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Want to be a developer? Submit a patch? Start here.

Last post by Roots « Mon Sep 12, 2016 12:03 pm
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by Roots » Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:51 pm
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This thread is for people interested in either helping out with development or who just want to submit a patch or two. Read through this top post...

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:hack: I've added a number of new tasks to our issue tracker in the last few days. Almost all of the tasks listed here are easy to moderate in scope...
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Forum Rules

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by Roots » Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:54 pm

Hero of Allacrost Forum Rules

* Do not ask for anything illegal, like OST rips, ROMs, Warez, etc.
* Do not spam. If you want to advertise or...

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I think we should split up global.h/cpp... your opinion plz

Last post by Roots « Sat May 21, 2005 4:01 pm
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by Roots » Sun May 01, 2005 8:23 pm

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Ok, first of all here's a list of the stuff in global.h/cpp:

GameMode class
GameModeManager class
GameInput class
GameSettings class
various...

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Working on the global code now. Here's the classes I've got down so far:

//...

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Sat May 21, 2005 4:01 pm
Inheritence issues

Last post by Balthazar « Wed May 18, 2005 9:47 pm
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by Roots » Wed May 18, 2005 3:36 pm

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I just realized something. I don't call base constructors in any of the derived constructors (GameMode -> WhateverMode and some derived stuff from...

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Same thing, Tim.

No it's not. Case in point, if he was using a debugger, he could have stepped through, and saw what function (in this case the...

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Wed May 18, 2005 9:47 pm
Bug Tracker Classes

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by Balthazar » Thu May 12, 2005 11:22 pm

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So we have this nice SF bug tracker now, but we need some classes to classify bugs with. And as it says in pretty red letters.

once you add a...

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Why do we keep you around again? :eyebrow:

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Sun May 15, 2005 10:39 pm
Just Pop() huh?

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by Balthazar » Thu May 12, 2005 10:35 pm

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May 09 23:22:33 The stack is in GameModeManager. Just say ModeManager->Pop() and you're done
May 09 23:22:38 oh nice

Doing such, produces this...

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I'll do a CVS update and see what happens

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Thu May 12, 2005 11:35 pm
YASC (Yet Another Singleton Class)???

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by Roots » Sat May 07, 2005 11:00 am

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Ok, I was thinking this morning that we need some kind of class/structure to keep an instance of the game. It would hold all the player's stuff like...

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Ok great, I'm glad we are all in agreement about this new singleton.

I like GameSharedData/SharedDataManager. It sounds pretty intuitive....

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Wed May 11, 2005 10:09 am
Roots, gorzuate, and snipe: the trio aliance!!! 0_o

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by Roots » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:58 pm
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Right, so you're probably wondering what this is about right? Well all 3 of us are working on different aspects to get the map code working, so we...

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Yes. I was animating her slowly so it would be easier for me to observe the NPC motion patterns and for debugging purposes. You can change that...
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Mon May 09, 2005 4:59 pm
Resource Manager for Frequently Referenced Data...?

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by Roots » Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:38 pm
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This is something I've been thinking about for a while, and I'm not quite sure how we should handle it. Right now we have every GameMode object grab...

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In addition, with my proposal to keep up to 3 maps loaded at one time, the only significant load time would occur when moving to a new map that...
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Sun May 08, 2005 7:26 pm
Regarding excessive commenting

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by Roots » Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:14 am

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There was an article on /. last night about the importance of documenting your code. I left a comment with my own opinions about the matter, and at...

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That section was a bit redundant, but another guy made the point of the top of file description.

The one line of commenting for every line of code...

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Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:26 am
Gettext and translations

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by Roots » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:52 am

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*casts thread necromancy, level 5* :devil:

Ok, well ignoring the majority of the posts above since they are not about translation but the old XML vs...

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*casts split thread level 10*
*casts royal kick in the pants ultimate attack*

:devil:

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Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:17 am
Input event management

Last post by Roots « Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:25 pm
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by Roots » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:18 pm

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Alright, well the only developer so far that has worked with our input system besides myself I believe is snipe. Basically, I think it can be...

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While you're at it, please convert all those 'typedef stuct's into classes with public members. I say this because you can forward declare a class,...

