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Map Edge with Pixel Movement

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:18:31 +0000

I'm trying to figure out how to prevent mobs from walking off the edge of the map in my project that uses pixel movement.

A Game's Beginning

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:30:41 +0000

So I (still) continue to sporadically work on my project, Citizen (sorta world sim sandbox). I want to begin moving my focus toward the actual start of the game, and what I can do to make it an immersive experience that doesn't overwhelm the player.

I've also been slow to get into the nuts and bolts of how multiple-hosting would work with Citizen. Perhaps each host would control a city? And players could travel between them via plane, train or automobile?

I also need to refine the ratio of server-side to client-side data storage (savefiles and such).

Citizen Reformation

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:15:30 +0000

I've begun restructuring Citizen. The weather is up (as far as rain and water accumulation). The terrain, in-game forum and houses of players of the previous version are still in Citizen. I'll add a lot of the old elements back soon!

sloppy weather procedure

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:34:32 +0000

Code:

var/weather = 0
var/wether= "Cloudy"

world
    New()
        ..()
        weather = rand(1,100)
        spawn(30)
            Weather()

proc
    Weather()
        set background=1
        weather += rand(-33,33)
        if(weather>100)
            weather = 100
        if(weather<0)
            weather = 0
        if(weather > 50)
            wether = "Rain"
        else
            wether = "Cloudy"
        world << "[weather]% chance of rain."
        sleep()
        for(var/area/outside/O in world)
            switch(wether)
                if("Rain")
                    O.Rain()
//                  world<<"It's raining."
                if("Cloudy")
                    O.Sun()
//                  world<<"It's cloudy."

        spawn(9000)
            Weather()
area
    outside
        name="outside"
        icon = 'outside.dmi'
        layer = 6.9

        proc
            Day()
                var/tmp/q
                for(q in src.overlays)
                    src.overlays -= q
                return
            Night()
                src.overlays-='nite.dmi'
                src.overlays+='nite.dmi'
                return
            Rain()
                set background = 1
                if(src.icon!='rain.dmi')
                    icon = 'rain.dmi'
                for(var/turf/T in src.contents)
                    T.wet += rand(1,16)
                    if(istype(src,/turf/water))
                        return
                    T.Soak()
                return
            Sun()
                set background = 1
                if(src.icon!='outside.dmi')
                    src.icon = 'outside.dmi'
                for(var/turf/T in src.contents)
                    T.wet -= rand(1,16)
                    if(istype(T,/turf/water))
                        T.Dry()

                return

turf
    var/owner = "nobody"
    var/wet = 0
    verb
        look()
            set src in view(0)
            usr<<"[src.desc]"
            if(src.owner)
                usr<<"Owned by [src.owner]."
    proc
        Dry()
            set background = 1
            var/dlay = rand(11,66)
            spawn(dlay) if(src.wet<32)
                var/wetness = src.wet
                new /turf/grass(src)
                for(var/turf/T in range(1, src))
                    if(istype(T,/turf/water))
                        T = new /turf/water(T)
                        T.underlays += image(src)
                        T.AutoJoin()
                src.wet = wetness
                return

        Soak()
            set background = 1
            var/dlay = rand(11,66)
            spawn(dlay) if(src.wet>32)
                var/underneath = image(src)
                var/wetness = src.wet
                new /turf/water(src)
                src.underlays += underneath
                src.wet = wetness

                return
    grass
        icon='grass.dmi'
        desc="Green grass."
    water
        icon = 'water-joined.dmi'
        density = 1

Problem description:

So, after much trial and error I (sorta) have my weather beginning to work! The rain even accumulates as autojoining water turfs. And it's drying up fine.

Of course I figure that some of you byonders who are long in the tooth might give me a pointer or two on parts that could be more well-coded. There seems to be a bit of lag that I'm assuming is coming from animated rain icons I'm pasting on all the outside areas. As you can probably tell, I could stand to learn a bit more about coding in a less resource intensive way. The map I've been using is about 40x40x4.

Thanks for any guidance or ridicule.

Post Script: I'm looking forward to incorporating some humidity (as the water turfs dry up) soon. Also stuff like hail/snow as well as some other terrain changing natural phenomena.

Whoa! This place has changed.

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:35:55 +0000

We're not in Kansas anymore. Unless you actually are in Kasnsas. I've been neglecting my byond dreams for too long.

Side-Effects of Drugs and Alcohol?

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:22:50 +0000

I'm trying to implement drugs and alcohol into my metaverse and was wondering what sort of effects some of you think could be used. I remember reading a post on here once about having alcohol cause players to walk randomly based on how much they'd had to drink. I'm thinking it'd be neat to have alcohol and/or marijuana cause the player's screen to blur or to have things appear to move slower or with trails.

Let me know how you might handle coding such side-effects.

listing turf names instead of type paths...

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:55:03 +0000

Code:

                            var/stufftobuild[0]
                            stufftobuild+=typesof(/turf/estate)
                            switch(input("What are we building?") as null|anything in stufftobuild)
                                if(null)
                                    usr<<"You build nothing."
                                if("something in list")
                                    new/turf/estate/x(usr.loc)

                                    usr<<"You build [x]"
                                else
                                    usr<<"Say what?"

Problem description:

I'm working on Citizen's build verb and I want players to be able to pick from a list of buildable turfs. I've figured out how to make this work, but I can't wrap my head around compiling the turf names instead of the type paths. A pre-emptive thanks for anyone brave enough to clue me in.

Multiple game hosting?

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:30:58 +0000

So, I'm working on this world sim game (Ariii.Citizen) and I have the better part of one city coded. Some of my play testers have offered to host the game as well so I got to thinking maybe I could code the game so that any player could host they're own city if they wanted to. Not sure how this would work though. Could I allow players to travel from my city (the instance of Citizen that I'm running) to a city hosted by someone else (a second instance of Citizen running on someone else's pc/server)?

I'm beginning to think I'm in over my head.

total time online player stat?

Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:55:33 +0000

i'm looking to add an age stat that shows time player has spent playing. that way i can reward players with new skills/abilities the more they're on, and limit newbie access to obnoxious goodies like 'shout' and other spammy things. forum access blah blah...

in my game, i'm using deadron's calendar library. it's probably something simple i'm not thinking of. record login time and subtract it from logout time at player logout? hmm. trying to wrap my head around it.

Hosting thru router?

Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:59:36 +0000

I think I've got my router configured right. Just need someone to try to login to see...

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