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Suggestions / Battlescape Request : Who Died?

« on: January 12, 2013, 07:01:29 pm »

I lot of people die in XCOM, and one thing APOC did, which the previous two don't is give you an "event history", listing who's been killed etc.

It would be nice to have some sort of non-blocking (doesn't pause the game waiting a click) alert to name the dead soldier, or maybe just on the review screen at the end of the mission.

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Suggestions / Fog Of War Options

« on: January 03, 2013, 03:38:56 pm »

One thing that they changed in Starcraft 2, which I liked, was the the Fog Of War wasn't literally just a black hole, it was just greyed out and all units are hidden.

I was wondering if maybe we could add an option like this into OpenXCOM, because let's face it, if you've just flown over the area to land, you have a kind of idea what's around.

Maybe three options if possible:
1 - Normal XCOM, all black until discovered
2 - The entire map is shown, but areas outside LOS are greyed out. Also consider re-greying after vision of the area is lost?
3 - Outdoors "greyed out" (or even just coloured normally), and indoors black/undiscovered

What does anyone think?

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Playthroughs / Let's Play Is LIVE!

« on: December 21, 2012, 11:08:30 pm »

Okay, so I started my Let's Play, and have uploaded the first episode to YouTube. Please feel free to comment on my lack of ability, or any requests you may have; or even suggestions on how I might survive long enough to get to the end of the game.

Either subscribe to me, or check back here for episodes.

If the videos don't play, they might still be being processed by YouTube; leave them for half an hour and try again. If you still have problems, let me know

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Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9JL7jB2v4vCwEmoLRDckyReS7T5FdlDD&feature=view_all

Episode	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Part 4
1	https://youtu.be/1JsfCV5jCnI
2	https://youtu.be/M-gWUZc4x_c	https://youtu.be/t8NsatW51EM
3	https://youtu.be/5ZdCUPKPtLc	https://youtu.be/rPp70lqVytY
4	https://youtu.be/kNXl-t2eQK4	https://youtu.be/_h4Twc440L4
5	https://youtu.be/TY9VYSYp9Zg
6	https://youtu.be/N8sb8pSl21E	https://youtu.be/QfWBCw-8bjU	https://youtu.be/m-mS0YXWy6M
7	https://youtu.be/hsD3-Mid2uc
8	https://youtu.be/AaeJwOv-S-8
9	https://youtu.be/vWDU8y-Unnw
10	https://youtu.be/CSKKwcPbjpY
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Open Feedback / Promo Stream

« on: December 14, 2012, 03:04:10 pm »

Hi all,

 I believe once Cydonia goes into OXC then we should have a working, playable game. So I'm thinking once this is the case, I might live stream a playthrough, and invite you all to come watch, and get units named after you, and various other gimmicks.

 I'm pretty bad at the game, and I'd have to try and set a fixed time to do it, but I think it'd be interesting, and give OpenXCOM some visibility.

 What does everyone think?


Soldier Roster:
SupSuper
Daiky
Warboy
pmprog
moriarty
WeOwnTheNight
Dexus

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Offtopic / British Bulldogs - PC party game - 8 player single screen

« on: December 13, 2012, 10:15:14 am »

Wrote this for a Christmas getaway I'm going to with friends. Okay, so you need lots of joysticks, but that's the point, everyone plays off the same computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2HoGDqE1So

I've not had chance to actually upload it to my website yet, hopefully over the weekend.

I'm intending to add network support, so linking several PCs up, each with up to 8 local players should make for some interesting games.

If you've never heard of British Bulldogs, here's some information about the game on Wiki

Edit: Actually, I could put the GitHub source link up
https://github.com/pmprog/BritishBulldog

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Programming / Implementing New Graphics?

« on: November 09, 2012, 05:24:42 pm »

How do we want to approach adding graphics to the game? One of the suggestions was to allow TU reservation for kneeling. There isn't such a button within UFO:EU for that. I also want to add XCOM:Apoc style "aggressiveness" options, which dictate more a fight or flight response on aliens.

