birbilis's Forum Posts

  • The image editor although looking pretty at first look, seems to be very limited. There isn't even a tool to make an ellipse [holding down say SHIFT to force a circle] (one can only do boxes [haven't checked if can hold SHIFT to make squares btw])

    Would be nice if that image editor had a button to open the image in an external tool (saving any pending changes first) and monitor the file in the filesystem (Windows have shell notifications for that, don't need to use polling) to update when the file is changed (so that you could even keep the external tool open)

  • what is the current status with translation? I'd like to do a Greek translation (so that a Greek kid can use the UI)

    is there some Pootle server for contributing translations or do they use Transifex, or GetLocalization or similar service?

  • Another thing I could use is Dictionary, if only it had a mode to work as a MultiValueDictionary, where it allows one to add multiple values for a given key and returns a list of values for the key if it has more than one value

  • thanks for the replies,

    found this one too that sounds interesting:

    Data storage objects in a container

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    It's possible to add data storage objects like Array and Dictionary to a container with another object. Despite the fact these objects are invisible, a separate instance of the object is still created for each container. This allows you to have a dedicated Array or Dictionary for each instance of an object. This can be very useful as an advanced substitute for instance variables, such as if a very large number of variables is necessary, or if variables need to be dynamically added and removed.

    scirra. com /manual/150/containers

  • indeed, had recently read about that but it skipped my mind

  • Another thing is that I need to be able to go the other way too, from clicking something on the display to finding the correct cell in the datamodel (the array). Can I keep some Tag value on visual objects or use their Name or something to point back to the cell's number? (I mean x in (x,*,*))

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  • And in the (i,0,0) position I'd store some info on where the node is on the UI or some reference to a graphics object (are there such?). If I can only keep numbers in the array then I'd need (K,2,N) dimension so that at (I,0,0) I store X and at (I,1,0) I store Y coordinate of the node on the display

  • I guess I could use an array anyway, of (K,1,N) dimension - I could store a number 0-(K-1) in each cell to mark a one way link. For two way links would store two times, as two one-way links

  • It's a turn-based chase game, where nodes can have say up to N links connecting them to other nodes and there are N-1 enemies chasing a player that moves over the links on the graph nodes. The nodes+links (graph) is the underlying data structure, the display can be some drawing where the links aren't necessarily direct lines (can show up like say paths in some forest from a top view)

  • problem with the array is that each cell has 4 or 8 neighbours and it forces a certain topology

  • I want to make a game that uses a graph underneath, but not sure what is the best way to do it. Each cell should be able to examine the type of the neighbouring cells, but the neighbours aren't necessarily visually touching each other, they're logically connected

    any suggestions on what is the best way to do it? (I'm an experienced programmer, but haven't used Construct 2 before)