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 Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 347/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Posted by Raccoon Sam Right now, I aim for a Tiger/Leopard Universal Binary, but it may become a problem if I want to implement a mutant menu object for selecting colors from color wells palettes. Keeping backwards compatibility can be a pain sometimes. That is probably one of the reasons why I didn't implement color selection in any of my Editor projects yet... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 348/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
McDonald's don't have honey cups in the States! AAAaahhhhhhhhh!
What's the point of eat McNuggets if you don't have honey? I don't eat burgers in restaurants because I eat them plain, most of the time. Because of that, I feel I'm paying too much for something I could make on the charcoal at home and taste way better... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 349/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 351/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Oh, that's...
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 353/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
I think the coolest thing with this app is that it bears a name that has yet to appear on the Internet. Well, now it is, because Google updated the indexation of my site and this board...
That aside, I think it resolves a couple of issues, especially the weird palette mappings. Total hits and total capsules functions help keeping track of the difficulty of the level. The backgrounds draw correctly, but the palette used is hard-coded to 1. In fact, the background that appears under a newly destroyed brick has the same palette as the brick itself. That's why you need redundant colors in the 4 palettes if you don't want weird colors to appear when you destroy bricks... I think I came up with a good interface for laying out bricks. You have a brush that shows what the brick will look like with each of the 4 palettes, and arrows to select the type. Select type 0 to erase bricks. You can always right click a brick to change the brush to that brick's type. This is done when no mode is selected. All other modes work using the principle of left-click to decrease and right-click to increase... If you activate the "Auto" button, the number of bricks needed is automatically calculated as you edit the levels. You can change the number to anything lower if you want, by deactivating the "Auto" button... 
Download Arkalavista 1.0 Any comments are welcome. And if anyone wants the source code, just email me... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 354/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Most of the inner works is done, expectedly, using Standard C. Anything that is graphical sits on Cocoa, which is a huge set of libraries that use SmallTalk style Objective-C. As for X11 and Qt, I don't know a lot about them, but if you can handle matrixes, buttons and text fields, that is all you need to recreate the interface...
The main view is a matrix of cells the size of a single brick. A cell is simply a control that draws something to the screen, an image object, a text string, etc. The way I draw with all my ROM hacking apps is via image objects that manage a set of bitmap data. There's no pixel-wise painting occuring. I made a set of functions in which you feed an offset (unsigned int) of the ROM data object and a palette (4-member array of a color struct) that return an image object. If needed, I compose bigger images using single 8x8 pixels images. Those objects are composited in the matrix view as needed, either by assigning the image to one of its cells, or drawing directly in the view... The colors palette is a matrix of buttons with a background color and no title. When you click on them, a window appears with all the colors. At the bottom is a matrix of text fields. When you press return, they send a message to update the variables, recreate the images if necessary and redraw the matrix... The way the matrix redraws itself depends upon the mode selected, which is stored in an instance variable. It's just a switch statement. The matrix is always redrawn normally, and then the various modes add other things on top of it... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 355/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Posted by "BlackHole" Lack of competition? Oh boy, can be quite the opposite in many domains, if not everything. Just imagine how computers or washers or shoes would be today if all the competition in the last 100 years had been replaced with cooperation. It's almost inimaginable... Of course, there's also the deficiencies of our monetary systems that are in the way of technological and social advance... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 357/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
I don't listen to albums or music groups or music styles. I listen to the music I like. This means pretty much anything, except very hardcore metal, hip-hop and rap (unless it's rap from the 80's). I never listen to more than 3-4 songs from the same group. I listen to music only on two occasions: when I walk and sometimes when I drive long distances. Those are most of the groups from which I have more than 2 songs:
