WalrusRPG - a cross-platform J-RPG engine

[novenary]

Actually due to a bug in SFML, I can't enable full screen yet. I made the window 640x480 by default though.

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

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YOu can still cheat with some WMs likfe XFCE (Alt-F11 : fake fullscreen)

Working on PIAF right now; I'm figuring a decent loading process. Also the best thing about c++ is genericity:

[coode]
    template <typename T> T read_big_endian_value(void *ptr)
    {
        T result = 0;
        uint8_t *data = (uint8_t *) ptr;
        for (unsigned i = 0; i < sizeof(T); i++)
            result |= data[i] << (8 * (sizeof(T) - 1 - i));
        return result;
    }


Putting a template here allows me to avoid having to manage n times the same code. Generic data loading for every platform, it's cool, nah?

[novenary]

YOu can still cheat with some WMs likfe XFCE (Alt-F11 : fake fullscreen)

In X11, fullscreen is just a flag on the window, unlike on Windows where there's a whole mechanism behind it that allows the app to get exclusive access to the GPU and input devices for performance and latency reasons. Linux allows direct driver access anyway so it doesn't matter, and OpenGL is likely implemented with direct rendering in drivers that support it, so you effectively get the same benefits without exclusive access.

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

Breaking news : I made PIAF work on PC on a simple test file. further tests should be done but it's pretty could that I could, without problems, parse the header and file_table. It just means that getting the data after then will be easy as just reading the file on the right place.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Actually due to a bug in SFML, I can't enable full screen yet. I made the window 640x480 by default though.

If FS ever becomes a serious issue, you could always allow the player to set the window even larger than 640x480, such as 1280x960 and 960x720. Some games do that.

Glad to see you guys progress on this

[novenary]

The window was resizable already. I figured out what I was doing wrong now so it's fullscreen by default.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Ah, good to hear

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

On theleft, a shader. In the right the program version.  And yeah, the 60FPS indication doesn't lie.

[novenary]

On theleft, a shader. In the  the program version.  And yeah, the 60FPS indication doesn't .

I think you ate some words here.

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

It seems like Android keyboard was drunk today.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I like the result so far. Will those backgrounds be used as battle backgrounds or will they be for magic animations?

[novenary]

It's the battle engine backdrop, just like in Earthbound.


The battle system is planned to be similar to this as well.

[Duke "Tape" Eiyeron]

*ahem*another HBE attempt*ahem*

[Dream of Omnimaga]

AH ok, I was wondering since Eiyeron was already making an Earthbound-style engine. Will WRPG support standard backgrounds for other games?

[novenary]

Anyone is free to modify the engine. It's pretty much mandatory to do so anyway when you make games with a generic engine.