Author Topic: What are you working on? :D (Read 261001 times)

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #100 on:** March 01, 2011, 03:33:43 AM »

If all else fails...teh intertubez iz ur frend.

EDIT:
http://www.networking-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=146815 looks to be your specific problem number 1), or very close. EDIT AGAIN: That's cuz you asked it there last year... I feel dumb.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/sec_secure_connectivity/configuration/guide/dmvpn_dt_spokes_b_nat.html is the Cisco page for your problem number 2)

annikk.exe · « **Reply #101 on:** March 01, 2011, 08:03:21 PM »

Actually that first link you posted is a thread I made on that forum just a few days ago, asking for help. :>

I'm back home now, and exhausted. Going to sleep for a bit I guess..

Aino · « **Reply #102 on:** March 01, 2011, 09:22:03 PM »

How is C++ doin' Annikk, any progress?

Aino · « **Reply #103 on:** March 02, 2011, 05:36:52 AM »

Workin' on a CTF like map... But the auto owner thing annoys the crap of me -.- ALL THE TIME! How do I remove it?

Rudolf · « **Reply #104 on:** March 02, 2011, 07:27:21 AM »

Jeepers, sounds like there is amazing stuff going on here on the forums!

We are indeed utterly utterly swamped, but I will try to process this somehow asap, and chat to Alex about it.
Pm's sometimes get answered s bit late due to our deadlines. We are doing a release on a major console with very few people which is bloody hard.

We could use testers soon actually!

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #105 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:14:44 AM »

I'll test!

..if you give me an iPad/iPhone/PS3/X360/whatever you happen to be testing it on.

PC gaming ftw!

Aino · « **Reply #106 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:19:55 AM »

I think it is PS3, I dunno... But if it is, sign me up for beta testing, but I might not have availability to play sometimes though :/

Inumedia · « **Reply #107 on:** March 03, 2011, 01:15:18 PM »

I'm still wondering why you guys didn't just port it to XNA and put it on the 360 o_o;

Rudolf · « **Reply #108 on:** March 03, 2011, 04:27:02 PM »

Thanks for the offers guys, more detail soon. :-)

We did not go the 360 route because Microsoft has become EXTREMELY unfriendly to indies in various ways, and on top of that they demand all kinds of features to be bolted on to games even if it makes no sense for the game in question. As a result developing an xbla version is too expensive and too risky.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #109 on:** March 03, 2011, 08:06:14 PM »

Quote

Microsoft has become EXTREMELY unfriendly to indies in various ways, and on top of that they demand all kinds of features to be bolted on to games even if it makes no sense for the game in question.

In that case I welcome your decision. :>

Speaking of updates, there is an update request mentioned here which I would love if you could look at, when you get time. I realise your current project is far more important for the success of Eufloria generally though, so I'm happy to wait. :>

Thanks for checking in by the way! It's great to hear from you, and I'm really looking forward to the time when you are a bit less busy and can post regularly again. :>

Aino · « **Reply #110 on:** March 05, 2011, 12:49:18 AM »

Now I'm workin' on a fancy background, won't work until draw behind or layers have been added... I'll publish the code after draw behind or layers is added! But maybe you want to have a look at it?

Aino · « **Reply #111 on:** March 05, 2011, 06:27:19 AM »

I'm done with the basics of Fancy Background, got a 5 hours brake though, slow progress that way -.-

Inumedia · « **Reply #112 on:** March 05, 2011, 10:54:49 AM »

Quote from: Rudolf on March 03, 2011, 04:27:02 PM

Thanks for the offers guys, more detail soon. :-)

We did not go the 360 route because Microsoft has become EXTREMELY unfriendly to indies in various ways, and on top of that they demand all kinds of features to be bolted on to games even if it makes no sense for the game in question. As a result developing an xbla version is too expensive and too risky.

Ah. That explains that.

Aino · « **Reply #113 on:** March 06, 2011, 08:48:58 PM »

Gonna learn some C#, see if I get some results(Wanna make a 3D game

.

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #114 on:** March 07, 2011, 01:57:57 AM »

Try Unity. You can use a variant of Javascript, which is so much easier to learn. It's free, unless you want the Pro features, or have more than $100k turnover a year. It's also really easy to learn, at least I found it so. unity3dstudent.com is a good (and free!) tutorial site. The tornadotwins have some good stuff on youtube too.

www.unity3d.com

EDIT: Oh, and you can develop for amost any major platform. Some (ie anything that isn't Windows, Mac, Linux or the 'net) licences you have to pay for, but...

