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interactive environments

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:45:10 +0000

I have a friend ("Tor Crowley" on byond), who likes to experiment. Lately, he has been concerned with movement detection. I noticed byond allows me to make 16x16 tile icons. Problem is, well this...

Steve Jobs vs Dennis Ritchie

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 01:13:02 +0000

So I was on facebook today and came across this post below. (And yeah ironically, I didn't even realize Dennis was dead heh.)

Just wanted to know what people thought about it.

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Wall Photos
Without Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 October 5, 2011) we would have:
No iProducts
No over expensive laptops

Without Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 October 12, 2011) we would have:
No Windows
No Unix
No C
No Programs
A large setback in computing
No Generic-text Languages.
We would all read in Binary..

They died in the same year and the same month but it seems only few notice the death of Dennis Ritchie compared to Steve Jobs."
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Its been years, but I was scammed today.

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:41:46 +0000

Transaction //pixel work for money ($40).

I know I wont be getting my money. But I suppose the best thing I can do is notify other people of the community. Of the imposter that is "forsaken production" or w/e.

Part 1: http://www.byond.com/members/ XxLucifersJesterxX?command=view_comments&post=119922#comment s comments 5 - 12// please ignore 13, its from after i was banned from blog "D-Cire" and its a T.U.R (typing under rage)

Part 2: (side comments on right side) http://www.byond.com/members/DCire Basically, I gave him "Mashariki70@aol.com" instead of "mashariki70@aol.com". Then I started noticing i wasn't getting money from all my clients. I guess over the years pay-pal has updated their system to make it more case sensitive. But this idiot scammer is too lazy to refund the money and resend to the proper account. He doesn't care about the agreement anymore, he was the work. So he gives me one final rant then bans me from the blog.

Stop running proc from outside proc

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:40:25 +0000

Code:

    mob/player
            Move()
                    .=..()
                    var/skill/kidou/TigerCannon/t = locate()
                    for(var/image/i in image_list)
                            if(t)
                                    usr << "found"
                                    t.run_animation = 0

                            //      t.overlays -= t.tiger_cannon
            //                      t.refresh(src.dir) */


    skill
            parent_type = /atom/movable
            var
                    level // skill level?
            kidou
                    TigerCannon
                            name = "tiger_cannon"

                            var
                                    image/tiger_cannon
                                    damage = 0
                                    run_animation = 1

                            New(var/newDir,var/mob/player/m)
                                    .=..()
                                    refresh(newDir,m)
                                    m.add(tiger_cannon)

                            proc
                                    refresh(var/newDir,var/mob/player/m)
                                            usr << "refreshing"
                                            switch(newDir)
                                                    if(1) tiger_cannon = image('spells/TigerCannon/TigerCannonNORTH.dmi',pixel_x = -32, pixel_y = 32, layer=FLY_LAYER)
                                                    if(2) tiger_cannon = image('spells/TigerCannon/TigerCannon.dmi',pixel_x = 0, pixel_y = -128, layer=FLY_LAYER)
                                                    if(4) tiger_cannon = image('spells/TigerCannon/TigerCannonEAST.dmi',pixel_x = 0, pixel_y = 0, layer=FLY_LAYER)
                                                    if(8) tiger_cannon = image('spells/TigerCannon/TigerCannonWEST.dmi',pixel_x = -128, pixel_y = -16, layer=FLY_LAYER)
                                            overlays += tiger_cannon

                                    remove()
                                            overlays -= tiger_cannon

                                    animation(var/mob/m)
                                            while( run_animation == 1 )

                                                    icon_state = "start"
                                                    m.overlays += src
                                                    sleep(5)
                                                    m.overlays -= src

                                                    usr << run_animation
                                                    icon_state = "charge"
                                                    m.overlays += src
                                                    sleep(10)
                                                    m.overlays -= src
                                                    usr << run_animation

                                                    icon_state = "finish"
                                                    m.overlays += src
                                                    sleep(3)
                                                    m.overlays -= src
                                                    usr << run_animation
                                                    run_animation = 0

