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[Rose]

DF has things like [PLANT:MANGO:FRUIT]

I need to he able to set properties for either specifically mango fruits, or all fruits, or any part of a mango tree, or any plant, and have the more specifically set properties take priority.

For example, I have a generic green set for [*:*:LEAF], which will apply that color to all leaves that are in the game, while I also have more specific colors set for individual species. For example, a deeper, dark green for [PLANT:MANGO:LEAF].

[Skyrunner]

That sounds a lot like css, haha.

To test whether two intervals [a,b] and [c, d] overlap, you need only two comparisons: (a < d) AND (c < b).

I see. I have no idea why I didn't think of that :v

[Reelya]

Depending on the context you should select between < and <=. It depends on whether the thing is continuous (e.g. times "5pm-6pm" and "6pm-7pm" do not overlap) vs discrete ("boxes 5-6" overlaps with "boxes 6-7").

[itisnotlogical]

I'm creating an extremely low-budget turn-based tactical combat strategy sort of thing in Unity. I want to make it so that when one unit is firing at another you might get a cool cinematic camera, like with VATS in the Fallout games. Not quite as strict and pre-defined as XCOM, since my game isn't tile-based at all. What are some suggestions to accomplish this in a way that won't make me tear my hair out later?

[Putnam]

tear your hair out over it later

[DragonDePlatino]

Well, you might want to screw with arrays if your code needs to be at all efficient with resources.

Thank you! After floundering around for a while I got my entity_defs.h to work with plain arrays and const char* arrays. No idea what was causing the original error but it's cleaned itself up now.

[Orange Wizard]

I'm creating an extremely low-budget turn-based tactical combat strategy sort of thing in Unity. I want to make it so that when one unit is firing at another you might get a cool cinematic camera, like with VATS in the Fallout games. Not quite as strict and pre-defined as XCOM, since my game isn't tile-based at all. What are some suggestions to accomplish this in a way that won't make me tear my hair out later?

I'd do it by adding a check to whatever script handles attacks to see if coolcamera is enabled, if a random number is higher than a certain threshold, and if the shot is actually going to hit/kill the target.
If all those are true, a call a function that makes the camera rotate around the target/projectile/general vicinity/whatever.
You'll probably need to tear your hair out later no matter what you do, though. Just take lots of supplements now so you'll have plenty of hair for tearing out put a bit of effort into doing all the normal stuff that you do to keep code maintainable.

...

Speaking of maintainable code, How To Write Unmaintainable Code. It actually has a lot of good advice presented in a slightly awkward fashion. Also very fun to read.

[EnigmaticHat]

I'm creating an extremely low-budget turn-based tactical combat strategy sort of thing in Unity. I want to make it so that when one unit is firing at another you might get a cool cinematic camera, like with VATS in the Fallout games. Not quite as strict and pre-defined as XCOM, since my game isn't tile-based at all. What are some suggestions to accomplish this in a way that won't make me tear my hair out later?

Implement a third person shooter style camera, swap to it whenever you want to go all cinematic.

[Parsely]

Why do I suck so badly at Java? I don't have any criticisms I've just never struggled this much with a lang before and I'm not new to OOP either (never had problems writing in VB, C++, Python, PHP, HTML, MySQL). Something about Java just fries my brain whenever I look at it.

[DragonDePlatino]

In your defense, the first time I saw Java programming (and programming in general) I nope'd right outta there. I started with Bucky's tutorials and to get the basic Hello World, you had to type:

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public class HelloWorld {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, World");
    }
}
I understand what that all means now but for someone learning the language it's far more confusing than Python or C++'s Hello World. Java always felt unnecessarily verbose to me which is why I've never learned it. :/

[EnigmaticHat]

Yeah the big string of "public static cheeseburger void" some languages have means that hello world tutorials are not as simple looking as they're meant to be.

[Reelya]

Well once you start coding in somebody else's framework or library, e.g box2D or SFML in C++, you get used to a lot of this.that.theOther. Java just has that level of complexity built right into the foundation.

[Orange Wizard]

it's far more confusing than Python or C++'s Hello World.

There's a language with syntax less confusing than python Hello World?

[Putnam]

Lua:

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print('Hello, world!')
Now, for Python, which of these is correct:

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print('Hello, world!')


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print 'Hello, world!'


[Orange Wizard]

I feel like my entire world has been crushed.