GLSMAC - Open-source OpenGL/SDL2 remaster of SMAC

[Buster's Uncle]

Do you need something made for a frame or can you patch something together?

[afwbkbc]

Nah, it's just white lines basically 

[Buster's Uncle]

Okydoke.

-But if you need graphics fiddled some way, I'm your huckleberry - provided you catch me in the mood, and possibly even not...

[afwbkbc]

Minimap done (for now)

[afwbkbc]

Last week I've been doing a lot of bugfixing and optimizations (improved FPS by 30-50% by removing all unneeded redraws/resizes/realigns/etc), then focused more on UI and middle section of bottombar.
This scrollbar also took a while -

But it's high quality and can be used for other UI later on. Most time still went to fixing/improving UI code to allow it and not scrollbar itself.
Now I'll add some empty info panels and then move to map editor, I decided that it must be finished before v0.2 because it's important part of map. Map editor will be last big thing before v0.2, I'll try to make it look and work in same way as in SMAC. Then also saving/loading of maps but it's already implemented, just need to add menus. Ok, maybe also landmarks but they are easy too.

[mrStoun]

Looks very cool! When is a playable version planned?

[afwbkbc]

First playable - I think a month or two from now. Yes yes I already gave this estimate before  sometimes things go a bit slower than planned, but I don't want to sacrifice quality and release some buggy laggy mess (that would need to be fixed later anyway).
You can also check the most up-to-date info on development progress here https://github.com/afwbkbc/glsmac/commits/main . Next big milestone is map editor and small things like adding menus, saving/loading game, etc. After that I'll move to multiplayer, then units, and then - big obstacle - CVRs. Once(if) it's done then next step is turn processing and that's where gameplay comes in.

[afwbkbc]

Map editor UI done, one difference from SMAC is 'Cover Map' button replaced by 'Moisture' button which seems much more useful, especially for testing. Yes in SMAC there's weather algorithm and it will be implemented too at some point, but ability to edit moisture directly gives more control over map. Also, removing map cover (fog of war) selectively belongs to scenario, not map, and later there will be separate scenario editor anyway. 'Moisture' icon is loaded from same interface.pcx as all other icons, it seems to be unfinished and unused in original SMAC. Later I'll add some workaround to draw lines in it more bold way, then it won't differ from others that much.
Slightly renamed brush names to make more sense.
Texts will be multicolored and look like in SMAC later, tooltips on hover later too, now moving to actual map editing logic.

[afwbkbc]

Elevations editor, first version
 

( it will be optimized better, dw )

[DrazharLn]

Amazing progress!

[afwbkbc]

FPS improvements

[afwbkbc]

Added SMAC brushes, more will come in future (i.e. round ones), maybe also 'intensity' or 'speed' sliders, variable brush size slider, etc.
 

It's a bit laggy with 9x9 brush, but that's 81 tiles to update and reload on every iteration (and there are like 10-15 per second). Once map loading/reloading will be multithreaded it may become 5x-7x faster so lags won't be noticeable anymore. Smaller brushes are already fast.
Now I just need to add other tools (elevations was the hardest btw) and minimap update, and map editor kinda done.

[afwbkbc]

Added other stuff and terraforming (except for roads/magtubes). I'll resize/align them better a bit later.

[DrazharLn]

Nice!

[afwbkbc]

Added some menus and file browser UI -

Took a while (UI is always time-consuming when element needs to be done for first time), but I like how it looks/feels. v0.2 is very close now, all functionality is there, just need to do some optimizations and map saving/loading, so just a couple more days

Update: more cool features