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Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:25 pm
GUI development

Last post by Roots « Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:42 pm
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by Roots » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:47 pm

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I want to start developing our GUI. Normally I'd give this task to CamelJockey/Farooq, but he's really busy with school right now so I thought I'd...

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Writing this link down here to look at later.
SDL_ttf with OpenGL:

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Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:42 pm
Handling Quit and Pause events

Last post by snipe714 « Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:50 am
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by Roots » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:26 am

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Ok, I haven't really talked about this but it's been in the code for a while. Basically I designed the code in such a way that we never have to worry...

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The user should be able to pause the game whenever they want don't you think?
Yes.

Also, I think we should stick to one pause policy - letting the...

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Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:50 am
CVS Server usage / account setups

Last post by Roots « Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:04 pm
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by sadjester » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:28 am

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All coders, please email me with a username and temporary password for your cvs account.

It's pretty straightforward. If you don't get what I...

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Michael, something is very wrong with the CVS. It won't let me commit anything. I did a checkout and got the latest versions that were in the CVS,...

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Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:04 pm
Developer goals for March

Last post by gorzuate « Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:12 pm
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by Roots » Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:56 pm

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Alright, I was just talking to Farooq on IRC and we were discussing how the code is stagnating and we need direction. So here is what I propose that...

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I accomplished 1.75 bullets on my list :D

Dynamic resizing and ability to set different flag status is about 3/4 done.

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Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:12 pm
Moving characters between modules

Last post by gorzuate « Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:31 pm
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by Balthazar » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:00 pm

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Just had a thought after reading Eve's and Roots' discussion about the modular releases. How are we going to let the game know that you have...

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On an interesting note though, Battle for Wesnoth has all it's game data in plain text format and it's incredibly easy for some n00b to change their...

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Last post by gorzuate
Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:31 pm
time-based movement: yeah or nay?

Last post by Roots « Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:25 am
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by snipe714 » Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:16 pm

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There was some talk about frame rates, slow computers and stuff, so I think it deserves it's own topic.
So, right now our code uses a somewhat static...

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Finally someone understands me :cry:
:angel:
Yeah, that's exactly what I had in mind. BTW sorry I didn't check out the forum yesterday, I was...

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Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:25 am
Package/library dependency list and proposals

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by Roots » Mon Sep 20, 2004 2:20 pm
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Ehm, well I thought it would be good to have a thread specifically for discussing our package dependencies for the game. If you want to propose...

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*Thread Revives*

Updated Package Dependecy List

SDL 1.2.8 (new version, came out a month or so ago)
SDL_mixer 1.2.8
OpenGL 1.5 (version #???)...
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Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:16 pm
Coding standard

Last post by sadjester « Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:25 am
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by gorzuate » Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:23 am
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I think for this type of project we need to get/set some type of coding standard guidelines, otherwise interfacing everything together (and even just...

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About tab width... If we all deactivate that silly option convert tabs to spaces , and leave tabs as tabs, then everyone can define their own tab...
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Fri Jan 07, 2005 5:25 am
The new and improved video code/interface thread!

Last post by Roots « Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:45 pm
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by Roots » Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:34 pm
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First of all a welcome to Kevin(kev82) who will be taking over the video interface code. He told me that he wants to completely re-design it, and I...

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I just found a winner font library I think:

Features (that we care about):
- Open Source License
- Cross-Platform
- Supports Unicode and a whole...
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Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:45 pm
All audio code for the game is finished

Last post by Balthazar « Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:08 pm
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by Roots » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:57 am

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Well I had quite the productive day today. :D I managed to write a header file for an audio manager and all the code (and yes it compiles). I haven't...

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Leave the audio code alone, we want map code. Also, there's a reeeeeal easy cheat to do the intro/loop trick. You make two music tracks, one's the...

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Wed Dec 08, 2004 12:08 pm
Data storage/retrieval code (w/ Lua)

Last post by Roots « Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:01 pm
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by Roots » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:10 am

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Well after spending the last couple of days learning Lua and the interface to C/C++ I've got something worth showing. :approve: I just successfully...

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So what do I need in order to get the above code to work on my system? Lua libs of course, but anything else? Like updated Hero of Allacrost code?...

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Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:01 pm
Code Update

Last post by Roots « Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:55 am
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by Roots » Sat Nov 20, 2004 8:53 pm

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:approve:

Yeah, I pretty much spent all day today working on Allacrost code. :approve: Yay for me, I'm finally back. :angel: Most of my work was...

