Coding Updates

[Tukki]

I felt like the existance of this thread could be useful



Current Jobs:

• Blademaster Beta Progress (~60% completed)

Finished Jobs:

• Warlock Beta spells
• Paragon Beta spells
• Condition System (4/10 : recoded 27/10 : recoded 20/12)
• WorldTime (26/11)
• ===| NPC System Parts |===
  • NPControl (5/12 -09)
  • NPCamera (7/12 -09)
  • NPConversation (NPCTalk) (12/12 -09)

Last Update: 31/01

Changes

• Blademaster game mechanic finished!
• 2 Blademaster spells finished!

 

[Wolfe]

The heroes are actually the Necromancer and Ranger. =D

GJ though.

 

[Tukki]

Okey. Anyway, I'll need some clarification on some of the necromancer's spells though

quick question: are the underlined words ment to indicate a sort of debuff/buff?

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Great job,

 

[Wolfe]

No. xD Just an act of randomness on my part.

 

[Tukki]

Good to know =] I'm starting with the moar scary of the necro's spells today

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

You have no idea how happy I am that you joined us. ^^

 

[Wolfe]

Woohoo. Warrior concepts are about 50% done.

 

[Tukki]

weeell, wait 'till you see the actual system code x) it relies 100% on the ABuff engine
And stuff like essays/exams and other boring sh*t will probably slow progress from time to time.

edit: finished reading the cJass manual installing naow
edit 2: finished coding another necromancer spell, totally in cJass =D

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

cJass, <3
Gonna read the manual now, =b

 

[Tukki]

(Y) it doesn't add much to code-readability, but makes typing 300% faster.
The ++/-- operators are badly implemented, though, since it uses workarounds and other stuff The define is awesome tbh.

No progress today I believe, as I got loads (like 84 pages of grammar) of french homework for tommorrow =(

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10/10: Updates on the spells,
both coding-wise and eye-candy-wise.

Minior changes to Condition system.
Implemented different condition states
with their own buff-icon.

 

[Tukki]

Double post :: for the sake of update!

Improvements so far:

• Bug fixes, bug fixes and bug fixes
• Small coding tweaks
• New computer acquired!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

I'll also include a little update:

• Learned Zinc
• Changed some things in the Everwood main map so it works with the newest patch
• Coded the first ranger spell

 

[Tukki]

I'll add that to the progress meter then

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Have a good Muse concert, I have a few friends going there too,
I haven't been able to do much lately as I'm at college, and I don't really have much sparetime for coding.

 

[Tukki]

Cleaned up my last comment, no double posts here

Fixed a lot of bugs which effectively crippled the playability of the test map.
Recoded another spell in ZINC, and nearly finished a more complex one.

Well, I'm off the coding now - homework's calling...

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Is it possible that you can just code 3 spells for each hero as a start instead of making the entire skilltree for every class? That way we could release the beta alot earlier than if you coded every spell, as most of them will not be included in the early beta anyway. =]

 

[Tukki]

Small update: The new patch (1.24c) fucks up JNGP-saved games.. Noticed and now I'll have to wait until it gets fixed.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Damn, D:

 

[Tukki]

It seemed like it was some code/unit stuff that messed up. Fixed and a small update on the NPC system. Maybe you want to post it on the front page in the Everwood thread?

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Seems good so far, but I think it's a little to basic to show as of yet.
Will you be able to talk to the NPC's? In the version we have so far, you have a spell in your action panel which let's you talk to npc's. When talking, you enter a first-person like view, and the heroes item panel turns into a bunch of options of things that you can say. This is how you get quests and such.

Wolfe is remaking the hero concepts we have so far, except for the occulist and bowman, into more interesting classes, and he has a few spells ready for them already.
Also, in 2 days time, he's posting a large post on the thread about the upcomming beta.

 

[Tukki]

Currently the NPC system handles different pre-defined behaviors for registered NPC's. I.e on spell targeted they will do A and when attacked they do B, where A & B are functions made by the user.

Will the talking be handled by the NPC system? If so, then I'll write a module (I like modular code ) that handles some stuff.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

It would be nice if the talking was handled by the NPC system, but there has to be some functions for manipulating the items, so adding and removing new talk options is easily done. An registering functions to the different talk events should be possible too, ^^

 

[Tukki]

Aight, can you send me the current NPC version in the map?

Just how will the items work? Will there be text printed on-screen, so items only works as dummy choosers? Or will the different responses be texted on the items?

EDIT: small update - Finished the NPCTalk camera module!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

I can't send you the current npc system right now, as I only have access to my laptop.
When you talked to NPC's, the things they said were printed on the left side of the screen, beside the npc. The items in the inventory were all option, and what they did was in the description, so I needed to create one item for each option. The last item was a cancel option, which canceled the conversation.

