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Switching

Code: ags

 if (player.ActiveInventory == iMedallion)  {

to

Code: ags

 if (player.HasInventory(iMedallion) )  {

should do the trick.

Haha, damn 

me fixes.

Code: ags

function region1_WalksOnto()
{
  if (player.ActiveInventory == iMedallion)  {
    player.ChangeRoom(11);
  }
  else {
    player.Say("I feel drawn to something in this room");
    player.Say("I really want to find out what it is");
  }
}

If you indent you code, you don't run into bracket problems that fast.

Argh, Khris... you're too fast for me!

Isn't the AGS E3 called Mittens?? You attend, you show your stuff around - you don't... well then you do not do it


In terms of authority...
Wanted to do a game with the NES palette:


Stopped it because it took too much precious time from ShattenReyze.

@Eggie: Please finish either a game or a cartoon, your style is awesome!

@Khris: your code doesn't work too for exactly the same error I'm experiencing. I can't believe that I've reformatted that code block 

@Duals: Look at this thread. Steve's code is pretty close to what you're trying to achieve.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=42122.0

Sorry, I can't get it to work. I created a sample project and pasted Matti's version of your code in it. But it crashes as this line, as soon as I hit a key:

Code: ags

scale=DynamicSprite.CreateFromDrawingSurface(bg, 0,ax,  320, 240);

This is because ax can have a negative value by pressing down and the drawing surface immediately gets out of bounds.

It's a bummer that you've edited your posts, so that I can't access a working version.

Look, I made a compressed version. It saves space and is err.. good to be shared

Code: ags

int ax, ox,fxx=25, fyy=0, fww, sections=20, d=20, ad;DynamicSprite*scale, res, parts[];
DrawingSurface*bg, fx;float rw=5.0, rh=1.0;function room_Load(){  bg=Room.GetDrawingSurfaceForBackground();  
object[0].Clickable=false;  parts=new DynamicSprite[sections];}function room_RepExec(){  
if (ax>Room.Height-240)  {ax=Room.Height-240;  }  while (ad!=sections)   {    
int sze=(240/sections); float ratew=rw/IntToFloat(sections);    
float rateh=rh/IntToFloat(sections);    scale=DynamicSprite.CreateFromDrawingSurface(bg, 0, ax, 320, 240);    
parts[ad]=scale;    parts[ad].Crop(0, (sze*ad), 320, sze);    
parts[ad].Resize(parts[ad].Width-(sections-ad)*FloatToInt(ratew)), parts[ad].Height-((sections-ad)*FloatToInt(rateh)));    
fx=res.GetDrawingSurface(); if (ad>0){fww=(parts[ad].Width-parts[ad-1].Width)/2;}
fx.DrawImage(fxx-fww, fyy+parts[ad].Height-1, parts[ad].Graphic);    
fyy=fyy+parts[ad].Height-1;fxx=fxx-fww;ad++;}  ad=0;  
fx.Release();  object[0].Graphic=res.Graphic;  object[0].SetPosition(0, 240);}function on_key_press(int keycode) 
{if (keycode==eKeyUpArrow) ax+=d;if (keycode==eKeyDownArrow) ax-=d;}

I'm sorry that this didn't help at all, but

when it comes to debugging and sharing the code, is the single most useless and annoying thing in the universe,

equals

The world's a disc

Maybe you can also learn something useful from Easy3D.
That's  mode7 completely written in AGS Script:

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=26130.0

I suppose that only makes sense, when the Allegro Android port is done But having AGS on touchscreen device would be great.

Screw the PSP, finally some video footage

But it's still really really cool. If you could also port it to Dingux (Mips as wel), I could play it on my arcade That would be truly awesome!

Happy Birthday Rim Jeed!

And a happy belated to Bicci!

