Iceball Project

[mylesd98]

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[Lawliet]

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[TB_]

I think it's about time iceball gets its own section, unless you don't want to remove focus from the iceballga.me website.

[Lawliet]

I think it's about time iceball gets its own section, unless you don't want to remove focus from the iceballga.me website.

I think that is a great idea.

[Zekamalikyd]

ad smg

jk


ver nais gj m8

[GreaseMonkey]

ad smg

jk


ver nais gj m8

sum nub dad

butt y ty

[shaz]

With the map classicgen and the AoS 0.35 mods, Iceball is the ultimate Ace of Spades remake.
This is just amazing.

Where did you get these?

Also I think it's time to play a bit of Iceball, haven't been on in a while :d

[GreaseMonkey]

There's a mod on the forums but I would advise against using it unless you want to, say, mark an anniversary of something.

Anyhow, it's that time again to...

Iceball 0.1.1 release candidate 1 is available for testing. It's a good idea to run this version, as it adds some stability fixes, runs faster, and adds whitelisted raw TCP socket support. See this thread: http://iceballga.me/forums/showthread.php?tid=45

Oh, and Iceball Event 3 is coming up - http://iceballga.me/forums/showthread.php?tid=44

[Lawliet]

Great. First tiny step for Iceball 0.1-2

[Turner]

Found a bug http://gyazo.com/8137449917a1471001b5200ed51c4090

[Lemon]

Wow. New update actually allows me to play on full fog at a solid 18 FPS. I don't know your magic, but I do appreciate it!

[GreaseMonkey]

Found a bug http://gyazo.com/8137449917a1471001b5200ed51c4090

What, this bug? https://github.com/iamgreaser/iceball/issues/66

I'll need to analyse the renderer's inner workings a bit more before this can be fixed.

Wow. New update actually allows me to play on full fog at a solid 18 FPS. I don't know your magic, but I do appreciate it!

It's called frustum culling. Note, at the moment, emax = 1/sqrt(3).

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				if(gl_frustum_cull)
				if(cx < (chunk->cx-1)*gl_chunk_size
					|| cz < (chunk->cz-1)*gl_chunk_size
					|| cx > (chunk->cx+2)*gl_chunk_size
					|| cz > (chunk->cz+2)*gl_chunk_size)
				{
					// calculate first corner
					float px000 = chunk->cx*gl_chunk_size - cx;
					float pz000 = chunk->cz*gl_chunk_size - cz;

					// calculate subsequent corners
					float px010 = px000 + gl_chunk_size;
					float pz010 = pz000;
					float px100 = px000;
					float pz100 = pz000 + gl_chunk_size;
					float px110 = px010;
					float pz110 = pz010 + gl_chunk_size;

					// calculate Y coordinates for corners
					float py000 = ydist;
					float py010 = ydist;
					float py100 = ydist;
					float py110 = ydist;

					// get lengths of corners
					float d000 = sqrtf(px000 * px000 + py000 * py000 + pz000 * pz000);
					float d100 = sqrtf(px100 * px100 + py000 * py000 + pz100 * pz100);
					float d010 = sqrtf(px010 * px010 + py000 * py000 + pz010 * pz010);
					float d110 = sqrtf(px110 * px110 + py000 * py000 + pz110 * pz110);

					// normalise corners
					px000 /= d000; py000 /= d000; pz000 /= d000;
					px100 /= d100; py100 /= d100; pz100 /= d100;
					px010 /= d010; py010 /= d010; pz010 /= d010;
					px110 /= d110; py110 /= d110; pz110 /= d110;

					// get dot products against forward vector
					float e000 = px000 * f3x + py000 * f3y + pz000 * f3z;
					float e100 = px100 * f3x + py100 * f3y + pz100 * f3z;
					float e010 = px010 * f3x + py010 * f3y + pz010 * f3z;
					float e110 = px110 * f3x + py110 * f3y + pz110 * f3z;

					// frustum cull
					if(e000 < emax && e010 < emax && e100 < emax && e110 < emax)
					{
						cskip++;
						continue;
					}
				}

[Jdrew]

suggestion: iceball protocol like iceball://IP:ports

[GreaseMonkey]

No.

That would require that I make an installer. I'm not doing that.
Plus, that would result in the inevitable "how do i run this fucking game" that AoS had.
I'm aware that Iceball does have a similar problem, but that can be alleviated with more time, more documentation, and more people actually helping out.

[XBoy_Slasher]

I think that when everyone start to run to Iceball, AoS would be DEAD, no one would be playing it anymore, so GreaseMonkey please dont continue this project for very long, Please Save AoS Please.