CSP Game Engine v7.0

Ah I really want to try this out, but some annoying "codec" error comes up when I try to run it. It saves some blank text document and that's it.

read the download page,

Wow, sorry I missed that. I'm testing it out right now :)

Edit: Now it closes because of a memory access violation.

Crashes here also

I think the author can try convert the video to MPEG, that'll prevent many issues.

Works ok for me and looks very nice.

Had to download the codecs thing.

Only problem was when typing at a console in the game i would have to press return to see what i'd just typed in.

Good stuff
Jim

Radeon 9800 Pro

The 29.00 price is certainly very easy to get along with too!

Seems like you are kind of stuck. Not much progress appears to have been made, and the controls and physics still have an unnatural, clumsy feel to them.

I'd focus on improving the above issues, and contracting some good artists to produce media that will showcase the engine better.

I can't fully enjoy the demo, these are the issues.

1.The enemy is too powerful, I'm mostly dead on the first room, lowering the difficult so ppl can really play through the demo.

2.Artworks and Physics as mentioned above.

3.A MAV on EXIT is a bad impression, i don't know why I get it.

However this engine is pretty good.

Thanks for the comments. Leadwerks - I don't have much time to work on it. Also, since it's based on B3D, it's likely I'll restart from scratch with Max3D, with real physics and all.

I yet didn't see much of your engine, other than the editor and some VIS occlusion demos. No offense, I only guess you know how much time it takes. Market leading engines were not coded by a single person over night. If one person would have to do that work, they'd have to work for 20 years on it.

And I cannot hire people.

Thanks for the bug reports. I'm a bit frustrated about the high number of crashes and problems. One thing is the codec compatibility. Realmedia maybe wasn't a wise choice. But there seem to be more bugs. Fact is on my machine it runs stabile.

I'd also like to know from you (thanks again for your time!)
if you were able to reproduce the MAV, in the same situation, or if it happens randomly?

yoko - lol I thought it's way too easy. And that's me who wouldn't even try to play a game without god cheat. Maybe the aiming needs some practice. Try to use the cheat "cspgod" to stay alive for now.

And maybe try not to walk into the room, instead grab the gun and then go back to the start room. Shoot their heads trough the open door.

BTW if it crashed on your machine, would you _please_ post a detailed bug report in the corresponding thread in the Blitz Showcase section?

Thanks a lot!

You can hire artists in Eastern Europe and India. They do better work for less pay than their American and British competition.

I've been getting bogged down in business matters lately, and it has slowed me down badly. I am working to set things up so that I don't have to deal with any biz issues at all.

About MAV, it happens on every Quit, there's no info for me to trace(WinXP SP2 with current rollup, and don't happend on other Blitz game) .

The feeling of shooting an enemy is somehow lead to misjudge, coz no any respond when enemy got hit, and they keeping moving/shooting at you(most game have a stun time when your bullet hit the enemy)

I think this is a part of what halo mentioned about "unnatural" things.

Yes of course, I know what you mean. The list of things that should be added is very long. I simply couldn't implement everything, this whole engine is explicitely very basic. I mean, you cannot compare it to a multimillion dollar production, because it simply isn't.

About the MAV this is really strange. How did you quit, hitting Esc and then choose "End". Or did you set it to windowed mode and then clicked the Close Button? This wouldn't be the prefered way to exit.

To everybody who wants to help me debugging this: If it crashed / MAVed on your machine, it would be real nice if you redownloaded it, run it with the "/debug" parameter (there's a also batchfile) and then post the resulting logfile in the Blitz Showcase thread:

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=63593

The file, version 7.01, that has a logging option:
http://www.melog.ch/dropper/v70/csp_ngn_70_demo.zip

Thanks for your help.

(BTW the blank text thing was a bug, it should have displayed a guide to download and install the video codec, but I packed the textfile to the exe by mistake. The new version should fix this.)