Command and Conquer Clone for DS Project News

***wraggster*** · August 6th, 2006, 21:56

More news from the exciting Command and Conquer clone project for DS:

I've worked on the GUI system, basically plugging it in to the rest of the systems such as the renderer. Several GUI 'concepts' have been added, including screens and buttons. You can see a screen below with a few buttons thrown on. I've expanded the bitmap text a little so you can render it's background as transparent and define the colour of the writing. The buttons don't do anything yet and the input system isn't tied into the GUI, but that's the next step.

For the graphic I've written a cool little convertor that let's you take any BMP in explorer and convert it into a 15bit version ready for my game. For previous games I actually made my conversion tools work in the right-click options list in Explorer and I think I'll do the same here

I've not forgotten the sweet little graphic that big_metal_x made for me, but without the net at home I wasn't able to download it! (I'm at work right now). I will take this home later to use

This is a 256 colour graphic however, and I can now support full 15bit colour in the main menu.. so maybe the kind and generous big_metal_x would like to make a new one too??

More info --> http://cncds_project.livejournal.com/