In short, it's good, I like it.

Aino · « **Reply #115 on:** March 09, 2011, 03:18:07 AM »

Java? Srsly, java is plain annoying with all the uppercased letters, just hoping it isn't like that in unity, gonna give it a try

The uppercased letters is why I quited java scripting, but Java is where I learned all about coding, so if I release any cool maps or functions, thank Java(and WC3... for making me want to code in the first place). A good tutorial for java(on youtube, WITH COMMENTARY... THAT ISN'T ANNOYING!) is


Here

(Watch all of the 100 episodes(literally!!!))... Maybe I ran a little off topic...

Aino · « **Reply #116 on:** March 09, 2011, 03:35:02 AM »

Hey, unity uses C#! o.O

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #117 on:** March 10, 2011, 02:07:37 AM »

Javascript is NOT Java, or even anything to do with Sun Microsystems.

However it doesn't make much difference which language you use, so...

Aino · « **Reply #118 on:** March 10, 2011, 09:43:51 PM »

Heard of javascript, but haven't learn't about it...

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #119 on:** March 11, 2011, 02:00:52 AM »

Javascript is a scripting janguage used in webpage design, and also mashed into in Unity.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #120 on:** March 11, 2011, 08:22:09 PM »

Important meeting today. :O

Aino · « **Reply #121 on:** March 11, 2011, 09:35:31 PM »

annikk.exe · « **Reply #122 on:** March 12, 2011, 04:46:06 AM »

No worries. :>

Aino · « **Reply #123 on:** March 12, 2011, 05:34:02 AM »

Okay

Avaguard · « **Reply #124 on:** March 20, 2011, 11:03:13 AM »

every 1 sounds amazing

.....well im workin on a kind of maze map maybe....

Aino · « **Reply #125 on:** March 20, 2011, 11:51:23 PM »

Nice, but how are you gonna do it?

annikk.exe · « **Reply #126 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:39:16 PM »

I have entered another period of total inactivity in map design.
I have no ideas I feel like pursuing right now. There are things I could work on, but the urgency seems less than some of my other, non-Eufloria-related projects.

I'm also pretty depressed about the whole LineDraw thing. Still hoping that will be addressed one day, when A&R are around again..

Aino · « **Reply #127 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:28:51 PM »

Alex is around once a day it seems

Ansd I got starcraft 2, maybe we can play?

Avaguard · « **Reply #128 on:** March 25, 2011, 01:16:03 AM »

dat sounds kool lol hmm is it at all posible to change how the trees look or mean grow in to like maybe a swirle tree i highly doubt it

Aino · « **Reply #129 on:** March 25, 2011, 02:10:52 AM »

Request it

Higher chance to do it then

Aino · « **Reply #130 on:** April 17, 2011, 02:30:26 AM »

Making a GetMouseX() and GetMouseY() function

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #131 on:** April 17, 2011, 02:46:56 AM »

There's already one, I think.

Yeah, but I don't think it's documented.

GetMouseScreenX()
GetMouseScreenY()

If you want a world co-ordinate one, then you might have to make it yourself, but...

Aino · « **Reply #132 on:** April 17, 2011, 02:55:29 AM »

And I am done

By the way, I'll give something I worked on ever the night... It's a gravity/bouncing thing... And no, it's not gravity like Annikk's gravity engine...

Aino · « **Reply #133 on:** April 17, 2011, 02:56:34 AM »

Ye, I saw you use it Pilchard, so I guessed that if I mess around with GetCameraX() and GetMouseScreenX() and some other stuff, I'll brew that function

EDIT: It's my B-Day today too

(Turning 15!)

Bonobo · « **Reply #134 on:** April 17, 2011, 03:44:04 AM »

Hey :-) Happy B-Day to you! Stay healthy and happy!

annikk.exe · « **Reply #135 on:** April 17, 2011, 04:16:55 AM »

Happy Birthday Aino. :>

Aino · « **Reply #136 on:** April 17, 2011, 05:13:25 AM »

Thanks

Aino · « **Reply #137 on:** April 29, 2011, 09:40:38 PM »

Thinking of making a new and better version of Alien AI, where the AI will calculate what they will get from invading an asteroid:

Quote from: Scenario

If the AI have lost all of their asteroids and have one left(which has the attribs of: 0.5 energy, 0.6 speed and 0.5 strength and with 25 seedlings), then it will look at the neighbours:

The firsth neighbours has as following:
Energy=0.7
Speed=0.4
Strength=0.5
now the AI look at the asteroid with most of all the stats, which is their only asteroid and calculate how many points the attribs will give. Now, since the neighbour have 20 enemy seedlings the AI must find the amount of difference the two asteroids have. it will get an ending score at: 1.25

The second neighbour has:
Energy=0.6
Speed=0.3
Strength=0.7
Seedlings=17
Score: 1.47

The roid with highest score is reccomended to capture and the AI will do so...(hope you understood, if not... read is closely!

