Thanks for your reply Jon. Is Steve still working on the project? A few months ago in the old forums it looked like he was the only one left. Now here it looks like you're the only one left.. bit confusing haha!
Oh yes please. If you release this 'play test version' (maybe post it as an additional download on the downloads page instead of replacing the current one) I'll post it over in the Starflight 3 fb group and some of our fan hungry for a SF3 they'll prob never get can have some fun with TLC and give you guys some feedback.
Maybe the old forum is still the better option haha?
Hi Jon,
Thanks for fixing the forums. Much better now! :)
Yeah the Allegro SF3 was the one I wish they’d kept going with instead of reinventing the wheel 10x and getting nowhere lol.
I had a feeling release 70 might have its own whole set of problems so I fully understand you changing your mind on a public release. Plus you’d rish getting a ton of negative feedback on issue already fixed. Working towards a public beta release of your new directx version sounds like the better option.
Wow that new feature list is bloody impressive, I can see you’ve worked your ass off! I showed it to Michael and he was impressed too as it addresses some of his issues!
Arrgh I’m sorry to hear that you’re working on it alone again and haven’t had much support mate. :(
I can tell you right now that I’ve got over 150 hungry starflight fans in the fb group who are super keen for a new starflight game to play and feel they were robbed of SF3 due to the endless rebirths and deaths of the project (atm it looks like it’s dead again). So if you release a new test version to get some feedback I’ll post it in the group with some sexy screenshots (& some disclaimers saying “look we know its bugger, we need testers!”) and you’ll get a ton of feedback haha! Instead of endless promises and ideas they’ll actually have something to play so they WILL respond.
In fact feel free to come join our page to represent TLC and post dev updates if you wish. Otherwise I’m more than happy to post news there on your behalf. I get an email every time you reply to this thread so if you ever need me for anything just post here and I’ll know. :)
There’s also quite a few graphic artists and programmers in the group who offered their help but were naturally ignored by the last SF3 team as no one wanted to really lead/admin the project lol. If you want some help then feel free to drop by and pluck up some of this unused talent for TLC! :) I created a roll call talent list HERE.
Yeah the Allegro SF3 was the one I wish they’d kept going with instead of reinventing the wheel 10x and getting nowhere lol.
This, as you'll recall, used to have Save, Load, New, and Delete buttons. Delete has been removed and the GUI cleaned up.
Settings demonstrates the new GUI and I've come to a solution to the listbox where I'm going to support mouse wheel but remove the slider and just use buttons and wheel, do away with the slider as it's been a time sink and I want to get things done quickly even if they're not perfect. This brings up the need for a discussion about screen scaling and possibly revisiting the whole approach to the GUI. At present, the GUI is stretched vertically with black bars on the left/right for very high res. That's fine but you still get font scaling issues. Instead, in a future update, I want to do away with scaling. Anyway it needs to be discussed since I'm not quite sure what's best.