[UPDATE 3.5]Angry Square

[thetoddfather]

And lastly, just keep in mind that with this the way it is, you may wish to change it to just

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if(r == 255)
col = false;
if(r == 0)
col = true;

and be sure your mod of r is always a multiple of 255 for it to work properly, otherwise it will spin off into oblivion and appear to be working when in fact your col is never changing.

this will allow you to confirm your function is doing its job

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char buffer[64];
sprintf(buffer,"col %d r: %d",col ,r );
gfx.DrawString(buffer,100,20,&fixedSys,D3DCOLOR_XRGB (255,0,0));

[thetoddfather]

And if you want to not worry about their values at all, just make the r,g,b variables unsigned chars (Which have a convenient range of 0-255) and just let them loop freely. Sky's the limit really.

[HippoSocks]

I considered using defines, but I could break it again..
And what's the point of fixing something that isn't broken?

I might use defines for the way I set up the changing colour's for the god mode text once the player has the apple, it appears I've also broken some other stuff, so I can't test is that easily, without rewriting the how perks work..

Ahh got to love simple little problems that confuse you for hours right?

[thetoddfather]

Exactly why it's best not to go into feature overload just yet. Take one problem and follow it through to where you're happy. Then move on to the next until you have a nice streamlined program Then layer on top of that. Some lessons are learned the hard way, and in my case I lost many early projects by diving too heavy into my ultimate goal for the project and getting lost in the mess of mistakes all over the place that I didn't know where to even begin to fix, so I lost interest in the project all together.

[HippoSocks]

Yea, I've realised that now, the game is that badly caked in a mess of code, I can't find parts im looking for to fix the bugs in the game, some of them being that god mode starts as true, but its ment to be false, and it gets set at run time as false..
Whilst adding that I was rummaging code to find bugs and got distracted from the important part..

Meaning I can only believe that I screwed up a if statement some place, and cant rewrite it without changing a lot of code, or rewriting most of it, all for practically nothing.

Oh well, mistakes are made..

[ickobombata]

how can i make new keyboard commands Like to use another buttons from my keyboard thanks!

[Musi]

how can i make new keyboard commands Like to use another buttons from my keyboard thanks!

Do you know how the program handles messages yet? You'll need to understand that to add more key's. Chili explains it in intermediate Lesson 5 i think.

[HippoSocks]

I have followed the tutorial where he goes through changing the keyboard, I believe it is about Lesson 5 or 6..

After i finished the tutorial and had the "IsKeyPressed( unsigned char keycode )" I researched ANCII and looked that the VK codes and worked out i would have to set it up using the following codes instead of VK codes..

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0x57 - W
0x41 - A
0x53 - S
0x44 - D

Hope that explain's that a little bit, I can't really explain it to well..

This is the code I used for player movement as an example of how I done it:

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if(kbd.KeyIsPressed( 0x57 )) 
{ 
    PlayerVelocityY = -3; 
} 
else if(kbd.KeyIsPressed( 0x53 )) 
{
    PlayerVelocityY = 3; 
} 
else 
{ 
    PlayerVelocityY = 0;
 }

if(kbd.KeyIsPressed( 0x41 ))
{ 
    PlayerVelocityX = -3; 
} 
else if(kbd.KeyIsPressed( 0x44 )) 
{ 
    PlayerVelocityX = 3; 
}
else 
{ 
PlayerVelocityX = 0; 
} 

To get more of the key codes there is a chart located on the site here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCI ... characters
You will be after the numbers in the Hex column and just put '0x' in front of it.

[Zionich]

I like your game Hippo. The eyes moving in the direction of movement sounds like it would add more flare to the game. It amazing how all those little things come together. Im excited to learn some more of those techniques you have impleminted. All in good time.

for the eyes try

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//in the movement update



if(kbd.WisPressed())
    {
           faceY --;
           eyesY = orginY - 5; //orginY being the middle of the eyeball
     }
if(kbd.DisPressed())
    {
           faceX ++;
           eyesX = orginX + 5;
    }

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if(!kbd.WisPressed() && !kbd.SisPressed()) 
    {
          eyesY = orginY;
     }

if(!kbd.AisPressed() && !kbd.DisPressed())
     {
            eyesX = orginX;
      }

[HippoSocks]

Thanks for the tips for the eyes there, but I'm not going to work on that just yet, I will focus on fixing bugs first, just like you dont put the icing on top of your cake before you've baked it..

Just because the outcome will end up better. Unless it explodes...