Let's begin coding

annikk.exe · « **Reply #138 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:33:44 PM »

Sounds like you've got the planning thing down pretty good.. :>

AI battles ftw! If you make an AI that can defeat Infected, the ball will once again be in my court...

Aino · « **Reply #139 on:** May 02, 2011, 09:35:50 PM »

Tried once, it crashes, so I'll do it next weekend or sometime, but the details is there

Edit - I also have plans making all asteroids having "chosen" neighbours, if the distance away from the asteroids are changed, then it will recheck and get new neighbours

Edit 2 - Appearantly I started today o.O But I need help with a little thing, anyone can figure out a calculation for the computer, calculating how much loss the AI will get by attacking an asteroid with defence tree(s)... I want it to say that when you have 500 seeds attacking it is 0 and 5 is 5, and no, I don't want to use if statements...

One I've found, but it won't work on highh amount of seedlings:

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SeedAmount - ((Seedamount/10)/Deftreesamount)Maybe you can work out on that one??

Aino · « **Reply #140 on:** May 03, 2011, 03:13:24 AM »

Ok, have made a scratch of the map I'll introduce it in too, sadly it's made on paper... but I made it by making doodles(Hope that was correct

) and just making circles where some lines crossed... You'll see how it turned out

[thinking]Maybe I should make a topic about all my inventions too? Like Annikk...[/thinking]

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #141 on:** May 03, 2011, 04:17:30 PM »

I still think A&R should install ultimate profile.

Aino · « **Reply #142 on:** May 03, 2011, 07:07:04 PM »

For what?

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #143 on:** May 04, 2011, 01:30:24 AM »

Invention-hoarding.

Aino · « **Reply #144 on:** May 04, 2011, 02:05:45 AM »

Aino · « **Reply #145 on:** May 04, 2011, 03:37:35 AM »

Sry people, seems there won't be any Alien AI 2.0, it seems to just create more rubble than I can remove... But I will update the old AI and making it slightly harder...

Aino · « **Reply #146 on:** May 04, 2011, 04:27:43 AM »

Ok, edited my AI and added two things, both of them improves the AI significantly... I won't spoil though, but the behaviour of the AI says enough

annikk.exe · « **Reply #147 on:** May 23, 2011, 11:38:59 PM »

I started coding again today.

Aino · « **Reply #148 on:** May 23, 2011, 11:45:45 PM »

Finally

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #149 on:** May 24, 2011, 02:21:05 AM »

I'm not sure whether the music we should have here is the 2001 theme or Morning from Peer Gynt.

Nah, Fanfare for the Common Man. The original orchestral version.

Aino · « **Reply #150 on:** May 24, 2011, 03:05:42 AM »

Making new maps for the Aliens of Akutash campaign

Hopelyfully they'll be full of fun and action

Progress: 1/3 maps done this sesion

annikk.exe · « **Reply #151 on:** May 24, 2011, 05:21:05 AM »

Made my first new mechanic in a while. Its one that has been done before in various guises, but I like my implementation more.. :P obviously I am biased though.

Need to think of a good idea for a map that can use it. Hmm...

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #152 on:** May 24, 2011, 05:36:09 AM »

Right. What do we know?

You're in Scotland, so that means you're in the same time zone as me (GMT +- 0)
You only started coding again today - it's a fairly simple thing.
It's been done before.
You need to think of a map idea to use it.

So:
It's not an AI - that's much more than a day's work and it can really be put in any map with a little tweaking.
It's not solely an aesthetic change coz that's not really a game mechanism.
Gravity/collisions? No. Not in a day.
I'm thinking either CC or rallying. Maybe a TD map.

Amirite?

annikk.exe · « **Reply #153 on:** May 24, 2011, 06:27:03 AM »

Maybe!

Yes.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #154 on:** May 24, 2011, 06:40:19 AM »

I had an idea that I think would be pretty fun, and would also justify the new mechanic I made today. It involves a big cluster of asteroids in a rough square or ball.. organically spaced, individually tailoired. There would be various invasion type scenarios... rotating moons, comet flybys.. The whole thing would be very fast-paced.

