Battlescape development

[Warboy1982]

if you need one for your mod, just mod it in, i don't understand what the issue is.

[Warboy1982]

well, i'm making progress, i have palettes loading in properly for the battlescape, units showing up (with thanks to ando for taking care of the sprite routines), the random terrain sets are all locked and loaded, (roughly 50% of terrains overall) i still need to fix up the background of the battlescape so it's not black, and the battlescape UI isn't exactly perfect. but we're getting there!
here are some screen grabs to tide you over.

[Angelus_EV]

WOW!! great!

[davide]

OpenTFTD will be
a vanilla Open TFTD or
a hybrid game or
both ?

I ask that because I am near to convert all TFTD .PCK to use UFO battlescape palette
(I wish a hybrid game)

If you have resolved the multiple pallette problem by code
this work is useless therefore I can address other features that i like.

Thank you for all your efforts
 

[Warboy1982]

i'm only concerned with vanilla. it uses the standard TFTD palette. converting them is probably still worthwhile if you want a hybrid since we only use one palette at a time in the battlescape, i believe yankes is working on some 24bpp stuff that may address that issue but i'm not qualified to comment on that.

[AndO3131]

If you have resolved the multiple pallette problem by code
this work is useless therefore I can address other features that i like.

You can safely address other features. Multiple palette problem has been resolved (for example https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=1312.msg12223#msg12223, https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=1312.msg12632#msg12632 or https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php?topic=1312.msg12665#msg12665), although it's not in oficial github branch.

[Falko]

these example posts have their one year anniversary
soooo do you say:
dont work on conversion because ..
some day .. perhaps .. we can use multiple palettes
some day .. perhaps .. we can use 32bit images
in the very near future .. we can use multiple palettes
in the very near future .. we can use 32bit images

[AndO3131]

We can use 32bit images now in battlescape and ufopedia using code from https://github.com/AndO3131/OpenXcom/tree/32bit_Surface_Support.
When new resource structure will be coded in, multiple palette images may also be used with code from this branch (I'll keep it updated).

[Jstank]

I was thinking it would be neat if when you finished the battle scape portion could you possibly add a TFTD map to the New battle screen in a nightly build?

[Warboy1982]

you'd need a complete ruleset for that, and i haven't even decided which research tree to run with yet.

[darkestaxe]

you'd need a complete ruleset for that, and i haven't even decided which research tree to run with yet.

I'd recommend just using the tree on the ufopedia site for the default treeUfopedia TFTD reaserch tree. That way you'll be able to look at the pretty picture while your writing the ruleset. Also when people go to ufopedia to look up what they need to get Ion-Armor they'll get the right info without anyone having to correct or expand the article.

And since just about anyone can modify the tech tree in OXC, let some bored moron that isn't doing C++ engine stuff make all the versions they want. Maybe later on when there's a bunch of good techtree versions we can have a menu selector for them.

[Warboy1982]

problem with that tech tree is that it's the one that has the bugs

[Hobbes]

problem with that tech tree is that it's the one that has the bugs

The one I've attached is for TFTD v2.