Loading textures for models first will need the textures exported from the MIA files. I’ve documented the MIA format in a previous post ( Texture Files – Shutokou Battle Online (sb-online.net) ) Each car model has an associated MIA file. Read more…
Now with the “materials” dealt with for the time being I move on to the simpler and more obvious vertices and faces. The header indicates the sizes of each entry for vertices and faces. For vertices they appear to be Read more…
I’ve not updated the blog in a long time. I’ve been working on SBOL on and off in my spare time and have lost track of changes I’ve implemented. I’ll try to retroactively create posts at a later date, but Read more…
My next focus is the NPC battles. As I found a month or so ago, the client contains no information regarding the rival drivers. Only the rival team name and member names are stored in the client. This is only Read more…
Now that the test server has been running for some days I wanted to get battling implemented so that players have more to do other than using SBOL as a chat room. The option to battle other players wasn’t appearing. Read more…
Now I can handle other players I implemented a course array to the server much like you would do for lobbies for other games. Players in courses can only talk and see players in the same course. at the moment Read more…
Along with parts, players can also obtain Items. Items can be exchanged for many things like cars, parts, boosts and warps. Most items were obtained from winning races. But some can be purchased from a shop. While working on shops Read more…
Working on the shops for SBOL I found that half used data from local data files and others expected the server to provide the costs and items. For example; parts shops retrieve their costs from the parts file p.dat. However Read more…
So, I took a break from the project. I left the project being able to spawn a player/npc but not able to see them on the course. I generated binaries of my server code and shared a copy with a Read more…
After having success with the texture format I thought I’d try my luck with the model files. I’m not good with 3d models so will struggle with these files. As the game contains all of the data except the model Read more…