crysis demo looks nice.

Yesterday I downloaded the crysis demo and played a little bit. The graphics and physics effects look great. On my 3-year old laptop with a 1.6G centrino CPU and Raedon 9700 graphics card it runs still quite fluently.

Some tips if you're new to this game:
1. Don't waste your ammo. It's limited! However you can pick up guns when killing an enemy and take their ammos.
2. Use the jeep equipped with a machine gun, which seems to have infinite ammo. Mind your driving!
3. Press "V" key and try some options there.

Good job, Crytek.

general makesis

When I'm trying to pick up some dev work on my mirrlicht project, I came across a little annoying problem for Symbian development. That is to write a small tool which can take symbian package file containing relative paths. The relative paths make it easier to switch between different SDK installations.
There is a tip here suggesting to use option -d"Your epoc root dir" when you call makesis. However it would be better to pass the epoc root directory automatically.

I've found a way to do this using the command "devices" provided with the symbian SDK and a dos batch file.


@echo off
set filename=yourproject
if "%1"=="gcce" set filename=yourproject-GCCE
for /F "usebackq tokens=3 delims= " %%i in (`devices -default`) DO (
for /F "usebackq tokens=1,3 delims= " %%j in (`devices -info @%%i`) DO if "%%j"=="Root" makesis -d%%k %yourproject%.pkg
)
)

Note that the second "for" statement is in one line. I've tested this on S60 SDK. But it should also work for UIQ.