                                            m.overlays -= src

    /////////////////////////SPELLS//////////////

                    zz()
                            set category = "Keys"
                            set hidden = TRUE
                            if( state == STATE_NORMAL || state == STATE_RUNNING )
                                    var/skill/kidou/TigerCannon/t = new /skill/kidou/TigerCannon(dir,src)
                                    src << "triggered"
                                    overlays += t
                                    changeState( STATE_SPELL )
                                    changeIconState( "spell" )
                                    t.animation(src)
                                    spawn(10)
                                            changeState( STATE_NORMAL )
                                            changeIconState( "" )
                                            overlays -= t
                                            remove(t)

Problem description:

Im trying to stop a running proc from an outside procedure. Move() attempts to stop animation via use of run_animation var. The loop seems to exit but the icon will still play. Yes "found" displays. And in 'usr << stop_animation', it outputs 1, but when the var becomes 0. It does not output. So the loop is working. But the icon doesn't play.

This should happen:

animation()
runs animation
Move()
stops skill.animation()

Again what makes things difficult: images. My end goal is for this spell to move with the player when they walk (an energy ball they can run with, then explodes into a crazy beam trail at the end).

Animated Projectile

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:59:03 +0000

Code:

skill //object data
    parent_type = /atom/movable
    var
        level

    kidou
        TigerCannon
            name = "tiger_cannon"
            var
                image/tiger_cannon
                damage = 0

            New()
                .=..()
                tiger_cannon = image(icon = 'spells/TigerCannon/TigerCannon.dmi')
                tiger_cannon.overlays = list(
                    image(icon = 'spells/TigerCannon/TigerCannon.dmi',pixel_x = 32, pixel_y = -64, layer=FLY_LAYER),
                    )
///////////////////////
mob/player
    verb
        zz()
            set category = "Keys"
            set hidden = TRUE
            world << output("triggered","output")
            var/skill/kidou/TigerCannon/t = new(src)  //object creation?
            t.loc = src.loc

Problem description:
The object was created. Now I'm trying to use it. Verb works, image is not showing. Maybe the operation is not as simple as I thought and something is missing?

Managing different movement styles

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:17:37 +0000

I was trying to access one movement style from Move() and ended up with a recursion error. [due to the step function in that movement].

    Move(newLoc, moveDir)
        switch(state)
            if(STRUGGLE)
                if(dir == src.dir && src.struggle)
                    src.struggle.push(src)
        ..()

Now if I were to try "spawn() src.struggle.push(src)". I would get "runtime error: Cannot execute null.push()."

Below is part of a sword struggle datum. In struggle mode player movement changes to push/pull movement. It used to work when I had a macro called "tapdir(dir as num)". But i removed this macro due to a recent movement system change.

Struggle
    var
        mob/player
            one = null
            two = null

    proc
        Break(var/mob/player/winner,var/mob/player/loser,var/distance) //had to use Break() since break is reserved
            step(winner, turn(winner.dir,180) )
            winner.endStruggle()
            loser.endStruggle()
            loser.knock_back(winner,0+distance,5)


        push(var/mob/player/m)
            if(m == one)
                var/turf/t = get_step(get_step(m, m.dir), m.dir)
                if(t)
                    if(!t.density)
                        for(var/mob/player/o in t)
                            Break(m, two)
                            o.knock_back(m, 1, 5)
                            return

                        for(var/obj/dense_object/d in t)
                            Break(m,two)
                            return
                            //Object should take damage!

                        flick("push_struggle",one)
                        flick("pushed_struggle",two)
                        step(two, m.dir)
                        step(m, m.dir)
                    else
                        Break(m,two)

                else
                    world << output("BREAK","output2")
                    Break(m,two)

            else
                var/turf/t = get_step(get_step(m,m.dir),m.dir)
                if(t)
                    if(!t.density)
                        for(var/mob/player/o in t)
                            Break(m, one)
                            o.knock_back(m, 1, 5)
                            return
                        for(var/obj/dense_object/d in t)
                            Break(m, one)
                            return
                            //Object should take damage!

                        flick("pushed_struggle",one)
                        flick("push_struggle",two)
                        step(one, m.dir)
                        step(m, m.dir)
                    else
                        Break(m, one)
                else
                    Break(m, one)

Currupt file ( PS and dmi)

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:30:14 +0000

Had done some work then decided to go on break. I save the Photoshop work and I save the dmi work. In a hurry, I quickly closed my laptop, unplug it then drive to burger king.

