Gotta show off

[Nick George]

Sorry folks, but I just gotta.
For 'ranchers who have JoGL:

Iso Game for those of us poisoned by Dvorak
Iso Game for those blissfully untainted by Dvorak

Move the camera with WASD (COMMA-A-O-E for us Dvorakers), change angle with arrows, go up/down with mousewheel)

It's no Lord of the Rings, but I'm proud.

Some fun angles:

Charge of the Light Brigade:


Let fly a volley of arrows!


Only pawns in our games...

[ December 30, 2005: Message edited by: Nick George ]

[Nick George]

Now, I need to decide where to take this. There's always the Starcraft route. I was thinking a game in the starcraft tradition, only in full 3d, and in which you can at any point go into first-person control over a unit- that is to say, take over one of the cannons, aim, and fire yourself.

Suggestions?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Very cool. A good thing to show people who talk about Java and performance. The sheer number of simultaneously active 3D animations is impressive.

I actually don't have any experience playing the kinds of games you're talking about so I won't comment on future direction except to wonder what it would look like with some texture-mapped skins and terrain?

[David O'Meara]

Oops

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: isogame/IsoLauncher (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
        ... etc

Looks like I caught it mid-version...

[Nick George]

That's a really bizare error... what's it mean?

[Nick George]

Note that java seems to have recently come out with a new version (5.06?). That means that yous with JoGL need to re-put the files into the new directories for jars to work. Highly irritating.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

David's error just means Java 5 is required because the classes were compiled with Java 5 -- he's apparently using 1.4. Get with the program Mr. O!

[David O'Meara]

Aah, some of us are limitted by requirements. We only recently updated to 1.4
I have 1.5 installed, I'll try again with the correct version.