Comments on: Some Things Dead Wake Development Has Taught Me

By: PIckledeggs3000

PIckledeggs3000 — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:03:46 +0000

Very good points.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:21:25 +0000

polygone & ovo: they came from content packs. dds files were missing some value thus they were showing all black for ATI cards. Some png files were used since I could actually manipulate them and had no DDS manipulation (for example viewing) tool (and some came from pack files so I didn’t bother to change them). But… anyway, now the situation is what it is.

Samuel: thanks.
1. done ;)
2. don’t tell me anything about textures! XD (well, unfortunately this might not change for now – we’ll see)
3. good idea.
4. yeh, I’ll add clip info (but no “current ammo left info” – see some blog posts earlier.)
5. should work better in the next release…

Thanks man.

P.S. Please go to http://www.deadwakegame.com/forums too. Share ideas and give more feedback and talk with others. join us…. ;)

By: Samuel

Samuel — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:39:32 +0000

Cool post, I too have done a bit of searching around. I downloaded your game, and as an experienced indie 3d game dev., their were several things i noticed that could greatly improve it.
1. The walking sound is repetitive. Try to mix it up some how.
2. Have an option to use higher quality textures. Where I especially noticed it was on the buildings.
3. Player health, your character should react somehow, maybe slower, maybe darker “red” screen, or maybe just a health bar the mouse-over thing was not working with me.
4. Indicate ammo left.
5. The shadows bug me. However; seeing all your engine changes, if the shadows are built in, and there is no way to modify then leave em.

Sweet game!

By: Ovogame

Ovogame — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:09:20 +0000

> I actually have also .dds files that won’t work

This is weird. Are these texture special? For example not power of 2? Witch compression do you use?

By: Polygone

Polygone — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:46:53 +0000

You should not have been using .png format for textures in the first place. DDS files load faster and use less memory.

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:17:29 +0000

Great advice.

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:59:26 +0000

Thanks for the tip Patrick. I actually have also .dds files that won’t work, so I first need to save them to .png, and then use Leadwerks converter to get them back to .dds (otherwise they are seen black).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:39:26 +0000

Nice post Juuso. If you are still needing to convert images to DDS, I’d recommend XnView. It can batch convert folders of any image type it supports to dds.