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| Displayed name | Radiant |
| Member number | 409 |
| Title | Master Jeweller |
| Postcount | 798 |
| Homepage | http://crystalshard.net |
| Registered | Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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Master Jeweller
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written Monday, August 2 2004 02:51
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http://www.liacs.nl/~psimoons/dls/subtwo.exe (see the other thread) -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, August 2 2004 02:50
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Okay, a new update has been uploaded (same link as above). It fixes all bugs until my last message above, because that's the last time I checked the forum. All bugs fixed, except for these two: 1) When enemies pass through teleporters, they occasionally disappear, especially the knight. 3) Occasionally if a blue/orange wall is turned on while an enemy stands on it the wall will go invisible instead of disappearing, although the enemy still dies. I haven't been able to replicate them. If they occur again, please provide a small level to demonstrate the point. Thank you! bobxp -> noted, will be fixed. Stewboy -> that's not a bug, it's a consequence of the stroboscope effect produced when fast-forwarding. Eep. Undo isn't suppoed to be possible after playing a level, I'll fix that. Balloons aren't round enough to roll (like in ST1) however you can use conveyor belts to move them sideways. And thanks for your persistence!! -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 26 2004 04:09
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Stewboy -> 1A.the red bars were removed since I didn't like their looks; I'll add some other fx for time stopping. 2A,3A,1B.Oops, well found! 2B and up - I don't quite understand you; maybe you could create a small level to illustrate the point? Omlette -> do you maybe have a small level that demonstrates the problem? Because bugs that start with 'occasionally' are very hard to track down otherwise. Thanks! -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 26 2004 04:06
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Hi there, I didn't get the level 'Recyclables' (because it would have been on the list otherwise :) ). So kindly send it again. I had a couple of levels renamed slightly (for instance, some were typoed), and in this process I also dropped the 'Bobs' from BBBP. I didn't really think about this, so if it bothers you let me know. However your name will already appear in the 'author' section when the level appears on-screen. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 26 2004 04:03
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Hi there! I got your message over e-mail, however I've failed to respond to it! If I try, I get this error message: Message from yahoo.com. Unable to deliver message to the following address(es). <> 216.8.137.207 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 <>... User unknown Can you try again maybe? -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 23 2004 04:33
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Use the 'contact me' link on top of the forums. (edit) I mean, 'submit your levels here' I no longer post my e-mail address on forums such as these to avoid excessive spam. [ Friday, July 23, 2004 04:33: Message edited by: Radiant ] -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 21 2004 00:37
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Ouch. Hate it when that happens :( okay, it goes on my list again. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 04:47
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I should probably zip the bunch and mail it around. Funny thing is, some people have asked me not to send more levels until the full version is done, as it ruins the suspense. So I guess I'll mail it to whomever is interested? Drop me a PM with your e-mail addr. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 02:42
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This is the list of levels I've received so far for SubTerra II. So people who've asked me in the past 'have you received so-and-so' can see this as a verification. The first eight levels (marked with *) currently don't have a functioning demo. In a few cases this was because I never received one in the first place, but in most cases this is the unfortunate result of bug fixing (e.g. the solution depended on a kind of behavior that was actually not correct). I believe all these levels are still possible however; if you could spare the time to replay your own level that would be appreciated. If you don't, I'll find some time to do it myself of course. * big Block Puzzle.ST2 * boxed in.ST2 * kick before you stick.ST2 * light Of Dinuse.ST2 * oops.ST2 * s.o.s..ST2 * spring.ST2 * your new job.ST2 Afterlife.ST2 Allegro Con Brio.ST2 Assorted Chambers.ST2 Avoid Once More!.ST2 Avoid.ST2 Bang!.ST2 Corner Confusion!.ST2 Crate Craze.ST2 Devilish puzzles.ST2 Dizzy.ST2 Electric Boogie.ST2 Electronics.ST2 Enemy evasion Eye queue tree.ST2 Fill In.ST2 Four Rooms.ST2 Get Through.ST2 Ignore Them.ST2 Knitting With Wire Wool.ST2 Little Detail.ST2 Little Lost Slimey.ST2 Maze Masters.ST2 Munchkin Mines.ST2 Munchkin Stock Exchange.ST2 My Cup Runneth Over.ST2 On-off!.ST2 One At A Time.ST2 Overflow!.ST2 Parade Ground 2.ST2 Parade Ground.ST2 Pathways Into Darkness.ST2 Phil's First!.ST2 Psychiatrist's Office.ST2 Ready-steady-go!!.ST2 Reflection.ST2 Replicator Repair.ST2 Return to the Hive.ST2 Rocky Roads.ST2 Simple Switches.ST2 Slimey Heaven.ST2 State Of Mind.ST2 Still A-mazing.ST2 Subterra Forever.ST2 Subterrathon.ST2 The Big Chase.ST2 The Dome.ST2 The Eldritch!.ST2 The Laser Show.ST2 Theme and Variations.ST2 Time Machine.ST2 Toggle Maze.ST2 Voices in my Head.ST2 Walled up.ST2 Waterfall.ST2 Weird Wires.ST2 Welcome to the Moscow Subway.ST2 X Still Marks The Spot.ST2 (edit) Buzz.ST2 (/edit) [ Monday, July 19, 2004 03:19: Message edited by: Radiant ] -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 19 2004 02:38
