Quix - Early build

[Orangy Tang]

Yeah, the graph is the fps like you said, with lines indicating the 30 and 60 fps marks. I wouldn't worry too much about the low fps in the transitions, I havn't had time to optimise them much.

But you should really be getting more than that in the game itself. Since they're both doing pretty heavy render-to-texture stuff then that might be the problem. Try setting the glow quality to low in the options, that should help some.

[Malohkan]

that did help some, but the FPS line was still right through the middle of my screen.  It was still very slow.

[Orangy Tang]

I was planning an update tonight, but my hosting is playing silly buggers. So the mix of old and new files means that Quix is broken until further notice.

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[Orangy Tang]

Theres a new Quix build up New additions:

Linux version! Using the new .92 LWJGL build. Should work fine, but untested. I'd appreciate if people told me how it runs on linux.
Glow options Better, faster, bigger. Options to turn the glow off completely for slow systems, or whack the quality up for those with big beefy graphics cards. Automatically makes use of more graphics card features so should be generally faster and better quality than before.
Improved critter behaviour Critters are now more timid and prone to scaring if you run straight at them. They'll also become paralised with fear if their path takes them straight into a player or scarecrow. The up side of this being that scarecrows are much more useful.
And lots of little changes that probably only I'll notice.

NOTE![/i] I've had to update the jnlp files for the new lwjgl files. While that shouldn't be a problem, webstart has a tendancy to cling to old, cached, jnlp files when it shouldn't. If you get missing file errors try flushing your webstart cache.

[erikd]

Runs great after I removed the previous Quix installation. The glowing effect and all the particles are a great effect, but a bit much. Espially with glow on highest quality it all becomes very blurry and sometimes hard to make out where you are, but I guess this is probably on purpose in this stage right?
One thing I noticed though: on my machine in full-screen mode it runs slightly less smooth than in windowed mode (I can see regular spikes pointing down in the graph only in full-screen). But maybe that's just nvidia with their ever degrading drivers... (Running on GF4 Ti4200).
But it seems it could become a fun game!

[princec]

'rangy - always post the JNLP url when you've got a new version, it's a pain having to go back to page 1 to get it...

Cas (becoming ever more lazy)

[Matzon]

mipmapped didn't work for me at all - just a white screen.
Turned up quality - DAMN!
perhaps a bit too flashy! - and sound is really lacking :/

btw, I got stuck in the map a couple of times - could just jump out of it though. Has a nice feel to it - like the shephearding theme, though last map was tricky!

[Orangy Tang]

Thanks for the feedback

Odd to hear that fullscreen is slower - on my machine fullscreen ends up being the faster of the two. But then I'm running some fairly old nvidia drivers. The glow quality slider probably goes a bit too high at the moment, you probably don't want it any further than halfway otherwise you'll end up blinded.

Matzon: What graphics card are you using there? The mipmaped filter uses (and should check for) GL14 'cos it needs GL14.GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP_HINT. And I've spotted the bug with getting stuck in the ground a couple of times myself, but I thought I was imagining it. Guess I'll take a better look at it.

[Matzon]

using Radeon 9700 - should be common enough I think...

This is what I get when mipmapping is turned on (no matter slider setting): http://matzon.dk/brian/quix.png

[Orangy Tang]

Thats a bit worrying, the text should be much sharper than that. Has it always been that blurry?

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[oNyx]

The new version doesn't work in fullscreen anymore. It's just black... however if I alt/tab out of it I can see the menu flashing over the desktop for a splitsecond. Hm. Well, windowed still works.

1.5, win98se, gf2mx

[Orangy Tang]

Odd. With the new .92 LWJGL the only difference between the two is a .setFullscreen call. I notice that theres a hidden method for checking whether a display mode can do fullscreen, but that looks intentionally hidden. Is this perhaps a bug thats been introduced with the latest version of LWJGL?

How about the examples in the latest LWJGL build, do those still work fullscreen?

[oNyx]

Yes, they work and super elvis works, too.

Hmm. If I find something out I'll let you know.

[Matzon]

Thats a bit worrying, the text should be much sharper than that. Has it always been that blurry?

