[PP] Progress '10

[Bhaliar]

[cssc]

I'm glad to see so much progress! I checked out the pokedex and it looked great. I didn't notice any problems at all, and was pretty impressed with the speed.

[tifreak8x]

Thanks so much for checking it out!

Been going through the code for pokemon, changing how I deal with the events. Before it was in a list, with 150 slots, but I knew that the list was just going to get bigger, as there are more than 150 trainers. So I moved it to an appvar, and am going through the code to make the changes so the game can now use it.

[tifreak8x]

Progress is still on going with the event system code. I was sadly ill most of last week, with some odd form of virus that had given me a massive headache from saturday until thursday, and a flu bug on monday.

Feeling decent enough now, finally getting some progress done with the pokemon shift routine, from when you catch it in the wild. Absorbing it into the party of 6 is complete (on paper, not tested) and I am currently writing the code out to put them in the proper PC box. This code is a bit.. complex, to say the least. I am writing code, that will create a program and write code based on which box number was last successfully uploaded to, and scans it for an open slot. If all slots are full, it moves on to the next pc box and starts the process over again.

So.. I am writing code.. that has to write code as a dynamic program, which calls an asm program to convert a list to a string, and then unarchive the proper pc box appvar, and write the pokemon data to it.

Probably the most complex BASIC/Celtic hybrid code I have written yet.

[cssc]

I can't even imagine the coding going into that. Sounds like you're on the ball though in terms of how to tackle the problem! Good Luck! (and glad you are feeling better)

[Bhaliar]

XD Looks good. I hope it all works. Thats my other problem with programming on paper. If I mess up I get so annoyed because I wasted time.

[tifreak8x]

Ah, see, I don't consider it wasted time, because I find optimizations as I do it with the first bit of written code. Makes things better in the end, even if I am going on my 4th revision on this particular code, I have found better ways to do a few things, so all is good. =]

[Bhaliar]

[tifreak8x]

I used to do it that way, but pokemon is a massive project, and I need to squeeze everything I can out of the code and make it as small as possible, much much easier to see it spread out in a notebook to see what I can do than on the little calc screen.

As to pokemon, I managed to get a large chunk of the code I have been working on dumped into the calc. I still have the massive string that needs to be input in that creates the program that writes to the appvar. Hope to have that done here after while.

[Bhaliar]

That and I actually found a good model of the damage "engine" for lack of a better word. It works real nice.

[tifreak8x]

I have all the information on the attacks and equations that are part of that printed off and in my binder, one of the next things that gets done after I get the pokemon status screen working.

[Bhaliar]

[tifreak8x]

What do you mean exactly? Do you mean, 'how do I tell the different types apart' or.. What? XD *doesn't exactly understand the question*

[Bhaliar]

[tifreak8x]

I had planned on setting up a Matrix to use as a look up table of sorts, I just haven't implemented it yet.

[tunt]

[Bhaliar]

[AMkiller]

[tifreak8x]

Doing it that way makes it a bit harder. With the Matrix, all I have to do is have the rows be the type of the attacking pokemon, and the columns be the type of the defending pokemon. That way those two would come together, sort of, and you get what kind of damage is done. =]

[FinaleTI]

Sounds good. But be careful, as matrices can grow to massive sizes easily.