Aino's Functions

[Aino]

I think it is time for me to release all of my functions and stuff I've made, some fo them are large and others are small snippets I use in almost everything!

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GetMouse is a function tracking where the player has his/her mouse on the map itself, it does not return any values useable for the screen, atleast it will become very unstable and might not work as you want.

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function GetMouseX()

return(GetCameraX()+(((GetMouseScreenX()-(GetScreenWidth()/2)))*GetCameraZoom()))

end

function GetMouseY()

return(GetCameraY()+(((GetMouseScreenY()-GetScreenHeight()/2))*GetCameraZoom()))

end
This code snippet is used in HoveringOverRoid()

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DistanceSquared will simplify the use of Pythagoras Theorem, it is very useful as you don't need to do anything much than fill in the arguments values!

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function DistanceSquared(x1,y1,x2,y2)

local Xd = x1-x2
local Yd = y1-y2
return((Xd^2)+(Yd^2))

end
This code snippet is used in HoveringOverRoid()

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Checks if the player has his/her mouse over a roid, very useful when doing visuals of checking for a click on an asteroid!

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function HoveringOverRoid(returntype)
results = nil
for i = 0,1000 do

local checkedroid = GetAsteroid(i)

if checkedroid ~= nil then
if math.sqrt(DistanceSquared(checkedroid.position.x,checkedroid.position.y,GetMouseX(),GetMouseY())) < checkedroid.Radius then

if returntype == "ID" then
results = checkedroid.id
elseif returntype == "Asteroid" then
results = checkedroid
else
results = true
end
break
end

return(results)
end
else
break
end
end
Basically, it returns itself, meaning you can do GetAsteroid(HoveringOverRoid("ID"))

If you have "Asteroid" it gives the GetAsteroid() itself, and ID is... the id of the asteroid and nothing is true/fasle. This might come in very handy

Uses Code snippets:

GetMouseX/Y()
DistanceSquared()

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Demo(playable)
Code(unplayable)

DrawText is a very simple and "clean" way to write texts, although it doesn't offer very much fancy things like text type or italic, it is still a very simply handled and clean method of giving players signals on screen or on the level as you desire!

Pictures/Screenshots:

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Demo(playable)
Code(unplayable)

Minimap is telling it's own story. It's a small version of either the whole map or what the player has discovered(chosen by the map creator) which will give the player a very nice overview of attacks, weak points or big asteroids! It also supports moving asteroids and size-varying ones too!

Here is some fancy pictures from the randomly generated demo map:


Here the Minimap isn't magnified, so you can't really see much on the IMAGE! In game it looks fine!


Try guess what you see here


Here the first asteroid is being attacked, you can see the amount of seedlings a faction have on an asteroid by the aura shining out!

Added: Customisable Map-Size, Adjustable X/Y(moving the map! NOTE: uses in-game lengths

Official Release

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Download/Forum Topic: Here

RingDesigner makes the hassle of setting every single value over and over again MUCH easier, you can make a proper map within minutes, adjusting stats, radius, senddistance, owner, position and treecap! If you can't do it in-game, code snippets on the save if commented to make it lots of easier for you to set a players home or an enemy's base or just and obstacle filled with mines!

The common startup:


Adding Asteroids:


Selecting Tools:


Changing Stats:




Changing Owner:




Saving:

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Demo(playable)
Code(unplayable)

Merchant AI is my latest AI(1.8.2011) which is not CPU consumpting at all! if you have 1000 asteroids, it would be exactly the same as having 30, Amount of factions change use of CPU a little, but not much(at all!)!

Even at the end, there was no lag!

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Demo(playable)
Code(unplayable)

The leaderboard shows all the progress for all the players, their total amount of seedlings, trees and asteroids owned. Together they form the score.

Added leaderboards

[annikk.exe]

This is awesome dude.  :>  I have used DrawText and GetMouseX/Y a lot myself, they are extremely useful.  Thanks.  ^_^

[Aino]

You're welcome

[AWS]

now then,
would it be best to simply put one link to this page in the Custom Level thread, or put them all seperately in the Level thread??

im thinking the first option for the same reasons as the maps themselves...

[Aino]

Choose what you like

This topic might be updated fairly often, so it's a good idea with the first option

[Aino]

Adding my Minimap function up: AWS, update!

It'll be one of my most fancy thing I've done here till now(IMO), but now... I'm proud of everything I make x)

So I'll be adding the actual code and a nice demo map, to show how it works!

[Aino]

Also, hoping not asking too much: can I get this stickied?

[annikk.exe]

We are getting a lot of stickies.
Maybe it would be better to just un-sticky Annikk's Mechanics, since both this thead and Annikk's Mechanics are linked to from this sticky..

[Aino]

Thats true... Maybe just have it like is

[annikk.exe]

Well it's not really fair that my thread is stickied and yours isn't.. :>  And we already have too many stickies to be honest.  I think this would be a sensible way to reduce them a bit.

[Pilchard123]

1. Make subforum.
2. Move threads.
3. ?
4. PROFIT

[Aino]

I vote up for Subforum

I think the forum needs it, since there is such a large mess between the help topics and map releases!

[Aino]

Added my map-editor into here

The list is getting very long

[AWS]

aino - so, i had a thought....
firstly - i LOVE the fact that you have 2 versions of the minimap - Playable and Unplayable (just code) version... VERY helpful for the moron coder like myself...

secondly - i admit i havent looked at it yet, but is there a way for the player to choose whether the minimap is on or off?? if not, it would be good to add that option so that if you want to see it breifly, you can turn it on, and then when youre done with it, turn it off.
otherwise i can envision the player getting irritated that a box is taking up valuable screen space.

just a thought, and as i said, i havent seen it yet so maybe youve already thought of that.

ps- we'll sort out what we PMd about once all the other code stuff is working...

aws

[Aino]

Taking up valuable screen space? It magnifies by 3 if you hold over it Other than that it barely take any space

[AWS]

ok, cool.

[AWS]

where should i put your minimap code in relation to levellogic, etc??

[Aino]

Minimap ain't uning LevelLogic, add the init and the DrawMinimap function, then add the content of the screendraw if you use it already(which I reckon you do with the Rally code) and just do an init similiar to the demo, the first value is a true/false(boolean) if the whole map should be shown even if the player haven't discovered it yet, or false if not. The two others will only move the map, or display alittle if you have placed asteroids on one side only, they are x and y respectively

[Aino]

Added the new AI!

Check it out, try the demo!

[Aino]

Updated the AI... Expect a new one soon though

[Aino]

Added Leaderboards