There you go

[15.2s]

I've now implemented the suggested changes and here are the results:

No changes: 15.2s loading time
Replaced BitStringToInt with "magic" ( info & 1023;) and applied it to layers 1+2: 8.2s
Replaced BitString completeley: 1.3s
Replaced BitString completeley and replaced ReadDoubleWord with ReadRawInt: 0.2s

I'm speechless and have updated my avatar


Thanks a ton, all of you! I'd never thought that map loading could be that fast. Otherwise I've never asked for a plugin. And apologies to Wyz that I've wasted your time... sorry pal. I'll now go and learn about bitwise operations.


..yaay!

First of all: wow!  :o

I'm sorry that I can't offer much help, as this is way out of my league. But I can offer some more stuff to read:
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Articles#AI

At least those guys made me understand A* and they have a few article about LOS and FOV.

*pressing thumbs that those screenies make it to a final game*

[p]

Aaand a happy one to Sparky 

Oh, it seems that I've been a bit confusing here. Let me explain:

I've a map format (default GBA, no promotion specialty), which looks like this:

Position(bytes)	Type	Description
$00	DoubleWord	Number of tiles in a row(width)
$04	DoubleWord	Number of tile rows (height)
$08	Word	width * height Word values where each value is divided into Bit sections  0..9 tile index 10 flag if the tile must be displayer mirrored horizontally 11 flag if the tile must be displayer mirrored vertically 12..15 unused

In order to process that file Khris was kind enough to provide the functions. PM could also export .txt files, but processing these took even longer.

The next step is that a level consists of 5 maps (layers), all in the same format and the same dimensions. Layer 1 + 2 = background and foreground tiles
Layer 3 = Items, Objects, Platforms and Waypoints
Layer 4 = Player, enemies and other characters
Layer 5 = hotspots

So for a level to load, parsing all these files is needed and takes a lot of time. Even more when doing it with AGS script And of course this data is stored in arrays, not in a stack.
Steve is definitely right and cooking Layers 3 to 5 will speed things up (and I think, I'll do that too). Still the big part is loading the tiles.


Now the second thing I'm trying to achieve has nothing to do with map loading itself. Once the player advances to the next level, I'm saving Items, Object and Platforms to stacks and reload them once the level is being entered again. That way the level design can be non-linear and enemies don't respawn. Same thing for items and other objects.

These are pretty small arrays stored into stacks and I already shrunk the stack separator, but it still takes some time to save and load these. In combination with the already slow map loading, it feels like forever on a slower CPU


That's how things are working at the moments. In order to optimize things without having to write my own level editor, I thought switching from Khris' helper functions to compiled plugin functions could help.


@Wyz
Readword
Writeword
ReadDoubleword
WriteDoubleword
BitString
BitStringToInt

Those functions would be more than enough. The super-duper solution could of course be a complete map loader, but this is too much to ask for. Having those functions mentioned above would already be awesome²

Back then I already knew that nobody would take a look 
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=40922.0

Just kidding Here are the functions:
Painfully slow map loading: TENG::load_map_files
Stacks are used in teng.asc: TENG::save_room and TENG::load_room


edit: Forgot to answer Calin:
I still don't get how it would affect the speed in a good way. As far as I know AGS natively supports writing ints and strings. So for doubles and floats I'd still have to use strings and convert them in AGS script, right?

But the speed issue would still be present, right?

For example in order to travel back and forth between levels I save all data structs to files using Monkey's stacks module. That is so painfully slow (especially loading back the stacks into structs) that I'd rather have a plugin for that.

Okay, I'd ruin the fun for ScummVM, but for the key players (Windows, x86 Linux, Mac OS) I could simply provide custom builds.

Btw. couldn't both techniques be combined? Something like: plugin present -> use turbo, plugin missing -> long loading times, but playable.

Happy Birthday, Wyz!  8)

Sorry, I should have mentioned it right away, that these functions were done by Khris.

@Wyz: Yaay, thanks for accepting the challenge
Could that future plugin maybe also have write functions? Pretty please? </puppy dog eyes>

PS: Is it my browser or the board converting "r - -" (without spaces) into the word "are"?