Ballistic NG - Wipeout fan project

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Originally Posted by Amaroq Dricaldari

Has there been any progress on the CRT emulation code? I'd love to see it, if so.

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I haven't worked on it yet, it's something I'm going to implement in the future since it will require a bit of work to get it to function.

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Originally Posted by il_mago_di_Doz

I'm really glad to hear that!
I wish you all the best :)

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Thanks!

I've just released a new version of the game, it's only minor but it fixes a few problems and there's some changes to the physics to make the ships more responsive and tighter. You can download it here and I've also updated the released thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1zTtHJzn5Q

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Originally Posted by bigsnake

I haven't worked on it yet, it's something I'm going to implement in the future since it will require a bit of work to get it to function.

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Alright. I'll look forward to it! The HLSL MAME code is open-source, but I haven't seen anybody try to get the shaders working on modern games, since the whole point of MAME is for use in emulated Arcade games. As such, I do expect it to take a long time to implement.

But I'm thinking... You could probably use things like Scanlines on the in-game stuff, and "Vector" effects on the HUD and menus? Maybe not the Pincushion (curve) effect, though.

I've been working on a HUD design for Bigsnake. Right now it's exclusively the tachometer and shield gauge, but I'd like to get throughts from people watching this thread. https://imgur.com/ECM3u6e

@mdhay: awesome HUD, knight rider style xD i like it :robot

It looks very reminescent of LCARS. I love it! It's just begging to have a portion that doubles as a music visualizer.

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Originally Posted by Amaroq Dricaldari

It's just begging to have a portion that doubles as a music visualizer.

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I'm going to ignore why this was coloured almost the same colour as the body background and skip to saying that no, this is not a good idea.

There is no way that an interface, dynamic or not, would benefit from such a thing. A pilot of an AG craft needs to know about turbine RPM and airspeed more than whether is bangin' toonz aren't dank enough. Not only that, but it's infoxiation; in a racing game this is asking for trouble.

Listen to this man, he's majoring in game design

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Originally Posted by mdhay

I'm going to ignore why this was coloured almost the same colour as the body background and skip to saying that no, this is not a good idea.

There is no way that an interface, dynamic or not, would benefit from such a thing. A pilot of an AG craft needs to know about turbine RPM and airspeed more than whether is bangin' toonz aren't dank enough. Not only that, but it's infoxiation; in a racing game this is asking for trouble.

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It was a joke, which is why I colored it different.

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Originally Posted by mdhay

I've been working on a HUD design for Bigsnake. Right now it's exclusively the tachometer and shield gauge, but I'd like to get throughts from people watching this thread. https://imgur.com/ECM3u6e

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They're both great, but I prefer the one on the right.
The one on the left has the "Km/h" sign too big: it doesn't contain any information, so it should be written much smaller imho.
It also has that void space under itself that seems a little weird, like if something's missing.

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Originally Posted by Amaroq Dricaldari

It was a joke, which is why I colored it different.

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Jokes need to be seen to be funny; colouring that almost pure white was going to get in the way of that. Redundant, either way, because there's nothing to suggest it's a joke other than your saying it is after being told it was a bad idea. Given your suggestion of mouse steering, I'm assuming you just don't know what you're talking about and don't like it when nobody falls for it.


Thanks for the feedback, Mago. We've been talking behind the scenes about the HUD long before it was posted, and were leaning towards the one on the right! If In had taken the screenshot from the BNG file instead of my uni work, I would have been able to show you some changes I made!

The void space is actually for the weapon icons when those were made, in an attempt to have a HUD that was completely at the bottom. But that said, it'd look better reversed. Sadly it gets tedious to fix in Photoshop, and In could not be bothered! :P