Quote from: Madskillz on June 19, 2010, 03:42:57 pm

Well it sucks to see you go again, and this time permanently. You have been a great asset to the community and have definitely provided a great haven for programmers of all languages and non-programmers alike. I'm sure Omnimaga will continue to strive.

On a side note, I have been thinking its about time for me to call it quits too. I seem to be going in the other direction though. I am moving on to mobile development and bigger projects that I just dont have time for calcs as much as I used too. I do plan to finish a good majority of my projects though. So you wont see me fully gone until they are done.

well as said in my initial post, chances that I completly leave are not 100%. IN fact they are low. It's just programming that I am most likely gonna move on from. I love the community and what people create, but I cannot seem to go at a lower level programming than I am right now. I guess my speciality was limited to RPGs after all... but sadly, I got bored of creating RPGs, since they take so long to create and requires so much thoughts for what to add in them and time to debug

I hope if you quit calc stuff that you still show up around from time to time.

-Programming is tough, and I know you're a capable guy it just takes a lot of time. We all have busy lives and finding that time to sit down and really get down and dirty with a language is hard to come by. So I understand where you're coming from. You know how long projects can really drag on a coder and cause a coder to lose interest. Working on RPGs doesnt help that issue any either.

As for me I wont be gone this year for sure, not until I can bring some life back into RS at least.

I do not want to get anyone's hopes up, but

After suggestions from Builderboy, SirCmpwn and someone else I forgot who, I have managed to find some ideas to circumvent my issues in my last Axe project attempt. Finally, I discovered that what I was trying to do was not just hard in Axe, but apparently in any existing language that doesn't support floating points. Most of my issues also came up from the fact it is rather tricky to deal with negative values in Axe when it comes to physics+collision detection. For example, when accelerating to the left, my sprite would instantly go to max speed to the right. I never could figure this out. I also had issues with collision detections.

Finally, after a talk with Builderboy, I faced the reality that I would be forced to check for collision detection for all 4 sides separately, add another check for when I jump. I also realized it would be too much hassle to deal with acceleration where I can move at speeds like every 0.5 pixels.

So what I decided to do, after I cleared my mind temporary from some stuff (including the pressure from being admin), was to rewrite the engine from scratch. I also was forced to make it at a lower quality than what I had planned at first. One feature was completly changed and the physics when you accelerate/decelerate are rather weird: it checks for left/right keypresses every 6 frames, and basically you'll move at 1 pixel rate, then suddently after 6 frames it will jump to the double, then 3 pixel rate, then 4. It may look a bit half-assled (sp?) when you move at times, because of this. But sorry, this will have to do now, if I ever want to release something using it. It is not that bad either, anyway, I think.

Finally, what I did was to convert the engine so instead of the sprite moving around, it's the entire tilemap moving around (well, there are no tilemap yet, but the way the engine works, I can pretty much use anything that are 8x8 plain black squares on the back-buffer.) and the sprite remains at the center of the screen. In other words, scrolling. For some odd reasons, this was the easiest part of the project to code so far. I think this will be a bit trickier when I use actual tilemaps, though (or something that looks like tilemaps).

I don't promise anything, but at least this is a start, and I think removing myself from admin helped a bit removing some pressure (altough I got some a few days ago because I learned the person that was in charge of changing the FTP password typed it wrong, locking the entire team out of the site. Fortunately it is fixed, now, but it was scary.)

Awesome DJ!  I'm glad you're coding more again.  Good luck on your project!

*whew*
that was pretty scary for a bit, but i'm glad to hear that you're still working on stuff, even if it's only temporarily
you've been a huge influence in my own programming "history" even if i only just joined the forum and i've never released any major projects. your musics especially have been a huge help; i listen while programming and it helps me focus and work faster

anyways, if there's anything i can do to help don't hesitate to ask. contrary to popular opinion, not all of us have lives of our own to keep us busy, and my own current projects will either a. be finished very soon for the axe contest or b. act solely as something i come back to every month or so in my freetime and will realistically never be completed

at least stick around in the forums, will ya? there's no way i'm going to let myself come in here just in time to see a living legend disappear

I will probably post a topic about the project if I manage to implement the map engine display.