The danger of a "new style" is that we will have to re-do everything to fit with the new style. For now we should focus on developing the main peices of the game that we need and haven't done yet.

(I do like the new style, but we should wait a bit before switching)

I'm already making some changes, so I'll look at GUICHAN and see what I need to do to make it more compatable.

Otherwise I'm thinking of custom code for this. I already have it in mind of what we need.

Hmm, I have Borland Turbo C/C++ and DJGPP. I should try and compile on those just as a test. I'll let you know how it goes.

I agree, we need to stick to an existing game as a model like RO. That way there is no confussion about Game Play, Controls, etc.

We can always change things later but it will be easier to change things once we get everything working first.

Hey I'm a pro artist and honestly paying me money wouldn't fix the problem. Part of the problem is that we haven't done enough project planning in some areas of the game. Even if we have a team of artists working full-time we can't get much done if we work on parts of the game that we can't use unti...

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I've made some more modifications to the GUI.



You can view a larger image here: http://www.g3s.com/tmw/v4_Gui_Large.jpg

Anyway, I still have lots of work to do on this but it is coming along.

What do you guys (and gals) think?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Originally I had a crazy idea of "action icons" setting the player into specific "modes" so that they are limited to only be able to fight or talk or buy/sell depending on the mode they where in. http://themanaworld.sourceforge.net/phpB...

We where using the Ragnarok interface but now we are using our own custom interface. http://themanaworld.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=223 If you are interested in doing some music for the game then you should talk to Rotonen. You can either PM him or the best way to reach anyone from the d...

This week has been really busy for me as well, but I should have some free time this next week to finish up the GUI. SimEd did some coding work already and it seems to be working fine. Him and I should be able to get the new GUI done in time for the Xmas release.

When I come to the forum home page is had the CHECK MARK icons by sections that I haven't read yet... When I click on that section there are NO CHECK MARK icons to tell me which TOPIC I haven't read.... When I ckick back to the home page all the CHECK MARK icons are removed even if I only visited on...

I'm glad you started this post because skills is something that hasn't really been talked about yet. In this game since it's all about MANA. I would suggest that skills drain MANA when used. Skills can be anything from Magic spells to non-combat skills like Item Identification. Item Identification f...

Okay guys here you go... the newest version... Like I said I have some free time this week and next so I'm hoping to finalize the new GUI and start putting it into the game. http://www.g3s.com/tmw/v3_Gui_Small.jpg Again, here is a link to a full-sized version: http://www.g3s.com/tmw/v3_Gui_Large.jpg...

You should jump on IRC and see what people need a hand with if you want to start coding. We just released 0.0.8 and Elven is already working on the next version. I'm currently re-designing the GUI which will need to be added to the game, there are a handful of little bugs, and the text input is real...

I'm not using XP so I don't know if there is some sort of known bug/problem. You should jump on IRC and ask one of the guys if they know of any kind of problem with XP.

I'm already working on that. Originally the game was designed to ONLY use the keyboard so nobody was working on buttons, instead we were going to use HotKeys. But now we are starting to use more and more mouse controls in the game, so I'm working on buttons/icons for menus, etc. This is an example o...