3 ACDC 4 Billy Joel 5 Les Cowboys Fringants 3 Elvis 3 Fastball 3 The Pillows 3 Nirvana 3 Queen 3 Roxette 4 The Incredible Machine Most of the others are orphan songs. A few examples: Aerosmith, Black Ingvars, Bob Seger, C&C Music Factory, Caesars, Chick 'n Swell, Deep Purple, Def Lepard, Dire Straits, Folder5, Gamma Ray, Gary Jules, Generation X, Green Day, Groovy Aardvark, Hermes House Band, Huey Lewis and the News, Ice MC, INXS, Iron Maiden, J. Giels Band, Joe Dassin, John Lennon, Joy Zipper, Kaiser Chiefs, Kim Wilde, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Les Colocs, Lucky 7, Lynard Skynard, Marky Mark, Megadeth, Men Without Hats, Mes Aïeux, Metallica, Michel Sardou, Move, Narnia, Nine Inch Nail, Noir Silence, Plastic Bertrand, Rammstein, Ray Parker Jr., Rise Against, Right Said Fred, Robert Palmer, Roch Voisine, Rod Stewart, Saliva, Savage Garden, Smash Mouth, Spin Doctors, Steppenwolf, Stevie Wonder, Technotronic, The Beatles, The Cars, The Primitives, The Proclaimers, Tom Cochrane, Tom Jones, Toploader, Van Halen, Vangelis, Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 358/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Arbe really thinks that people will stop exercise when the "Society of Leisure" will see the day... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 360/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
I think it's pretty much awesome, à la Mario 64. I'd say from experience that it's easy to render the game too easy because of the life energy principle. Mario in Mario 64 was quite invincible in that matter... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 362/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
I'll check it out and disassemble the whole damn ROM, if necessary... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 363/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Today I prepared a bowl of cereal... All by myself... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 364/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Mega Man NOT 2...
I still have major difficulties understanding what makes Mega Man 2 so incredibly good... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 365/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Okay, I'm about good to go with a Nuts & Milk editor, just to go along with SMKDan's release, although, as usual, it doesn't interests as many people...
Nuts & Bolts 
The app includes options (not visible on the screenshot) for level Copy and Paste, add and remove levels. You change your brush with the matrix at the top or by right-clicking on a tile in the editor. There's a field at the bottom of the window that shows if there are any errors, like too many or absence of certain objects. Palettes are not optimal yet, the bricks and pipes colors don't cycle, and there's no palette editor. When this will be working correctly, I'll release version 1.0 ... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 368/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Wow... Just looking at the URL with "darkmazda" in it brings back memories...
May this site rest in peace... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 369/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Quickly like that, I can see two things, among many others:
1) When a country/region/city/whatever is not accustomed to have a certain type of weather change, it will, obviously, not be as well prepared as with common weather forecasts. In countries with lots of snow, cities are organized with that in mind. Snow plowers drivers are on the ready as soon as winter shows the tip of the nose. Countries with tornadoes have facilities and centers to foresee them and hide from them. Etc... 2) Global weather disruptions (the thing erroneously called "global warming"), caused by pollution and probably other things, make weather unforeseeable anywhere in the world. Air currents can be created and mobilized in unpredictable ways... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 370/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Mattaku, not again!? Administration is almost ALWAYS a question of popularity. You're popular, you score a point. You're friend with another admin, you've got a point. Other points are at best arbitrary. Everyone is bound to be busy with something else from time to time...
By the way, Rockman, how do you draw the line between "ridiculous activity" and "acceptable activity"? One message every minute? Hour? Day? Week? Month? Year? Decade? Century? Millenium? Eon? I presume it's more important to have quality content rather than quantity... Why not drop everything here and migrate en masse towards ROM Hacking's forums? That's in the realm of the possible... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 371/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Posted by blackhole89 This is what I'd call "genius". Hats off... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 372/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Mostly the opposite here...
I can code, but urgh, too many projects at the same time... Too many ideas... |
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Yellow Stalfos Level: 71 Posts: 373/1145 EXP: 3035608 Next: 131506 Since: 07-06-07 From: Québec Last post: 3626 days Last view: 2878 days |
Good work with the Toad SMB3 hack, Googie. I usually I prefer level design over graphic changes, so I'm looking forward to it... |
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