RF 2 Discussion

Post by **AndyCR** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:21 am

RF2 development after the slow spell is going great, I'm working on reading the title bitmap for the main menu background. almost done, and it's only taken a few minutes. I can barely imagine how fast RF2 will go when I sit down and work on it for hours again.

Post by **AndyCR** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:09 am

rf2 is going through a rough-n-tumble time... the work is hard and boring. shouldnt last more than a couple days though.

Post by **AndyCR** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:21 am

rough-n-tumble bit is over. should be smooth sailing from here on out.

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:01 am

it appears that it lasted less then a day!

Post by **AndyCR** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:14 pm

yeah, it worked out quite well....

this morning i fixed 41 compile errors in less than 30 seconds... think thats a new record

they were simple though, include files not included.

back on to the menu class i go, with my newly constructed commondata class...

Post by **AndyCR** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:10 pm

things are going incredbly, especially with cvs now used for rf2 development; just the presence of it makes me want to get alot of work done on rf2 and commit it asap. this morning i wrote 100 lines of menu code in about 30 minutes at 7 something am

to that end, ive finished the "rough cut" (term ill use to refer to code thats finished except for removing debugging symbols, removing some hardcoded values, and optimizing/cleanup, but works and performs its intended job) of the menu title code.

chalk up a new record... 55 errors fixed in 15 seconds... those include errors are biting me

Post by **AndyCR** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:30 pm

Incredible progress is being made. It's coming very, very quickly after the menu re-conception. I'm making helper methods, and after those are done, the menu should be done in short order. I'll definitly have a screenshot to show then.

Post by **AndyCR** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:18 pm

WOW. just got a 115 line gold star compile!! (for those who dont know, its code that you write that works the first time with no issues)

I might very well have a screenshot to show TODAY!

jonas · Post by **jonas** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:28 am

I had never heard that term before thanks now I'll use it if I ever get that lucky!!!!

Oh and keep up the good work

Post by **AndyCR** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:46 am

hitting another rough spot, having a "cant happen" error that has already cost me hours.

should be over soon, i hope.

MakerOfGames · Post by **MakerOfGames** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:29 am

Question. Will RF2 support skinned ragdoll(with bones and joints that is)? And will it recognize the predefined rotation angles of joints from the models mesh or will you have to define it through scipting? I asked this when 075 and physics came out but now I wanna know if RF2 will support it.

Post by **AndyCR** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:06 am

If RF2's initial release supports physics, it will most likely support skinned ragdoll as well. If not, it of course won't. I can't guess on something that far in the future. The plan is to impliment physics in RF2's initial release IF it dosen't delay the initial release too much. As such, I need to see how fast progress is coming at that point in order to answer that question. However, current progress (beyond this terrible last couple days) is very encouraging. In fact, I'm actually suffering burnout a bit, because on Saturday I actually coded about a third of RF2's entire codebase, ALL IN ONE DAY. Had I been able to sustain that rate, RF2 would have been to the point it is now in about 3 days after starting. Heck, I can take a month off because of burnout and still be on schedule

(Don't worry, I wont.) However, that was an absolutely insane coding spree, and I simply can't keep up with that pace.

Sorry for being so ambiguous.

Post by **federico** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:58 am

actually skinned ragdoll for 075 isn't so far. Nout is hard workin for a final release with all the major features implemented (complete script system, vehicle physics and related stuff, ragdolls, player in physics world). Naturally it's an ambitious project and more bugfix will have to come. I'm creating in the same time some demos to show functionalities. You can see in the forum some shots of my ragdoll physics. This is the base for a skinned ragdoll. the problem is that I get an erroneus behaviour in getting right values from euler angles so I can't put the ragdoll bodyparts in the same bone rotation of the pawn. At that time the genesis animation will be clean up and the genesis actor will follow the physics simulation, so the last part of the job is to move via coding the actor's bones to match the joints of the ragdoll entity (made invisible) position rotation. This part requires a deep knowledge of genesis API but we have QoD and wxb1 so it can't be so difficult

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Cynnical · Post by **Cynnical** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:33 am

oh man i cant wait till RF2 comes out, its gonna be awesome.

Post by **AndyCR** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:48 am

Thanks for the kind words, they help!

RF2 is being refitted with a new error handling system. I skimped on that early on and it's really biting me now. That's why the progress page isn't being updated.