Whizbang Laboratories | Zenith | Activity http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/members/zenith/activity/ Activity feed for Zenith. Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:18:56 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.4.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2c12bc75e7a231bde7169c6c4486cb3d Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-105 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 21:54:40 +0000 Actually, I just realized that the above code can be simplified to if(rand(1, 15) < max(1, $fightsteps)), which I believe does the same thing.

]]> 2336874e412862a2503ba8e949c84eee Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-103 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 02:36:51 +0000 In regards to monster fight probabilities, I think if(rand(0, 14)/15 < max(0,($fightsteps-1)/15)) would work, changing 14 and 15 as needed.

That way the chance of fight increases linearly rather than being 50% at 13 steps and only 20% chance at 10 steps.

Side note: I’m used to languages such as javascript, python, and perl where one can generate…[Read more]

]]> 6b538447151f2088f006d816c3d9bc11 Zenith started the topic Explore Map Mod in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/explore-map-mod/ Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:12:28 +0000 This mod displays the terrain around the player when exploring. It also adds support for sub-areas of realms.

Installation instructions and documentation are in the Installation_Instructions.txt file in the attached zipfile.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/apbsUG3

]]> 138c92735346677356890eb41fbda7b6 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-99 Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:22:54 +0000 I’m thinking that for controlling monster encounters more finely, there would be a table of encounter regions, with a world id, a rectangular area with min and max latitude and longitude, and a monster group id specifying the monsters that are encountered in the region.

Then there would be a table of monster groups, where each group has one or…[Read more]

]]> 1547a6fda7a41b5f4e8ef713544950f5 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-86 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:42:43 +0000 I have everything coded for the explore images except the part that loads the map data, as I still need a good format to store the map. There’s three main possibilities I can think of at this point: A binary bitmap-like file storing an array of terrain ids, A csv file storing an array of terrain ids, or storing the terrain ids in the database with…[Read more]

]]> cc7e282299c0c655ded603a1f95d01b4 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-75 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 12:53:51 +0000 After objects are working, NPCs could be implemented on top of the object system, since objects would be able to define what happens when the player interacts with them. Initially NPCs would do nothing, but they could later be integrated with the inventory and quest systems.

Another thing to take into considering with respect to areas is monster…[Read more]

]]> 89d55d7781af9d80ededb779bb41fae6 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-74 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 12:03:47 +0000 After the map and area systems are done, the next step would probably be to implement objects, where objects are anything that exist on a tile in the world, like an NPC, obstacle, or treasure chest. Objects would exist in a table similar to gateways, with the area, latitude, longitude, plus fields such as the image to use, and whatever is needed…[Read more]

]]> f15755fc8a0e5500a568a949f03d91a6 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-73 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 08:18:32 +0000 Second thing would probably be to make enter-able areas. Any given town, building, dungeon, or whatever other area would be stored in an areas table in the db, where each area has its own map (grid of terrain types) and a realm that its in. Each area would have its own latitude and longitude system. To get between areas, there would be a table of…[Read more]

]]> 35033fbeaf3b2214a1d1d03aa36c3d76 Zenith replied to the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/#post-72 Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:10:04 +0000 The first thing I’d like to do is make the explore screen display the terrain of the area around the player. The only question is whether to store the map data in a file per realm (with the terrain types in a grid) or in a db table like (realm, latitude, longitude, terrain), with a row for each tile.

]]> 59e5b45dc948a274eebbbd58a880e842 Zenith started the topic Possible enchancements in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/possible-enchancements/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 03:00:16 +0000 I brainstormed a list of things that might be worth adding. I realize that it would probably be overly ambitious to try to do them all, and they’re probably not all good ideas anyway. I would be willing to a lot of the coding necessary.

General inventory system (Different types of items like weapons, potions, quest items, monster drops that can…[Read more]

]]> cd7a8920a6362a52e04cf827a869ece7 Zenith posted a new activity comment http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/46/#acomment-48 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 21:33:36 +0000 This only affected the files? The information from the database is still recent.

In reply to - Whizbang posted an update in the group Escape From Hell AAAAAAAHHH! FUCK! I was working in the File Manager, going to change the way the Babble Box works, when my 18month-old son drove his car accross the edge of […] ]]> 884a0acc5d723f391d4e58b2f445013a Zenith replied to the topic Babblebox archive in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/babblebox-archive/#post-68 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 11:12:49 +0000 Use the files in this post instead. The previous ones had an off-by-one error that prevented the latest babble from appearing in the archive.

]]> e1c52821352a267f2f6639dcebcab76f Zenith replied to the topic Babblebox archive in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/babblebox-archive/#post-66 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:18:28 +0000 The diff file is attached to this post with the extension renamed to .txt because the forum software is being stupid.

]]> 355bbce07502741f389a60a9e379a8e0 Zenith started the topic Babblebox archive in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/babblebox-archive/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:17:24 +0000 I created an archive for the babblebox to view past babbles. Note that it will only show old babbles from at least when it’s installed since it removes the code that deletes old babbles from the database.

Both a zip file containing the changed files and a diff file are attached (hopefully).

]]> 993ec981030ea0bbdc2efe3c96b77527 Zenith started the topic Inventory System in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/inventory-system/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 06:57:04 +0000 Would there be any interest in creating a general inventory system? Items from the shop and item drops would go into it, from where they could be equipped. It would also hold items that aren’t weapons or armor, like healing/mana potions and quest items.

If so, I’ll probably brainstorm some implementation details here.

]]> 6de406936f4add42e1d4b25c22491406 Zenith replied to the topic Circular Images in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/circular-images/#post-61 Sat, 05 Sep 2015 02:38:57 +0000 Trying again

]]> 0e49f01822f8f107ebda3128c482be02 Zenith started the topic Circular Images in the forum Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/groups/escape-from-hell/forum/topic/circular-images/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:52:55 +0000 I made the corner’s of the town images transparent so they’ appear as circles instead of squares. The 9 town image files are in the attached zip file.

]]> 1d927dd2f24c7e42738e483b881be492 Zenith joined the group Escape From Hell http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/31/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:43:47 +0000 0 dd3a6c742a57e3360d03c4b7b04c0b28 Zenith became a registered member http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/29/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:03:09 +0000 0 dd3a6c742a57e3360d03c4b7b04c0b28 Zenith became a registered member http://whiz-labs.freehostia.com/forums/p/28/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:03:09 +0000 0