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61 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
onpon4 9dedf500c8 Adjusted the status screen.
Several pointless lines have been removed, and I've added a workaround
to fix a segfault that was happening when Phoebe or Ursula were not
wingmates yet.
2016-01-09 22:15:28 -05:00
onpon4 290d44386a Treat distance between planets as always 1 if no interception chance. 2016-01-09 10:40:29 -05:00
onpon4 8793aaa780 Added a small chance of getting intercepted in Spirit.
These interceptions only have "dualfighters" on them, since that is
in-line with the normal difficulty of Spirit.
2016-01-09 10:26:15 -05:00
onpon4 0fb3c04b5e Removed the instant teleportation in Spirit.
I understand where this came from; obviously, this was how travel
originally worked, and then the version that made interceptions
possible was added later. But the thing is, making Spirit a special
case causes the interface to suddenly change on you, and that breaks
the flow of the game for no particular reason other than saving a
bit of time. So this special code which causes you to instantly
teleport in Spirit has now been removed. There is still no danger
of encountering interceptions, but I'll be changing that for all
non-Classic difficulties as well in another commit.
2016-01-09 10:13:32 -05:00
onpon4 d5a66ffc01 Changed the text hint for Comms screen to "Missions".
This is more to-the-point. It should lower the learning curve a bit.
2016-01-09 10:06:16 -05:00
onpon4 336c047d8e Removed the unnecessary "INCOMPLETE" text from the Comms view. 2016-01-09 10:04:55 -05:00
onpon4 9104fcaa10 Changed the AI of the executive transport to "evasive".
This makes more sense; it's unarmed, after all. A quick test shows
that it doesn't cause any problems (like making the game annoying).
2016-01-09 07:37:36 -05:00
onpon4 9a474f1416 Some cleanup. 2016-01-08 22:57:06 -05:00
onpon4 ac844d8d54 Removed the "planets" data files.
This is the last of the data files I wanted to remove.

This commit also includes some dialog changes.

I copied some of this code into a comment elsewhere, because I want
to use it as a reference when creating a new save format.
2016-01-08 21:33:40 -05:00
onpon4 e557d9920a Removed the suggestion from the Comms screen that Phoebe's name is unknown.
I think this might partly be because of my dialog changes, but this
causes a minor continuity error, since the mission clearly states
that you're rescuing "Phoebe Lexx", and there's also the fact that
the indicator now says "Phoebe" instead of "Target". I figure just
make her name known from the start; the explanation can be that the
ship automatically transmits the name.
2016-01-08 10:37:19 -05:00
onpon4 e71e3b8a96 Moved the "brief" data files to C code. 2016-01-07 21:18:14 -05:00
onpon4 822ff849e4 Removed the very last of the image-related magic numbers (in source code).
The only magic numbers left now are related to positioning, image
sizing, and the remaining "data" files (the "planets" and "brief" ones).
At least, I'm pretty sure that's the case.
2016-01-06 20:35:37 -05:00
onpon4 6189a66866 Added CHANCE macro to replace difficult-to-read special rand() uses.
I found myself confused by the interception chances, because it looked
like the chance of interceptions was decreasing slowly over time.
Turns out, it was the denominator in a fraction; a "chance" of 300
meant that there was a 1 / 300 chance.
2016-01-05 06:59:37 -05:00
onpon4 97f1f441c2 Removed more magic numbers. 2016-01-05 06:44:26 -05:00
onpon4 73af622c54 Started getting rid of magic numbers on the intermission screen. 2016-01-04 22:25:00 -05:00
onpon4 5acc9f37f3 Moved cutscenes to C. 2016-01-04 20:17:06 -05:00
onpon4 c07f5678aa Fixed a memory leak, more cleanup.
Forgot to free the face surfaces. Whoops!
2016-01-04 12:41:19 -05:00
onpon4 aad7b550a9 Renamed "FACE_" enum values to "FS_". 2016-01-04 09:07:30 -05:00
onpon4 ab53fac4a8 Moved face sprites to their own array.
Man, that was really difficult. Every time something wrong happened,
segfault. Ugh... Anyway, that's done.
2016-01-04 09:01:54 -05:00
onpon4 697a302fc6 Some cleanup I forgot to do in gfx.cpp. 2016-01-03 22:39:16 -05:00
onpon4 05323ed1fb Added code to handle different resolutions during missions.
This is capable of handling any resolution which is at least 640x360.
Actually, resolutions a bit smaller than that can be handled. No
manual adjustment is necessary. :)

