With any luck I'll be able to get some semi-intelligent friendly peds to follow you around and help you out. Like most NPCs in games they'll probably have infinite ammo, so providing they shoot at the right targets you shouldn't need massive amounts of ammo yourself

Cheers,
Rich.

Well, yes, but at least it's marginally better than going at it alone

Cheers,
Rich.

Chances are the rendering code will ignore anything a certain height above the player. That way you should be able to have large multi-layer cities without roads far above the player blocking out your view. Even if I don't make heavy use of levels with different heights, at least the capability is there for me to experiment with it.

I want to keep the game fairly arcadey, so it's simple to get into and learn how to play.

So will we be able to have flyovers and suchlike then?

So will we be able to have flyovers and suchlike then?

Yes

So will we be able to have flyovers and suchlike then?

Yes

How do you represent two different heights at the same (x,y) coords, then?

http://www.ugo.com/channels/games/gallery.asp?img=1&gallery=gtalondon_games

Cars on slopes, it's still a b***h

How can we make the game detect when a car drives up or down a slope, and have it react appropriately? (i.e. not make the car bounce off like if it had hit a wall). I think it's time you lot came up with an answer for this one

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network play?

network play?

network play?

Surely you could have worked that out for yourself, or is this some kind of test?

network play?

Surely you could have worked that out for yourself, or is this some kind of test?

Actually, a 'yes' or 'no' would have sufficed

main()
{
  loadconfig();
  initialisewimp();
  runwimp();
}

loadconfig()
{
  // Load user config file - control options, screen mode, etc.
  // Load game config file - contains lots of random bits of info like the size of the megamap,
  // what mission scripts to use for each area, etc.
}

initialisewimp()
{
  // Initialise the wimp interface, using LimpX
  // - load templates & wimp sprites
  // - create iconbar icon, proginfo window, saveas window, etc.
  // - create iconbar menu
  // - attach LimpX event handlers
}

runwimp()
{
  // Run the LimpX Poll function until it's time to quit
  // For this I usually use the LimpX abort flag, which will get set when the user chooses the quit
  // option from the main menu, the program receives a shutdown event, etc.
  // The abort flag will then cause it to break out of the poll loop and return from the runwimp function
}

menu_item_selected(item)
{
  switch (item) {
    case MENU_ITEM_QUIT:
      if (gamenotsaved) {
        if (confirm("Quit without saving?"))
          LimpX_SetAbortFlag();
      } else
        LimpX_SetAbortFlag();
      return;
    case MENU_ITEM_VIDEO:
      open_video_options();
      return;
    case MENU_ITEM_SOUND:
      open_sound_options();
      return;
    case MENU_ITEM_CONTROLS:
      open_control_options();
      return;
  }
}