Experimental D3D9 Build (2009-12-13) Updated!

[Commando]

Out of curiosity, does bz1 and bz2 share very much code?

[Ultraken]

Battlezone 2 started with the game logic from Battlezone 1 transplanted from the Interstate 76 engine to the Dark Reign 2 engine, but changed drastically over the next year and a half.  Little, if anything, carried forward unchanged.

[Ultraken]

I just updated the build to fix the smoke and z-buffer problems, so give it a try.

[Commando]

I will when I get home.

[Commando]

I couldn't go beyond the second screen.  I clicked on SIngle, the screen went into windowed mode, and none of the buttons would respond from there.  I'll try running in Windowed only mode.

[Commando]

Everything appeared to work just fine in Windowed mode.

[sabrebattletank]

For those who want to help track down crashes with Visual C++ 2008 Express:
Battlezone D3D9 Program Database (unpack to the same place as the executable)

All right! Just to be anally clear, it's the same place as the bzone.exe, not the Visual C++ Express executable, right?

[Ultraken]

Correct.  The bzone.exe.pdb goes with bzone.exe.

[Red Devil]

I notice that the text in the briefing screens is larger now.

[Ultraken]

Not deliberately

I screwed that up while trying to streamline the shell a bit, since it previously enumerated fonts every time it printed text.  That's extraordinarily wasteful, so I pushed the enumeration to the initial set-up code where it only gets done once.  The folks at battlezone1.net spotted that one too, among other things.

[Red Devil]

It's kinda nice when using higher res. 

[Ultraken]

It's nice and readable, but the text gets cut off in the lower left planet info.

[eddywright]

I ran through the first couple of SP missions with the new build and everything looked good, no obvious problems, no crashes so far.

It's lookin' good!

Eddy

[Ultraken]

Thanks!  This build was pretty wonky, but the problems have been straightened out for the most part.  I have a few things to finish up before posting another build.

[Commando]

How hard would it be to add a building preview wireframe like bz2 has?