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Flight Demo coming soon.....er or later

by Bill Vee · 01/30/2011 (8:43 am) · 1 comments

I will be releasing a simple flight demo tomorrow to a select number of users on DayOfWar.com.
The selected users have already been picked.
It will then be released to the general public on Friday.

This is a simple flight demo. No hud. No weapons. You can only use one type of DropShip.
The demo has an updater program that can update it as I enable more features and maps.
This demo is more of a test of the updater than the demo itself. I will be using this process to keep the demo up to date until the release of the game.

I have been trying to release it for about 2 weeks now but I have been running into a few minor issues.
One issue is exporting only the files I need for a demo. I had used scripts for this but it was starting to get very unwieldy. I was very close a few time until I tested the demo out and found it would exclude a needed file and cause the demo to crash or it would include files I didn't need making the demo size way to large. This was mostly due to wildcards when try to determine which files to include/exclude. Also there was the issue of zipping folders and setting passwords to them. I know there may be some program out there that could handle this and other features I needed but I have yet to find it.

I know that Torque3D can do most of this to "publish" a game but I am using TGEA.

Since necessity is the mother of invention I created my own program to accommodate my needs.

The program I made shows me the files I am including and excluding as well as mark folders for zipping and setting passwords to them.
It takes only about a minute to run the export so that I can test it for errors and to make sure it only contains the files I need.

Here is some pics of the program.

Source folder
www.dayofwar.com/www_pics/TConverter_Source.png
Destination Folder
www.dayofwar.com/www_pics/TConverter_Dest.png
This program helped me out a lot and saved me a lot time.

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02/01/2011 (2:52 am)
Sounds promising. Keep us updated Bill.