Maker4D the RPG Game Maker Engine

[Geri]

You are right about that. The new optimization will certainly save the cpu from some floating point calculations. If everything goes as its planned, today night i will be able to compile and test new binaries. By the way, from now on, most of the bottlenecking tasks are integer-heavy, the number of floating point calculations compared to the integer calculations are now becoming less significant. In the previous versions, floating point was about 35% of all calculation, now it will be around 20%.

 

[Geri]

I was able to roll out the new version.

2020, jan 21.
-Fixed a bug sometimes caused enemy models to sink below the surface
-Added 486 and 386 compatible executable files
-A major optimization in the animation engine results 20-50% performance increase

and indeed, the performance increase is very spectacular on the Cyrix, sometimes reaching 5.9 fps when there is only one hero on the screen.

[video]https://streamable.com/ujtnj[/video]

 

[Geri]

 

[Casey]

And quake doesn't run on a 486 (unless you patch it and have a 486 dx4-100, and then it runs badly).

I ran quake on a 486dx2-66 (8 Mb ram) without much problem under Win95 & a Voodoo 3 3000 agp card.

 

[Geri]

Maker4D moved to http://users.atw.hu/gerigeri/maker4d/index.html because the old webhosting corporation bankrupted.

 

[Geri]

2020, dec 09.
-25% speed-up on Linux and Windows
-Audio engine can be disabled on vintage computers

 

[Geri]

various major upgrade is coming this year to this engine, which will hopefully be released before this summer.

this upgraded version will bring a major speed increase on vintage computers as well.
a 20 to 40% speed increase can be expected.

the software renderer already offered sort of playable frame rates for pentium1 class computers, the new version will be a huge step to reach fluid frame rates on simpler scenes.

 

[Geri]

Maker4D reached 10 fps on a 250 MHz Cyrix, when there is one protagonist on the screen. The games made with Maker4D are now playable on an x86 CPUs above 250 MHz.


2021, march 30. - Massive engine upgrade
-Speed optimizations in the animation system and in the renderer
-40% speed-up on every platforms
-Added support for 64 bit ARM linux systems (ARMv8 )
-Support for background animation in 3D mode added
-A new camera angle has been added.
-Fixed a bug that covered out error messages in some cases.
-Support for executing the games directly from CD or DVD discs: save games will
be automatically saved and loaded from the HDD in such cases.
-Full screen mode can now be toggled with the f button on your keyboard.
-Halfscan rendering mode can be toggled with the h button.
-Battle camera system was redesigned.
-Hero walk speed is redesigned, the protagonist will accelerate more if you press the key for a good half second.
-Character walking speed is increased by 10%.
-Fixed a rendering glitch when an enemy gets activated directly after teleport, or after loading a game.
-Now the NPCs can sit.
-Increased the number of possible attack options in the battle system from 5 to 10.
-On 64 bit systems, battle system will use texture filtering on the background, if the texture size is small.
-Texture filtering can be activated on small background textures.
-On Windows 98 if there is an ISA sound card assumed, the playback is throttled down to 22.025 KHz and 8 bit sound sampling.
-Battle system now can play a win and lose sound effect at the end of battle.
-Map background musics now can be played from the data directroy, so no need for duplicate music files in some cases.
-Music will not be restarted, if the same music file is being requested to play when walking between maps.
-Attacks with magic will use a different camera angle in the battle system.

download:
http://users.atw.hu/gerigeri/maker4d/index.html