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Any plans on using the CVS? But good job getting work done. I've broken some barriars to getting the site running, so looks like we're both doing...

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Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:55 am
battle system

Last post by hamiko « Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:32 am
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by sadjester » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:16 pm
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I started the basic ideas of the battle system.

I created a /scripts directory, and added a battle_system directory in there. Inside of there, i...

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>_>
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Last post by hamiko
Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:32 am
Game/event progression

Last post by Roots « Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:14 pm
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by Roots » Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:24 am

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So thanks in part to Kev and Michael coming on board, I finally have the answers to almost all of the questions about how this game is going to be...

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all these vectors are making me :eyespin: diagrams would definitely be good :approve:

and it's not like each map has millions of tiles in it...

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Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:14 pm
message logging

Last post by kev82 « Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:19 am
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by kev82 » Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:39 pm

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i need some sort of system to report whats happenning in my code, since we've not agreed on an error handling system other than immediatly abort. i...

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by gorzuate
What more functionality would you need? This seems pretty much set to go as it is already.

at least

1) multiple log files
2)...

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Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:19 am
using cvs...?

Last post by Roots « Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:29 pm
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by sadjester » Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:13 am

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Now that we're all working on code and depending on each other's ftp directories for finding information about interfacing it all, could we all start...

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Ok, now that I'm back to reality I can elaborate a little. Committing faulty or otherwise untested code to the CVS is a sure way to get everyone...

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Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:29 pm
New loader code!

Last post by Roots « Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:52 pm
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by Roots » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:08 am

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I spent a good part of today and yesterday to bring you this and I hope you'll be pleased. :approve: Taking into account our new game mode stack...

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I actually DID read that comment, but I could have sworn that somewhere you said that SINGLETON1 should be initialized inside the header. Oh well,...

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Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:52 pm
heres my crack at some ogl video code

Last post by kev82 « Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:22 pm
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by kev82 » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:38 pm

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it even comes with a readme, it took me a while to type so you should read it :)

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i think i told tyler at the time but maybe i didnt. if you read the readme you will notice there is a video state called wipe, it does a box...

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Last post by kev82
Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:22 pm
windows allacrost

Last post by sadjester « Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:11 am
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by sadjester » Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:38 am

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windows build....

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try something like mandrake. it's pretty simple. it's easier then freebsd to install for sure

i dont want to start anything off here...

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Sat Sep 18, 2004 11:11 am
justification for the code standard stuff i said earlier

Last post by Balthazar « Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:36 am
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by sadjester » Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:47 pm

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Like I said earlier, I don't give a damn about braces...here is the code you wrote. I only changed the braces out of habit

You said that we won't be...

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I believe the -ts switch for indent will convert all tabs to spaces. The specifics are in the man page though.

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Last post by Balthazar
Wed Sep 15, 2004 2:36 am
One coding standard request

Last post by Roots « Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:35 pm
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by sadjester » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:27 pm

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Honestly, I don't care if one uses K&R braces vs. the other way, or whatever, but I have one (kinda 2) basic requests if possible...

Basically, Can...

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We talked about this a bit in the Coding standard thread recently. Basically you can code in whatever style you want, since the goal is to not have...

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Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:35 pm
my files and stuff

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by sadjester » Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:11 pm

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I'm just going to use my own cvs server. I'll setup cvsweb as well later so that you guys can easily take a look at things. Basically, I'll keep it...

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Sounds good. What I have been doing is I keep a copy of the latest CVS commit locally. I don't modify that code. Instead, I copy it over to another...

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Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:07 am
a note on casting

Last post by Balthazar « Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:29 pm
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by sadjester » Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:46 pm

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I've noticed in some parts of the code that things like this happen.

srand(time(NULL)); // For initializing our random number generator

while in...

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GCC = Grover Compiler Collection??? :huh:

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Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:29 pm
CVS StufF

Last post by sadjester « Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:55 pm
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by sadjester » Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:53 am

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my girlfriend stopped over a bit ago to watch some inuyasha, so now I'm more awake again.

Basically, when I rechecked out the cvs tree as...

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my girlfriend stopped over a bit ago to watch some inuyasha, so now I'm more awake again.

