Unfortunately I haven't been able to spend as much time as I wanted on KDE lately. More pressing matters took center stage in my life and as of the past week or two something more interesting came up.
If the words "peace through power" ring a bell for some of you, you most probably got it from Command & Conquer. There was a project that tried to implement the original game, FreeCNC. 5 years ago, I wrote a patch for FreeCNC to support bindable hotkeys compatible with the bindable hot keys used in Tiberian Sun as well as mouse-over health check ups a la TA and RA2, (and most if not all modern RTS's). Unfortunately, the developers didn't respond to my e-mails, the codebase diverged significantly, and for a while, I lost interest. Two years ago there were efforts to revive the project before the two active developers claimed that no one was volunteering to work on it. Well, I did attempt to contact them and I know several other people did as well to no avail. So sometime this month I decided to make things happen.
The screenshot above doesn't show much. But if you look a little closer you'll see an infantry death animation. Majority of the work I've put into the program has been on infantry animations. You'll find that unit movement, attack, and death animations work properly. Infantry now also dive for cover when under attack and stand up a few seconds after they are safe. The idle animations are also correctly rendered. You'll see grenadiers doing push-ups and riflemen cleaning their rifles.
But these improvements only signal the start of better things to come. If you loved the original game and you're interested in helping, start by checking out the source code from https://tiberiandream.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tiberiandream
I am in the midst of rewriting significant portions of the code but would welcome your help, support, and ideas :)
6 comments:
:D good man!
Maybe look on #kdegames in irc, for help!
I wish we could have _gameplay_ as good as in original game.
@madfire
Well, expectations for gameplay have changed quite a bit. A lot of people prefer something like Company of Heroes or maybe even World in Conflict. Sadly, even a 13 year old game like the original C&C will take a lot of effort to even equal. We're missing AI support and a network-client structure for multiplayer gameplay as of now.
Excellent work here too! I took interest in this project years ago, but soon lost this interest when I realised noone was working on it anymore. Perhaps one day I'll be able to contribute - I'm a 2nd year games development student at university.
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