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eds1275:
I went out of town, and was crashing on a friends couch having the worst sleep ever when I realized a better way to adjust the settings. I threw it together in an hour, so hopefully I am done with the service menu and the game can now be played as a one player game properly and with minimal hassle besides initial set up.
As before, hold Alt when you start up for the first time to map buttons!
New things added:
More sounds!
The ball's rolling audio pitch changes depending on speed... not 100% happy with the sound I made, but this one is temporary and acceptable for now.
Easier service menu for setting up your mouse/trackball sensitivity.
Settings save properly now and don't reset when you go into the service menu
Added a default settings button in the service menu
Some leaner code throughout. Runs about the same as it did before, but there's a lot more going on.
New download link!
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Things I know about:
If you push the next ball button, weird things happen. I know what the problem is, so it will be fixed soon. It works as is but acts strangely and I don't think it counts the balls.
The ball rolling noise continues on into the holes and doesn't stop until the next ball.
Players 2/3/4 don't work.
The high score board doesn't work.
DarthMarino:
This one is definitely playing much better.
eds1275:
Yeah I changed the ramp angle again, definitely helped keep the game going. I feel like I'm on the right track! I updated the above link with a new file. Several other fixes including:
added the score to the rings
fixed the next ball button
fixed a glitch where the last ball wasn't counted
eds1275:
A bunch of fixes in the latest download.
* I once again changed the ramp angle. It's close... not 100% but getting there.
* Rendered all lighting, so there's no extra processing going on for that (one of the most intensive processes)
* Faked a shadow for the ball
* Optimized the coding. I do a bunch of logging to make sure it runs smoothly and it apparently affects the build version of the game so I commented it out
* Added some more sound effects
* Again fixed the service menu. Still need to move some text around...
With all of these improvements, the game runs at a steady 60fps on my laptop which is older and has only on board graphics. Unfortunately I can't get it to run on my arcade machine, probably because of the tiny xp missing something or older graphics card that doesn't support some sort of shading or something.
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DarthMarino:
I think the ball is getting some air if you roll it hard and it causes it to hit the ramp and bounce back. Is there a way to prevent this?