I guess I would use Infected AI.. though probably not the Starfield Engine due to CPU constraints, and also because it might be too much visually when the new mechanic is active too. Gravity would be quite nice here, the asteroid clusters could all be in "sun" mode, and the comets could weave in and out of them. That might look pretty damn awesome...

Aino · « **Reply #155 on:** May 24, 2011, 09:39:07 PM »

Whatever it is, I'll beta test it immediatly if possible, when possible

Aino · « **Reply #156 on:** May 25, 2011, 12:57:53 AM »

I think I'll need a tutorial in I/O, I really want to make a saving system, but how??

annikk.exe · « **Reply #157 on:** May 25, 2011, 12:58:14 AM »

Did a little more on it today. Refinements to the mechanic's visuals. Tidied up the lua code a lot and got everything ready to add the asteroids. Emailed the code to myself so I can work on it later.

Aino · « **Reply #158 on:** May 25, 2011, 01:01:06 AM »

Lol xD

You e-mailed it to yourself? Awesome... Though I really wanna know what it is D:

Aino · « **Reply #159 on:** May 25, 2011, 02:38:19 AM »

Ok, I'm ready, for making my Save/Load function... but first something for my campaign

It's going to be a totally new game element, though it uses old to make itself new(you probbly don't understand...)

Maybe get going with it another day... Right now I begin to get tired

Aino · « **Reply #160 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:11:33 AM »

Although I'll need to know EVERYTHING that is responsible for the gameplay, so people: mind help me?

Just tell me about something that exists in the game, like treecap and seedlings per empire(though, I said them so don't be stupid and post them

annikk.exe · « **Reply #161 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:12:40 AM »

Why don't you just look them up in the Reference thread?

Aino · « **Reply #162 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:13:54 AM »

yeah, why not? I'm stupid

Aino · « **Reply #163 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:38:09 AM »

Awesome!!!

Fixed the saving

Example on totally random map:

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Pilchard123 · « **Reply #164 on:** May 25, 2011, 04:07:16 AM »

How did you get the IO library to work?

Aino · « **Reply #165 on:** May 25, 2011, 05:11:22 AM »

Simple, just write

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io.output(io.open(x .. filename, "w" or "r"))
Where x is file destination, remember \\ not \!

Example: io.output(io.open("D:\\" .. "cool.txt","w"))

and "w" is write, "r" is read.

Now if you wrote you can just make a variable named anything, change it as you want and then add io.write(textvariable)

then after you're done, jsut take in a io.close()

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io.output(io.open("D:\\" .. "cool.txt","w"))
local txt = "this is\na cool\nlittle snippet\nfrom fluffyland :D"
io.write(txt)
io.close()

After running it there will be a text file named cool on your D disc

annikk.exe · « **Reply #166 on:** May 25, 2011, 07:56:55 PM »

I haven't tested it myself but presume it works as described. Well done Aino for solving one of the longstanding problems that none of us have been able to solve :>

That is the first major barrier to saving games dissolved. The other big problem is, how do you account for seedlings that are mid-flight between asteroids when you save the game? How do you detect and record their existence, and how do you re-create them when the level is loaded again?

With regard to my own project... I had some more ideas for it last night which would make it truly original and worthy of being a new annikk map. As usual they range from incredibly difficult to totally impossible to pull off. w00t!

Aino · « **Reply #167 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:24:01 PM »

Well, you can do one thing, make them appear on random asteroids, just count the amount of seedlings the empire have, the numer of seedlings they have in the loaded game and the difference between them will be added to random roids the empire owns, though you'll have to send seedlings again...

annikk.exe · « **Reply #168 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:54:54 PM »

That could potentially leave the loaded game looking significantly different from the one that was saved, though. Imagine if you save the game right before your seedlings arrive for a devastating attack on the enemy. When you reload, your seedlings would be scattered everywhere and not in position for the attack.

Aino · « **Reply #169 on:** May 25, 2011, 09:57:07 PM »

I know, sad :/ But nothing else you can actually do without finding every seedlings position, and one more thingthat would be crapped is tghat the seedlings won't have the varying attribs

But for now I'm making a save/load function for "Tough Collisions"

Aino · « **Reply #170 on:** May 25, 2011, 10:20:02 PM »

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annikk.exe · « **Reply #171 on:** May 25, 2011, 11:25:57 PM »

Well there is a way to reference an array of seedlings or "agents" when they are orbiting an asteroid. Perhaps you can query these even in mid-flight, and check what their attributes and x/y positions are.

