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Captain Vimes
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 Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: THANK YOU GOD |
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And DevX, Mandrake, and everyone else who encouraged and helped me to get SDL.
Thanks to you, I have now acheived in one day what has eluded me for the past year and a half.
I have created a fullscreen window, placed a sprite on it, and am able to move it around.
WITH TRANSPARENCY.
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!
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Ninkazu
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:25 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes, but do you know how that's done? That's the real accomplishment.
[I'm giving you a hard time]
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BadMrBox
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'm very glad for your sake Maestro134 :).
To answer Ninkazu's question; It's all made by magic!
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DeveloperX
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: THANK YOU GOD |
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| Maestro134 wrote: | And DevX, .........
THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!
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You are quite welcome.
And, goodluck with the rest of your journey of learning game programming. :)
I've recently started using pygame (which wraps SDL in nice n easy python) and I have to say, I'm loving every minute of it! :D
My goal is an old-school tile based rpg engine by the end of May.
:) ..anyone here had experience with pygame and would like to join me, let me know.
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Scrim
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hello all.
I've been reading this forum for a while and though I'd take this opportunity to introduce myself by jumping on the SDL/pygame bandwagon. I've been tinkering with pygame off and on for about a year and it certainly does make life a lot easier. Their documentation is pretty decent too, which always helps. I've found pygame to be a nice tool for learning the ins and outs of making sprite-based games.
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Terry
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Heya Scrim. Nice avatar!
I've never tried pygame - Mandrake's experiences with it back in the day sorta put me off even trying it. Everything else I've heard about it has been just lovely, though.
Congrats on getting SDL to work, Maestro. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Scrim
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 12:18 am Post subject: |
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| Echo wrote: | | Heya Scrim. Nice avatar! |
Thanks. It's my pixel art self-portrait. =)
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I've never tried pygame - Mandrake's experiences with it back in the day sorta put me off even trying it. Everything else I've heard about it has been just lovely, though.
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It's true, speed is definitely the biggest issue with pygame; it forces you to be clever about your screen draws. I'm not an expert but I do have a demo with 10 or so animated sprites running over a big map at 45 fps on my 3-year-old powerbook. On the other hand, I also managed to create a simple text display widget that dragged things down to 10 FPS because I accidentally had it regenerating itself every frame.
Personally, I'm more interested in turn-based games with fewer things whizzing around the screen so I think I can make it work for me.
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Terry
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Scrim
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| Echo wrote: | | Have you got any projects in mind? :) |
Projects, hmmm. I am always starting things and not finishing them; I either lose interest or feature-creep myself to death.
I'm trying to be more disciplined about my current weekend project - an "old school" party-based RPG engine - but who knows how far I'll get. If it starts to look like I might actually produce something playable, I'll post some info about it here on rpgdx.
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Captain Vimes
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THE SYSTEM WORKETH
Now I'm trying to get it to where I can handle key presses without getting weird "expected ; or type conversion before ) character" errors where I can see nothing of the kind.
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DeveloperX
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:49 am Post subject: |
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| Maestro134 wrote: | THE SYSTEM WORKETH
Now I'm trying to get it to where I can handle key presses without getting weird "expected ; or type conversion before ) character" errors where I can see nothing of the kind. |
drop me an email, and I'll help you get it sorted out.
ccpsceo@gmail.com
or catch me on instant messenger
AIM: CCPSCEO
yahoo: ccpsceo
msn: ccpsceo@gmail.com
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