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Hi there, sorry for the delay, folks, but here is the latest version of the ST2 beta. http://www.liacs.nl/~psimoons/dls/subtwo.exe (edit, typo in the url) As usual all reported bugs have been fixed, also several of the requested object changes have been implemented (and several have not). See below for details. Bugs fixed: If a rock falls upon a random sorter and something is in the way, the rock will now start moving once it is no longer blocked, just as with motion fields. Granite rocks now properly destroy transmuters Speedy shoes combine well with gravel now Knight sprite fix Golem will lay dirt over mountain king controls Can now cross gate onto marble and similar stuff, just like the port Slime correctly removes floor tiles Enemies walking over wire buttons Sorcerer now destroys water/barriers/etc when conjuring stuff onto them Fixed linkboxes with multiple player figures. Pink gems now glow pink rather than blue Reading level files created by other people should work now ...and probably a bunch of others that I forgot about Things that aren't bugs: When the sorcerer creates stuff, he's not actually moving down, but does a spellcasting animation. This is kind of hard to see though, it's been made a bit clearer. That speedy shoes only work while moving through open space, i.e. not while digging through dirt or picking up gems or something Note that in the special case of two players (not two figures of the same player) each being surrounded by linkboxes, neither can move because both are blocked by the other. This is due to the fact that the players don't actually move simultaneously. Munchkins don't steal keys in any case, that's intentional (except for the white key) It is fairly difficult to make an interesting two-player level. This is not really intentional, but it follows from the game design. I am considering to make a more sociable game in the future, but by necessity this will have less puzzle elements. Faerie implementation: where q = LEFT or RIGHT, and r = 0,1,2 or 3 For each tile: if the next tile is a wall, turn the OPPOSITE direction of q and invert q else increment r by one if r >= 3, turn the direction of q and invert q and reset r to zero Omlette: regarding 'possible bug'... what we've got here is a very tricky timing situation that doesn't come up all that often. The key is that, while objects appear to move simultaneously, internally they are moved one after the other, by one pixel each. In your level, rocks are cloned in sequence by the teleporter. In most cases, the previous rock has moved first, and is away from the teleporter, so that a new rock can be created. In some instances, the previous rock moves AFTER the rock to be teleported, so a new rock cannot be created since the previous rock is still blocking the teleporter's exit. I hope that made a bit of sense. The point is that this is not a bug but a quirky result of the way the game is created, and it is not possible to fix it without reworking the game's kernel, which would break a lot of other levels. The solution? Simply make a bit more space between your rocks as they teleport. Regarding object additions or modifications... * More decorative objects - approved, will be added in the future. * Icy floor - approved, but the skates will not be back. * Other enemies triggering Mountain King - approved; the daemon and the dog will now trigger any MK triggers they walk over. Note, of course, that the MK will never chase /them/, only you * Enemies able to cross areas that the player can't - approved. From now on, faeries can fly over water, sorcerers ignore laser beams, and demons ignore motion fields. Note that all enemies can already cross magic fields, and golems can cross water (thereby removing the water) * Motion fields should push the player onto marble/dirt/savedisks/etc ... good point. If you had made it while ST1 was in development, I would have changed it. However, at this point I don't want an object that is in both ST1 and ST2 to function differently in either, since that may confuse players. Sorry! * Marble shouldn't block teleporters for players - denied, because I'd prefer that the teleporter works the same way for every object. And since it is blocked by marble for every object other than the player, it should also be blocked for the player. Also this is exactly the way it functioned in ST1, which is nice for consistency. * Monster that turns left/right when it hits a wall - already in place, as that's exactly what sorcerers and golems do (and the faeries, if you must) * More barriers, say a green one - I would think that with the wires, you can overcome this limitation easily. Simply don't use the blue and pink buttons, but hotwire every barrier to a switch somewhere. * Expanding walls from ST1 - denied, since it's not that interesting an object in the first place, and you can duplicate the effect of blocking a passage in a LOT of other ways * Duplicator from ST1 - denied, since it wasn't much used in ST1 either, and people seem to not like it much. * Cloner from ST1 - denied, since that's what the portals are for. The cloner is ubiquitously used in ST1, and ST2 requires another kind of 'engine' * Skelwing from ST1 - denied, since that's what the sorcerer is for; same reason as above. * The rotation and deflection fields - denied, since they're too similar to the motion fields, and they're not really used all that much even in ST1. * Egg with diamond inside from ST1 - denied, since it wasn't used all that often in ST1 either * Dynamite - denied, because it has ruined too many puzzles in ST1 * Invisible triggers - denied, because I don't like invisible things * New graphics for faerie/knight/mountain king - denied unless somebody actually has new graphics for me, simply because I don't have any That's it. Comments are of course welcome but please add an explanation. [ Monday, July 19, 2004 04:48: Message edited by: Radiant ] -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 06:00
