[PP] Progress '10

[Bhaliar]

Yes, I understand that part. Just making some suggestions. What about having the npcs freeze when oak walks up. There most likely off screen anyways.

[tifreak8x]

When Oak is moving up to get you, he is the only thing moving, there are no other people moving.

[Bhaliar]

SO is the screen still updating for Npc's at the time? and sorry for the questions. I'm just trying to take it all in on basic.

[tifreak8x]

yes. I made all NPCs pare of the map data, so any time they move, it has to edit the string. This eliminated problems with seeing NPCs off screen and such and not giving errors. I just have to make it so that it ignores the one spot that the player is standing in on the screen and that flicker will be no more. =]

[Bhaliar]

Great! Can't wait for a demo or release.

[tifreak8x]

The next demo will be available once I have confirmed that the battle system is fully working with the inventory system able to interact with it. Once those items are complete, then I will release a new version.

[JoeYoung]

[tifreak8x]

[whyat least3]

YES, More progress, a huge jump since i last checked this, can't wait for the release.

[tifreak8x]

Alright, happy to announce I have found the code from 2 years ago that was going to be the pokemon party display screen. I am not 100% certain how far along the code truly was, only that this is the code that was devised by myself and Weregoose. So, I will see about getting this code put back into the calculator, fix the variable usage problems that will most likely be a problem, and see about getting this thing off the ground, so we can see the stats of our brand new pokemans once I complete that bit. ^ ^

[tifreak8x]

Todo list for version 0.2.0a:

+Getting first pokemon:
---Run through of equations and storing to list elements
-----will need routine to determine which L_P# to store to of the 6

+Create Pokemon Party Screen
---Some code already available (box creation)
---Need to create a stats screen
---Sub-Menu code needs to be rewritten, horridly bloated and might be able to consolidate into main program
---Need to recreate program to allow pokemon to be moved in the party

+Battle system
---Goodluck!
---Code for screen generation should already exist
---Need to create battle menu
---Need to code in attacks for first 5 attacks of each starter as minimum.


This is essentially what I will be doing now, in pretty much this order. Just putting this out here for those that might be curious as to the state of my progress and what is needed.

[tifreak8x]

Well, got to looking at some things, and I came to realize with the way I am doing things, a couple of important variables are going to get overwritten. >< So now I am looking to see where I can back up that information and use different variables to do what is needed.

I am just glad I noticed NOW instead of before putting this all down and getting irritated with some bug. <<

[cssc]

Nice catch, I hope you can fix it pretty easily. And your outline looks good, I really admire your dedication to this project.

[Bhaliar]

Looks good. Can't wait.

[tifreak8x]

Well, got around the problems that I had discussed before. I have a couple strings that are only used once in a while, so I dumped the text off into that and backed up the location of the string into another spare finance var. oh, and I switched the entire text display, save for position of text on the screen, into using finance variables for keeping track of things.

I have also thought about going in and writing in a routine that edits the map before it is displayed, pending on if events or pokeballs have been checked and such. This might slow map displaying down some, from the initial displaying, not the rendering or the moving around part. Is this worth it to everyone else? This way I wouldn't have extra characters or items on the screen when they are used or certain events were taken care of. Would actually be VERY easy to make, once I feel I get the pokemon to where you can get them, of course. This still holds top priority.

Also, been writing this code up to get all three pokemon, and I believe I have it written out. however, there is a lot of 'redundant code' that is the exact same between all three. So what I am thinking about doing is rewriting it to have the bulk of the same code and the conditionals to make changes to what is needed. Just not sure if it will be smaller or not. One could only hope so, but I won't know until I actually write it all out.. so yeah, here goes!

[Bhaliar]

Looks Good. And I don't know. Is it a question of speed over graphics or flashing etc.?

[tifreak8x]

all of this would be done before the map itself is dumped on to the screen, there is no 'flashing' as far as I have seen while playing. It might just take a second or two more to load the map is all, but would get rid of unneeded things off the map.

[Bhaliar]

I'd say do it.

[tifreak8x]

lol, have gotten several of those, so yeah, something I will add once I get the pokemon to where you can get them.

On that note, I have shrunk the amount of code needed for that considerably. Still have a few tweaks on paper that needs to be done before I put it to calc. Hopefully will have something to test by tomorrow.

[Bhaliar]