I wouldn't just give up because it looks hard... especially when you've already got yourself halfway there..

By the way that save file looks insanely complicated :P

Aino · « **Reply #172 on:** May 25, 2011, 11:58:35 PM »

Nahh, it isn't complicated at all(the savefile!), it is just split up with attributes separated with "|"

So the game should recognize it, but I got problems with reading a line x(

I can give the code, if anyone wanna look into it

annikk.exe · « **Reply #173 on:** May 26, 2011, 12:32:33 AM »

Witness my rambling! Trying to think of some good random events.

1. Initial colonisation battles...
2. Comet flyby with enemies jumping off.
3. Rotating moon(s) around the entire belt, enemies jumping off.
4. Black holes suck nearby units into oblivion - player must run their units around to avoid these wandering monsters.
5. Dimensional eclipse - sun goes black - player cannot grow any units for a period of time (this would be in combination with an invasion event)
6. Tanky or high-dps rogue lasermine interventions from 2) or 3)

I'm thinking 15-20 asteroids for the central belt. 10 units to build or upgrade a tree. Upgrades could be random; range, damage, health, number of lasers. Stats could be randomised upon initial planting; use a random slot filling technique to calculate attributes based on asteroid size.

Randomise the asteroid size? Hmm, no. That would cause serious trajectory problems for the comet fly-by.

How to create a mines-instead-of-seeds for planting mechanic? I'd still want to use the Build Tree button. Shoudl I actually let the trees grow? Maybe. I can set the number of seeds required to equal 5000 when no mines are present, but 0 when there are suffiicient mines. I'll have to create all of the mines manually so I can refer to them, I guess. Building a tree destroys 10 mines.

Hmm. This is all a bit ambitious. Need to make the asteroid field first.

Aino · « **Reply #174 on:** May 26, 2011, 01:02:37 AM »

Nice, I guess... I can't imagine all that at once xD

But I jsut found out that I need a new format! All variables at each line!

Perfect huh? Size consuming? Both!

Aino · « **Reply #175 on:** May 26, 2011, 01:13:36 AM »

And one more awesome thing I've donne with the saving system is to make it automatically make a saving folder, it's named EufloriaSaves and is located directly at the C drive

So if any of you wanna use that, jsut copy this crap over:

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if not io.open(BasicSaveFolder .. "acces.acces") then
		os.execute("mkdir " .. BasicSaveFolder)
		io.output(io.open(BasicSaveFolder .. "acces.acces", "w"))
		io.write("Don't delete this file unless you want to remove the Eufloria Saves. Thank you!")
		io.close()
	end

Where BasicSaveFolder = "C:\\EufloriaSaves\\"

I don't know if this is only compatible with windows, if so I'm sorry :/

Aino · « **Reply #176 on:** May 26, 2011, 01:25:51 AM »

It worked at first try! It's amazing

So now to update the map

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #177 on:** May 26, 2011, 02:22:31 AM »

Imma guess that \ is the Lua escape character then?

Also, I made a black hole template that should still work if you don't want to make your own.

Aino · « **Reply #178 on:** May 26, 2011, 02:25:23 AM »

Heh, I just make them black holes for fun... And hoping they won't come to earth...

Just do whatevery you want, right now I don't want to claim to do something here on the forum

Aino · « **Reply #179 on:** May 26, 2011, 02:47:31 AM »

Ok, gonna make an even more feature rich save system, quicksave and quickload/loadlast

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #180 on:** May 26, 2011, 03:01:23 AM »

Just a thought - how is this going to work with other stuff? Y'know, like IAI, AAI, blackholes, gravity etc.

Aino · « **Reply #181 on:** May 26, 2011, 03:07:31 AM »

Well, The save works simple, you store all the infor you want to store in a file, so for each attribute or anything, you just add something.

