Questions for DarkGod (or others)

[Grey]

Managed to get it working as I wanted by changing the .frag to:

float grey = gl_FragColor.r*0+gl_FragColor.g*0.5+gl_FragColor.b*0.5;

This means the red doesn't get desaturated at all, whilst the other colours get completely muted. Combined with a blur shader it looks awesome :D Thanks, DarkGod!

[darkgod]

Screenshot!

[faustgeist]

Whoa, DG,

Did we just get a sneak-peek screen shot of beta38?

Whatever it was, I LIKE IT!

~Robin

[Grey]

Screenshot! :)

Hmm, well, I've only got it going in Run from the Shadow, so it doesn't look all that impressive. Imagine a future game with lots of blood splatter and this effect though ;)

[bricks]

BLOOD! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

Is it possible to blur locally? It'd be cool if distance objects were very blurry, but those close-up were in sharp relief (especially if the effect scaled with "rage," which I'm guessing is the intent).

[darkgod]

Possible yes, veyr much harder, yes too

[eliotn]

Is it possible to delay an ability, meaning you cast it, and sometime later, it activates?

[bricks]

I think someone was actually looking into that a while back. A simple method could use timed effects and activate when the timer runs out, while a more sophisticated approach could rewrite the talents code to handle a fourth talent type (in addition to activated, sustained, and passive). What's trickier is deciding how you want the talent to function - can the player cancel it? can the player choose to activate it any time after it is charged, or does it have to be used on that turn? do enemy attacks (stun-style effects) interrupt "casting"? Another method - turn it into a spiked sustained talent effect, but give it a timer that must count down before the talent will do anything after being spiked.

[Goblinz]

you could also use timed effects to do this. If people want I can make a few example talents for this

[Grey]

Rod of Recall or Angolwen Teleport from ToME4 are the obvious examples of delayed action spells.

[Grey]

Some more Qs, if anyone can help:

1. Can I change the colour of the main character mid-game? It doesn't seem so, strangely... I can set the initial values, but further attempts to change it fail.

2. How to make enemies invisible to the player (so no targeting square) except under certain conditions?

3. How to measure the distance between two actors? I could write a little Pythagorean script, but I'm guessing there's something in the engine already?

4. How do I turn on the T-Engine wall-sliding feature?

5. For tiger eye: How do I turn on the hex mode? I'm sure you've told me before, but I forget now...

[yufra]

1. Can I change the colour of the main character mid-game? It doesn't seem so, strangely... I can set the initial values, but further attempts to change it fail.

You can, but need to force the C code to update its "mo" (short for map object I believe). I dug up some code that I used way back in beta18 for Viral Resistance in ASCII mode. Add this to your Player class' "act" function (and tweak the actual RGB values of course):

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self.color_r = 50
self.color_g = 50
self.color_b = 50
if self._mo then
    self._mo:invalidate()
    game.level.map:updateMap(self.x, self.y)
end

2. How to make enemies invisible to the player (so no targeting square) except under certain conditions?

It is a bit late, but I think that all you need to do is tweak the "canSee" function on your Player class. If this returns false then you should not be able to see the NPC.

3. How to measure the distance between two actors? I could write a little Pythagorean script, but I'm guessing there's something in the engine already?

The "core.fov.dist" function is what you are looking for.

5. For tiger eye: How do I turn on the hex mode? I'm sure you've told me before, but I forget now...

Put the following code in your "load.lua":

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core.fov.set_algorithm("hex")

[tiger_eye]

4. How do I turn on the T-Engine wall-sliding feature?

Put the following in your load.lua (or wherever):

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config.settings.player_slide = true

and call "tx, ty = self:tryPlayerSlide(x, y)" as appropriate (you may want to check out the player's move function in tome).

[Grey]

Cool, got all that working easily. Now, how about that smooth shading stuff that looked good with the hex mode?

Edit: Hrm, and for some reason it now takes quite a while to load the module...

[tiger_eye]

Cool, got all that working easily. Now, how about that smooth shading stuff that looked good with the hex mode?

I think that is from "map._map:drawSeensTexture". See the "displayMap" function in tome's "Game.lua" (line 1000).