Yo dawg, I herd you like Garry's Mod...

[mattwd0526]

I was, for the record, talking about speed of coding. I'm aware that it is hella fast when running.

[Matte]

As you can see, it is a huge update from the previoous version. I have made a total rewrite of the whole code, and now it is very simple to create songs. During the video, I will show the code, and whiile I show it, I'll highlight two db allocations. These two db data allocations defines when and where the notes will be played.
The first db I highlight is when the note will come, for instance "1200, 1400, 1600" are the three first notes in Smoke on the Water, separated by a delay of one beat (200 iterations). (This db must end with a 0, to denote the end of a song)
The second db specifies where the notes are to be played, for instance "0, 1, 2" are the first three notes in the same song, as 0 = fret1, 1 = fret2, 2 = fret3, and so on.

It is also really optimized. In the previous version I drew all the notes at once, but now I only draw those who are within a certain distance of you.

The controls are:

Shift = Fret 1
A = Fret 2
S = Fret 3
D = Fret 4
Space = Fret 5
Mouse 1 = Shred 1
Mouse 2 = Shred 2

The note hit counter is a bit bugged, though.

Will be released as beta once I come home.

[Drunkie]

Nice!! But if you do release it, you know it will be slow or choppy in multiplayer right?

[Divran]

Change the controls to 1-5. That way you can turn the keyboard upside down and play with it like a guitar

[Matte]

Nice!! But if you do release it, you know it will be slow or choppy in multiplayer right?

Yeah.

Change the controls to 1-5. That way you can turn the keyboard upside down and play with it like a guitar

The advanced pod controller doesn't support number keys. I'd have to use the keyboard, but I'd rather just use the current setup.

[Matte]

This is the new version. It supports sounds!



Other new features:
Rock meter, shows you your current points on a -64, 0 64 scale (points above/below this show as the max/min value)
Loosing points for missing notes / wrong fret / shredding without fret

To get the E2 to run synchronized with the GPU, I had to sacrifice some speed, so the game is now running at a mid-low, but playable rate.

Controls are the same as before:

Shift = Fret 1
A = Fret 2
S = Fret 3
D = Fret 4
Space = Fret 5
Mouse 1 = Shred 1
Mouse 2 = Shred 2

Now, with sound, it is also much more complicated to make songs. I used a couple of hours to get "smoke one the water" to right.
E2 is only used to play sound and control the frame rate of the GPU. All other data handling is done in the GPU (Which might be a bad idea considering the E2 runs faster, and can do the data handling more quickly than the GPU. I might make the next version a hybrid taking advantage of the processing power of the E2)

As promised, a dupe and the GPU code. Spawn the dupe, then compile and load the GPU. (You probably need to remove the extra period in the filenames. it's just some bug with the forum uploader)

Feedback is welcome! (please )

(The GPU file is called 'cube' because I edited the wrong file by an accident)

[N00bDud3]

That's sweet. The only things I don't like about it are things that the GPU causes:
1) The poly disappears if its center goes of screen, so the fret board keeps getting chopped
2) The fret board looks messed up the way the GPU lights both of the triangles differently.

If those problems could be somehow resolved in the GPU itself, it would be even more awesome than it already is.
(I'm slowly learning the 3d portions of GPU, I know most of the 2d stuff)

[Matte]

There is no way I know to fix the lighting, but I can see if I can tweak the camera to keep the meshes from culling while they're still in view.

EDIT: Just found what seems to be a sweet spot. Now they don't cull until they are very close to out of view.

[N00bDud3]

Sweet. I hope that you can make some good progress on the FPS engine as well.

[Matte]

Yea, I'll have to see about that. I don't know if there is any progress to be made, as an fps game would probably be too heavy for the GPU. I'll try, though.