SLUDGE - The Wishlist

[Trumgottist]

No, they're not done. They're in a file among the source code named ToDo.txt, though, so they're not completely forgotten. (I'll see what if I can implement it sooner rather than later…)

[Erwin_Br]

No, they're not done. They're in a file among the source code named ToDo.txt, though, so they're not completely forgotten. (I'll see what if I can implement it sooner rather than later…)

Ah, okay. Thanks for clearing that up. (And pointing me to a place where I can keep track of it ) Looking forward to it.

[Trumgottist]

Regarding the "only loop this section", your suggested syntax can't work.

anim (spriteBank, frame, frameLoopStart);

The engine can't know if the last argument is supposed to be a frame or the frameLoopStart argument. An all new function could be created, but it's also possible to get this effect in the current engine. I tried this in the Verb Coin Demo, and it works:

Code:

sub makeMeNormal() {
normalCharacter(ego);
}

sub keys (k) {
if (k == "ESCAPE") quitGame ();
if (k== "a") {
animate (ego, anim ('outside/duck.duc', 0, 1, 2, 2, 1, 0, 3, 3, makeMeNormal));
}
}

[Erwin_Br]

Would this work with costumes? Because one of the things I would want to do is having my character made a gesture while talking. But he has to make the gesture once, and then loop the remaining "normal" frames.

[Trumgottist]

I think you could so something like this (untested):

Code:

# A general function, using global variables so that we don't need separate functions for all characters.

var talker;
var talkAnim;

sub makeMeTalk() {
animate (talker, talkAnim);
}

and then, when you want to gesture:

Code:

talker = ego;
talkAnim = ego.talking;
animate (ego, anim('ego.duc', 1, 2, 3, makeMeTalk);
think (ego, "I caught a fish *this* big! It really was huge.");
normalCharacter(ego);

[Trumgottist]

So… have you had time to try it? What do you think? Does that solve what you want or do you have another suggestion?

[Erwin_Br]

So… have you had time to try it? What do you think? Does that solve what you want or do you have another suggestion?

I tested it just now and it works fine. I'll have to expand on this a bit to support multiple directions and then I'm good to go. Thanks!

[lovegooddesign]

OpenURL () - a function to start a web browser with a specified URL.

With this feature people will not need to type my website address, they can choose it from the game menu.  :-)

[Trumgottist]

You can already do that with the launch() function.

Or you should have been able to do that, if there hadn't been a bug that messed up the address. I have now fixed that for the next version.

[lovegooddesign]

Thanks for the quick reply.  I did not notice the Launch() function when searching the Reference Manual.

[xenogia]

The ability to use videos as objects.  That would be an amazing feature.  Imagine you are at a cinema and the projector actually shows say 5 minutes of the movie as an object.

[Trumgottist]

Unfortunately, movie decoding is complicated. When I started on the movie support, I was also imagining things like that, but now I don't see that as something likely to happen.