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[Putnam]

What do you mean by size?

[Lightningfalcon]

What do you mean by size?

How large they are in bytes. From my understanding and what testing I have done the size of the modulus determines the size of the file that I am able to encrypt.   

[RulerOfNothing]

I believe it should be equal to size(first number)+size(second number) at most.

[da_nang]

If by size you mean the size including padding in memory then it's size(Type) which for integers is a word (or two for 64 bit). Type is the run-time type of the product.

If you want to exclude padding: ceiling(ln(firstNumber*secondNumber)/ln(2)) bits or ceiling(ln(firstNumber*secondNumber)/ln(8 )) bytes (assuming unsigned numbers)

Where of course, ceiling(ln(firstNumber*secondNumber)/ln(2)) = ceiling(ln(firstNumber)/ln(2) + ln(secondNumber)/ln(2))  <= ceiling(ln(firstNumber)/ln(2)) + ceiling(ln(secondNumber)/ln(2)) = size(firstNumber) + size(secondNumber) where size() here excludes padding.

[Kassire]

Am I an idiot? I've been working with the unity3d 2d tools (Sample assets) and for some reason the box collider 2d won't work as I'm trying to have the player be on the ground and the player is just clipping through the ground.

Some things to try:

• Are the player and the ground on the same layer?
• Are either colliders marked as a trigger (triggers won't physically collide with anything)
• Are you accidently mixing 2d and 3d colliders/rigidbodies
• Is everything scaled properly? i.e. no microscopic player and floors. (compare it to a default cube, which is 1m x 1m x 1m)

Thanks for the help, now its working

[flame99]

Well, I've become proficient enough in Python that I might as well post something here. As for actual questions, does anyone know if there's a better way to handle commands in a Zork-style adventure game than just using raw_input() and checking if it matches any commands stored?

[gigaraptor487]

Maybe you could create a dictionary file of nouns and verbs and then do comparisons on them and do resultant output based on the contents of the file. For example, writing 'move north' may move the player one element up the map array.

It may be overly complex as it may become somewhat of a language in it's own right but It would be useful as It would be easier to modify universally.

[miauw62]

Having tried myself, making a command parser is a mayor PITA.

[Gentlefish]

Having tried myself, making a command parser is a mayor PITA.

Maybe I'll do that to keep myself busy at home. Sounds fun!

[miauw62]

LOOP THROUGH THE TEXT FORWARD WHILE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THEN LOOP BACKWARD TO VERIFY IT THEN LOOP FORWARD AGAIN TO FIND SOMETHING MORE FITTING THEN REPEAT. That's what it feels like.

Maybe I just suck at coding

[flame99]

Maybe you could create a dictionary file of nouns and verbs and then do comparisons on them and do resultant output based on the contents of the file. For example, writing 'move north' may move the player one element up the map array.

It may be overly complex as it may become somewhat of a language in it's own right but It would be useful as It would be easier to modify universally.

...Okay, I'm just going to stick with raw_input() now.

[Gentlefish]

You could do something similar to regex.

GET <thing> FROM <place>

And check to see if THING and PLACE exist through a list of keywords tied to the things. Then you only need so many generic commands that deal with items and the like.

[Putnam]

Having tried myself, making a command parser is a mayor PITA.

I made a text parser a while back for materials in DF. Ask for a material, it gives you that in liquid form.

It's kinda dumb. IIRC "dwarf eye" gives you blue jay egg yolk or something.

[Gentlefish]

Having tried myself, making a command parser is a mayor PITA.

I made a text parser a while back for materials in DF. Ask for a material, it gives you that in liquid form.

It's kinda dumb. IIRC "dwarf eye" gives you blue jay egg yolk or something.

Now I must make Dwarf Eye Drop Soup(tm) a thing in Dwarf Fortress.

[Gatleos]

I made a text parser from scratch. Yes it's as tedious as it sounds. The trick is to split the process of parsing the text into two parts.

1.) The raw text typed by the player is sent to the parser class, which separates the text into several possible forms:

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verb

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verb noun

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verb noun preposition nounOf course there are other potential forms, but these are the most common. The way mine recognized verbs, nouns, etc. is through a set of words I defined and gave to the parser as input. The words (nouns or verbs) are given a name, and a set of alternate names. If the parser finds one of the alternate names in the text, it replaces it with the main name. This way your code only has to refer to the main name of the noun or verb, while the parser handles synonyms. It looked like this:

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addAction("get");
setAltNames(4, "pick up", "take", "swipe", "yoink");
2.) The parser class passes the nouns, verbs and prepositions it found to whatever function will interpret it. The way I did this was make interpreting functions for items and the "room" the player is currently in. If neither of these can interpret the player's intent, it falls through to a general interpreting function. This is where you put error messages and special cases.