Yes, I assumed you wanted it like that

/matzon

[MickeyB]

runs beautifully here...

win2k, ati radeon 9600 java 1.5

[wiesi]

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java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.continueLaunch(Unknown Source)       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleApplicationDesc(Unknown Source)       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.handleLaunchFile(Unknown Source)       at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)       at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: wglAllocateMemoryNV       at org.lwjgl.opengl.NVVertexArrayRange.wglAllocateMemoryNV(Native Method)       at com.shavenpuppy.jglib.opengl.nvidia.NvidiaMemory.doCreate(NvidiaMemory.java:89)       at com.shavenpuppy.jglib.Resources.allocate(Resources.java:379)       at com.shavenpuppy.jglib.Resource.create(Resource.java:158)       at com.shavenpuppy.jglib.opengl.nvidia.AGPMemory.reserve(AGPMemory.java:98)       at com.shavenpuppy.jglib.opengl.nvidia.NvidiaInitializer.initialize(NvidiaInitializer.java:59)       at quix.QuixGame.main(QuixGame.java:98)       ... 11 more

WiESi

[Orangy Tang]

There was a build of LWJGL recently that had the "java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: wglAllocateMemoryNV" problem, but the one on webstart doesn't have that problem.

I'd suggest that you've probably got a LWJGL dll hanging around in the system or jre path and thats getting in the way.

[Malohkan]

The game is still unplayably slow for me, probably because there are so many particles flying I can't see anything around me.

[Numbermind]

Am I supposed to be a blue box? Running WinXP, by the way.

[Orangy Tang]

Er, yeah, for the time being you only control a generic box. Thats mainly because I havn't figured out what on earth you're actually supposed to be controlling yet, and also because I need a serious run up before even attempting to draw something half-good on a computer.

[Numbermind]

The main character should be Jesus.

Or a bouncing shoe.

Game works just fine here, I'm on a 1.4GHz Athlon. Somewhere around 15-20 FPS on low settings. I'd have a few things to add to the gameplay:

-Maybe there should be things to avoid. Maybe the sheep hurt you if you haven't collected enough crystals. Path-following enemies would be just as good. How about birds flying overhead that try to drop eggs on you?

-The point system is kind of vague, since it seems you can't beat the level without collecting all the gems anyway. That may not be the case, but for some reason I thought that.

[Orangy Tang]

Game works just fine here, I'm on a 1.4GHz Athlon. Somewhere around 15-20 FPS on low settings.

What graphics card is that? I'd hope with that system you'd get a smoother game.

-Maybe there should be things to avoid. Maybe the sheep hurt you if you haven't collected enough crystals. Path-following enemies would be just as good. How about birds flying overhead that try to drop eggs on you?

Noted, many thanks.

-The point system is kind of vague, since it seems you can't beat the level without collecting all the gems anyway. That may not be the case, but for some reason I thought that.

Well you can always ignore all the gems, but at the moment I'm using them as 'lures' to get the player moving around the levels in the right direction. Later levels won't have that, and since you (should) get a fat bonus for completing a level quickly you might have to compromise on one to get the other.

[Kosmon_X]

game runs great here. FPS is great with multisampling but slows to a crawl when mipmapping is used (on highest glow setting)

WinXP, SAPPHIRE ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 256 MB
Java 1.4.2

[Abuse]

Runs flawlessly here too, max glow both modes.

Athlon 64 3000+, Geforce 6800GT
WinXP (not 64 =( )
Java 5.0

[nwlinkvxd]

The game played great! Pretty enjoyable, and MASSIVELY reminiscent of Jazz Jackrabbit.

P4 3.2ghz (overclocked from 3.0)
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
Windows XP Pro sp2
Java 5

[Orangy Tang]

My hosting died quite a while ago, and I finally got around to sorting it all out. OrangyTang.net is now back up as before, and so Quix is now playable again.

[kappa]

any chance of adding the linux binaries?

[Jeff]

WIndowed faield to launch.

SUSE9.3, NVidia video

Exception:
Java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
   at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Launcher.java:1097)
   at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Launcher.java:1043)
   at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Launcher.java:912)
   at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:103)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:608)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: getNativeLibraryVersion
   at org.lwjgl.DefaultSysImplementation.getNativeLibraryVersion(Native Method)
   at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:62)
   at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:96)
   at quix.QuixGame.createFullscreenDisplay(QuixGame.java:123)
   at quix.QuixGame.main(QuixGame.java:80)
   ... 9 more

[Orangy Tang]

Damn you linux people. I'll have a go at adding the linux native libs as soon as I get a chance.

[CaptainJester]

Fullscreen version runs way to fast.  It is extremely hard to control.  Windowed mode works fine.

Windows XP
AMD 1.0GHz
512MB
ASUS Radeon 9600 PRO