Author Topic: TSOD Episodes (Read 16652 times)

Liazon · « **Reply #30 on:** July 18, 2006, 12:40:00 pm »

no problem

It's a pity GTK+ changes so much though. My friend had trouble setting it up because of the GTK libraries. Well, might as well get GIMP while you're at it.

mdjenkins86 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 18, 2006, 02:10:00 pm »

I am working on TSOD today I wrote a sprite scalling utility that supports 2x 3x and 4x zoom.

interestingly, like we talked about earlier... I was able to get this magnifying program to work in Basic but it took nearly two or three minutes to render the sprite. When I wrote the same basic code in Tigcc... it renders in under one second!!

Liazon · « **Reply #32 on:** July 19, 2006, 12:30:00 am »

Actually, you might be able to render 2-4 in one second using ExtGraph with TIGCC. It has a sprite scaling routine written in 68k ASM.

mdjenkins86 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 19, 2006, 02:16:00 am »

The more you know! I didn't know that, so you mean to tell me that I wrote an entire routine that could have been done in a few lines of code, Wow. After looking into it I could have written this program in about 2 lines of code...

oh well, Thanks again, I will be using the mirror tool in ExtGraph.

So...
Basic =1 in 2 minutes
C = 1 in < 1 second
ASM = ~3 in 1 second

There you have it. I might also rewrite the mapper with ExtGraph, seems like it would be even faster than the C version which completes in about .5 seconds

Credit goes to Liazon

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #34 on:** July 19, 2006, 02:45:00 am »

lol that happens a lot, I often tell myself "omg why didnt I thought about this before?"

Liazon · « **Reply #35 on:** July 19, 2006, 04:45:00 am »

Do you need a link? Or do I need to email ExtGraph to you?

mdjenkins86 · « **Reply #36 on:** July 19, 2006, 05:49:00 am »

Thats okay I found it. Thanks though

mdjenkins86 · « **Reply #37 on:** July 24, 2006, 12:53:00 am »

TSOD will feature an upgrade system known as "Shells". Shells can be found throughout Arkel. When you open a shell, a new skill can be aquired. This will prove useful if you want a character to learn a skill that they don't learn.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #38 on:** July 24, 2006, 02:48:00 am »

sound cool, i guess this will allow customising characters more, like having mage instead of warrior type, or healer, etc?

tifreak · « **Reply #39 on:** July 24, 2006, 11:10:00 am »

Sounds to me if you have a warrior, he learns things that the other groups learn, still leaving him as a warrior...

mdjenkins86 · « **Reply #40 on:** July 25, 2006, 04:28:00 am »

Exactly what tifreak8x said only there will be some special skills that can only be unlocked through shells.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #41 on:** August 01, 2006, 01:40:00 am »

How is it progressing so far?

mdjenkins86 · « **Reply #42 on:** August 01, 2006, 04:23:00 am »

I am still working on it...nothing is more difficult than building a battle system.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #43 on:** August 01, 2006, 04:35:00 am »

Spellshaper · « **Reply #44 on:** August 01, 2006, 04:46:00 am »

true. And it's a PAIN in the a** to change something later on >_<