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[tabc3dd]

I downloaded it again.

1) Still can't complete mission 5. I don't know if it's because of the energy or it is not registering the base as being protected.
2) The first Ally ship is moving correctly, but the others won't move.
3) As for the energy bug feature: in mission 2, when all the buildings teleport in the energy won't build. I have to sell all the buildings and then build the energy I need (one at a time) before constructing any other buildings.
4) In mission 5, energy won't finish building if the turrets aren't fully charged xor I have too many collectors.

During a mission, if I mouse over a ship it will display the name of a part like it does on the ship construction screen. Is it supposed to do that?

Ok, now i feel stupid, i found the bug : Due to a variable change, all buildings were acting as if they were built, even when it's not the case. So for exemple, your Energy were giving energy to the Relay, even though they weren't built. That means they never had enough energy to be considered as built ...

1) Fixed, none of your Energy were actually built due to the bug, which is why it didn't register
2) That was one tough problem to fix O.o, i had kinda screwed my parent system ...
3) Yep, you were right, it was a bug, although not being able to spam build them is a feature
4) Fixed

Thanks alot, wouldn't have noticed without your help

Edited by tabc3dd, 08 May 2011 - 11:39 AM.

[Copernicus]

In general everything is working well. Only four things to report:

1) When exiting a skirmish a window pops up called "Test" where you can type things in.
2) In commander mode when summoning ships, the player and enemy ships display the lowest level sprites for their parts. Upon exiting commander mode the parts display their correct leveled-up graphics.
3) Clicking Arena will go to the campaign menu.
4) Mousing over an enemy assembly will create a division by zero error.

[tabc3dd]

In general everything is working well. Only four things to report:

1) When exiting a skirmish a window pops up called "Test" where you can type things in.
2) In commander mode when summoning ships, the player and enemy ships display the lowest level sprites for their parts. Upon exiting commander mode the parts display their correct leveled-up graphics.
3) Clicking Arena will go to the campaign menu.
4) Mousing over an enemy assembly will create a division by zero error.

1) Already fixed , it was a personal testing thing i forgot to remove
2) Ye, i know, i can't do much about this . The Parts have 4 subimages, and finding the correct subimage would mean having to assign an additional variable to each part, which i believe isn't worth it. However, i think i can find a workaround with my latest modifications, i'll see
3) Already fixed
4) Thanks ^^

Thank you so much for your help , I'll upload the fixes in a day or 2
Tabc3dd

Edit : All fixed

Edited by tabc3dd, 11 May 2011 - 12:47 PM.

[tabc3dd]

Bump with a great optimization change that might however induce a few bugs I haven't found yet

[Unsung Hero]

It looks great; I made a ship with two rockets and a rail gun, although I haven't actually tested it yet because my computer is being stupid and maxing out its CPU every time I open it up. Nice game, though. I like the "design your own ship" mechanic. Very original.

[tabc3dd]

It looks great; I made a ship with two rockets and a rail gun, although I haven't actually tested it yet because my computer is being stupid and maxing out its CPU every time I open it up. Nice game, though. I like the "design your own ship" mechanic. Very original.

Thanks

What do you mean by "Maxing out its CPU every time I open it up" though ? Do you mean the game is eating up all the CPU ?

[Unsung Hero]

Sort of. Every time I open the game, the task manager eats up all the CPU (about 70%-99%) and the game itself uses around very little (1%-15%). I don't know why it's doing this...

Edited by Unsung Hero, 24 May 2011 - 01:06 AM.

[tabc3dd]

Sort of. Every time I open the game, the task manager eats up all the CPU (about 70%-99%) and the game itself uses around very little (1%-15%). I don't know why it's doing this...

Wow, no idea ... I'll see if I get other reports of this problem, but currently it seems only you have it, sorry :/

[Unsung Hero]

Okay, I think I know what the problem is. My computer's graphics card sucks and the graphics must have been eating up all of the CPU.

EDIT: It appears I was right. I made the screen resolution 1280 by 1024 pixels and then I could finally play your game!!!

EDIT 2: Awesome game, tabc3dd. So far, I've only played a skirmish and a half (currently working on the second one; stupid enemy assemblers, building a bunch of enemy ships) and a free match but it's so fun designing your own ships!

Edited by Unsung Hero, 27 May 2011 - 06:46 PM.

[tabc3dd]

Okay, I think I know what the problem is. My computer's graphics card sucks and the graphics must have been eating up all of the CPU.

EDIT: It appears I was right. I made the screen resolution 1280 by 1024 pixels and then I could finally play your game!!!

EDIT 2: Awesome game, tabc3dd. So far, I've only played a skirmish and a half (currently working on the second one; stupid enemy assemblers, building a bunch of enemy ships) and a free match but it's so fun designing your own ships!