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bobxp -> Visual C++ studio 6.0 to be exact. Theoretically yes, but given the size of the source code I can't just stick a breakpoint somewhere and hope to catch it that way. Stewboy -> whenever I feel like it :) seriously, I have some other things on my hands these days, in particular looking for an apartment and for a job (and maybe a quick holiday if I can spare the cash). But I won't abandon ST2 for that, it just takes a little more time than it should. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 05:58
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1) it's not very nice to force registration to even see the message board; people are unlikely to register unless they first see something they like. 2) this belongs in the General forum. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 05:56
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Very well, if you must. Image format is BMP, sprites are 32x32 pixels in 16-bit color, and animations use four frames (for monsters and backgrounds) or eight frames (for rolling gems/rocks/etc). Please realize that the graphics you send me must be of equal or better quality than the current ones, or I will not use them. And by quality I don't mean your personal opinion only, ask other people too. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 02:17
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Hi bobxp! Sorry about that, I had too many messages at this end :/ 3 is obviously a bug, solved now. Well spotted, thanks. Of course 2 and 1 are also bugs but less easily found, I'll let you know when I do. Yours, Pieter -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 12 2004 05:51
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Creator -> between 100 and 250, I believe. I'd have to look up the exact number. (I do believe that's more than GC and HL combined, though :) ) -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, July 9 2004 06:40
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Omlette -> yes, that should occur if you load a level created on another computer. And it's a bug, obviously. See next version for details :) -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 8 2004 04:23
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Micael -> ST1 has roughly 450 levels. And yes you can play them all, because some poeple have done that. By the way did you know that 'archmagi' is a plural? Stewboy -> Spiderweb has officially decided that selling other people's games isn't worth the effort, as proven by the low sales records of all of them. This may be because most Spidweb fans are into RPGs, which most 'external' games are not; or it may be because the Spidweb community has reached a consensus that most of those 'external' games are of poor quality (I'm not making this up, just go to the general forum and ask about Homeland or Galactic Core and you'll see what I mean) So, SubTerra has been moved to the 'old games' section of Spiderweb, and they no longer take tech support calls. However the game can still be downloaded, and the forum is still up since it doesn't take much bandwidth anyway. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, July 8 2004 04:17
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No, that's not possible. -------------------- Pieter Simoons, aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, April 19 2004 02:49
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If people think GURPS and D&D are too rules-heavy, there's always Whitewolf or even Amber Diceless. -------------------- This is the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division! Please flee in terror in an orderly manner. -- Megatokyo Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 25 2004 04:17
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You omitted Homeland.  -------------------- This is the Tokyo Police Cataclysm Division! Please flee in terror in an orderly manner. -- Megatokyo Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, March 18 2004 05:53
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Exactly. Given that there are many free RPG graphics on the web, it is not unreasonable to assume that Jeff has used a couple of them, himself. It is also certainly possible that somebody ripped Jeff's graphics and put them on the web somewhere as 'free RPG graphics'. Happens a lot on sites like that, I've seen entire Legend of Zelda spriterips displayed as 'free'. Maybe you should ask the writer of rpgwo where he got the images. -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 17 2004 02:58
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There's plenty of free RPG graphics on the web, which also include giant roaches, most of which will probably look alike even if drawn by different people. -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, March 2 2004 05:41
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Nope, Dutch here. -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 23 2004 02:21
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Hm... Who Framed Roger Rabbit comes to mind. And I really liked the Black Cauldron (even if it isn't close to the books). For the 'less ancient' classics I'd have to nominate the Little Mermaid for its excellent music. For more stories about weird-looking spires, check http://www.snopes.com/disney/disney.asp -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, February 17 2004 08:05
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A sword would be very irony in most cases. (steely, even) -------------------- Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heilighthum! Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng getheilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Pieter Simoons aka Radiant Official Crystal Shard and SubTerra webpage Posts: 798 | Registered: Monday, December 17 2001 08:00 |