I was a-wandering ...

Miez · Sat 25/02/2006 15:49:57

So, in my spare time (yes - every now and then I have some) I've been tinkering around on a little program. More a toy than a game, but you might want to check it out. Remember: still very much work in progress.

Read all ah-boot it:
http://www.chaosarena.com/forum/index.php?topic=84.0

FruitTree · Sat 25/02/2006 15:55:33

heh

that's a nice way to spend free time!

DoorKnobHandle · Sat 25/02/2006 15:55:53

I am downloading version 11 at the moment. Looks very interesting, Miez! I never knew you were into programming as well, with what tools did you create the application?

Miez · Sat 25/02/2006 15:58:46

Quote from: dkh on Sat 25/02/2006 15:55:53
I never knew you were into programming as well, with what tools did you create the application?

Can't say I'm a great programmer, but this little doodah is being made with Blitz3D.

Nikolas · Sat 25/02/2006 18:40:19

what an interesting idea... and realisation of this idea...

Nice one...

I'm off exploring a little more... lol

Secret Fawful · Sun 26/02/2006 01:21:07

Hey, did you put creatures in this? Cause I went to "Yoggoth" and there was this red thing moving around on the ground near the water. I can even post screens if you want. :o

Miez · Sun 26/02/2006 01:27:25

Quote from: Fawfulhasfury on Sun 26/02/2006 01:21:07
Hey, did you put creatures in this? Cause I went to "Yoggoth" and there was this red thing moving around on the ground near the water. I can even post screens if you want. :o

Eh ... nope. I didn't put any creatures in yet. I will though, in the future. A screenie would be cool!

sergiocornaga · Sun 26/02/2006 04:18:47

Quote from: Fawfulhasfury on Sun 26/02/2006 01:21:07
Hey, did you put creatures in this? Cause I went to "Yoggoth" and there was this red thing moving around on the ground near the water. I can even post screens if you want. :o

Was it you? On the map?

LGM · Sun 26/02/2006 06:41:40

I am a big fan of Noctis. This is excellent!

Kinoko · Sun 26/02/2006 08:04:11

Wow! Lots of fun ^_^ Good work!!

A suggestion - It'd be nice to have the ability to speed up.

Secret Fawful · Sun 26/02/2006 17:51:34

Here's your screens. The red manta ray like thing was the moving around creature on Yoggoth. (funny because Yoggoth is an inventation by author H.P. Lovecraft. The planet looks just like this in the story descriptions, and the alien race on it are manta ray and buglike. Wierd. :S)

And no it wasn't the red dot on the GPS map Sergio. It was actually on the planets surface in the main screen.

MrColossal · Sun 26/02/2006 18:45:00

your second link appears to be a bmp with a learnfrenchonline.com bit at the end. Can't you upload bigger pictures?

Secret Fawful · Sun 26/02/2006 20:25:25

funny the second pic works for me :S could someone pm me a good place to host pictures besides imageshack and photobucket or uploadhut

Miez · Sun 26/02/2006 21:14:01

Quote from: Kinoko on Sun 26/02/2006 08:04:11
A suggestion - It'd be nice to have the ability to speed up.

Yeah ... it will be possible to run in the future. As well as jump. Walking & running speed and the distance you can jump will be influenced by a planets/moons gravity (yay! low-grav super jumps!).

Haddas · Sun 26/02/2006 21:50:12

Quote from: Fawfulhasfury on Sun 26/02/2006 20:25:25
funny the second pic works for me :S could someone pm me a good place to host pictures besides imageshack and photobucket or uploadhut

It's not that. It's the fact that it's a .BMP
While these are nire quality they are not compressed in any way, which renders them exceptionally large and tedious for users with a slower connection speed to cope with.

Darth Mandarb · Sun 26/02/2006 22:06:37

This is pretty sweet ...

I typed in Darth Mandarb and I must say, most boring planet EVER!! It was flat, with no water and had grey cubes sticking out of the ground

I was able to get some pretty interesting results with other key phrases though. I look forward to future updates. I think flying / faster would be good updates. Maybe a jet-pack? It took forever to just walk about!

Good stuff!

Secret Fawful · Sun 26/02/2006 22:55:03

The best planets I recommend, (after 1 space I think) are

Monica Shoenthaler
Peter Griffin
Adrian Smith
Rl'yeh
Yoggoth

btw is it still possible to go to the werewolf renneaisance planet that one guy went to in that topic of yours miez? :S

Hyrule and The Kingdom of Hyrule (after 1 space) both look exactly like the Hyrulian plains before they were settled on (Hyrule is from Zelda)

Miez · Sun 26/02/2006 23:26:59

Quote from: Fawfulhasfury on Sun 26/02/2006 22:55:03
btw is it still possible to go to the werewolf renneaisance planet that one guy went to in that topic of yours miez? :S

I'm afraid not ... as long as I'm still tinkering around with the code a "world name" will always show a consistent world for 1 version, but it will be different for another version.
In the future Wanderer will save visited world data, and loading them when you re-visit, so the program version will not be an issue anymore.

sergiocornaga · Mon 27/02/2006 04:57:24

Hmm, Fawfulhasfury, your Yoggoth looks very different to mine... did you use a capital Y? What's your version?

Creed Malay · Mon 27/02/2006 14:55:33

Aw, this sounds awesome, but I can't get it to work! It just says "Unable to create 3d scene". What's wrong?

Davy