I come back and both files are now corrupt. -_-. Im just trying to understand what kind of bug I caused. So I can avoid this! ;/

Run System

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:35:35 +0000

Run System: When you walk (hold the arrow key buttons down) for 4 seconds straight you should start running. Once your running if you let go for more then 4 seconds you should exit run mode.

Issue: 95% of it works, but hardly. The condition "if(moving == 1)" does not work, if it is true it will exit release() without allowing the next release() cycle to start. Probably because queue order is getting rearranged [release() is being called before Moving is set to 1]).

Diagram:

Code:

clock
    var/timer = 0
    var/mob/player/m

    New(sponser)
        m = sponser
        m.moving = 0

    proc
        refresh()
            timer = 0

        cooldown()
            while( timer > 0 )
                sleep(10)
                timer--
                world << output("[timer]", "output")

        increment()
        //  sleep(10)
            timer++
            world << output("<b>[timer]</b>", "output")

mob/player

    icon ='base.dmi'
    New()
        .=..()

    var
        moving = 0
        last_dir
        clock/run_ready
        clock/standing
        reset_in_process = FALSE
        release_in_process = FALSE

        const
            STATE_NORMAL   = 16
            STATE_RUNNING  = 32
        state = STATE_NORMAL

    verb

        release()
            if( state == STATE_NORMAL ) return
            if( release_in_process == FALSE )
                release_in_process = TRUE

                world << output("<font color = red> NEW RELEASE ", "output")

                if( standing == null ) standing = new(src)
                standing.refresh()

                for( var/i = 0; i<=4 ; i++ )

                    world << output("<font color = red>loop [i]", "output")

                    if( moving == 1 ) // <--this part is the only condition that doesn't work.
                        world << output("<font color = red>moving = 1", "output")
                        del standing
                        release_in_process = FALSE
                        return

                    standing.timer++ ;; sleep (10)

                    world << output("<b><font color = red>[standing.timer]</b>", "output")

                    if ( standing.timer >= 4 )

                        deactivate_run()
                        standing.refresh()
                        del standing
                        release_in_process = FALSE
                        break

                release_in_process = FALSE
            else
                world << output("<font color = red>release rejected", "output")

    proc

        activate_run()
            state = STATE_RUNNING
            icon_state = "run"
            world << output("run!", "output")

        deactivate_run()
            state = STATE_NORMAL
            icon_state = ""
            world << output("stop run!", "output")


        run_walk(var/dir)
            if(run_ready == null ) run_ready = new(src)

            if( run_ready.timer == 0 )
                run_ready.increment()
                run_ready.cooldown()

            else if( dir == last_dir)
                run_ready.increment()

                if( run_ready.timer >= 6 )
                    activate_run()
                    run_ready.refresh()
            else
                run_ready.refresh()

            last_dir = dir

        reset_movement()
            reset_in_process = TRUE
            sleep(20)
            if (moving == 1)
                moving = 0
                world << output("<font color = blue> [moving]", "output")
                reset_in_process = FALSE

    Move()
        if(..())
            moving = 1
            world << output("<font color = blue> [moving]", "output")

        if( state == STATE_NORMAL )
            run_walk(dir)

        if( reset_in_process == FALSE)
            reset_movement()

Thoughts:
I feel I've gotta be doing something wrong -_-. Or atleast extremely ugly, rofl. I also feel a lot of those vars keeping tracks of processes may be unnecessary?

Byond Installer

Tue, 10 May 2011 10:08:55 +0000

Where is the Byond Installer?

I download byond and it just runs. There is no "setup.exe" so if I use dream maker everything's untitled.

http://i53.tinypic.com/kcb6vt.jpg

Oview() operations

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:32:43 +0000

Initial.

Code:

for(var/atom/A in oview(2,src))
    flick('turf.dmi',A)
    flick("bound",A)
    sleep(1)

Problem description:

I want to change the icons only in the "5x5" range. Problem is, this code changes tiles in the "1x1 to 5x5" range.

What I want. (blue)

What I get.