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[Snakey]

Did a lot of work on the script browser today. It's all pretty much done, and with the following advice from BMcC, I now read the animation files to find out the sprite dimensions. There is still plenty of work to do however.

[BMcC]

Whoa, right on.  Are you actually reading the script to see what animation file it loads?  Or just reading the animation files of the same name?

[Snakey]

At the moment I just read the animation file that has the same name. Perhaps it is more advisable for me to read the lua file to see what animation file it actually uses?

[BMcC]

It would be better, as the Global Objects have child scripts that change what animation file they use (for "re-skinning" boxes and such).  But I don't know how much of a pain that'd be for you...

[Snakey]

Yep, ok I've done that now. I now scan the lua file for two things, either a setupObject construct which I then extract the animation file name from, or from the child_animfile parameter. The child_animfile parameter has priority though, so I imagine if you were to write a script that used both, BqEd would peek into child_animfile first than to construct a setupObject table.

[BMcC]

Wow, excellent.  I'll make sure I always use "child_animfile" for the children!

For the children.

[Derek]

You have a child_animfile?  I'm calling the feds.

[HarrisonJK]

Ok, Finally pretty much doneish on this forest tileset  :



It is here :http://sites.google.com/site/justicejonesbiz/, as Tiles_Forest, and TheWoods.

It's not really much of a level, It just demonstrates most of the elements.

[BMcC]

Lovely, so lovely!

I recorded two records in the last 24 hours, then threw up today for no reason.

I think I'll try and stay in bed and do more programming this weekend.

[Jotaf]

Ok, Finally pretty much doneish on this forest tileset  :



It is here :http://sites.google.com/site/justicejonesbiz/, as Tiles_Forest, and TheWoods.

It's not really much of a level, It just demonstrates most of the elements.

OMG I love so many things about that tileset that I can't even begin to describe! Frankly, every little tile there is awesome. I can't wait to see the kinds of levels that come out of this! (the pikes, the branches, the green dude, the underground skull, is that an owl? picking up little moons and stars, everything wow)

Hm, maybe the interior of the trees (the part where you can pass through) could have a bit more texture? It contrasts a bit with the rest; since everything has texture all over, that piece comes out a little plain-looking. But if you leave it like that it's still cool Congrats!

[Snakey]

After building the library for handling the scripts section of Balding's Quest, I finally added the ability to add scripts into the map. Looks like everything turned out quite alright there.

There's still the matter of building the toolsets for the scripts however as even though you can add them, there is no way to alter them from that point. You can't move them, delete them or anything like that. So that is the next task of my list of a rather large to do (which is thankfully getting smaller).

I also cleaned up the context menu by making sure it was context sensitive to what you were right clicking on. Theres no point to add the 'edit' and 'properties' menu options if your not right clicking on a selected part, nor is there any point to add a select part if you are already right clicking on a selected area.

[BMcC]

Nice work!

I dunno if you even need to bother with a script editor, either... Notepad++ is free and has LUA formatting already.

Maybe BQed could open the the scripts with whatever's set to open files with the .lua extension?

[Snakey]

I think to prevent myself from reinventing the wheel, I'll just make it open script files in another application of your choice.

[BMcC]

Cool, sounds good. 

In other news, I am sick and doped-up beyond belief right now.

[Jotaf]

Hey you should drop the dope some day. I hear it's bad for you Get well mate, you're needed! Think of the children!

[BMcC]

Hehe, I'm feeling significantly better, but now my wife's sick.

[Snakey]

I worked a lot on the selection code today. It's not particularly easy to do all the logic to handle area box selection, alt & control switches (hold alt to remove, hold control to add) ... but I think I got it all working properly. I suppose when people try it out they can complain to me about it.

I also got the level loading finally done as well. It seems that I have a few problems with my script loading, either it isn't parsing properly, or it's not placing them properly, or I made the wrong assumption with how things are placed. I don't know, I suppose I'll have to debug it to figure it out. (I assumed that objects are center aligned, so a 16x16 script sprite has a positional center of 8x8. It seems to work for a few items, but a few others it doesn't work ... so more debugging is required, unless of course, BMcC could help me out here).

Otherwise, a few more things were done behind the scenes which probably won't really interest anybody.

[Snakey]

Ahh fixed it, it had to do with the fact I was renaming the script files internally to more friendly readable names. This caused the look up to go funny since it was looking for exact characters. So it looks like my assumptions were all correct. 

[BMcC]

Right on!  Are you also aware of the offset in the animation file?

Also: I can't wait to be able to select groups of tiles, haha.  (And ROTATE them??)

[Snakey]

So,

Box01
9 9 0 0

9 9 is the size of the sprite,
0 0 is the offset?