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I left it loading for 15 minutes but it does nothing for me. Must be Youtube acting up.

Thanks for the links, this is great stuff. I really enjoyed the one with Jordan Mechner about PoP. I knew he did the rotoscoping with his brother, but it was fun to see the actual footage. And I immediatly recognized the fighting animation when he showed the Robin Hood bit. I always find it interesting to see how they start working on a game and then the process it goes through; the early graphics, features being added/removed, etc. Like how PoP wasn't going to have any combat at all at first. Or Diablo starting as a turn-based, claymation RPG.

That looks awesome Progz, love the walk animation!

Good to hear this Mark, good luck with it

Me too.  I'm not sure if I'm VinceTwelve or vincetwelve, but probably the opposite of what you've got.

You are VinceTwelve.

[* The player won’t get stuck on the top of the world in multiplayer]

Minecraft Alpha 1.2.1, Minecraft Server 0.2.3

The server update is not mandatory, but you might want to update just to make sure.

This is a bugfixes only update:

* Signs on the sides of cacti no longer crash the game
* The player won’t get stuck on the top of the world in multiplayer
* Reverted mob spawning back to the old code, it was far to annoying. I have plans on what to do with this.
* Fixed the leaf particle colors
* Reduced CPU usage for monster spawning, but there’s still a lot of work to be done to reduce lag on SMP servers.
* Attempted to fix the portal dupe bug where you could exit through a different (new) one than the one you entered through.

Hurrah!

Oh man.
If Def is playing then I am coming back to Minecraft!

Hai Al ._.

I suddenly fell off the edge of the world and after that it kicked me out.. and can't get back on either

The 700% was just an example. Though I do use 500%  You seem to be correct though.

Greetings!

I have a question regarding scaling a character. I have set the .ManualScaling bool for the character to true, but when I try to rescale it using .Scaling to like 300% it gives an error: "Character.Scaling: scaling must be between  5 and 200%". Is this an intended limitation? Same for SetAreaScaling. The weird bit is that if I set an area's scaling to let's say '70-700' in the editor it works fine.

Thanks in advance,

-Def

I just defined everything physical as vectors and used a few simple coordinate geometry equations to check for collisions and intersections.

This sounds interesting. As does the 'draw imaginary line between characters and see if there is a wall(region) between them'. How would I go about doing this? I'm not trying to push anyone into giving me a bit of script that I can copy n paste and be done with it, but I would love to see an example and learn from that.

Thanks again everyone,

-Def

Comparing the player's coordinates with the wall-checking character's coordinates (that moves between the enemy and the player) works. Until I decide to make that checking-character transparent. The .Transparency command doesn't affect it at all, and nothing happens when the player is within reach of the enemy. Until I remove the .Transparency command; after that it works fine. Blargh this is headache inducing! Especially if I want to have multiple enemies roaming about. I think I'll give the regions method another try and perhaps use less complex rooms. 

I've been fooling around with it a bit and it seems to work. Though I would love to see how I can implement Calin's suggestion because I'm not sure if using several hidden characters that move around checking for walls (ie. multiple enemies) would slow things down or not or whatever.

Possibly you could use AGS' pathfinder to check for walls - if you have an invisible dummy character WalkStraight from the enemy position to the player, with a speed setting that makes the movement instant (speed -1? Not sure, but I did make use of it before). Then check the dummy's actual coordinates after walking. Is he at the player x,y? Then there's no wall.

This sounds like a great solution as well GG! Though I think negative speed settings just make a character move slower than 1. Using 0 seems to make movement instant though. I'll play around with this a bit, thanks again.

Thank you for the quick response Calin. I understand your solution and it sounds like it's just what I need. I looked up GetPixel and I think I sort of know how to use a mask here. It's been a while since I used the DrawingSurface functions (back when you used RawDraw) so I could very well be wrong here. Do I:

1. Add another background frame to each room showing a mask of the walls
2. Use DrawingSurface *surface = Room.GetDrawingSurfaceForBackground(1); to be able to detect walls with GetPixel
3. Draw the imaginary line and use GetPixel to detect walls

Step 3 has me a bit puzzled though. Well if step 1 and 2 are incorrect then I am completely puzzled I hope you (or someone) can poke me in the right direction.

Thanks again!

Greetings!

I am wondering if anyone can help me with this. This thing I'm working on has a top-down view, and enemies you can try to avoid. I thought I'd use a transparent character to give an enemy (red dot in the image below) a field-of-view (the yellow cone), and when it collides with the player (the green dot) the enemy will go after you. No problem in a rectangular room. But when walls come into play it gives some trouble as you can see in the image below.


Does anyone know a better way to approach this? I thought of using regions to check both the player and the enemy's position but I am not sure if that is a better/working solution (especially on more complex rooms).

Thanks in advance!

-Def

I predict the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUsfDsCd0A

Downloading here went fine, but when I try to run the installer it gives me:

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NSIS Error
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Installer integrity check has failed. Common causes include
incomplete download and damaged media. Contact the
installer's author to obtain a new copy.

More information at:
http://nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error
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OK  
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edit: I was going to try and download it again just to be sure but now it times out when I click on 'Download'.

This looks awesome! Looking forward to checking the documentation and trying the plug-in!

From what I've read it seems the view wasn't worth the climb.

How about trying it yourself  I downloaded it and before I played it I read that the developers designed this to be more of an introduction to the rest of the episodes. I too expected some (more) puzzles and I hope the next episodes will bring plenty of that. I loved seeing the Land of the Green Isles again and I think the voice acting is really good. I agree with Layabout on Graham's walkcycle though; it's a bit dodgy. But looking forward to seeing the next episode!