ZarchMan

Hello, i was playing with lights and it kind of evolved into this.



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There are 8 levels - (4 easy/ 4 harder).
Marg

I really like the look of this, but it's VERY hard to control.

Also, the ZarchMan title banner doesn't appear on my machine. I only see the blue wavy thing.

Darwinia :)

I'll try it later. Looks funky

yeah... really looks nice M...

--Mike

I too only get the blue wavy thing.

Horrendously slow on my machine, which does at least make the contol system easier as you have time to think and react LOL

it looks like virus on the amiga.

Nice work James! Very tricky to collect the dots etc.. but lighting and colour are very vivid. I like the graphical style too. Runs flawlessly on my setup ... p4 3ghs , gfx440mx.

As with others though ... the blue waves thing ( menu ) has no texture on it?

Stevie

wasn't zarch first on the Archimedes?

Yes it was. :-)

Very nice! And anyone that says Zarch is too hard to control should have Gfk's voodoo treatment. ;)

Hello, I've hopefully fixed the problem...can someone try please?

(All I was doing was copying an image to a texture)

Thanks
Marg

P.S. I forgot to say that the game looks better played in the dark.

Thanks for your comments. I'll admit it is pretty dificult even using Space & Cursors.

It was realy just to get used to lights.

The lights are not blitz lights but my own.
Every triangle is lit by 3 lights ... all done in software.

In fact the main B3D commands i use are addvertex & addtriangle & clearsurface.
It is these commands which slow down the computer.

The menu problem ... i've changed the drawimage to a texture with a copyrect from image to texture.
I'd appreciate it if someone could retest.

Thanks
Marg

The Zarchman logo works fine here James. I tried it with lights out and the lighting effects are very cool. Strangely enough .. I recently updated my z-virus game for some guys on YakYak ... nothing as fancy as that though.

Stevie

Thanks Stevie

(what's YakYak ?)

Some forum .. yakyak.org ... a few on here dwell there too.

Plays great, I actually got the hang of pilotting that thing. Once you get the hang of it, it's just like any Thrust game. :)

The amiga Virus game was a port of the archimedes game Zarch.