Basically, when I rechecked out the cvs tree as...

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Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:55 pm
Lost in Translation (intended pun)

Last post by sadjester « Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:49 pm
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by Roots » Wed Sep 08, 2004 2:10 pm

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So, I know this is a ways off for us but I figured it wouldn't hurt to get a thread out. Now we already have the goal of making Allacrost easy for...

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:think: Hmm, this has become a tad difficult to decide. I think Kev made a good point on where XML would be appropriate and where lua/python would be...

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Last post by sadjester
Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:49 pm
Data structures, algorithms, important stuff

Last post by gorzuate « Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:40 am
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by Roots » Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:05 pm
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Well we're nearing the time where we are actually going to start writing code for the game and I think its important we discuss how things are going...

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The AI class is contained within the enemy class (I think) since each enemy has its own AI algorithms it uses.

erm ... :huh: no. take a look at my...
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Sun Sep 12, 2004 1:40 am
ogl programmer

Last post by kev82 « Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:51 pm
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by kev82 » Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:18 am
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sorry for butting in again but i have a few questions about the ogl programmer you need.

1) fog? you say you want your programmer to do fog, i hope...

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by Roots
Well as a general comment after reading your post, you seem to think that SDL calls are bad for portability. What is your reason for this?...
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Last post by kev82
Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:51 pm
CVS commits

Last post by Roots « Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:18 pm
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by Roots » Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:50 pm

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Alright, I'm (slowly) teaching myself CVS here and performed the first commit. Here are a list of useful webpages for our developers:

A list of all...

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Alright guys, I added the current map code to the CVS repository. I also included all the sprite and tile images I've been using, so you should be...

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Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:18 pm
...I think we should hire a graphics programmer

Last post by Roots « Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:14 pm
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by Roots » Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:19 pm

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Yeah ummm, this OpenGL stuff? It sucks. It sucks a lot. At first I thought I was getting somewhere and then I read some weird stuff like all image...

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FYI: I have put ads for this position out on the gamedev forums as well as a help wanted list on Sourceforge. I don't think it's going to be easy to...

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Last post by Roots
Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:14 pm
Battle Animation

Last post by Balthazar « Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:48 pm
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by Balthazar » Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:14 pm

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Well, I've been working on some Psuedo code / design for the battle animation. I've put a sort of cpp file on the ftp in my directory...

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bah, you guys and making me work :axe: ;)

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Last post by Balthazar
Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:48 pm
a few questions

Last post by gorzuate « Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:22 pm
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by kev82 » Sun Jul 18, 2004 6:17 pm

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i was thinking of applying for you map editor job but im a bit confused about some things and wanted them cleared up before i applied

a) you say you...

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yep, good example! that's exactly what i meant. i tried to come up with one but yours is better

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Last post by gorzuate
Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:22 pm
CVS vs. Subversion

Last post by Roots « Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:04 am
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by gorzuate » Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:51 am

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:eyespin:
Ok. You're in for a treat. :D
what finally got me to post this was my :angry: and :bang: at trying to get all of the video and audio code...

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I'm also for Sourceforge. Subversion *may* be better than CVS, but looking at our current options I'd say this is the best solution for our needs....

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Last post by Roots
Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:04 am
Video code for the game is nearly finished

Last post by Roots « Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:55 am
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by Roots » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:02 pm

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Yup, I'm on a roll lately. :D Well after I finished the audio code and found that it worked so well, I pretty much ported a lot of the same concepts...

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Yeah it was all in hoa_loader.cpp, although some comments in the video code just seemed to be cut and pasted from the audio and not subsequently...

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Last post by Roots
Wed Jul 14, 2004 11:55 am
The very first few lines of code!

Last post by hamiko « Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:50 pm
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by Roots » Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:26 pm

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I decided to test my skill today and wrote some C++ code using the SDL libraries. :approve: The program loads in a JPEG image at 800x600x24 screen...

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Nice, Nice..

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Last post by hamiko
Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:50 pm
Kyra, a C++/SDL sprite engine

Last post by Balthazar « Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:59 am
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by Roots » Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:33 pm

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After spending a large portion of today reading and researching, I found an interesting sprite library that works natively with SDL and C++. Kyra is...

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As I said in the other thread, this library would be a pain, and a sprite class is not tough to make.

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Mon Jul 05, 2004 2:59 am

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