[Time Challange] Lyfe Clok

[Pixel_Outlaw]

First, this is half way done. I still need to finish it but I need to find what is working and what isn't so I need some early tests. but I've had complaints among testers with missing bitmap fonts and such. This is intended for windows XP or Vista. Please tell me if you have problems. Some characters are still missing in my bitmap font but you should have the following screen. I'm using my own font (hurray finally gets used).

[benny!]

That's pretty awesome. Love the scroller and the
fractal clock hand. Thanks for the greetings ... only
thing what I noticed is that your font doesnt seem
to support special characters like "!" ;-)

Cool entry. Thanks for that!

[Pixel_Outlaw]

Yes, I still have to impliment punctuation for sentences into my font yet. I just need to get some feedback telling me that it is working. This way I can avoid releasing something half broken on the deadline.

Of course I mentioned you. Also anyone that I missed please tell me. It is hard to get so many names listed. I sort of wanted to go old school and fake 3d with this one since I've been playing with OpenGL lately.

There will still be some surprise on the final release I hope. Not the best coder around here but I have a few ideas I'd like to implement yet.

[Shockwave]

I am looking forward to running this when I get home (not allowed to run 3rd party stuff at work), it looks pretty damn cool though!

[zawran]

It runs fine on my vista 32bit home premium thingy.    Looks like a good start, and looking forward to see the surprise.

[Jim]

I ran this on Windows 7.  The main logo is white and half the characters are white solid blocks too.  I think it's not a W7 problem, I think you've got some textures in there that are not power of 2.  ie. 2,4,8,16,32,doubling in width and height.  OpenGL only guarantees support for those size textures, but non-power-of-two (npot) work on some drivers, mostly nVidia.

Jim

[Clyde]

It very clever what you've managed dude.

Can I make a suggestion; the bitmap font is way too dark.

[combatking0]

It runs fine on my XP Pro +SP3, but it won't exit without ending the task in task manager. COol second hand there!

[Shockwave]

I like it, it runs smooth and the fractal second hand that evolves as it spins is great

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I ran this on Windows 7.  The main logo is white and half the characters are white solid blocks too.  I think it's not a W7 problem, I think you've got some textures in there that are not power of 2.  ie. 2,4,8,16,32,doubling in width and height.  OpenGL only guarantees support for those size textures, but non-power-of-two (npot) work on some drivers, mostly nVidia.

Jim

Thanks! This may be the problem others were having. I thought non power of 2 textures would be find for Bmax but I guess I'm wrong. I'll have to redo my text characters and their code. I know some Mac OS users running wine complained that it lacked textures too.

It runs fine on my XP Pro +SP3, but it won't exit without ending the task in task manager. COol second hand there!

The Esc key should end it. I plan to have it fullscreen in the final release.

[Rbz]

Works fine for me, Nvidia here, nice idea 

[Jim]

I thought non power of 2 textures would be find for Bmax but I guess I'm wrong. I'll have to redo my text characters and their code

Most people pack all the characters into a big power-of-two bitmap (say 1024x1024) and use UVs to pick out the letters instead of using a texturemap per letter.

Jim

[nkk_kan]

runs smooth on my xp sp2 and exits fine

cool scroller there!

[Positron]

Great scrolly! Nice entry.

[rdc]

Works fine in Vista x64. Nice job!

[Pixel_Outlaw]

I need to fix the missing characters for the this. Sorry to folks like Benny! who have an exclamation mark or other missing character. I have a lot going on right now with college especially my Internet Essentials class. The class is easy but I get about 7 homework assignments per week from it alone just to prove that I know how to use the internet.

* warning warning semi-related material approaching fast*

For example a few weeks ago I was to pretend I was selling gifts for a mustard and pickle company. Now the assignment instructed me to find 5 possible online competitors and provide URLs to their sites and also do a full writeup for all 5 sites. The point here is that this kind of garbage is sucking all my time but I have to jump through a few last hoops before I can get my associates of art/science degree. Also I have to crank out mechanical drawings for my AutoCAD course (but those are really really easy for me). I feel bad for having a glitched entry. Time permitting I will clean it up.

[benny!]

Sorry to folks like Benny! who have an exclamation mark or other missing character....

No worries, mate ;-)

For example a few weeks ago I was to pretend I was selling gifts for a mustard and pickle company.
Now the assignment instructed me to find 5 possible online competitors and provide URLs to their sites
and also do a full writeup for all 5 sites. The point here is that this kind of garbage is sucking all my
time but I have to jump through a few last hoops before I can get my associates of art/science degree.
Also I have to crank out mechanical drawings for my AutoCAD course (but those are really really easy
for me). I feel bad for having a glitched entry. Time permitting I will clean it up.

That sounds like work that easily eats up a lot of time. Well, hope in future you won't
get too much tasks like these again...

[Hotshot]

Very nice, Love the Scroller and Cute clock