Ramblings about hobbyist game development
add support for setting special colours on any tile (selection indicator WiP)
The new concept of passive selection is now to determine where to place an object after it has been selected in shop mode. To make the process apparent to a user, it can now change the render data of the floor tiles and add arbitrary colours to be superimposed over the texture information.
– add support for passive (hovering) selection of what is under the cursor in SHOP mode
– add support for selecting a tile regardless what’s on top of it (wall or object) when selecting something to be moved in SHOP mode
This adds the concept of “passive selection”. That means that the same mechanism is triggered as when the user actively clicks a tile. This is used to actively track the currently hovered entity (tile, wall or object), as this is a somewhat expensive operation, it only happens once every 20 ticks.
add a mechanism to switch between the bare bone game modes (simulation kind of works, shop is not doing much useful and build is a complete stub)
This adds the concept of “game modes”, which means three separate modes in which OLives can run now. The first, and default, mode is the simulation mode. In this mode you now can
In the second mode, shop mode, you can
but you cannot pause/unpause the simulation, as it automatically gets paused when entering a non-simulation mode.
In the third mode the build mode you can do
That’s still to come.
The different game modes can be switched by hitting F1, F2 and F3 respectively.
do not make unselected objects darker, make selectd ones brighter (sic)
Three for three, things that make things are on a roll now.
do not destroy the selection image view twice
That too sounds like a pretty good idea.
mark debugging output as such
That sounds like a good idea.
visually distinguish selected objects
This draws the selected objects slightly brighter than non-selected ones, and brings the last few commits to a conclusion, as we are now able to distinguish between clicks on objects, walls and tiles as well as being able to tell which entity has been clicked on specifically.
In the case of objects this is wired up to the existing “move object towards a given position” code in order to give the user the possibility to actually alter the game world, check out the video to see this what it actually looks like at this point.
change coordinate signedness to make it more obvious what they represent
Does what it says on the label. 🙂
– implement basic setting of movement targets for objects
– impelemet basic tile click handling (sic)
– add stub for wall click handling
This adds handlers for our three types of clicks (object, tile and wall) to the GameState. This furthermore adds the concept of “being selected” to the objects.
Once you click on objects you can now select them (if they are not marked as static) and set a target for them to move towards to.
This finally allows the user to actively alter the state of the world.
also encode and decode wall coordinates and thus make them identifiable when clicking on them
Add the missing support for identifying wall pieces and which side of the wall the user clicked on.