Would I need to create a PCK (or whatever the graphics pack is) or should I just create a BMP file or something? or should I just try a different method (use a normal "button" and apply text instead of icons)?

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Programming / Inheriting in OpenXcom

« on: November 08, 2012, 09:58:43 am »

SupSuper has not merged my pull, something about how I should be overloading similar states. So I modified the code, as you can see here, but it doesn't work. It still always runs the base class code. I've done overriding and abstract classes before, and I can't see anything I've done wrong. Anyone got any ideas?

https://github.com/pmprog/OpenXcom/commit/7f75444a5bb4ba140bb2f9bf060146d938f73078

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Programming / Adding the Snakemen?

« on: October 25, 2012, 11:33:03 pm »

So, the ruleset seems to look a little different from when I was last fiddling with it. Can somebody tell me how to set up snakemen as a race I can select in the New Battle (and full game), and so I can link up to my drawing routine?

 Thanks

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Programming / Soldier Reordering

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:41:25 am »

I thought this had been done, but wasn't when I had a look, so I've added it in to my pull request.
https://github.com/SupSuper/OpenXcom/pull/151

One thing I wasn't expecting was that if the user clicks an arrow button on a row, the row click event still fires. I just used MouseX * ScaleX to exclude the area where the buttons were. Hope this was okay?

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Suggestions / Options and Savegame Location

« on: October 23, 2012, 09:46:55 am »

I tend not to use my Windows profile folder (My Documents, My Photos etc.), and keep my data on other drives. That way, if I need a system reinstall, I can format C: without worrying about anything.

So, could we make it an option to store options and saves locally with the game or in the profile?

Ta

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Offtopic / Game development in need of help

« on: October 17, 2012, 05:16:13 pm »

In my quest to actually get myself coding again, I'm thinking of building an XCOM-type game, but more akin to The Two Sides. So designed for something like 1 to 6 players.

It'll have a geoscape, and a basescape similar to XCOM, where you build bases, research tech, find and destroy your opponents. Though I was thinking of something different for combat, though I'm not sure what yet.
I was also thinking of having seperate "continents" that each sell different tech (with some overlap) and at different prices, with different delivery times based upon distance to the base etc.

I don't mind "shrinking" the game if it starts to look too large

On a tech level, I'm planning this as a 3D game (I've started coding in C++ using Irrlicht, and have an early basis for the Geoscape. I'll get a YouTube vid up when I get home). However, I'm quite new to 3D programming, and my network coding isn't great, so I'm quite open to some changes.

There's not really much set in concrete yet, but if anybody is interested in helping on any aspect of the game, feel free to reply or PM me.

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Offtopic / Let's Play UFO Enemy Unknown

« on: April 25, 2011, 09:15:53 pm »

Kikoskia has started a new UFO LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAroTM4nU8

He's done this previously, and also played TFTD

https://www.youtube.com/user/Kikoskia

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Programming / Ocean colouring - Version 2

« on: October 07, 2010, 01:38:33 am »

Patch - Includes a bug when _cntrLat = 0 will update this thread when fixed

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Programming / Compilation problems

« on: August 24, 2010, 09:03:08 pm »

It's been a while since I've updated my project and looked at OpenXcom (work has been grinding me down), but now I can't compile 

Errors occur in craftweaponsstate.cpp, lines 106, 109, 110, 147, 157

error C2039: 'at' : is not a member of 'std::map<_Kty,_Ty>'
error C2227: left of '->getQuantity' must point to class/struct/union/generic type

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Offtopic / 2K X-COM game

« on: August 06, 2010, 12:59:34 am »

What does everybody think about this from what they've seen so far?

Personally, I think it looks awful! What's with all this black goo? Looks just like X-Files or Spiderman 3! Where are the sectoids, aquatoids or anthropods? Unless they're going down the Micronoid route (https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Micronoid_Aggregate_%28Apocalypse%29)