Congratulations

Really cool. The quality of graphics looks really much like AAA. You have to work on animations though, they look rather bad...

Cool terraforming features though
I wish for huge AOE spells, with breath-taking effects!

Another thing I wish for are tactically-driven mage battles, so that you don't simply *here, shoot that guy with a rock*, but much rather... tactical?

I finally got around and written A* pathfinding within C++! 

Incredible!

Please, add mages! Please!

Like, dark wizards or so. Oh, it would be so nice 

Keep these updates and news rolling! I am interested in being up to date with how's your MMO doing.

[Jay Tholen]

Jay Tholen,

Basically, your best bet is C++... All free, works on Windows Phone 8, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Mac "you name it".

Oh, let me make a lovely table:

Language	Windows	Linux	Mac	Android	iOS	WP8
C++	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Java	Y	Y	Y	Y	N	N
C#	Y	Y	Y	Y*	Y*	Y

* Requires additional payment

[LOL]

LOL

I was tired like a week ago, tried to code seamlessly-loaded map grid. I coded up like additional 100 lines to an existing class and it was buggy, slow and not working properly actually.

Demotivated by that, after two days of trying, I deleted all those additional lines and said to myself: "This shit really deserves a 100% re-write. *SIGH*". I was too demotivated to pick that up till today.

I sat down. Looked at it. Wrote LITERALLY 6 lines and BAM. Fast, efficent, and fully working seamlessly-loaded map grid.

So happy that I got it done! World of opportunities, here I come!

Basically your big "players" here are wxWidgets, Qt, and GTK+.
I had a thread on that before:

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=29003.0

You'll probably find something useful there.

I'll back what other(s) said - In the end it doesn't matter what language will you start with. Going python as 1st language, you'll probably end up with same experience as somebody who started with any sort of BASIC / LUA. Doesn't matter I think.

Personally, I had this route:

Macromedia Flash MX + ActionScript 2* -> RPG Maker 2003 -> DarkBASIC Professional -> A bit of LUA -> C++

I started with AS 2 when I was about 8 though, switched to RPG Maker 2003 when I was like 10, then to DBPro when I was 13, LUA when I was 14 and C++ when I was 15.

Also somebody mentioned hello world list in all languages. Here's an alternative site:
http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm

 

So, I gave it a go and it looks meh. Took me many tries and variations though...

http://glsl.heroku.com/e#6996.0

(Use on precision = 1 or better, otherwise it looks suckish)

I still wonder how polly did it. 

Yeah, seems easy enough as a shader effect, like powly shows. Did you read that, kamac?

Sure I did. Althrough, I am pondering how did he manage to think of such fragment shader.

I guess I have lots of things to learn about GLSL.

Well, the problem here is about drawing curvy lines. I wonder how polly did it.

Polly, source? Please?
Very big, nice, fluffy please?

 
You're an OpenGL guru.


@EDIT

Or atleast some more tips (I'd like to try and get it to working myself). I am quite inexperienced yet and this:

drawing numerous graphs of a smooth function with gradually changing constants and additively blending them at low opacity.

Doesn't mean much to me. From what I understood, I could draw graphs of lines with functions like y = 1/4*sin(x), but I've got no idea how to draw such lines (They'd have to be smooth, which as I guess can't be done with vertices?), nor how to blend them additively.

Hi.

Could you guys give me tips on how would I go around creating such background effect?:



I'm using OpenGL and C++. ( I mean those background, funky lines. They animate, floating sometimes )

 

Too good to be true...

Wow. First time double-posting in this thread!
Guess I'm the lucky one.

Anyways, jQuery is so fun to play with!
Can't get enough of it

Took me about 30-40 minutes, but finally got my fill tool done :3
Turns out it was only 56 lines.

Example:

Code:

#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    if(argc >= 2) {
        std::cout << argv[1] << "\n";
        system("pause");
    } else {
        std::cout << "No file choosen. Aborting.\n";
        system("pause");
    }
    return 0;
}

Not sure if I asked that before, but you coded the whole GUI yourself too? 

Processes adding. For event editor which is built-in to mission editor which is built-in to the game itself.

 

It's tough.