[PP] Progress '11

[tifreak8x]

To start the new year off;

Currently working on code for the battle engine, find the GUI code bits here: http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5548

Updated the Equations program, it used to use L_EPA for the list. The program before was 1003 bytes. I changed every instance of L_EPA to use L_2, the program is now 906 bytes in size.

Progress continues into the new year..

[DigiTan]

Yeah!!! Stuff still going on in 2011! Be sure to share a screengrab or two with us.

[tifreak8x]

[tifreak8x]

So, I finally got code re-written on paper, and theoretically it should have worked. However, it does not and I have not been able to determine why as of yet. Mainly because I have not had time to do so over the past 2 weeks. It does display the text box and the player sprite correctly though, so that's a start. lol

[Xeda112358]

Oooh! Pokémon Purple! I am glad that is still active! I hope this last bit works out! So you are working on the battle engine? Or is it the actual interface?

[tifreak8x]

I'm currently attempting to get the interface working, stupid thing is being a pest and not cooperating. lol

Problem is, when I run the things individually outside the program, the things work correctly, but inside, it doesn't like it, and I haven't figured out why yet. Time to throw it up on sourcecoder to see what I see..

[Xeda112358]

So do you mean that the parts of the battle engine work separately? Or is this something else?

[tifreak8x]

There are several subprograms (for the game, there is between 50 and 70, I don't even remember anymore) that make the game work, such as it is right now. The battle system GUI calls on other programs, like the equations program, to more quickly run through things and it helps keep file sizes down, so I don't need huge chunks of the same code to be all over the place. It's an amazing thing, I took a program called prgmZCE, and inside all it is is Asm(prgmZCELTIC and then going through the game I changed all instances of Asm(prgmZCELTIC to prgmZCE and saved several hundred bytes doing that.

As to progress, I've managed to kill off a few of the bugs due to missing a couple appvars that I missed installing on the test calc, and forgot to update the equations program to see data programs as appvars instead of normal programs. I have one more error to deal with in the equations program, I think it has to do with a failure in the While loop I have set up in there, hoping further testing will reveal the culprit.

[Xeda112358]

Cool I cannot wait !!!! I'm going to check older files to see what you are using assembly-wise... I've been making some tools recently that might have proven useful

[tifreak8x]

I am using Resource, Celtic 2, a list to string program by Iambian, and a custom sprite routine for the pokemon sprites, since I used another character to define the end of a line to help optimize the data. The rest of it is all BASIC.

[Xeda112358]

Ooh, cool! I am not familiar with Resource, but nice!
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Checking Resource...
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[tifreak8x]

Resource is quite the program, so long as you keep in mind you have enough RAM to play with.

[Xeda112358]

I tried googling it, but I didn't find it. I really want to check this out >_>
Also, do you use sprite/tilemap routines? And if you do, how is the data stored?

[tifreak8x]

http://tifreakware.net/tutorials/83p/b/misc/resource.htm

And nope, the only sprites I am using are for talking with NPCs and battles. The walking engine utilizes strings as maps an characters to make things look close enough.

[Xeda112358]

Ah, cool! Okay, I'm checking out the link now :D

EDIT: Okay, I see what it does! I actually recently made a program like that... it is somewhat smaller and lets you copy any var to another var with a pretty easy syntax. However, it makes use of Str1 and Ans which could pose a problem x.x

[tifreak8x]

Very nice ^ ^

And sadly, I wouldn't be able to use it unless it uses the same syntax. God only knows how many instances uses Resource through the entire game, such as it is. lol

[Xeda112358]

Yeah, it is similar, but it really wouldn't help you much, now

[tifreak8x]

Well, it's ok, it's the thought that counts ^ ^

Didn't get a chance to work on it today. Hoping tomorrow will allow for me to be productive where testing and bug killing is concerned. ^ ^

[Xeda112358]

This is just too cool... By the way, do you by any chance know exactly how many "tiles" you use for the maps (tiles meaning chars)? Or do you just use them as you need them? Do you use tokens or ASCII? Sorry, I'm just getting ideas for some of my ideas

[tifreak8x]

Well, I use ascii characters found here: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/384/38404.html

There is no set map size, either. And it is no problem, if you want a more direct way of talking to me, I have AIM, YIM, and MSN. :P

Edit:

After doing some digging this morning, I found one of the appvars that dealt with attack data (moves, accuracy, type and strength) was empty. And apparently I never got around to organizing said data to begin with. So that is what I will be working on over the next few days.