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Quote: Original post by shadowcomplex
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This is an early screenshot from my entry, Underome. There are no shadows or particles yet, and the terrain artwork is temporary, but the screenshot does show the finished model of the Skirk, which was created by Juri Unt.

The general idea of the game is that you are a Skirk trainer in Rome. There are illegal and secret Skirk fights that take place in Underome, the arena secretly built below the Coliseum. You can buy and sell Skirks (male and female) and Skirk eggs, breed your Skirks, and train them to try and make them as ferocious as possible. And of course, each week you get to enter some of your Skirks into the Underome and fight them against other Skirks.

A brief write-up of the game can be found at my website.

The game is written in C++ using my 2D games framework, Miracle2D, which uses Win32 for rendering and input, etc.

At the first glance, reminded me of Dune.. hmmm.. looks nice though.. :).

Quote: Original post by handless
@Oberon_Command:

for your minimap do you call a for loop everyframe using an array? or do you somehow call it once when things change? I'm still trying to figure out how to have a dynamically updated minimap w/o rendering several images to represent each tile everyframe.. right now I got 1 image that spans the entire minimap, but I can't update it to show differen't types of tiles w/o loading over 1000 images 60 times a second.

Quote: Original post by handless
@Oberon_Command:

for your minimap do you call a for loop everyframe using an array? or do you somehow call it once when things change? I'm still trying to figure out how to have a dynamically updated minimap w/o rendering several images to represent each tile everyframe.. right now I got 1 image that spans the entire minimap, but I can't update it to show differen't types of tiles w/o loading over 1000 images 60 times a second.

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Quote: Original post by handless
@Oberon_Command:

for your minimap do you call a for loop everyframe using an array? or do you somehow call it once when things change? I'm still trying to figure out how to have a dynamically updated minimap w/o rendering several images to represent each tile everyframe.. right now I got 1 image that spans the entire minimap, but I can't update it to show differen't types of tiles w/o loading over 1000 images 60 times a second.

Well, essentially, this is how it works:

* there is a std::vector that holds the pixel data for the map (did this so that I could make the map resizable without having to worry about reallocation), each pixel represents one tile
* the renderer goes through the list of values and draws them on the screen pixel by pixel
* there is a function called buildMiniMap that goes through the entire tile map and puts the colors into the minimap map, then does the same for units
* buildMiniMap is called once per frame, immediately before rendering

Quote: Original post by HemoGloben
Render the minimap once, then every time you change a tile, having the change tile function change the corresponding pixel color on the minimap, or maybe set up a queue
of pixels to change next frame.

Quote: Original post by handless
I still don't know how to eliminate the array from the process..