Now, the intermission screen needs to be fixed...
2016-01-03 20:30:54 -05:00
onpon4 ce94477b70 More cleanup. 2016-01-02 16:59:48 -05:00
onpon4 651a7f55fb Did some more cleanup, removing more "shape" magic numbers. 2015-12-31 10:47:27 -05:00
onpon4 1d02b3c71e More cleanup. 2015-11-20 14:11:12 -05:00
onpon4 17b5f60958 More cleanup. Also rewrote the method of frame delaying a bit.
I rewrote the method because what it was doing was so confusing, I
couldn't figure out whether it actually worked right or not. I think
it did, and it's only 2/3 of a milllisecond anyway (not noticeable
at all), but this new way of writing it is much clearer.
2015-11-06 21:35:07 -05:00
onpon4 7694d668ff More cleanup. 2015-11-06 19:43:34 -05:00
onpon4 4bdf871e66 drawString -> screen_renderString 2015-11-06 19:36:20 -05:00
onpon4 67d464433d Removed the second "drawString" function.
It wasn't very useful. All it did was offer the option to center
text and take away the option to wrap text. I've moved the text
centering option to gfx_renderString and replaced all uses of this
function with that function.
2015-11-06 10:12:57 -05:00
onpon4 7c67112a8b Some more cleanup. 2015-11-03 20:26:56 -05:00
onpon4 cce6d11510 More cleanup. 2015-11-02 17:53:05 -05:00
onpon4 9e6ff10c57 More cleanup. 2015-10-26 20:07:31 -04:00
onpon4 134a52e5f0 Some more cleanup. 2015-10-11 12:04:52 -04:00
onpon4 c68cb3f920 More cleanup. 2015-09-26 08:49:21 -04:00
onpon4 0f10c6d5c7 Converted the three "collision" functions to four differently-named ones.
The fourth is simply a duplicate of ship_collision for bullets. A
bit redundant, but I figure it's clearer of a definition. Besides,
this opens up the door to possibly making bullets a different struct
type in the future, if that turns out to be desirable.
2015-09-25 16:28:09 -04:00
onpon4 9a211d773c More reorganization. 2015-06-20 11:59:09 -04:00
onpon4 9be21cbd3a Made it possible to hit the Uranus boss via its wings.
The idea is clearly supposed to be breaking the boss in two and then
destroying the halves, so it makes no sense for the wings you break
off to also act as shields, which they did. Pretty much all this did
was cause a lot of shots to be wasted.
2015-06-02 12:43:06 -04:00
onpon4 c6735cd88b More cleanup 2015-05-28 06:51:45 -04:00
onpon4 f306825636 Removed the "nomove" and "nofire" cheats.
I honestly don't understand why these cheats were here. Preventing
enemies from moving breaks some missions and doesn't do anything
useful, and preventing enemies from firing is basically no better
than the invincibility cheat (and might even be worse, if it applies
to Sid; I didn't check).
2015-05-20 19:41:43 -04:00
onpon4 75990d42f8 Moved stuff in comms.cpp to intermission.cpp as static functions. 2015-04-24 22:40:50 -04:00
onpon4 5019244da1 Added an enum for missions/areas.
Eliminating another set of magic numbers, and God, that was tedious.
2015-03-29 13:11:12 -04:00
onpon4 576d254e4a Replaced rrand function with RANDRANGE macro. 2015-03-29 10:19:53 -04:00
onpon4 e105d6a1cc Added a new "original" difficulty.
This difficulty is meant to imitate the original Project: Starfighter
as closely as possible, for purists.
2015-03-28 09:51:49 -04:00
onpon4 ad8a2f2ad9 Replaced various "limit" functions with LIMIT and LIMIT_ADD macros.
This is mainly because the old "limit" functions were all restricted
to certain types, which is incredibly silly given how simple they are.
Macros are much simpler, and a warning gets raised if they're used
improperly with multiple types, anyway.

In the process, I also found and fixed a bug: it seems the original
author intended for escaping enemies to gradually accelerate to
fleeing speed, but the low value was indicated as the max value, and
the way limitFloat was written, that caused the max value to be used
(it was supposed to reduce the speed to a minimum of -15, but it
instead effectively assigned the speed to -15). It might be a good
idea to re-implement the old buggy behavior intentionally; depends
on whether the acceleration of jumping looks better or worse than
just immediately going to jump speed.
2015-03-17 19:00:13 -04:00
onpon4 05c370feb4 Capitalized "max" and "min" macros. 2015-03-17 16:54:00 -04:00
onpon4 28cc1fcc6d Updated audio module. 2015-03-08 10:38:58 -04:00
onpon4 22fcdae8cc Several adjustments for difficulty purposes.
Started out adjusting prices, then ended up doing other things
while testing. Committing this now before I start doing other
random stuff!

But all of the changes are related to balancing difficulty, mostly
with prices, except for a couple bugfixes in the shop. Most notably:

* Ammo now costs $10, not $50. You no longer have to worry about
  saving ammo quite as much as a result.
* Plasma upgrades' cost is now calculated differently, and the result
  is slightly lower prices than before.
* Easy mode now grants the player more max ammo than other difficulties.
* Increasing max plasma ammo now costs less at the start, and increases
  in cost faster.
* You increase max plasma ammo by 25 at a time, not 10. (10 was just too
  small of a number.)
* Destroying enemy ships no longer gives you money. I found that, even
  in hard mode, I had *way* too much money coming in, and this cuts it
  down substantially. It also makes the shield bonus at the end of missions
  much more significant. To compensate for the loss of massive bonuses
  bosses used to give, these bosses now drop a lot more stuff.
* Kline has decreased health in his first encounter, and increased health
  in his last two encounters (the numbers have been reversed).
2015-03-07 12:19:35 -05:00
onpon4 3d1ad2b674 Autosave when changing planets and when buying/selling.
Previously, it just saved after completing a mission, so it wasn't
something you could really rely on. Now it saves every time something
changes.
2015-03-03 19:28:15 -05:00
onpon4 1f2ef8ac50 Dedicated autosave slot + much improved menu code.
I found it kind of odd to be able to manually save to the autosave
slot, *and* have no reliable way to even know what the autosave
slot is. I noticed that it's an actual problem when my brothers
played Starfighter; one of them used an autosave slot, and the
other unwittingly ended up erasing the first one's save because of
this. To fix this, I have replaced the behavior of allowing the
player to define a slot as autosave, with a dedicated autosave
slot.

While I was there, I had no choice but to vastly improve on this
game's *atrocious* menu system. Granted, I didn't do much more
than replace the magic numbers with enums, but it makes the code
much more clear and more easy to edit.
2015-03-02 23:32:48 -05:00
onpon4 9959c47f98 Updated copyright notices on all files based on git-blame. 2015-03-01 15:37:32 -05:00
onpon4 f620334510 Caused charge cannon damage to be reduced in a different way. 2015-02-28 20:20:36 -05:00