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by Herc
Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:51 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: bug
Replies: 10
Views: 42316

Re:bug

although the video quality is bad, i too noticed the jumping / stuttering behaviour of the blocks. how are you then able to play blockout at all ? i suspect there is something totally wrong with your computer. if you have an athlon64x2 4.2 ghz, then there should plenty of speed. and a 6600 gt should...
by Herc
Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:00 am
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: BL2 Bot Player
Replies: 144
Views: 217177

Re:BL2 Bot Player

recently on www.tetrisconcept.com there were some interesting links posted, that eventually might give you some more ideas on how to improve your bot player: \"For those interested, this article defines many field metrics such as number of holes, surface smoothness, and blocks above holes.\&quo...
by Herc
Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:57 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Rules for Blockout championship ?
Replies: 15
Views: 28289

Re:Rules for Blockout championship ?

another mode proposal: in classic tetris, there is a \"40lines\" mode. the goal is to do 40 lines as fast as possible. an optimal candidate would be 3dmania for this, with the goal to make 40layers. no need for gravity, as the player must drop as fast as possible anyway. the score is simpl...
by Herc
Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:51 pm
Forum: High-Scores
Topic: Score Increase in six months
Replies: 7
Views: 28613

Re:Score Increase in six months

imagine having such a plot generated automatically.. that would be really cool. could probably be done if championship mode is implemented. or if we use the forum login and allow for uploading of \"registered\" highscores. these could integrate into the normal online database, with the onl...
by Herc
Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:48 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Online score, extra columns and sortable tables.
Replies: 7
Views: 32203

Re:Online score, extra columns and sortable tables.

using that javascript table sorting code will be difficult.. to use it , you would need to load all scores of a certain mode - and that can get HUGE! another problem would be that for some users javascript might not be available or too slow... so i would suggest to make 2 versions of the highscoreta...
by Herc
Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:02 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: list of blockout clones
Replies: 29
Views: 66699

Re:list of blockout clones

oh thanks :-)
of course - its freeware, so are the ideas in this game :-)

by the way - did you noticed the \"gravity gun\" ? try pressing left control key! you can suck up pieces already landed in the playfield and re-place and rotate them.
by Herc
Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:34 pm
Forum: High-Scores
Topic: Congratulations to FredJust
Replies: 14
Views: 38255

Re:Congratulations to FredJust

Hi, I\'ve just ended that chart, it\'s not yet perfect but It\'s working. http://www.blockout.net/blockout2/advstat.cgi?scoreid=3402 Let me know what do you think ? wow - thats really cool!! :woohoo: great job!! Concerning score invalidation, I need to make some checks on the DB. But I almost sure ...
by Herc
Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:33 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers
Replies: 28
Views: 38126

Re:Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers

@skrzat: great! opengl seems to be simply much more stable ;-) especially with older graphics cards. maybe you should consider buying a new graphics card.. i am considering to do so, too. radeon 9600 / 9550 is a nice card, but its getting old.. i am thinking about a ati 3850 ultimate - its very powe...
by Herc
Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:30 pm
Forum: High-Scores
Topic: Congratulations to FredJust
Replies: 14
Views: 38255

Re:Congratulations to FredJust

\"Note that the blocks/minutes factor shown in the advanced statistics is an average. I\'ll try to add a chart displaying the instant blocks/minutes factor. However, I totally agree that playing the death level in 3DMania is extremely hard.\" very cool idea: interesting would be a graph sh...
by Herc
Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:27 pm
Forum: High-Scores
Topic: Congratulations to FredJust
Replies: 14
Views: 38255

Re:Congratulations to FredJust

hy jean-luc: how many scores are affected from that \"endless play\" - \"gameplay-bug\" ? if it are only a few, you could just make an announcement and say that you are sorry, but that a few scores needs to be deleted and that those gamers should try to make a new highscore, this...
by Herc
Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:32 am
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: list of blockout clones
Replies: 29
Views: 66699

Re:list of blockout clones

ok, i will add a wiki entry soon.
by the way, i am programming a blockout and tetris clone, too:
http://www.cubestorm.com (but it is in its very early stage, just released yesterday a \"pre-alpha\" :pinch: i hope it does not crash to often ;)
by Herc
Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:31 am
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers
Replies: 28
Views: 38126

Re:Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers

yeah - timing under linux is difficult, thats the reason the sdl-team removed their highrestimers from the source code some time ago - i remember some dinscussions on the sdl-mailing lists. but this was some years ago - maybe today it works better and more stable? if i remember right, it had to do s...
by Herc
Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:24 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers
Replies: 28
Views: 38126

Re:Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers

i know - the timers in sdl are only 10ms precise if i remember right. but i use my own timer simple highres timer class, see the attached file. on www.gaffer.org there is also code to do highres timers under linux: http://www.gaffer.org/game-physics/fix-your-timestep/ \"ok, under linux there ar...
by Herc
Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:46 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers
Replies: 28
Views: 38126

Re:Generic Application Error with new ATI drivers

@skrzat: whats your graphics card model? just curious. do all other directX games run properly? @jeanluc: just an idea: how hard would it be to optionally allow to switch between directX and openGL ? i am very confident, that skrzat would be able to run in OpenGL mode. my personal experience is that...
by Herc
Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:33 pm
Forum: Blockout II
Topic: Resolution BL2
Replies: 6
Views: 10550

Re:Resolution BL2

anyway you are right: it would be nice to have a way to manually enter the fullscreen resolution for strange hardware (for example fullHD 1920x1080 or 1366x768 or PAL or whatever some people might like to run fullscreen mode in) of course, you can already play fullscreen with the resolutions already...