Pathways into Darkness Remake

[xilef]

I'm creating my own C++ game engine that aims to clone Pathways into Darkness and remake it so people will be able to enjoy the game once more.


(A custom built C++ game engine using the Allegro game library)

This Engine will use a hybrid of ray casting (For blocks and collision detections) and trapezium calculations (For lines and fake walls).

One of the things that will be gone is the unique PiD HUD. It may be thrown back in at a later date, but a more-compact HUD will be used (One similar to SystemShock 1).

[The Thug]

Hold on, let me find my slide rule.

[thermoplyae]

i can't make sense of this post, but i can promise you one thing: multiplying tan of anything by pi / 180 or 180 / pi (whichever, since you can't remember which one) is not a sane thing to do.

maybe you could draw a picture?

[Dis]

Maybe you should have majored in incomprehensible ramblings instead.

[xilef]

I'll re-write it again, this is my first result

Can move forward, backward and strafe

In short: For some reason finding the grid locations where the ray hits a side give me an X coordinate in it's millions, I'll post the snippets in a second, but I think I deleted it all to start again, again.

[treellama]

ray gives all of us headaches once in a while. I suggest you just ignore him.

[irons]

I can explain this a little more easily:

[thermoplyae]

i meant a diagram of the geometry you'd like to encode, not a screenshot of your broken program; i don't know what to do with that.

[brilliant]

I miss playing marathon with you The Thug, we have to play sometime!

[treellama]

Maybe this will help?
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/raycast/index.html

Guess how I found that web site related to your query

[effigy]

Lougle?

[xilef]

Maybe this will help?
http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/raycast/index.html

Guess how I found that web site related to your query

That's what i used to write the original algorithms, but the x direction seems to produce silly numbers every-time and break the program, so i'm only using the theory presented on that site.

[xilef]

Progress on the engine.

Key input doesn't work yet, hence the buttons
No collision detection yet
Frame-rate/movement compensation is rather crazy still
The redraw rate is slow and ugly

EDIT:
Keyinput works
Collision added
Frame-rate/movement fixed
redraw rate quick and double buffered
*Added lighting and even a torch like in PiD

[BetrayedLocust]

Nice work

[Sam Lowry]

Thanks for trying something interesting and fun.
PiD and raytracing, something old and something lost between the gpu and cpu.

Be nice to see the easter egg gleaming one day


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[xilef]

PiD and raytracing, something old and something lost between the gpu and cpu.

Raytracing is still used nowadays for rendering full 3D scenes, it's raycasting that is no-longer used.

I'm having a lot of trouble with textures, the only way I can do textures is get a pixel colour, draw a line up of that colour to a certain distance, get next colour, draw next line a certain distance, etc, but it's proving to be pretty hard to do.

EDIT: I'll put textures on hold and start on the engine design.

[xilef]

Still can't get textures to work, it grind the engine to a near-hault without producing anything, so i'm doing weapons at the moment and items.

At the moment the engine works similar to alephone, you drag in maps, shapes and physics files and then write a config.ini for your game (Game name, shapes name, key config) then hey presto, it works.

I might release a demo build with a map editor, at the moment there's no monsters, so it'll be maze exploring.

[gmanyo]

Still can't get textures to work, it grind the engine to a near-hault without producing anything, so i'm doing weapons at the moment and items.

At the moment the engine works similar to alephone, you drag in maps, shapes and physics files and then write a config.ini for your game (Game name, shapes name, key config) then hey presto, it works.

I might release a demo build with a map editor, at the moment there's no monsters, so it'll be maze exploring.

So at the moment it really is pathways. GETIT?!?

No seriously, though. Looks pretty cool so far. Can't wait to play the original original Marathon.

[treellama]

Still can't get textures to work

Why don't you make Scarab of Ra instead?

[Kurinn]

Why don't you make Scarab of Ra instead?

Indeed!

Oh, fuck, that motherfucking monkey stole my lamp again!

Hey, is that my lamp?... Oops, no, that's a cobra.

Does anyone have a snakebite kit?...

[xilef]

Why don't you make Scarab of Ra instead?

That wasn't realtime rendered, it was frame by frame wasn't it?

[CryoS]

Indeed!

Oh, fuck, that motherfucking monkey stole my lamp again!

Hey, is that my lamp?... Oops, no, that's a cobra.

Does anyone have a snakebite kit?...

Sorry, no. I'm truing to run away from that mummy over therrrrrrrrrrr............ "splud"

[treellama]

That wasn't realtime rendered, it was frame by frame wasn't it?

It wasn't continuous, if that's what you mean. I don't know whether the frames were rendered in real time or not. Probably not?

It was still an awesome game.

[ray]

GOD BLESS AMERICA

[Wrkncacnter]

It wasn't continuous, if that's what you mean. I don't know whether the frames were rendered in real time or not. Probably not?

It was still an awesome game.

I think it was real time 2.5D, not real time 3D. Don't worry, it's confusing to a lot of people.