Ethereal Darkness Interactive UpdateI've got a nice little chunk of a part that happens later in the game wrote down. I'm going to switch though and focus on the beginning since we have maps and such and a lot more of it has discussed. I'm doing my best to eliminate the common messages (i.e. 'using' a person doesn't seldom gives you the 'I don't think he/she would like that message.')

I can't believe how customizable this scripting system is. For example, I can easily change a verb via setKey(). So, say you have a bottle of liquid. You'd have to open the bottle first, so you'd want "open bottle of liquid", then after you open it you'd want something different, like "drink delicious smelling liquid", and then you may want to change it to something like "lick empty bottle". This can be done easily:

Pretty simple in my opinion, especially compared to some of the scripting I've dealt with before *shudders*. Also, since stateBottleOfWater is a global variable I can have another script control it. For example say I have a pile of bottles. I only want the player to have one:

donny is a fictional object that represents me, thus the sucky/lame dialogue presented above.


DragonForge TechnologyI've decided to not show any demo related screenies until friday or saturday.

Movies don't count as screenies, right?
This is just a little movie of my console that I coded up. Its pretty nice and supports all of my input features (if you're wondering, the 'caret' that is there is just a | that is appended onto the string before rendering [wink]. I have code to have it blinking, but its kind of annoying so I commented it out.) In the movie I'm just showing off that it supports scripted actions (denoted by #) and by the last one you might be able to guess that they can support a couple arguments [grin].

You may also notice that when I first open the console, it already has text in it. I've got it rigged right into my HTML log using the LogListener feature and using the HTML stripper in my code base I can just strip out the HTML tags and poof, it goes right into my console. Setting things up ahead of time actually pays off [grin].

Anyway, my side projects for now are just going to consist of small non-interactive demos (or very little interaction.) I figure this way I don't have to worry about coding a user interface, I can focus on the demo, and I can practice learning scripting and some more advanced 2D stuff. You can expect some uber-awesome screenshots this weekend.

My article series have taken to the back burner since I really have the need to finish something. The only person so far that was really looking forward to it was Kogh, but I can help him with whatever he needs.

Edit: I've modified the command system for the console. I've made it possible to add and remove commands really easily. For example, heres 2 different commands - quit and boot:


And then to register them:

g_Console.Register("#quit", Quit);g_Console.Register("#boot", Boot);

Edit: Ok, I was talking with a buddy and he didn't seem to see how this could be helpful so I figured you guys might not see what I'm seeing. First of all I can register functions that operate on different variables. Yes it requires a lot just to modify a variable, but its much nicer than having to stop the program, modify the code/file and then restart the program.

Second, I can run auto-scripts that use my custom commands. I simply type up a script and then load that in string by string into the console. For example:

sv_connect 414.122.178.1sv_message "This is a test of the the auto script." Programmer16queue 'sv_waitforresponse' 'sv_disconnect' 'quit'runqueue

The system would sit idle until each message was done, going through the queue. This isn't the best example (especially since I've never done any network coding and I'm really tired) but it should get my point across.

This would also allow for macroing in the game (which would be ok since I don't plan on making multiplayer games.) Of course the engine will be hooked into the console too (i.e. binding/unbinding keys, taking screenshots, changing display modes, etc.)

Good night


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void    moo(){
        cout << "moo.\n";
}

long    square(long x){cout << "square: " << x*x << "\n"; return(x*x);}

void    echomoo(string s, int x){
        for (int xx=0; xx<x ; ++xx){
                cout << s ;
        }
        cout << "\n";
}

void    echotwo(string s){
        cout << s << "\n";
}


testcs.add(make_cmd("moo",function<void()>(moo)));
testcs.add(make_cmd("square",function<long(long)>(square)));
testcs.add(make_cmd("echo",function<void(string, int)>(echomoo)));
testcs.add(make_cmd("echotwo",function<void(string)>(echotwo)));

thread_cs.add(make_cmd("load_sound",function<void(string)>(bind(&fmod_thread::load_sound,this,_1))));
thread_cs.add(make_cmd("play_sound",function<void(string)>(bind(&fmod_thread::play_sound,this,_1))));