Glad you like it

[Craig Davidson]

How on earth were you able to keep the weapons and other blocks attached to the core, and yet have them move in conjunction with the core's direction and x and y positions. Did you use Sine and Cosine functions to keep them attached. Can you please tell me how I can accomplish a feat, since I am interested in making a game with a similar system?

[tabc3dd]

How on earth were you able to keep the weapons and other blocks attached to the core, and yet have them move in conjunction with the core's direction and x and y positions. Did you use Sine and Cosine functions to keep them attached. Can you please tell me how I can accomplish a feat, since I am interested in making a game with a similar system?

Basically, each block has a three variables stored to it :

Dir : The direction from the core to the part when the core faces 0 degree
Dis : The distance from the core to the part
Core : The core the part is connected to.

and then in the step, i simply put this in the part's code :

x = Core.x+lengthdir_x(Dis,Dir+Core.direction)
y = Core.y+lengthdir_y(Dis,Dir+Core.direction)


This is all from memory, but I believe this is without error the basis of my system

Good luck
Tabc3dd

[SI II man]

Basically, each block has a three variables stored to it :

Dir : The direction from the core to the part when the core faces 0 degree
Dis : The distance from the core to the part
Core : The core the part is connected to.

and then in the step, i simply put this in the part's code :

x = Core.x+lengthdir_x(Dis,Dir+Core.direction)
y = Core.y+lengthdir_y(Dis,Dir+Core.direction)

Would It be acceptable to use this in a project I'm working on, having found this here, I've been looking for something like this for ages to draw multi sprite rotatable objects. This will be Invaluable?

I'd Bacicly be calling draw_sprite_ext( as:
draw_sprite_ext(<SPRITENAME>,<IND>,<OBJECT>.x+lengthdir_x(Dis,Dir+<OBJECT>.direction),<OBJECT>.y+lengthdir_y(Dis,Dir+<OBJECT>.direction),1,1,<ROT>,c_white,1)

incidentaly I presume you use point_direction(core.x,core.y,x,y) to determine the rotation of the part's sprite when drawing

Edited by SI II man, 21 August 2011 - 05:34 PM.

[tabc3dd]

Basically, each block has a three variables stored to it :

Dir : The direction from the core to the part when the core faces 0 degree
Dis : The distance from the core to the part
Core : The core the part is connected to.

and then in the step, i simply put this in the part's code :

x = Core.x+lengthdir_x(Dis,Dir+Core.direction)
y = Core.y+lengthdir_y(Dis,Dir+Core.direction)

Would It be acceptable to use this in a project I'm working on, having found this here, I've been looking for something like this for ages to draw multi sprite rotatable objects. This will be Invaluable?

I'd Bacicly be calling draw_sprite_ext( as:
draw_sprite_ext(<SPRITENAME>,<IND>,<OBJECT>.x+lengthdir_x(Dis,Dir+<OBJECT>.direction),<OBJECT>.y+lengthdir_y(Dis,Dir+<OBJECT>.direction),1,1,<ROT>,c_white,1)

incidentaly I presume you use point_direction(core.x,core.y,x,y) to determine the rotation of the part's sprite when drawing

Sure, it's a simple code, feel free to use it

Good luck
Tabc3dd

Btw, from now on I will no longer visit these forums, sorry, moving to university ...

[tabc3dd]

Small bump as I was passing by

[theALCH3MIST]

This is a superb game. A little overly complex to figure out, but once you get the hang of it, it's remarkale how much fun you can have.

[tabc3dd]

This is a superb game. A little overly complex to figure out, but once you get the hang of it, it's remarkale how much fun you can have.

Thank you very much . I spent a bit of time greatly improving the tutorial, hopefully this should help a bit.

Tabc3dd

[jflorek]

Again, another question about your code...
How did you get the ships to save in the design screen and load into the missions / skirmishes? Did you use arrays for each ship? (itd be really helpful to know how you did it...)

EDIT: lol random chicken

Edited by jflorek, 13 April 2012 - 09:02 PM.

[tabc3dd]

Again, another question about your code...
How did you get the ships to save in the design screen and load into the missions / skirmishes? Did you use arrays for each ship? (itd be really helpful to know how you did it...)

EDIT: lol random chicken

Actually I could have done that, but what I did is make the parts permanent and destroy all those who aren't owned when switching room. Then when building a new ship I check which parts are connected to the hangar cores and duplicate them according to their position and angle to the core.
Good luck
Tabc3dd

[jflorek]

0.0
That must be what causes the bug where the random parts follow the mouse in the missions...
I find ur method rlly complicated but I understand it... sort of...
EDIT: did you use ur method because it lags less than arrays/grids?

Edited by jflorek, 17 April 2012 - 01:51 PM.