 

[Tukki]

Okay, that pretty much what I needed anyway
Did you use Texttags or DisplayTextToPlayer to display the text?

As I posted on the main thread: the NPCTalk camera module is now ready to rock 'n' roll!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

DisplayTextToPlayer, ^^
Looking forward to seeing the system in action,

 

[Tukki]

Yeah, me too!

EDIT: Are there any items in any hero's inventory by default? Or is it just plain empty?

Because I'm deciding that NPCTalk will require an empty inventory, so storing items is up to you - it's not hard or something but it would have overcomplicated the code


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Update: NPCTalk progress has slowed down until I finish this small program for my class.. Should be finished by tomorrow or so.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Well, I'm not sure if I introducered you to the action panel yet, but I'll just do it now.
To save space, each hero has in his command card a spells called Action Panel, which turns the inventory into a panel of things you can do, like Talk, Use, Worldmap, so when players talk to NPC's, the items in their inventory will always be equal to the items on page one in the action panel, so you can just remove those items. When the conversations ends, just add them again, and everything will work fine. The items originally in the inventory will be stored by the inventory system and put there when the action panel is closed.

 

[Tukki]

Okay, so I can just erase pretty much everything in the hero's inventory - as long as it gets added once the conversation is over?

Side note: Finished the small program! Next stop: NPCTalk!
Another side note: Added some suggestions to Wolfe about some heroes's game mechanics.

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Yes, and there's a function to add the items to the hero, so it should be no problem at all. ^^

 

[Tukki]

Investigating some strange bugs at the moment, will post update when the bug is solved!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

How does the system work so far? What does the invidual parts do, and how do they work?

 

[Tukki]

NPControl: handles npc-events; event-responses (onDeath, onNearby etc...)
NPCamera: handles the camera movement; used to position in fp-view
NPConversation (NPCTalk): handles npc talking; items in inventory gets moved to X/Y and then restored when the conversation is ended. You can pre define chat answers using the ChatPanel struct, or just add your own items into the hero's inventory.

as for progress: still trying to find the source of some strange bugs...

 

[Tukki]

Double posting ftw..

The system bundle should now work properly, and I'm currently uploading a short video to show you people how it works in-game!

EDIT: VIDEO LINK -

Hope it works as intended!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Cool, looking forward to seeing it, ^^
Btw, Wolfe has told us to focus on the skills, as he's rewriting the quests he has made so far. He also found a terrainer to look the current terrain over and correct some things and do interior terrain. Also, he's redoing the dungeons that Yohobofire made, and I also think he's going to increase the map size to something larger than 256-256 (256-280 or something) to allow for larger and more complex dungeons. The dungeons will all be scripted full of traps and deadly obstacles, and I want to ask you if you also want to script some of the dungeons?

 

[Tukki]

Sure dude! Then the question is what has top priority:

• Skills?
• Dungeons?
• Heroes (their game mechanics)

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Right now I think we should focus on the heroes and their mechanics, as I don't think well add a dungeon to the first demo.

 

[Tukki]

Any suggestions so far on the NPCTalk? If not I'll start scripting the Warlock, his spells and game mechanic!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

The quests that wolfe will design each have a set amount of NPC's that we'll just add as we start coding the quests, and if I know Wolfe right, he'll make a profile for each NPC's with a description of what they're gonna say. ^^
So yeah, it would be most lovely if you started on the Warlock,

 

[Tukki]

Aight, next stop: Warlock

 

[Wolfe]

Now, to keep you guys busy, the Avenger and the Bowmaster! Rawhawhaw!

 

[Tukki]

Hell Yeah!

=D

 

[Wolfe]

To come:
- The Guardian
- The Paragon
- The Vanguard
- The Wizard (Concept that replaces the Chronokeeper - because the Chronokeeper pissed me off.) =D

 

[Tukki]

^^

You're on fire man!

 

[RolePlaynGamer]

Love you guys,

 

[Wolfe]

I love me too. ^^

 

[Tukki]

Bah! Wolfe is scary, very scary!

A small update:

• Warlock game mechanic finished!
• Warlock spell Stormhammer finished!

Question 1: Is there any knockback system in the map?
Question 2: Is there any stun system in the map?

 

[Wolfe]

Good job Tukki. Remember to take screenshots of the mechanic/spells in use. =D

 

[Tukki]

As for the Stun & Knockback systems:

I'm using UnitStatus for the stun and Rising_Dusk's Knockback system, both available at WC3C.net

Will try to take some screenshots and make the preview tomorrow or today, the sooner the better.