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ScottMacleman — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:12:13 GMT

So I've now got a full time job again so I've not got much time any more, well not nearly as much as I did have.

I've also been watching the server over the last few months, looks like only 3 people have ever connected, not including me!

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ScottMacleman — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:18:22 GMT

bsimser wrote:

ScottMacleman wrote:

Yeah I started with 23363, kinda a few days before discussing it, but it shouldn't bee too difficult to add any changesets from later commits. The problem is if I generate a changeset now Bil is going to have to consilidate my changes to all those done after 23363.

Hi Scott,

I'm not sure the best approach here but I think we'll dump everything after 23363. Once you have a stable build I'll check it out and do a diff from 23363 then do a full commit (blowing away everything before that). I think it'll work, just creating a local copy of the entire repo to try this out.

Thanks.

Hi Bil,

Any luck?

Scott

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Pavel2403 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:32:09 GMT

Actually never mind. I have found "Advanced Developer Guide". I am going to start from there and then see if it answers my questions.

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Pavel2403 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:16:27 GMT

Hi,

I see that people have started to work on the project again. So, I connected through SVN and downloaded all source code. However, I see a lot of folders for client and server. I'd like to figure out where I can start from, especially for WPF. Why WPF and not XNA? According to Microsoft XNA is died for Windows and I wouldn't want to start to work on something with uncertain future. However, WPF is better, because of Metro Applications using XAML-s and in this directions I'd like to go.

However, first I'd like to figure out how to make in work, even with the mess.

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bsimser — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:45:21 GMT

ScottMacleman wrote:

Yeah I started with 23363, kinda a few days before discussing it, but it shouldn't bee too difficult to add any changesets from later commits. The problem is if I generate a changeset now Bil is going to have to consilidate my changes to all those done after 23363.

Hi Scott,

I'm not sure the best approach here but I think we'll dump everything after 23363. Once you have a stable build I'll check it out and do a diff from 23363 then do a full commit (blowing away everything before that). I think it'll work, just creating a local copy of the entire repo to try this out.

Thanks.

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ScottMacleman — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:43:06 GMT

I made a fair bit of progress yesterday and today, so i've pacakged up what I've done so far - should work on x64! feel free to download and try it.

I'm trying to test the teleporter at the mo. http://terrarium.inspired-apps.org.uk/Terrarium-2.0.msi

Issue's im looking at currently are:

seems that the tick() is too quick?
creature sizes... don't look correct, I'd appreciate other peoples opinion on this, or comparison with someone who can run the old version.
change the size of the text so it all appears onscreen
fix the small icons (minimise, maximise, close window etc)
adding a background grid (easy, i've just not done it yet.)
when setting animal skins use the enum - plant skins use lowercase strings "plantthree" etc

Scott

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ScottMacleman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:03:58 GMT

I need some help now - Im in the PaintSprites method, I can work out correctly which frame I need from the sprite sheet, but where in the world to put that sprite eludes me, there is tsSprite.XPosition / tsSprite.YPosition and orgState.Position.

using tsSprite means that the graphics bounce arround because XDelta and YDelta end up being > 99999999... orgState.Position seems to work well, except that when moving the sprite seems to move in the wrong direction... im confused now...

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ScottMacleman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:46:12 GMT

I thought the problem was solved but its not working; this is the bit I think is wrong...

Vector direction = Vector.Subtract(CurrentMoveToAction.MovementVector.Destination, currentPosition);
                //Vector unitVector = direction.GetUnitVector();

                //double angle = Math.Acos(unitVector.X);
                //if (unitVector.Y < 0)
                //{
                //    angle = 6.2831853 - angle;
                //}

                //// convert radians to degrees
                //actualDirection = (int) ((angle/6.283185)*360);

                actualDirection = (int)Math.Atan2(direction.X, -direction.Y);

I think I've got it this time:

Vector direction = Vector.Subtract(CurrentMoveToAction.MovementVector.Destination, currentPosition);

actualDirection = (int)((180.0 / Math.PI) * Math.Atan2(direction.X, -direction.Y));

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ScottMacleman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:27:19 GMT

Ok, so I have got the animation working, its a little too fast at the mo because I had to take out the skipframe and paint only plants code as everything has to be painted in XNA, I cant pick and choose but it looks ok.

I do have a problem someone may be able to help with however...

I've made a sample herbivore that does the following:

// continually move north
BeginMoving(new MovementVector(new Point(this.Position.X, this.Position.Y - 100), 2));

The problem being that XNA coords are different to the ones used, as the 0,0 points is top left, not bottom left. I think. meaning that my little bug is showing as ActualDirection = 90 and so is pointing to the right of my screen but sliding upwards... so I think we need to find the code that does the actual direction calculation and adjust to account for the new coordinate system. correct?

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ScottMacleman — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:54:17 GMT

Feel free to try mine - I'm currently using it for testing the new XNA graphics engine I've written but the more creatures the better in my mind!

http://terrarium.inspired-apps.org.uk

Scott

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ScottMacleman — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:05:22 GMT

Yeah I found that as well.

Its progressed well today - I've got the background tiling correctly, the minimap updating, plants showing, animals showing - and animating, but not moving yet. Well, they do move, but so fast i think they can fly!

Anyway, tomorrow im going to try and get the movement working better and the teleporter working and i think its nearly ready for testing for a release build ;-)

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cyberneticxp — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:53:35 GMT

I guess access to the source code by TFS, I need to be added as an Developer to the project? no anynymous! I used username@SND and my password but that did not work (offcourse my own username)

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cyberneticxp — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:15:59 GMT

wauw it's really progressed that far. After absence I will put in my own input and support!

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ScottMacleman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:26:07 GMT

Ok, so I have now got the scrolling working as well, but im .. confused, and its getting late!

The world appears to be generated based on the power of my computer, so the actual size is 3 times larger than the background texture, how do I draw the next texture?

I'm ready to commit now, well I think its stable enough for others to start having a look now, but I'll wait for instructions on how.

Have a good night all.

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ScottMacleman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:32:56 GMT

Yeah I started with 23363, kinda a few days before discussing it, but it shouldn't bee too difficult to add any changesets from later commits. The problem is if I generate a changeset now Bil is going to have to consilidate my changes to all those done after 23363.

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tdiz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:27:44 GMT

Did you start w/ 23363? And did we decide we're going to scrap everything after 23363?

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ScottMacleman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:26:06 GMT

Woo now the cursors work!

Re: checking in - I've not worked with TFS in a while - but because I started from a changeset that was a long way back I cant just generate a patch? or can I?

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tdiz — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:13:01 GMT

Nice! Is it time to check it in? I'd love to help, just give me something to do.

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ScottMacleman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:45:03 GMT

Woo Hoo!!!

I've managed to hook it into the timer so the time in the corner is marching on! now... chainging the viewport to scroll around the world!

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ScottMacleman — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:18:00 GMT

No worries - I learned .Net on this; and I've wanted to play around with it for years now. Besides I'm always up for learning something new and XNA has always piqued my interest ;-)