Noob questions

I'm making a roguelike, and I love the grid based movement, but can anyone tell me how to get the grid based movement to work with 8 directions using the numpad? (ie 8 moves you north, 9 moves you northeast)

I checked the FAQ, Wiki, and forums, but couldn't find anything on the subject.

This seems like a really fast question, is it ok if I drop all my quick questions here, or is there an IRC I should use?

Edit: oh, and I can't seem to get my main menu working. I'm trying to make my selection arrow move up and down when I press up or down, but there don't seem to be any button input event conditions for the arrow, and the custom movement script only allows a condition for vertical movement or horizontal movement (it can't differentiate between up and down).

in answer to your subquestions, ask many many questions, that's the best way to learn, if you're asking 3 questions per day or something, you can make yourself a question thread, but one question a day is pretty normal for an anxious learner

also, there's a chat link at the top of this forum for the irc

Ok, got a bunch of help on the chat (thank you Lucid and Shviller), the mouse and keyboard object fixed the latter problem, still taking ideas for the 8 directional grid based movement though.

bump. Still need help with 8-direction grid movement.

Also, I think I may have found a bug, my menu is set to play tick.wav every time numpad 2 or numpad 8 are pressed, but it only plays the wav after the third press, the first two are silent.

in case you're not sure what I'm talking about. (numpad 8 and numpad 2 are up and down)

http://www.mediafire.com/?fw0xcs5h2m0liz8

And an image of the events.

<img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/Yank1234/construct.jpg">

Another question (though I still need an answer to the questions/bugs above).

<img src="http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y246/Yank1234/construct2.jpg?t=1283430876">

Is this how you read from an INI? Running this in debug showed that Array2 still had a value of 0 at 1,0,0

I hope I'm not being annoying, I sincerely couldn't find the answers to these questions on the wiki or in tutorials. ;p

Here's an example for an 8 direction grid movement:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples2/8dirGrid.cap

made in 0.99.94

I haven't used XAudio2 much but autoplay works fine the first time with any other wav file I've used. For a fix for that particular file throw in an event like this:

+ System: TickCount Lower than 3
-> XAudio2: Autoplay file "C:\Documents and Settings\Rhino\My Documents\Downloads\Amaranthine\Amaranthine\Sounds\tick.wav" (No loop)[/code:3dghcu4n]
and the tick will play the first time you hit a key.

In the last problem the reason it's not working is arrays are 1 based.  (1,0,0) doesn't exist so no value is getting set,  change it to (1,1,1).

-cheers

Here's an example for an 8 direction grid movement:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples2/8dirGrid.cap

made in 0.99.94

I haven't used XAudio2 much but autoplay works fine the first time with any other wav file I've used. For a fix for that particular file throw in an event like this:

+ System: TickCount Lower than 3
-> XAudio2: Autoplay file "C:\Documents and Settings\Rhino\My Documents\Downloads\Amaranthine\Amaranthine\Sounds\tick.wav" (No loop)[/code:2zmm51yy]
and the tick will play the first time you hit a key.

In the last problem the reason it's not working is arrays are 1 based.  (1,0,0) doesn't exist so no value is getting set,  change it to (1,1,1).

-cheers

Wow, thanks! : D

edit: I can't seem to get the array's 1,1,1 to appear in debug, no matter what I set the array's dimensions to, debug shows it as having 1,0,0 through 10,0,0

edit2: I got it working just fine with an array saving as a .dat, only a temp fix though, I'd rather things like resolution be editable in the ini so players don't accidently lock themselves out with unplayable settings.