denial(Defense): Stationary HMGs.(RPGs are not needed IMO, back then they were used against tanks, not a gunner; a sniper would do)

Seriously, we need some more tactical stuff to use. Radio for backup? Voice commands?(As in Counter Strike, Battlefield and tactical shooters).

And imagine how would AoS like war. Slow-paced, gun shots everywhere, people scared about being shot... Man. I would love something like that.

Iceball is a Lua engine, so custom stuff can be added. As for voice chat, there's always Mumble, but Greasemonkey has mentioned the possibility of adding voice chat to the game.

[MrHaaax]

it looks really cool, good job dude. I think you should focus more on equipment/support weapons rather than adding things like smgs and shotguns. I think the SMG was a decent idea, but when the shotgun was implemented in aos it was kind of weird since the SMG already had a close-range role. a shotgun might be a better idea to add instead of adding an SMG, but I personally like SMGs more

How about make it like WW1/WW2, and add some sidearms. Hell, even a shotgun as a sidearm could be funny.
No it isn't.

On sidearms, obviously a simple pistol. Grease, add this please, me and others hate to ran out of ammo on a streak/in middle of battlefield. Obviously it's your stats.

On World War equipment:
Trench-digging: Shovel.
Area Denial(Defense): Stationary HMGs.(RPGs are not needed IMO, back then they were used against tanks, not a gunner; a sniper would do)

Seriously, we need some more tactical stuff to use. Radio for backup? Voice commands?(As in Counter Strike, Battlefield and tactical shooters).

And imagine how would AoS like war. Slow-paced, gun shots everywhere, people scared about being shot... Man. I would love something like that.

Iceball is a Lua engine, so custom stuff can be added. As for voice chat, there's always Mumble, but Greasemonkey has mentioned the possibility of adding voice chat to the game.

Voice Commands here as in, well, commands. You all know those commands in most tactical games.
Like, adding Group Radio Commands, Response, etc.. to the game. Make things easier because we tend to get killed while chatting and crouching :(

[rakiru]

Voice Commands here as in, well, commands. You all know those commands in most tactical games.
Like, adding Group Radio Commands, Response, etc.. to the game. Make things easier because we tend to get killed while chatting and crouching :(

Ah, I see, my bad. Yeah, that could be pretty useful.

[GreaseMonkey]

Been working on stuff. Now not only can you shoot your rifle and run out of ammo, you can also kill people. Yes!



I also have a chat/killfeed thing working. You can't type chat messages yet, but the system's there, and it shouldn't be too hard to expand it to do scrollback. Also, for once, it's actually top-to-bottom!

Stuff to be done with tools and whatnot:

• block health / colour darkening / colour restoration after some time
• get stuff that isn't the rifle to have delays and whatnot
• get grenades working
• stick in the fucking tent / intel for once (EDIT: done)
• actual chat support (EDIT: done)
• better death animation (i don't think "falling through the floor" is going to be trendy for long, might see how much effort it takes to do "guy lying on his back")
• EDIT: ARGH SHIT I forgot to mention audio support.

And the other stuff of course, which will probably be done roughly in parallel:

• common.fetch_block (EDIT: done)
• make every load thing rely on common.fetch_block (EDIT: done)
• common.fetch (EDIT: refactored the API into common.fetch_start / common.fetch_poll)
• make common.fetch_block rely on common.fetch (EDIT: refactored / done)
• network sending code (linked list stuff for now) (EDIT: done)
• make common.fetch send stuff over a "network" (EDIT: DONE!!!)
• serialise the linked lists so that it's more like an actual network (EDIT: done)
• get the lua end to talk to the server properly (EDIT: done)
• get it to work over an actual network (EDIT: DONE, and FUCK YOU WINSOCK)
• move the bulk of the logic to the server (EDIT: in progress)
• set up proper path permissions (EDIT: done)
• add JSON config support (EDIT: done)
• add newline appendable file support
• test
• fix bugs
• test
• fix bugs
• test
• fix bugs
• test
• fix bugs
• test
• fix bugs
• test
• fix bugs
• test
• test
• test
• release.

[Bobby Lemain]

Easier to read colors in the chat window! I hate how votekicks, admin messages, and team speak are all the same color.

edit: I'd also be up for hosting a server when you need testing done. I'm hosting a 0.75 AoS server at the moment off a laptop so my bandwidth seems okay.

[Vucgy]

Omg I tough AoS now has a bad graphics ( no prob with em ) but this is so ugly that it maybe will be to ugly to play , really disappearing blocks , and that every block ( EVEN THE EARTH ) turns to you is to much...

[Semper]

Omg I tough AoS now has a bad graphics ( no prob with em ) but this is so ugly that it maybe will be to ugly to play , really disappearing blocks , and that every block ( EVEN THE EARTH ) turns to you is to much...

Stfu, he is still working on the game. If you don't like it go back to your Jagex forums.

[MrHaaax]

Omg I tough AoS now has a bad graphics ( no prob with em ) but this is so ugly that it maybe will be to ugly to play , really disappearing blocks , and that every block ( EVEN THE EARTH ) turns to you is to much...

Bounded cubes. I don't think it's permanent, we could even get actual 3d-like voxels on weapon moels too.

Well, it's all depend on you, Grease.
On topic, nice job! Keep up the good work!

[HoboHob]

Omg I tough AoS now has a bad graphics ( no prob with em ) but this is so ugly that it maybe will be to ugly to play , really disappearing blocks , and that every block ( EVEN THE EARTH ) turns to you is to much...

Chill out dude, as soon as Grease stops being lazy we will get 3D blocks.

[Bobby Lemain]

Chill out dude, as soon as Grease stops being lazy we will get 3D blocks.

I wouldn't say lazy though, how many other people do you see making their own client? He's pretty much building a program from scratch using the Voxlap engine, kudos to him!

But yeah, if there was a better term for pre-alpha, that's what Iceball is currently in considering AoS has been in beta for over a year.

[HoboHob]

Chill out dude, as soon as Grease stops being lazy we will get 3D blocks.

I wouldn't say lazy though, how many other people do you see making their own client? He's pretty much building a program from scratch using the Voxlap engine, kudos to him!

But yeah, if there was a better term for pre-alpha, that's what Iceball is currently in considering AoS has been in beta for over a year.

He isn't using Voxlap.

He is using SDL for rendering.