The Polynomial : Space of the music.
(C) 2010 Dmytry Lavrov, Alexey Lavrov. All rights reserved.
Playing game:
Level 0 contains explanation of gameplay.
OS X note: if you find it difficult to control the ship, press esc, go to Input tab, and enable "Change OS X mouse acceleration"
Go to Music tab to fill the playlist with music you like (supported formats: MP3 and OGG) and tune music visualizer settings.
You can drag playlist entries around, delete using X and select current using green triangle.
Note: some graphics drivers may have problem displaying file open dialog when game is in full screen mode. If you encounter this problem,
please try updating your graphics driver. Alternatively, you can switch to window mode to populate the playlist. In the game tab you can choose arena and music animator.
Making art:
You can use this program to make interesting images and custom levels, see instructions below.
Controls:
ESC shows menu and pauses game.
Click on Controls button in the menu to view and set rest of the controls.
If you want to use gamepad or joystick, press a button on it to enable it.
If you are using mouse, try switching mouse mode to "Flight Simulator".
HUD:
Red boxes are for enemies, blue circles are for friendlies. Bonuses are shown with their specific icons.
Blinking Hazards:
Orange radioactivity icon means you've been hit.
Orange thunderbolt icon means low energy (must get close to attractor)
Configuration files:
On first run, configuration files are created in:
Windows: 'Your home folder/Application Data/Polynomial/config.txt'
Linux: 'Your home folder/.polynomial/config.txt'
OS X: 'Your home folder/Library/Preferences/com.pandromeda.dmytry/Polynomial/config.txt'
If you need to revert all settings to default without running the game, delete the configuration file.
If you want to store configuration file alongside the game itself (e.g. to put it on usb drive and carry with you around),
you can copy or move the configuration file to:
Windows: data/config.txt
Linux: bin/data/config.txt
OS X: Polynomial_osx.app/Contents/Resources/config.txt
Once you do so, Polynomial will no longer create or use configuration from home directory.
Bugs:
First, update your video driver.
If you see ugly pixelation, press esc, open Visuals tab, and try turning on "Radeon 1950 workaround".
Check up to date list of issues before reporting.
If you see some bug in program, send the log.txt
as attachment to dmytry_lavrov&at;yahoo.com , with description of issue
and screenshots if necessary.
On Windows and OS X, log.txt is application folder (If you have downloaded The Polynomial from Steam, consult Steam documentation).
On Linux, log is printed on console. Run it from command line, for
example ./Polynomial32 >log.txt
Creating your own artwork:
Switch to the Editor panel.
Check "Hide game".
Try enter arbitrary number in the Seed field, then press
next or prev, and wait up to a second.
The program will automatically try few
hundreds of random sets of parameters starting from your seed until it finds
something that may look cool. Press next until you find something you like.
Most of the arenas in the game were created in this manner.
If you bought full version of the game, you can now save your work as level, or save
current view as image.
When you save an image, for example, myart.png , the settings will be saved as
myart.png.polynomial.txt , this is done to avoid losing the "source" to the image.
Future versions may include software renderer for making images of arbitrary sizes.
Note: for unknown reasons, on Linux, file selector popup sometimes opens as pop-under.
If you don't see it, check your taskbar for the popup.
Advanced editing:
You can tune attractor parameters in this scary looking matrix, or dt parameter,
and press Apply. Try changing some value a little - e.g. replace 1 by 1.1 .
Don't be affraid to tweak! I myself cannot for life of me tell how
specific set of parameters will look before I try it - it is not really possible for anyone to do math in his head fast enough anyway.
You can do it as well as I can, or better.
If you make a mistake, click on the field that you edited last time, and press
ctrl-z to undo or ctrl-y to redo. The text fields support local undo and redo,
even though there is no global undo.
Library credits:
//========================================================================
// GLFW - An OpenGL framework
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// MersenneTwister.h
// Mersenne Twister random number generator -- a C++ class MTRand
// Based on code by Makoto Matsumoto, Takuji Nishimura, and Shawn Cokus
// Richard J. Wagner v1.0 15 May 2003 rjwagner@writeme.com
// The Mersenne Twister is an algorithm for generating random numbers. It
// was designed with consideration of the flaws in various other generators.
// The period, 2^19937-1, and the order of equidistribution, 623 dimensions,
// are far greater. The generator is also fast; it avoids multiplication and
// division, and it benefits from caches and pipelines. For more information
// see the inventors' web page at http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html
// Reference
// M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura, "Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally
// Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator", ACM Transactions on
// Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998, pp 3-30.
// Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,
// Copyright (C) 2000 - 2003, Richard J. Wagner
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Shared library credits:
OpenAL32.dll , libopenal.so (openal-soft audio engine):
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alure32.dll, libalure.so, libalure.dylib:
/*
* ALURE utility library
* Copyright (C) 2009 by Chris Robinson.
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*/
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