Quote from: metagross111 on February 27, 2009, 09:57:42 pm

you reset your calc yet?

hell, do that sequence again and maybe it will go back upright.

LOL

Sort of like when I hit a pot hole in the road that threw off the steering, then another one got it back   It works!

EDIT: Hmm.. After watching the ss's again, I've decided wabbitemu sucks with GS..

That's probably your problem

#1: If you have really large maps I'd say 4 p/m since otherwise it would get really boring and frustrating (ever play the original pokemon blue/red without a bike? :'()

#2: You could just add in more flicker commands (or whatever they are, like the real(1 or real(3 commands to make the gray).  Does the grayscale look better on-calc?

And I see you got the direction thing working.  It looks nice 

The tiles look great and I just made the new forum's 5000th post

It looks good What's that box in the center?

I've been thinking more about this.  There are only two things I'll need to keep track of: the number of lines and the length of the longest line (in pixels).  Each line is 7 pixels tall, so with the number of lines I can determine the distance to put between the two horizontal sides, which can then be used to figure out where it should be placed to center vertically.  Similarly, the maximum number of pixels wide will tell me the distance between the vertical sides and where to center it.

For the format a level's text is saved in:
:NM
:Text...
:Text...
etc...Where N is the number of rows (it will always be one digit) and M is the max length.  If I read that first line, sub(string,1,1) will get the number of rows, and sub(string,2,length(string)-1) will give # of pixels.

[edit]It actually wasn't too hard.  Level 1's hint is stored as
:356
:Chips get you past
:sockets. Use keys
:to open doors.
: (2 spaces)And the extraction/displaying routine (using Celtic2 for now) is:
:0→θ
:"A3→Str0    ;text is in prgmA3
:5L-4           ;L=level #
:Asm(prgmCELTIC2
:expr(sub(Str9,1,1→H
:expr(sub(Str9,2,2→W
:44-int(W/2→A
:30-7H/2-fPart(H/2→B
:real(12,3,A,B,50+int(.5W-.5),B+3+7H,1
:For(E,1,4
:E+5L-4
:Asm(prgmCELTIC2
:Text(B-5+7E,A+3,Str9
:End
[another edit]Not hard-coding the hint text has caused slower rendering, but added a lot more flexibility. Eventually I'll be using Celtic III instead of Celtic2 and I'll fix the crappy code.  For now though, I just wanted a working routine.

Quote from: metagross111 on February 25, 2009, 06:34:47 pm

i see noahbaby94 really IS using my idea o_O

Well it's using xlib but based off of your idea.

What idea

It looks good

I forgot about the readline command.  Readline in both Celtic2 and Celtic3 can read from archive.

Not all the hints are the same number of lines, but I could probably do something similar to null-terminating the lines (e.g. stop displaying the lines if the next line is "!").  Since the text is on the graphscreen, not all characters are the same width, and also the hint text isn't always the same number of characters wide so I'll need to store the x coordinates of the box, but that wouldn't add too much to the size.