Beatkiller

Here in germany are just 5 hours last on old year. I wish all of you a very happy new year, healthy and all that you wish your self. In germany we say "Einen guten Rutsch", which meen, that you slide well to new year. Greetings Mike

Wow!!! Great work, the best is just good enough! :-)

I tried checkout new sources of ufo2k, but can't connect to port 8888, so investigate it. Pinging lxnt.info got echo. Site is up, but defaced... shuckeroonies!

Me, too. I played UFO with friends on a 386 machine about 12 years ago. The graphics were a non-plus-ultra for this time. Now, in the internet-age such games can live again with better things and the new technologies such as 3D or 16bit Sound. Wonderful! I tried to port some games to linux, because I love the way, that linux goes. OpenSource is a great chance to learn things, that were so heavy in the early days. It's so easy now, to see code and increase my experience. But I have to learn so much too, and I'll take this chance, to do it. Logical things are the base of all and programming is logical. - 42

I think, this should be explored. Maybe someone has the same problem. Changing a user (probably its a profile-bug) can't be the solution for this! Sorry, but I am an perfectionist, I want it perfect, if possible. Mike

I just meant the part with getFileType()-thingy. The other messages are from libpng and show me, that a picture wasn't saved with a 100% correct header. The language file I just ignore now, because there have to be more translation in it next time Greetings.

Hello, some programer could tell me, which type of file are loaded with this output: (gdb) run Starting program: /home/mike/XCOM/ufo2k/ufo2000-debug [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1215035712 (LWP 23650)] [New Thread -1215181904 (LWP 23653)] [Thread -1215181904 (LWP 23653) exited] [New Thread -1223574608 (LWP 23654)] [Thread -1223574608 (LWP 23654) exited] [New Thread -1223574608 (LWP 23655)] Invalid translation for 'Unable to delete temporary file %s!' in the language file /home/mike/XCOM/ufo2k/translations/ufo2000-deu.po Invalid translation for 'Unable to delete temporary file %s!' in the language file /home/mike/XCOM/ufo2k/translations/ufo2000-deu.po Tileset 'moonbase' initialized, crc32 = 15C04820 Duplicate item with name 'Ethereal Corpse' - ignored libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk libpng warning: Incomplete compressed datastream in iCCP chunk libpng warning: Profile size field missing from iCCP chunk [New Thread -1215181904 (LWP 23656)] getFileType(): offset 112 0x2 0x30 0x0 0x52 0x49 0x46 0x46 0x13 0x8 0x0 getFileType(): offset 440 0x2 0x31 0x0 0x52 0x49 0x46 0x46 0xfa 0x2a 0x0 getFileType(): offset 256 0x1 0x0 0x52 0x49 0x46 0x46 0xc6 0x0 0x0 0x0 [New Thread -1245889616 (LWP 23659)] [Thread -1245889616 (LWP 23659) exited] [Thread -1215181904 (LWP 23656) exited] [Thread -1223574608 (LWP 23655) exited] UFO2000 0.7.977M Compiled with Allegro 4.2.0, Unix on 19:28:43 Dec 19 2005 Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Alexander Ivanov aka Sanami Copyright (C) 2002-2004 ufo2000 development team http://ufo2000.sourceforge.net/ http://ufo2000.lxnt.info/ Program exited normally. (gdb) quit May I can fix this myself...

Well, but its hard to find a "clear" texture of the world map without copyright restrictions. May we find something on university webservers like here: http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/diagrams.htm or http://faculty.smu.edu/rkemper/cf_3333/cf3...ld-map-quiz.jpg This one could be perfect: http://inter.scoutnet.org/worldmap.gif

Is it possible to add some libs (allegropak)? Because its much easier to do things with existing code and not to write all by my own.

I agree 100% to you. So we respect the GPL and the founder of this project. BTW: All code from me is 100% gpl'ed, but no licence info is added atm. If geoscape is more usable, I will add the copyleft. Mike

Oh no, thats my fault. I don't want to discuss about licence models. But, thats not my first project with GPL, so some interesting things: The restrict a programmer to share the code with others, even if they want to sell its software. If someone use other GPL'ed code, and want to sell its software too, they have to give the source code of its software with the ready-to-go-product. I think, the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence isn't incompatible to the GPL. But we can take a question to Eric S. Raymond ;-) The original idea of GPL was the code should be free as in sense of free speech not free beer. I think, if you accept the ccancsa-license (boah ey!), you can use, and you can share your code with them. But, if its the problem, the code should be rewritten and graphics should be redrawn. Ok, thats all not answering my question, which part of geoscape is shared from xeno. Mike

What does it mean? Just the graphics or is the code from geoscape-demo from the other project?

Ok, this was new to me. Of course I will submit to it. Yeah, I will do my best to support you, because its a very nice game. And one day, when it will be complete, it will break the abandon charts Next view: Buttons to change speed are implemented, but not working at all. I will do this next. A screenshot of my work is attached, for all, which are not so heavy to compile from svn.

OK, nobody wants to tell something... But if you interessted, please try my attached patch. It animates the globe and draws a primitive menu. I also add some cool features like pause and different speeds of the globe. If nobody already has converted the xm's and s3m's of the newmusic section into ogg, I have done and post all songs here, if needed. Have fun, anyone? Programming ufo2k makes fun. geoscape.txt

In the original game a light source is moving arround the world to simulate day and night. My suggestion is to make it more real and rotate earth with a light source from right rear. I coded some small code and now there has to be the light inserted. I will test some settings and will post my code here. My question is: The original design with the command panel on the right side of the screen was very user-friendly, so it would be nice to set the ufo2k-geoscape-panel on this position to. Or is there a design allready discussed? It would be nice too, to use the buttons from the mainmenu. But the function is static and should be moved to a seperate file and not static. Nice discussion... Mike