TW-Light is fork of TimeWarp. It includes only a combat portion of TimeWarp. Main goal of this fork is stable melee engine for implementing adventure game.
Starts a battle. In battle the following keys do stuff:
* F1 brings up the help screen (this file, at the moment) * F2 brings up the options menu * F3 switches camera focus * F4 is fast-forward (speeds up in-game time greatly) * F5 displays fleet status * F7 changes game tic rate (physics quality) * F8 changes camera mode * F9 creates planets (silly "feature") * F10 quits (so does ESCAPE) * F11 saves screenshots * F12 displays framerates / performance data * - zooms out on some viewing modes. * + (or =) zooms in on some viewing modes. * 0 and 9 also effect the camera in some viewing modes. * ctrl+T = toggle team indicators on/off * ctrl+H = toggle healthbar indicators on/off
If some controllers are set to keyboard, customizable buttons may cause ship actions. Be default these are:
Config 0: left: Keypad 4 thrust: Keypad 8 right: Keypad 6 fire: Enter special:Space next: Closebrace (]) prev: Openbrace ([) near: P Config 1: left: A thrust: S right: D fire: B special:V next: F prev: G near: H
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Use this utility to check keys combination for conflicts.
Here you can get detail information about every ship in the game.
show comlile options and version information.
This returns to the main menu.
Select the player (i.e. "Player 1" or "Player 2") you wish to alter from the list on the left, and the controller (i.e. "Keyboard", "MoronBot") you want to control that player from the list on the left. Then either click on the "Select Controller" button or double click on the controller name.
This switches the player allys. Note that team 0 mean no allys.
This switches the configuration used by the currently highlighted controller.
This is used to setup up keys when the currently highlighted player is using the keyboard. It may eventually allow the configuration of AIs and calibration of joysticks.
This button brings up the fleet selection menu for the currently highlighted player.
This returns to the main menu.
Most things on this menu are self-explanatory, but a few need special mention.
This makes things brighter during combat. This should not be changed from the middle of combat, or colors could get weird.
If this box is checked then TimeWarp will use higher quality graphics, but run slower.
You cannot change this from the middle of combat.
This allows you to control what is shown on your screen in combat.
"Enemy_Discrete" is just st like Star Control on the PC, where the camera moved to keep both you and your enemy onscreen, and zoomed in by factors of 2.
"Enemy" is like Star Control on the Genesis or 3DO, where the camera zoomed in smoothly.
"Hero" makes the camera stay focused on Player 1, and zoom in/out when + and - are pressed.
"Everything" makes the camera stay on the planet and zoom way out so that everything is visible. This mode is slightly buggy (visual artifacts).
TW-Light is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code of this program.
If you add something, or fix a bug, please send a patch (in 'diff -u' format) to me Yura Siamashka <yurand2@gmail.com>.
TW-Light is derivative work from TimeWarp http://timewarp.sf.net/
Yura Siamashka <yurand2@gmail.com>.
Many people contributed to the project during all these years, here is some of them if you think someone is missing notify me.
- Paul Forest (youBastrd)
- Asaf Hamtzany (UAF)
- Rick Bushie (Firehazurd)
- Tau
- GeomanNL
- Officer Flubbo
- Captain Maim
- Jumping Peppers