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crackedmind
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posted April 17, 2009 10:53 AM |
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OpenHoMM
OpenHoMM is open source clone of 'Heroes Of Might And Magic III' engine.
We released Preview #1
http://slil.ru/27458510
At present works as a mapviewer and supports only SoD maps.
Unpack archive to your HoMM III SoD directory.
By default loading "A Viking We Shall Go" map. To load a different map, pass the filename as an argument in the command line.
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openhomm.exe "maps\A Warm and Familiar Place.h3m"
Links:
http://launchpad.net/openhomm
http://openheroes.draghost.ru - project forum
http://groups.google.ru/group/openhommdev - Google group
p.s. preview #2 will appear in 2-3 months.
p.p.s. Sorry for bad english 
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angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
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posted April 17, 2009 04:37 PM |
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And what is it good for? Just for looking at maps? Or is there anyhting else I can do with it?
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Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
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E-J
Known Hero
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posted April 19, 2009 08:03 PM |
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for what I see, they try to archieve the same thing as the VCMI team.
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crackedmind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 16, 2009 04:51 AM |
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for what I see, they try to archieve the same thing as the VCMI team.
Not the same. VCMI is rewriting WoG engine, we are rewriting SoD engine with some new features. And we do it in different ways.
Preview.2 still in development stage. We need to realize too much stuff.
You can download an updated preview.1 (fixed some bugs in map loader)
http://launchpad.net/openhomm/1.0/preview.1/+download/openhomm-preview-1-bin-win32.tar.bz2
Or you can build it from sources
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Society99
Adventuring Hero
I am too much of a spammer!
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posted July 16, 2009 11:12 PM |
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So this won't have the same visuals as WoG? Some of the creatures in WoG (and the environment on several maps) i find rather wierd-looking compared to any other unit in the "vanilla" versions. Probably the colors and unrefined eyes from my side, but still *I am 100% snow in programming and modding*
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crackedmind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 17, 2009 01:23 AM |
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So this won't have the same visuals as WoG? Some of the creatures in WoG (and the environment on several maps) i find rather wierd-looking compared to any other unit in the "vanilla" versions. Probably the colors and unrefined eyes from my side, but still *I am 100% snow in programming and modding*
Yes, we don't plan to add graphic or something. We only recreating game engine. At the moment the team consists only of 3 programmers.
Third programmers joined some days ago.
But we want to add easy modding feature.
Some goals for preview.2:
- GUI with scripting (you can rewrite all standards action)
- basic game logic
- console
- RoE & AB maps support
- crash report system
- debugger for scripts
- rewrite some code from scratch, because it's terrible
- maybe, begin work on tools.
- add some documentation
That's what we've added after the preview.1:
- added menu for window mode
- added configuration file (ony 3 options)
- fixed compilation on gcc 4.3 and linux
- improved render speed
- some stablity fixes
Too much work, but we will finish it!
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted July 17, 2009 07:08 AM |
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...How many years after VCMI is finished?
Maybe you could help with our project instead or writting the same once again. Actually scripting is something we miss at the moment.
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crackedmind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 17, 2009 03:32 PM |
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...How many years after VCMI is finished?
Maybe you could help with our project instead or writting the same once again. Actually scripting is something we miss at the moment.
Why years? You do not need to be so pessimistic
I think, we won't join. There are some reasons for that.
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So u can code punk?
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Zolmir
Hired Hero
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posted July 17, 2009 08:21 PM |
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What about the AI? Other elements can be copied easily but that might be hard. Even better, though, would be the possibility to create a more competent AI as an option.
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crackedmind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 18, 2009 03:04 AM |
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What about the AI? Other elements can be copied easily but that might be hard. Even better, though, would be the possibility to create a more competent AI as an option.
I thought about this.
We try to make it better than it was in the original. Some fragments of AI will be available from the scripts, like in "The Battle for Wesnoth"
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So u can code punk?
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kesnar
Famous Hero
from Kesnaria
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posted July 18, 2009 04:23 AM |
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There are some reasons for that.
And the reasons are?!?Through Unity comes the strenght...
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ihor
Supreme Hero
Accidental Hero
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posted July 18, 2009 02:03 PM |
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And what are you going to create?
Original heroes are the best 
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Your advertisement could be
here only for 100$ per day.
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted July 18, 2009 02:21 PM |
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And what are you going to create?
Original heroes are the best
While 2 towns being banned, open maps being ignored, magic heros being useless, 66 spells out from 69 never being used, tactics being considered cheap (hit&run, red rush, town sitting), over usage of some 4-5 heros out from 155, 4-5 secondary skills only used out from 27, yes, it is the best
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Era II mods and utilities
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Fank0
Known Hero
There are no limits
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posted July 18, 2009 02:34 PM |
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Quote:
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And what are you going to create?
Original heroes are the best
While 2 towns being banned, open maps being ignored, magic heros being useless, 66 spells out from 69 never being used, tactics being considered cheap (hit&run, red rush, town sitting), over usage of some 4-5 heros out from 155, 4-5 secondary skills only used out from 27, yes, it is the best
On T.E. ?
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And you believed that?
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kesnar
Famous Hero
from Kesnaria
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posted July 18, 2009 04:58 PM |
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Which two towns have been banned?!?The one is the Forge...the other?!?
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crackedmind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 18, 2009 05:25 PM |
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And what are you going to create?
What do you mean?
We can not change the gameplay.
And please, stop offtop
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So u can code punk?
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted July 19, 2009 03:06 PM |
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Warmonger
Promising
Legendary Hero
fallen artist
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posted July 19, 2009 03:12 PM |
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VCMI already supports maps of any sizes. Not sure about rectangular ones.
Unfortunatelly right now we don't have any tools to make such map, editor and RMG will come only after 1.0 release.
BTW, I just joined the team. Hopefully I won't slow down the project too much .
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Salamandre
Admirable
Omnipresent Hero
Wog refugee
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posted July 19, 2009 03:33 PM |
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There is already a russian patch allowing to make bigger maps. But you can't view the additional terrain on the minimap unfortunatelly.
Any knows which part of the code allows changing the editor to support twice bigger maps? Is any of the projects working on such a tool?
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Era II mods and utilities
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crackedmind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 19, 2009 08:48 PM |
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VCMI already supports maps of any sizes. Not sure about rectangular ones.
We will implement it later, when the editor will be ready.
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So u can code punk?
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