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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Starshatter Open discussion thread
I guess directx is a good part of why it's not cross-platform, amirite.
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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

 

Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Correct.
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Offline Polpolion

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
oooooohhh real C++!

 

Offline braddw25

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Thanks for the guide, E, I got it up and running. Now I just need to buy an idiots guide to microsoft C++. LOL

 

Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
This tutorial is a pretty good start.
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Offline MatthTheGeek

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
So I suppose this code is proper, object-oriented C++ instead of FS2's C-based spaghetti code ?
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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

  

Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Yes. The project itself is a bit disorganized (A part of the code resides in nGenEx, the other in Stars45), but the code is full-on object-oriented C++ from top to bottom.

I'll post a little guided-tour-like text to explain what each project does shortly.
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Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
While working on some of the reported issues, I have stumbled upon the sourcecode for the modfile utility. However, in order to test it, I need to take a look at the modfile.bat script mentioned in the bug report. Can someone post it here?
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Offline pecenipicek

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
whats with the OPCODE library i found in the source tree? its used for collision detection in the game or?
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Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Yes. OPCODE is a dedicated collision detection library.
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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
While working on some of the reported issues, I have stumbled upon the sourcecode for the modfile utility. However, in order to test it, I need to take a look at the modfile.bat script mentioned in the bug report. Can someone post it here?

Here's a copy of wdboyd's My Mod Example that contains the createmod.bat.
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Offline Echelon9

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
What licence has the source code and graphics assets been released under?

Comment at the top of each source code file is still a copyright in favour of John DiCamillo, i.e. not freely open source.

 

Offline Thaeris

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
John DiCamillo, aka Milo, is the game's author, who thus released the source and the game into the open.

(Unless I am somehow mistaken)
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Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Yes, but he did not change the license agreement. I will try to contact him to see if I can arrange for BSD licensing for the code and CC-BY-NC for the data files.

On that note, does anyone have a valid email address for him?
« Last Edit: May 29, 2012, 01:49:37 pm by The E »
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Offline braddw25

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Do you have contact info for him? If not I can try to dig into the snapshots available of ssmods to see if I can find milo's email address. I was able to find a few addresses from site members via that method.

 

Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
My net searches have so far been unsuccessful (As I am on my Smartphone right now); the only address I was able to find was an address at Starshatter.com, which I suspect is no longer valid.
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Offline braddw25

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
I'll try to dig into the archived SSmods snapshots to see if I can find something out.

 

Offline Echelon9

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Yes, but he did not change the license agreement. I will try to contact him to see if I can arrange for BSD licensing for the code and CC-BY-NC for the data files.

That would be a pretty good outcome, to clarify the position. Obviously the author has to be the one to agree, but those proposed licenses would work.

 

Offline The E

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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
I have uploaded a new Starshatter build to the google code page: http://code.google.com/p/starshatter-open/downloads/detail?name=Starshatter%205.1.66.7z&can=2&q=

Please check it out.
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Re: Starshatter Open discussion thread
Um.  Question about Starshatter itself.  Is there any way to reload or repair capital ships?  It seems like they're pretty useless after you've run out of missiles.