[SHATTERED OASIS] Shattered Oasis Revived

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Mon 11 Apr, 2005 4:38 pm

this is one sweet a looking game.

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Mon 11 Apr, 2005 8:55 pm

Wow looks awesome! I like the rage indicator too! I was wondering what your avatar was from...now all has been seen! Keep up the sweet work! I am looking forward to seeing this game finalized.

Post by **BetaSword** » Tue 12 Apr, 2005 4:09 am

Augh! Where's this sudden surge of support come from? It's... Crazy! *aneurysm*

Anyways, thanks, everyone, for the support, and I'll try not to dissapoint this time.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Wed 13 Apr, 2005 12:30 am

BetaSword wrote:Augh! Where's this sudden surge of support come from? It's... Crazy! *aneurysm*

From ppl who are waiting this game since 2002

Calv!n.n0.1 · Post by **Calv!n.n0.1** » Sun 17 Apr, 2005 5:13 pm

Looks nice! I am looking forward to seeing more!

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Mon 18 Apr, 2005 9:52 pm

so do I

Post by **BetaSword** » Tue 19 Apr, 2005 5:57 am

Quick updatey thing:

I've decided to ditch the idea of using strings to store and recall room data for now as the memory increase was not nearly enough to counter the speed hit (10-15 seconds to load a single room? hell no.) So it's back to the battle engine, which, as I revently realized, is the last part needing completion until the prologue can be released. Joy. So yeah. At least I can up with a spiffy way of easily choosing which enemy appears in battle, using a method similar to the one used to choose which sprites go onto the screen. So yeah. Great fun.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Tue 19 Apr, 2005 8:38 pm

Cool, for the map loading will you use matrices and xLIB?

Throw-a-way Identity · Sat 23 Apr, 2005 3:52 pm

Well I'm using strings for the lvl data in my RPG... Currently the data looks like this:

Room = 7 x 11 sprites (xlib)
Block = 4x4 rooms
Level = 3 x 3 Blocks
So one level is made up of 144 rooms. Multiply times 77 for each sprite, that's 11088 datas to keep track of. As floating point: 99792 bytes for one level (matrix or list-wise). As strings: 11099! I definetly thing thats worth it (just a bit). If you consider that my RPG has at least 4 levels... ARGH!!! Strings are the way to go, plus I have a fast string to matrix converter... actually it converts str0 to [A](7,11) or vice-versa, and str0 to L1 and vice-versa (using ans as 0-11 for input).. I'll post the time for the converter when I get around to timing it.

Throwaway Identity · Post by **Throwaway Identity** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 4:20 pm

ok, I timed it pretty roughly in my head... it converts str0 (length: 77) into [A](7,11) in roughly 4 seconds... As an added bonus it will work with any symbols you use. Here is the code: (just the str0 to [A])

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"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUV..."->Str9
{7,11}->dim([A]
For(Z,1,7
For([i]e[/i],1,11
inString(Str9,sub(str0,(Z-1)11+[i]e[/i],1) -> [A](Z,[i]e[/i]
End
End

Although it is pretty easy to understand (in my opinion) I'll explain it:

"ABC..."-> Str9: These are the symbols in your string that will represent numbers. A=1, B=2... and so on. You can add more or get rid of them if you need to.

{7,11}->dim([A]: This just sets up the right dimensions of [A], just in case.

For(Z,1,7, For(e,1,11: We neeed to loop 7 rows, 11, columns.
inString... The meat and potatoes of it. Here we go...
inString(Str9,sub(str0,(Z-1)11+e,1) -> [A](Z,e
Look in string 9 for the character in string 0 at this forumula... then save which place it is to [A], at the current loop coordinates.
thus if the current char. in str0 is 'B', it looks it up in str9, which just happens to be the second char. It stores that place (2) into the current coords in the matrix.

END:END: End our loops...

hope you like. please provide optimizations.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 5:21 pm

uh, wasnt guest posting disabled?

koolmansam375 · Post by **koolmansam375** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 5:26 pm

Kevin wrote:uh, wasnt guest posting disabled?

Yea this happened in the metroid forum also. I dont get it either :-/

Throwaway Identity · Post by **Throwaway Identity** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 8:51 pm

Obviously not...

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 9:02 pm

Odd, maybe Joe temporaly disabled it because of the spambots who recently attacked the forum then waited a few week then re-enabled it, or a hacker re-enabled it, but thanks for the code anyway

DarkerLine · Post by **DarkerLine** » Sat 23 Apr, 2005 10:16 pm

Or you could use a list instead of the matrix, then all ya have to do is

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seq(inString(Str9,sub(Str0,I,1)),I,1,77