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gerstrong · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:49 Post subject:

Version 0.2.2.10 is out!

here are some fixes!

Ceilick · The Dude Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 1308 Location: Seattle

Any time a bullet travels out the left side of the edge of the level, keen dies. The right side is safe though.

The drag on keen's high jump seems better, but the jumping altogether is too...i'm not even sure how to describe it. I have an extremely difficult time controlling my jump. In the orignal keen 1 i can hop a 2 tile space while jumping less than a tile high. I can't even get close to that in Keenclone. This might have to do with keens jump height somehow: the max height might be hte same, but tapping the button yields a lower jump and i can't seem to manage that. Maybe its just me.

Also keen is moving too far forward just from jumping; he's moving too far without me hitting the arrow for that direction.

Problem with keen facing the wrong way on jumps is still there; I managed to complete level 1 making only these kind of jumps.

C, t, space works on the world map now, but if space is made to the 'fire' key it is both the menu and fire key in a level. God mode works on teh world map now, but I just noticed that in a level god mode doesn't let keen fly.
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gerstrong · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 15:28 Post subject:

I checked jump issues out and change a bit again. I hope we get nearer.

@Celilick: Can you give me more information about the raygun bug? I really don't die, when I shoot out of the left edge. Maybe A screenshot would be useful, so I can check the situation more at detail, sorry. I'm glad you are helping me kicking those bugs out... Happy

I'll check out your other reports...

matonen · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 19:47 Post subject:

gerstrong, you're sure putting a lot of effort to this project. Happy

New posts around the clock!

kudos to you

DaVince · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 19:49 Post subject:

Yes, you rock, gerstrong. Keep it up. Happy

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Ceilick · The Dude Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 1308 Location: Seattle

So I just realized I havent been using keen 1 version 1.31. This was the reason for the shooting out of the level problem. I'm not even sure what version I had been using, but it works fine now Happy

Awesome work, looking forward to trying the jump modifications.
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gerstrong · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:27 Post subject:

@ceilick: Please send me your version or at least tell me, which version it is. Like ScummVM does I want to support them all, and if one version has more bugs than another, the bugs are to be fixed.

gerstrong · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 15:45 Post subject:

Here comes the next version (0.2.3)...

... and this is a sneak preview of the mod (Episode Y)

gerstrong · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 18:15 Post subject: other shot

Here is another screenshot of what could be in a future not far away...

ckguy · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 20:28 Post subject: Re: other shot

gerstrong · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:16 Post subject:

Maybe it wasn't understood incorrectly.

The background is a bitmap.

The "g" you see here, comes from "comin(g) soon !"

It is not displayed correctly though.

I just want to prove that in future you will be able to replace your gray background by nice looking bitmaps... I hope this explain it.

I'm working on this feature... so be prepared! We will have nice backgrounds for every level in HQP when this feature is working correctly, and something more, higher resolutions and better colours...

But CK Guy is right. it looks strange. I have to fix some bugs though.

tulip · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:04 Post subject:

I understood what you where trying to show, and it looks as it will be great.
But that will only work for the unmodified Keen 1 right? Keen 2 has a patterned background, and keen 3 has many different ones.

Does your patch just render the grey pixels see through? If yes I see some difficulties with grey blocks.
How do you put up with the light and shadow in levels like this:

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gerstrong · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:32 Post subject:

Good question.

This will be a discussion, as we see. I want to mask just one colour.

In Episode 1 this colour will be gray, in Ep 3 it will be light blue.

When you put a background for every level, you will have a configuration file, which will contain the bitmap information and the key colour that will be masked. In that order, you can use every bitmap and still have levels without bitmaps. I hope that is a good idea.

Now give me some suggestiones, how I could do that...

No it doesn't mask all grey colours. It just masks the tiles which are not solid, so blocks are ignored