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They look almost alive, as some kind of underwater microscopic germ lifeform

Updated today with the addition of the joyGetPOV(joyId) function for reading pov/hat control. It returns -1 when centered, otherwise 0-360 depending on direction. The attached joystick-demo is also updated to make use of the new function. I also made some work in the scripting to make it easier to a...

I got an email with a link to an interesting game engine made with Delphi. It is very compact and have several cool features such as: - Import of mesh with bones and animation from Max using custom exporter - Texture generator tool - Minimal Delphi systems-unit for small exe-files It comes with full...

Good point. There is already a ZAssert in ZLog-unit so maybe I should use that instead.

Welcome to these forums simsmen!

One of the original arcade tube shooters is "Gyrus". Your game is starting to remind me of that somehow. Probably because of the slow and swirly movement patterns of enemies far away in the distance.

This is your own version of the LSD-game?

Looking forward to seeing it in motion!

I went with mmsystem because it seems to be good enough and also result in less code compared with directinput. I currently only have a ps2-controller connected and since it doesn't use POV that's why I didn't think of it. It should be easy to add a joyGetPov-function. Looking forward to playing a g...

Updated with joystick/gamepad-support, see first post for details.

Good times indeed. I also played mostly imports on Saturn. Definitely the Panzer Dragoon series... Panzer Zwei still looks great, I played it a couple of months ago. The bosses are really imaginative and the general mood is just terrific. The 4-disc Panzer Saga RPG was fun too. Then all the arcade s...

Very pretty, you got half a I.S. going there already!

Most of my favorite psx-games have aged terribly because of the first-generation 3d-visuals. Sega Saturn on the other hand... now there was a console of many quirky japanese titles and great 2d-action games.

I'm working on joystick-support and I am considering the options of implementing them in ZGE. Either we use the component alternative with JoystickAxis and JoystickButton components. Or we introduce new scripting functions such as joyGetAxis(joyId,axisNr) and joyGetButton(joyId,buttonNr). I'm sort o...

Small update today, see first post for details.

Cool! Good that something creative can come out of bug-hunting too! (I think I've nailed that problem and will release a fix for it to the weekend, btw.)
Sure it is minimalistic but still interesting enough that I found myself staring at it and listening for several minutes.

Yep, I found some strange behaviour with materials and I think I can fix it. Thanks for reporting.

The GPU architecture and definitely the drivers can be different enough to give varied performance. I also read articles about using "display lists" which is another method of Open GL drawing that is old and supposedly obsolete but on some cards still gives better performance than other me...