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Voting closed: September 17, 2011, 12:37:34 pm

[eerr]

*snickers*

mining will involve blowing high-pressure air.

[Siquo]

Astro blaster. I love it. 

Spent the weekend drinking myself into a stupor, there will be more programming this week.

[eerr]

Astro blaster. I love it. 

Spent the weekend drinking myself into a stupor, there will be more programming this week.

Yes, but you won't get people to take the game seriously.

doooo something :/

(is filled with regret.)

[Siquo]

take the game seriously.

Wait what? When was that ever going to happen??!

Anyway, current status: http://nam.siquo.net/webgames/lets-dev/
You can drag to look around, don't press AWSD or it will crash

[eerr]

take the game seriously.

Wait what? When was that ever going to happen??!

Anyway, current status: http://nam.siquo.net/webgames/lets-dev/
You can drag to look around, don't press AWSD or it will crash

You don't want zero respect.
Trust me.

[Biag]

Someone fill me in. Why does naming a weapon "astro-blaster" destroy Siquo's respectability?

[eerr]

Someone fill me in. Why does naming a weapon "astro-blaster" destroy Siquo's respectability?

Everybody starts making fun of astroblaster and ignoring Siquo entirely.

[Siquo]

Oh, I don't mind. It's supposed to be a fun project/cooperative forum game If nobody here listens to me anymore, I'm still going to continue.

I've been doing some writing, but quickly demotivated myself by saying that it's pointless because so much writing doesn't have a place in a game like this. Nevertheless, I'm going to put what I have here, just because I want to save it somewhere.

Well, how'd you like this to be implemented? Just showing a wall of text probably isn't going to work.

Siquo's respectability

After this weekend, there's not much left of that...

[Max White]

Hey Siquo, how are you going with camera logic?
I've made games before that had hard coded limits for camera location, so when you walked all the way to the ends of the level it would stop scrolling, but I'm working on something that can have variable level size and the level is constructed of an array of tiles, but for some reason it either will not go all the way to the edge of the level, or I get null pointer exceptions when it goes too far down or left.
So yea, have you got a moving camera working yet that I can steal logic from?

EDIT:
Wait, I think I am getting there, at least it will print to the edge tiles and not crash... But it doesn't print the edges... Never mind, I'll get this.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Siquo]

UHmmm, no idea? It's just a floating amount of tiles.

I'm more concerned about culling: how will I determine which tiles to draw and which not to draw, which ones are in the current viewport, as this might really screw up fps on large maps.

I'll post some code tonight.

[Max White]

Culling is done with a camera.
It is basically two floating points that determine the top left vector of the screen. You can then divide that by the tile size to find the first tile in an array to print, and subtract the modulo of the calculation to find the offset, giving you a nice smooth scroll effect.

Fuck, maybe we should just get Vector in here.

[Siquo]

Oh but I have a top left vector, and a width&height.

My problem is that my 2D array is skewed by 45 degrees, as my thing is isometric:  http://nam.siquo.net/webgames/lets-dev/

So it's not a square out of a 2d array, I want... a diamond....... Okay, I think I just answered my own question

[Max White]

Now when did we agree on that!
Have you been listening to the pole again? I warned you about that! Although are you still keeping tiles in a 2d array?

[Siquo]

Yes, the isometric is just the view, as Glyph taught me how to use an MVC-structure. So I can just take that same world/array/objects/terrain, and display it as a 2d grid like yours, or as a roguelike, or as anything, really.

[Max White]

Nice work Glyph! Anyway, I did find this, it is designed for xna, but it goes over the logic to find the shape you need to print, so it might save you some effort.

EDIT: Wrong link, that was for the nest page.
EDIT 2: Wait, that one is for hex, not iso... Ooh, I see what they did, clever! Ok, yea, your going to need to read over both pages for the full thing.

Also, figured out my problem... It is because THE WORLD HATES ME!!!