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io.output(io.open(BasicSaveFolder .. savename .. ".TCS", "w"))
local txt = "truesave\n"
for i = 1,NumDrawings do
	
	txt = txt .. Px[i] .. "\n"
	txt = txt .. Py[i] .. "\n"
	txt = txt .. Vx[i] .. "\n"
	txt = txt .. Vy[i] .. "\n"
	txt = txt .. Ax[i] .. "\n"
	txt = txt .. Ay[i] .. "\n"
	txt = txt .. Mass[i] .. "\n"
	if Drawn[i] == true then
		txt = txt .. "1" .. "\n"
	else
		txt = txt .. "0" .. "\n"
	end
	if IsAlive[i] == true then
		txt = txt .. "1" .. "\n"
	else
		txt = txt .. "0" .. "\n"
	end
	if i < NumDrawings then
		txt = txt .. SpawnP[i] .. "\n"
	else
		txt = txt .. SpawnP[i]
	end
	
end
io.write(txt)
io.close()

This is a part of the saving system, as you see it stores all the attributes of the dots on each line, you can just add more and more attributes in here. So for gravity, well just add it in and you end up with gravity... So what I mean is that the system is very dynamic

annikk.exe · « **Reply #182 on:** May 27, 2011, 09:34:36 PM »

Will be releasing a new map-making tool later today.

Aino · « **Reply #183 on:** May 27, 2011, 09:49:18 PM »

A map making tool o.O

So thats the new mechanic

annikk.exe · « **Reply #184 on:** May 27, 2011, 09:55:06 PM »

Nah, this is seperate to the new mechanic I made.

I decided to make a map-making tool because I can't be bothered figuring out the coordinates asteroids should go at. So I've made a point-and-click asteroid positioner and sizer. When you're finished you click a button and it will dump the code to make that configuration of asteroids to a file.

Aino · « **Reply #185 on:** May 27, 2011, 10:08:50 PM »

And it works properly?

annikk.exe · « **Reply #186 on:** May 27, 2011, 10:38:29 PM »

See for yourself. :>

dragoonreas · « **Reply #187 on:** May 28, 2011, 12:15:25 AM »

Quote from: Aino on May 26, 2011, 02:47:31 AM

Ok, gonna make an even more feature rich save system, quicksave and quickload/loadlast

I was looking over the functions in the Eufloria Lua scripting reference post here and was wondering what stats the following two functions saved and loaded, and whether or not there is any overlap between what stats you're trying to save manually.

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 SaveStats(string filename)		e.g. SaveStats("myfile.bin") - saves out the current game stats to the given file
LoadStats(string filename)		e.g. LoadStats("myfile.bin") - loads myfile.bin into the current stats register

annikk.exe · « **Reply #188 on:** May 28, 2011, 12:25:25 AM »

I think they save things like how many levels you've completed, which achievements you've completed, etc. The stuff we're saving for this is the position and size of asteroids.

Aino · « **Reply #189 on:** May 28, 2011, 12:37:13 AM »

And the files you get are completely useless for my purpose

annikk.exe · « **Reply #190 on:** May 30, 2011, 03:53:48 PM »

Spent some time working on the new level last night. Going well so far. :>

Aino · « **Reply #191 on:** May 30, 2011, 05:13:27 PM »

Aww, I wanna see what it is D:

annikk.exe · « **Reply #192 on:** May 30, 2011, 05:28:16 PM »

Well, the thing I was working on most recently was figuring out a way that Mines can be grown from trees.. and how to plant a tree using 10 mines. That part is working good. :> I also did some testing on ordering the mines to move around... that part doesn't work quite how I'd like it, but I might be able to figure out a solution there..

Aino · « **Reply #193 on:** May 30, 2011, 05:35:58 PM »

That might be hard... I got no real idea without getting into not working or crash... Moving mines with triggering doesn't seem to work so good, but I dunno...

annikk.exe · « **Reply #194 on:** May 30, 2011, 07:44:01 PM »

Well, if I tell a bunch of mines to go to an asteroid, they do it.

The problem is that they ignore the send distance of the asteroid they are travelling from, and just go straight towards the destination asteroid without having to cross the intervening asteroids first like seedlings would.

This behaviour is a bug with the mine:SendTo() command unfortunately.

annikk.exe · « **Reply #195 on:** May 30, 2011, 09:25:18 PM »

I spoke with Rudolf today, apparently he and Alex are about a week away from finishing the PSN port. They are currently doing final level tweaks, bug fixes, and preparing for the submission to Sony QA.

Aino · « **Reply #196 on:** May 30, 2011, 09:34:09 PM »

Great! Can't wait

Aino · « **Reply #197 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:48:05 PM »

Yay, working on a 2D blocky "game", like minecraft and terraria...

Aino · « **Reply #198 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:55:18 PM »

And it looks alright already, got infinite terrain and stuff, jsut gotta fix two things: making terrain look nice and not so totally random(though it is random o.O) and gravity/collision through objects...

Aino · « **Reply #199 on:** June 09, 2011, 10:49:47 PM »

Aww, I got no imagination anymore D:

I can't even code a map :/