Looks good, you should disable the button Start Server once its started and same with Stop server.
For some design improvement stuff you might add a manifest to the file so you have a nice windows 7 gui, rest is really great.
My server console is actually really just a console, I should add support for a gui too later

Thanks
I tried the manifest thingy but could not achieve it. I tried all ways but could not link the manifest to the runtime file.
Other than that the buttons get deactivated once the server has started, but thanks for pointing that out.

IIRC Simply name your Manifast
YourAppName.Exe.Manifest
If you do this, you don't have to add it to the resources of an Application. Just place it into the same folder as the exe with the Namestructure above

I did that either, but it won´t work with gamestudio

can you post your manifest?

Of course! Thanks for helping out!
I used the one provided by msdn

Made some final adjustments to the lighting and postprocessing of my pixel-style renderer.
(Also, thanks to Superku I managed to fix an important "bug" (aka. my stupidity))



Rendering is pretty fast, around 2-3 ms/frame at 720p and there's still some room for improvements.

However, I'm having huge problems regarding the interface. Nothing works. at all. There's not even anything being rendered.
...and since nothing happens I can't seem to find the problem which is making me go insane right now.

I love it ,it looks seriously awesome so far

@Wjbender: Thanks a lot!

I don't wanna sound selfish but I'm starting to think that the renderer is capable of rendering some pretty nice scenes.
However, my artistic skills still need some work (actually quite a lot of work ._.)

And I FINALLY managed to fix the interface issue. The problem was that I'm setting up all the views before loading the level - which works just fine - but the parameters of the interface-view always got reset when loading the level (because it's position is not updated during gameplay) and it ended up somwhere, but not where I wanted it to be.

There are still some minor issues but fixing these will (hopefully) take less effort and cause not as much of a headache.

Another little update: Maps generated from bitmaps



Creating the textures and writing the level-generation code was a pain in the ass but it works pretty well by now.

I'm still not satisfied with the look, though. The lighting looks weird in brighter environments and the textures need some work, too.

Exit: Oh and every map tile is a single object right now. But I'll add some code that merges the tiles.