To elaborate on my previous point, I'll quote my C book:

With some older operating systems (specifically, DOS and Mac OS 9 and below), it is also necessary that you "lock" the memory of the functions and variables used by your timers to ensure that they work correctly. This process is unnecessary on current systems, so we will not discuss it in this text.

I'm not touching memory locking with a 10-foot pole, honestly. Easy to implement or not, I just don't want to mess with it.

Variables in C are usually self-explanatory when you do them right. Each C variable name can be up to roughly 30 alphanumeric characters long, so I generally do a blatantly self-descriptive naming system for my variables. For instance:
willCollide  //This variable is set to 1 if Nanami/Rika will collide with an object if she continues in whatever direction
atmosphere //The atmosphere type, 0 for normal, 1 for miasma, 2 for sanctuary
isInFront //Is Nanami/Rika in front of an object?

character->LifeEnergy //The LifeEnergy variable of the character struct, the structure holding all of the current character's info(Note, this isn't actual game code, just variable examples and their meanings, in comment style)

As such, I usually always know what a variable does. If, for some reason, I can't figure it out or can't remember valid values (such as for atmosphere), I can easily look it up as most of my variables are global and thus declared, with comments, at the beginning of the program


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I must be dreaming. This grass is ridiculous!

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I must be dreaming. This grass is ridiculous!

but its so greeeeeeeeeeen and luscious ;.;

Quote from: TsukasaZX on March 12, 2011, 04:23:55 am

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I must be dreaming. This grass is ridiculous!

but its so greeeeeeeeeeen and luscious ;.;

That's the point I'm getting at. It's sort of a Colorado in-joke over Colorado's usual lack of natural green grass.

This IS the grass tiling I'm using, at least for the class project version of Nanami Chapter.

I'll try making the grass lighter and see how it looks. I may very well incorporate multiple shades of grass.

Also, Colorado has a very low humidity and very low precipitation level on average. While grass does grow all over, it's rarely naturally lush green. Rather, it's very pale green or even yellow or brown. Of course, people and businesses water like crazy so there's lots of unnatural green grass in urban areas.

Hatched an idea for grass shades:

"light green" - default grass
"medium green" - grass surrounding objects or grass surrounding grass surrounding water.
"dark green" - grass surrounding water or in dark areas.

I could do both, blue-ish for dark areas and regular dark green for near water. I can make as many tiles as I want!

Snow, grass, what about lava?

There may or may not be snow. There will not be lava.

I guess the lava is not of the style of Yume

What layer will grass/snow be then?