Wastrel's Forum Posts

  • Yes but finally, it's not that kind of 'fear', for myself, I was afraid that someone else did the same work, because I didn't want to "lose" my time on something, while as I could work on another plugin. Hope you see what I mean...

    Yes, I understand. Even then, if two people are working on the same idea, there's a pretty good chance they are using different methods. There's no reason why multiple people working on the same idea can't collaborate on their work.

  • My field of interest for a long time has been AI.

    I am currently working on several behavior- and plug-in-based methods to implement both a bottom-up strategy (where the AI rules apply to one specific object and its instances), and a top-down strategy (where the AI rules are more generic and can apply to many objects and their instances). Each strategy is useful in different situations.

    The results so far have been encouraging, but the interfaces are very clunky and need a lot of optimization to be easily usable.

    That's basically all I have been working on recently.

    When I first read your post, septeven, I have to admit that I got that selfish twinge of "what if someone steals my idea". But after thinking about it, you are right. The plug-ins and behaviors we create are for the good of the community, and will only help (hopefully) to make the experience of using C2 that much better.

    My biggest concern has been that third-party plug-ins can't be used in the arcade, but I am confident that Tom and Ashley will figure out a good solution.

  • But I guess that'd depend on what you consider "modern".

    I was speaking, perhaps naively, from my own observations over the last 30 years. The number of end-of-the-world theories and cults seemed to mushroom in the early to mid 80s. Since Y2K entered the public consciousness, it seems we've had a nearly consistent flow of doomsday scenarios.

    I suppose it could be that it just seems that way, since popular media is everywhere, and are always hungry for a good (or even mediocre) story.

    I propose that all of the doomsday blather is created and promoted by a secret cabal of outdoor and survivalist outfitters.

    BTW, only 350 more days!

  • Harrio,

    I had something of a scripting background when I first started playing around with plug-ins, but I had never done anything close to the complexity of the C2 plug-ins. Still, I found it was pretty easy to get going, using the methods described by KYATRIC.

    I found it was easiest to just start playing around with the edittime.js and runtime.js files, and make very simple changes, to get my head around what parts did what.

    In fact, you can just start out with modifying the edittime.js and add conditions and actions, and not even touch the runtime.js file. The conditions and actions you add won't do anything yet, but it will get you familiar with the different components, where they are referenced in the C2 IDE, and how they will look.

    As Kyatric said, looking at other plug-ins is also very helpful. I would like to recommend that you look at the OR plug-in, somewhat because I wrote it <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle"> , but mostly because it is really simple. It has one condition, and the logic in the runtime.js is really basic.

    Give it a try, I think you'll get hooked once it all makes sense. Good luck!

  • It's the first time I don't get any feedback about my list from high ranks. Is this a hint I should stop making these?

    Perhaps Ashley's To Do List? has had a stack overflow?

    From what I've seen, they always appreciate suggestions. They just might be busy.

  • I actually used to believe in this and about 400,000 other things that now seem ridiculous. oh dear i hope the Armageddon gods don't read this

    I just wonder what the next big apocalyptic event will be, once 21-Dec-2012 passes. Maybe 19-Jan-2038, when 32-bit Unix time rolls over?

    Why is modern culture seems so desperate for some world changing/ending event?

  • I'm going to go visit my old friend Doc Brown, and help him finish building his flux capacitor. Then I think we will install it in an old 1981 DeLorean, and travel 4999years, 13days back in time. And add a few more decades onto that calender. Then it's back to the future. Yep that should do it. <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

    1.21 Gigawatts! What were you thinking?!?!

  • Those are some damn good pancakes, Yann!

  • Confusing question indeed. I'll just drop this link: Derek Yu's pixeling tutorial and call it a day.

    Habeus Corpse Blaster <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle">

  • Only 352 days until The End Of The World As We Know It: December 21, 2012!

    How do you plan to spend your remaining days on Earth (as we know it, at least)? <img src="smileys/smiley4.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

  • SoldjahBoy: "The Epic Scirra Hammer of Awesome"! <img src="smileys/smiley20.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

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  • Yikes! Thanks for the heads up, Mipey.

    I wonder why they chose a monlithic payment model, instead of going to the much more user friendly micro-payment model.

    I realize George Lucas probably had little-to-nothing to do with the MMO, but I blame him for ruining Star Wars for me. Thanks a lot George!

  • I find it moronic that many American politicians and many Americans for that matter, bash Communism for being an evil to be destroyed...

    The so called Communism of which you speak is/was actually totalitarianism, covered with a thin veneer of "Communism".

    True communism--where everyone works for the community; where work and resources are equally shared, based on need and ability; where no one is in charge--would be a good thing.

    The problem is, someone always wants to be in charge. Someone ALWAYS thinks they deserve more resources, and thinks they should work less, than everyone else. Then the community breaks down and devolves into a totalitarian or dictatorial state.

    But I agree with a lot of what you said. Most US politicians, in both parties, have become hypocritical wind-bags, whose only purpose in serving in public office is to get re-elected. The majority of US citizens have become complacent and apathetic, and are more concerned with who will be the next American Idol, than with the slow erosion of their civil liberties and freedom.

  • Has anyone played this yet? I was considering signing up to see what it's like, but they don't appear to have a trial period, and $60 is kind of steep to try something out.

  • I agree with all of the above. The NDAA is a travesty of freedom.

    The thing about dystopian fiction (e.g. Nineteen Eighty-Four, A Handmaid's Tale, etc.) is that they always show the current state of totalitarian/dictatorial governments, but never detail the events that get them to that state. Laws like this are what will get us there.

    Security-at-the-cost-of-freedom FTW!